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Most of them do unfortunately. E.g. SwiftKey does. Also SwiftKey used to be an indie dev house but that got bought by Microsoft. It'd be nice to think that Microsoft selflessly love Android users and want to support a good keyboard application for Android and iOS even though they are competitors to Windows Phone. However it's more likely that they bought it because it had a bunch of user data they could monetize in various dubious ways.

https://swiftkey-keyboard.file...

Potentially dangerous permissions
GET_ACCOUNTS: Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to read from external storage.
READ_SMS: Allows an application to read SMS messages.
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to write to external storage.
Other permissions
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Allows applications to access information about networks.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
INTERNET: Allows applications to open network sockets.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.
VIBRATE: Allows access to the vibrator.
WAKE_LOCK: Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
com.android.vending.BILLING
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
com.swiftkey.languageprovider.READLANG
com.swiftkey.swiftkeyconfigurator.READCONFIG
com.touchtype.swiftkey.permission.C2D_MESSAGE

So does Swype

http://forum.swype.com/showthr...

Hi there, I just spotted Swype in the Google Play store and had exactly the same concerns.

Outside of reading the dictionary, I would not have expected Swype should not require any special permissions, and yet it wants a big long list of permissions:
Record audio
Get my approximate and precise location
Read my text messages
Full network access
Pair with Bluetooth devices
Read my contacts
Read terms I've added to the dictionary
Read call log
Read phone status and identity
Modify or delete the contents of my USB storage
Find accounts on my device
View network connections
View wifi connections
Access protected storage

So does Google Keyboard

https://www.xda-developers.com...

Let's take a look at what's going on here. First off, Google Keyboard has access to your own contact card, and accounts on your device. This means it has the ability to know who you are, and all of the Email (and other) accounts you have available on your device. That means it's possible for them to see what Google/Dropbox/ Twitter/Microsoft Exchange/Facebook accounts you have available on your phone. I have absolutely no idea why this is needed, nor why people are willing to give this information over.

Next up, the app can read your contacts. That's fair enough-Google obviously want to add your contact names to the spell-checker and auto-complete databases. This makes sense, and is something justifiable for a keyboard. The ability to modify or delete the contents of USB storage is somewhat strange, but while it does allow access to all your data stored on your "SD card," there's unfortunately no real

Plus you can get them free.

http://www.fileplanet.com/107766/0/section/Game-Clients/

http://www.fileplanet.com/197426/190000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Red-Alert-(Full-Game---Allied)

http://www.fileplanet.com/210105/210000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Tiberian-Sun-(Full-Game)

Plus you can get them free.

http://www.fileplanet.com/107766/0/section/Game-Clients/

http://www.fileplanet.com/197426/190000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Red-Alert-(Full-Game---Allied)

http://www.fileplanet.com/210105/210000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Tiberian-Sun-(Full-Game)

Plus you can get them free.

http://www.fileplanet.com/107766/0/section/Game-Clients/

http://www.fileplanet.com/197426/190000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Red-Alert-(Full-Game---Allied)

http://www.fileplanet.com/210105/210000/fileinfo/Command-&-Conquer:-Tiberian-Sun-(Full-Game)

We know he's a pirate because he distributes file sharing software: http://www.fileplanet.com/73/0/0/0/1/section/File_Sharing

Scroll to the bottom and note it's operated by IGN Entertainment. Then check who owns IGN: http://corp.ign.com/about/

That's right, News Corp, Murdoch's company.

25,000 downloads a day is utterly trivial in comparison to the hundreds of millions of downloads of file sharing software from CNET alone, let alone other sites:

http://download.cnet.com/windows/p2p-file-sharing-software/?tag=mncol%3Bsort&rpp=10&sort=downloadCount+asc

The amusing part of the CNET downloads, is that CNET is owned by CBS, a major media company. So any attempt by CBS to sue file sharers can be countered by the fact that they encouraged it by distributing the software on a massive scale. The same story, on not as massive scale, is true for Fileplanet, owned by IGN, which is a division of News Corp, owners of Fox:

http://www.fileplanet.com/73/0/1/2/1/section/File_Sharing

i`ll add hazard http://www.fileplanet.com/204630/200000/fileinfo/Unreal-Tournament-3---Hazard:-The-Journey-Of-Life
everyday is the same dream http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html

and super meat boy since touhou and the like are now art games

probably will think of more the second i post this but oh well

Also WoW patches can be downloaded in the background while playing. In addition to the Blizzard P2P patcher/updater file sharing websites like FilePlanet and XFIRE also host files for download.

Ahhh, an old C&C fan like me, welcome brother. Hail Kane! Glad you liked GOG, they really treat you right and if it works good in Wine please post to their forums, as I'm sure your info will be valuable. Oh and just a little prezzy from a fellow NOD in case you didn't know, here is completely free non pirate C&C Tiberian Sun and the original C&C Red Alert for ya. They released both games for free to drum up interest in the newest one, so if you don't find those links fast enough just Google there are plenty of places to pick them up. Death to GDI!

one link further: airquake 4 for teiQ see also Telejano Quake Engine 3.Beta

found this hiding out in fileplanet:
http://www.fileplanet.com/83337/80000/fileinfo/Airquake-2-for-Quake-1:-With-Tei-Engine!---v14

seems to be a "upgrade" of the old mod, making use of a improved quake engine, and claiming more vehicles.

