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Comment Re:Fire up the soldering irons... (Score 1) 831

by jack69 on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @04:53AM (#23553331) Attached to: Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy

I live in the "developing" world. I dowload my PC games off bittorrent because there are no game shops, no distribution channels for digital entertainment in my country. If I can't do that anymore because of said uberchip, it's very simple: I won't play these games. Total incremental revenue = 000.00$

Submission + - Why do games still have levels? (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by a.d.venturer on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @11:46PM

a.d.venturer writes: Elite, the Metroid series, Dungeon Siege, God of War I and II, Half-Life (but not Half-Life 2), Shadow of the Colossus, the Grand Theft Auto series; some of the best games ever (and Dungeon Siege) have done away with the level mechanic and created uninterrupted game spaces devoid of loading screens and artificial breaks between periods of play. Much like cut scenes, level loads are anathema to enjoyment of game play, and a throwback to the era of the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 when games were stored on cassette tapes, and memory was measured in kilobytes. So in this era of multi-megabyte and gigabyte memory and fast access storage devices why do we continue to have games that are dominated by the level structure, be they commercial (Portal, Team Fortress 2), independent (Darwinia) and amateur (Nethack, Angband)? Why do games still have levels?

Submission + - Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws to Stop Bloggers

Submitted by

Academiphiliac

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @07:33AM

Academiphiliac writes: "The BBC reports in an article this morning that "the Malaysian government has warned it could use tough anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who insult Islam or the country's king."

The move comes as one of Malaysia's leading online commentators has been questioned by police following a complaint by the main governing party. The new rules would allow a suspect to be detained indefinitely, without being charged or put on trial.But officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom.

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Journal Journal: [retrocomputing] Frame buffer

Journal by Alioth on Sunday April 22, 2007 @06:42AM

Note: It's the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair Spectrum on Monday.

Feed Schools urged into divisive drug crackdown (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @06:12AM

Increasing numbers of students are facing random drug tests, but can they have faith in their accuracy?

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