Comment Re:Goverment (Score 1) 200
Just wanted to say - dude, you rock!
Saving the Street Fighter Franchise 76
Gamasutra did an in-depth interview with Yoshi Ono, producer of Street Fighter IV, about trying to bring the series back to the quality and popularity of the '90s. Ono also talks about broadening the market to include casual players, who were slowly driven away from the game by the increased focus on competitive play. Quoting:
"If you think about chess for instance, a kid and a grandfather can play the same game, with the same ruleset, and understand what's going on. I think through our competitive spirit back then; we were always out to out-complicate each other, and make our systems deeper and deeper. It was ok then because there was a wide player base who understood how to play these games, but that's not true anymore. What we're trying to do with Street Fighter IV is bring them back in. There's not a whole lot of other fighting games out there to compare it to, but hopefully, if we play our cards right and get people back in to the genre, we can blossom the genre itself again and spread things out and get it back to the way it was."
Comment Re:err (Score 1) 288
Chromium is open-source. Whether or not it's platform-independent has nothing to do with it. Because it's open-source, continuity is no longer restricted to Google's whims. If they drop it tomorrow, popular demand will keep the project alive.
"stop calling Chrome open source, it isn't, chromium is" - other than the name, what's different? And please don't tell me "Chrome's more polished". That's only because Chromium has already entered another stage of development. Seriously, if Google wasn't committed to open-source, why would they even bother putting so many resources into Chromium? And one thing everybody who's asking "why didn't they release all three versions simultaneously?" are forgetting is that Chrome was a top-secret, need-to-know basis type of project in Google. They couldn't allocate the amount of resources they'd have liked to because of all the secrecy. This is no longer true. And now since the Windows launch is such a success, people will be eagerly waiting to see if they can pull the same thing off in Mac/Linux.
I think people are going to be very pleasantly surprised with Chrome's Linux launch - I wouldn't be surprised if it spurs Linux development and interest. Having seen their dedication to the Windows version, I KNOW they will release a stupendous version in the other platforms.
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