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South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths 148

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:55PM from the probably-just-making-more-time-for-starcraft dept.

eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."

In-Game Advertising Makes Games Better? 352

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 09, 2009 @01:11PM from the i'm-sure-these-systems-will-never-be-abused dept.

Pretty much every time we hear about a game launching in-game advertising it sounds like a horrible idea that will only serve to detract from the experience. However JJ Richards of Massive wants you to give it a chance, claiming that if done correctly it can not only work, but actually enhance the overall experience. "In fact, according to Massive's research, gamers like ads. Here's the caveat: they have to add to the gaming experience. He describes a game that takes place in Times Square. With no ads, it's not real at all. With generic ads, it's a little better. 'Now imagine Times Square with ads you just saw on television or read in a newspaper—the latest movie release or television show or a new car model,' he said. 'Imagine further that it is up-to-the-minute, whether you played your game today or six months from now. That is much more realistic.' His argument is that gamers consume the experience of ads, not just the ads themselves. 'The ads add to and enhance that experience, and our research shows that it is highly effective for both game play as well as advertisers.'"

Comment Re:A couple of others (Score 1) 261

by Yogger on Friday June 12, 2009 @10:36AM (#28308055) Attached to: Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go

Another one for Link's Awakening. One quest you are supposed to escort some girl from one village to another so she can do something. But there is a glitch where you could hit start or select (forget which) while change screens and warp to a matching place on the next screen, i.e. leave the screen in the upper right hit start at the right time and you end up on the next screen in the same upper right location. Using this you could bypass the screen where the girl would leave you and have her travel around with you some more. But you couldn't enter dungeons or anything with her. And later on there is a spot where you are supposed to meet her again and if you still had her following you, you could freeze the game.

Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 20, 2008 @04:42PM from the linda-lovelace-in-mourning dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "W. Mark Felt Sr., 95, associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, better known as 'Deep Throat,' the most famous anonymous source in American history, died at his home in Santa Rosa, California. Felt secretly guided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to pursue the story of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office buildings, and later of the Nixon administration's campaign of spying and sabotage against its perceived political enemies. 'It's impossible to exaggerate how high the stakes were in Watergate,' wrote Felt in his 2006 book A G-Man's Life. 'We faced no simple burglary, but an assault on government institutions, an attack on the FBI's integrity, and unrelenting pressure to unravel one of the greatest political scandals in our nation's history.' No one knows exactly what prompted Felt to leak the information from the Watergate probe to the press. He was passed over for the post of FBI director after Hoover's death in 1972, a crushing career disappointment. 'People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward. The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out, and isn't that what the FBI is supposed to do?'"

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