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Comment Re:Game Balance and Sportsmanship (Score 1) 319

by wknoxwalker (#33571000) Attached to: Copying Trumps Creating For <em>FarmVille</em> Creator Zynga
Poker isn't a game designed for that extra card to be in play. A lot of newer MMOs are. I'm not saying you are wrong here, but you're pushing the kind of agenda that clogs the forums of many games I play - people whining because they want everything cheap - be that cheap in time or cheap in money.
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Games Workshop Forbids Warhammer Fan Films 251

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the wont-last-after-WAR-is-released dept.
EikeHein writes "Made by dozens of fans over a period of several years and featuring impressive special effects, the feature-length Warhammer 40.000 epic DAMNATUS ranks among the most elaborate fan productions ever made — and yet may never see the light of day. Despite initially giving a go-ahead to the project, UK-based Warhammer franchise owner Games Workshop has come around to forbid distribution of the film just as it was being readied for release. What's more, they've amended their IP Policy to forbid any such projects in the future. At the heart of the matter appears to be Continental European copyright law, which grants the German film makers certain irrevocable rights to their creation which they cannot sign away. Given that the owners of the other two SF mega-franchises, Star Trek and Star Wars, have been able to come to terms with such issues and arguably benefit greatly from the media attention paid to popular fan productions, it would seem that Games Workshop still has to learn a thing or two about how to capture fan enthusiasm for their benefit."
Biotech

Submission + - Baby Mammoth Found Intact (cnn.com)

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knoll99
knoll99 writes: "Let the Cloning Begin!

(Reuters) [transcribed through CNN.com] — Scientists unveiled the discovery Wednesday of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost of north-west Siberia.

A reindeer herder found a 10,000-year-old frozen baby mammoth in Russia's Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.

  The remains of the six-month-old female mammoth were discovered in a remarkable state of preservation on the Yamal peninsula of Russia in May, a Reuters report said. The specimen is believed to be the best of its kind to date.

A reindeer herder found the frozen animal in May near the Yuribei River, in Russia's Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.

Scientists hope the animal might yield DNA samples that could be used to clone and effectively resurrect the extinct members of the elephant family.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/11/siberia .babymammoth.reut/index.html"

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