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Submission + - Lime Wire Lives Again (torrentfreak.com) 1

Submitted by Slayer Silver Wolf on Monday November 08, 2010 @11:33PM

Slayer Silver Wolf writes: On October 26 the remaining LimeWire developers were forced to shut down the company’s servers and modify remote settings in the filesharing client to try to harm the Gnutella network. They were then laid off, Shortly after, a horde of piratical monkeys climbed aboard the abandoned ship, mended its sails, polished its cannons, and released it free to the community. And so, LimeWire Pirate Edition (LPE) was born. Based on the LimeWire 5.6 beta that was briefly released earlier this year and then withdrawn when Lime Wire LLC lost its lawsuit, LPE is now in the wild. In many ways, it is better than the version killed by the RIAA. “All dependencies on LimeWire LLC’s servers have been removed, all remote settings have been disabled, the Ask toolbar has been unbundled, and all features of LimeWire PRO have been activated for free,” our source explained. LimeWire Pirate Edition should work better than the last functioning version of LimeWire (5.5.10), and it should keep working for longer. There’s no adware or spyware: the piratical monkeys are doing this for the benefit of the community. Currently only available for Windows, in our tests LimeWire Pirate Edition functioned perfectly well and is already circulating on BitTorrent. Next up, Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine and the Sinclair C5 but before anyone gets any ideas, let’s leave Kazaa where it is.

Submission + - Space combat MMORPG porting to Android, Tegra (guildsoftware.com) 1

Submitted by Incarnate-VO on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:25AM

Incarnate-VO writes: Guild Software, makers of the multi-platform space MMO Vendetta Online are apparently rolling a native Android port, intended for use on upcoming smartbooks and tablets powered by Nvidia's second-generation Tegra. More information on the port at the Android FAQ page on the Vendetta Online website.

Comment It Worked (Score 5, Insightful) 223

by Surbius on Sunday June 14, 2009 @10:47AM (#28326519) Attached to: DTV Transition Mostly Smooth, Windows Media Center Problems

I must say, a federal government agency actually worked; albeit to the tune of two billion dollars.

One can only wonder what one-thousand billion dollars can do.

[/sarcasm]

Left 4 Dead Demo Dated, Cinematic Released 30

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 02, 2008 @06:00PM from the spry-zombies dept.

Valve has announced that their upcoming horror game Left 4 Dead will have a demo available for play on November 11th. They've also released an impressive four-minute cinematic to show off the game's theme. Left 4 Dead is set to launch on November 18th, and if pre-order numbers are any indication, it will be even more popular than the Orange Box. CVG put together a short survival guide for dealing with those troublesome Infected, and Firing Squad did an interview with Turtle Rock Studios' Michael Booth, in which he mentioned that they want to be able to track stats through Steam so players are able to build a "reputation."

Submission + - Vendetta Online lets users create new game content (vendetta-online.com)

Submitted by

Incarnate-VO

on Saturday October 18, 2008 @01:06AM

Incarnate-VO writes: "Multi-platform space MMO Vendetta Online is now allowing users to create missions and submit other content for use in the game, via their new "Player Contribution Corps" system. Any game subscriber can join the PCC and gain access to a web-based mission editor, permitting them to build and test new missions on Vendetta's test-server. Once the player believes the mission is ready for prime-time, they submit it to the greater PCC community for testing and feedback. The community may then sign off on the mission and push it up to the developer staff for final oversight and propagation into the game. More details available in the press release. Vendetta Online is available for Windows, Mac, Linux/32 and Linux/64."

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