FilePlanet too.

You don't. http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/star-trek-online/

If you didn't (or don't want to) preorder, you can get a beta key from fileplanet: http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/star-trek-online/

EA released the original C&C as a free game. At that price, it's definitely worth trying again if you're an RTS fan:

http://www.fileplanet.com/55414/0/section/Command-&-Conquer

(Sorry if you don't like fileplanet. It's the only link I have handy.)

Hot Coffee was easy to access in every version of the game. It was not a third party mod or a patch in any ordinary meaning of the word.

Other than the fact that you had to patch the game, using a hack that did not come from Rockstar, of course.

That can't be allowed to happen.

Yawn. I suppose you wanted a recall of the Quake games when people started releasing nude skins for the game? We'll call you a whaaambulance, stat.

http://www.fileplanet.com/140246/140000/fileinfo/Starsiege:-Tribes-(Free-Game)

Free LAN Games

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory [Download]

Cube

AssaultCube

Sauerbraten (Cube2)

Urban Terror

Nexuiz

Open Arena

More First-person shooters here

Driving Speed2

Red Alert1

Command and Conquer NOD ISO GDI ISO

Singleplayer:

Super Mario War

Free LAN Games

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory [Download]

Cube

AssaultCube

Sauerbraten (Cube2)

Urban Terror

Nexuiz

Open Arena

More First-person shooters here

Driving Speed2

Red Alert1

Command and Conquer NOD ISO GDI ISO

Singleplayer:

Super Mario War

If it gets /.'d

http://www.fileplanet.com/182564/180000/fileinfo/Warmonger-Gold-Install-(Free-Game)
http://files.filefront.com/Warmonger+Operation+Downtown+Destruction/;9142023;/fileinfo.html
http://files.totalgamingnetwork.com/file/4835/Warmonger.exe/
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/863/Warmonger_-_Operation:_Downtown_Destruction_Full_Game.html
http://www.gamershell.com/news_43755.html
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Vollversion-Warmonger_29641300.html

Trailer: http://www.fileplanet.com/189155/180000/fileinfo/Dark-Horizon---E3-2008-Trailer-(HD) or stream http://youtube.com/watch?v=fBgmVEjVz50

You can find a bunch of pretty decent demos over at http://www.fileplanet.com/ if you go over there and look. Sure, if you don't subscribe to it, they can take a while to download, but many are worth it.

Here's the problem with demos, imo. They are very polished little snippets of the game, and they don't reflect the reality of how good the actual gold version of the game will be. They are great to see how the basic mechanics of the game are in most cases, but they won't tell you if the game is buggy as hell.

I have yet to play a demo that crashed, or had more than a minor annoyance associated to playing them. Heck, I played the HellGate:London demo, and it ran flawlessly. I got into the closed beta, and it was buggy as hell for the multi-player. When the gold version was released, even the single-player version had some problems that had to be patched to correct, and that patch took several days.

Besides, with many games today, the demos are only the opening part of the game, which makes sense. However, for games where you progress along various trees of abilities that you don't get into until you play the game for a bit, later gameplay is not seen.

I played some demo version of Dungeon Siege, and thought it rocked. Unfortunately, it was the whole game. By the time I finished the game, I realized how average the game actually was. Just about everyone else that I know that played DS found the same thing. Awesome in the beginning, monotonous in the end.

So, demos only get you a glimpse, and a very polished one at that. Gold versions are probably released with deliberate bugs to help break the "zero-day" pirate scene. Release a game with a crippling bug that occurs about 1/2-2hrs into gameplay, and only a patch can fix it, and viola: pretty darn good copy protection. At the very least, it slows down the pirates, who have to then break the patch.

Far Cry. Not Flash, but now free (ad supported). Definitely one of the best FPS games.

Download link or this link.

Login: b44ccd21@myway.com
Passwd: donuts
Cheers bugmenot...

or screw waiting in a queue and Google Search for SetupUT3Demo.exe.
Looks like there's plenty of torrents.

Download link or this link.

Login: b44ccd21@myway.com
Passwd: donuts
Cheers bugmenot...

or screw waiting in a queue and Google Search for SetupUT3Demo.exe.
Looks like there's plenty of torrents.

get downloading!
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I just ripped the links off Voodoo Extreme. reply with more mirrors!

I hate it when people do that, I wish there were editors to catch it.... sigh.

The link to the C&C page that actually gives you the files (C&C GDI, C&C Nod, and XP install instructions) http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.asp x?id=61#NewsMain

Rayman Raving Rabbids 11 meg
http://www.fileplanet.com/180428/180000/fileinfo/R ayman-Raving-Rabbids-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5 D

Prince of Persia Sands of Time: 1200 megs http://www.fileplanet.com/180411/180000/fileinfo/P rince-of-Persia:-Sands-of-Time-Full-Game-%5BFree-G ame---Ad-Supported%5D

Far Cry: 2.7 gigs (!)
http://www.fileplanet.com/180410/180000/fileinfo/F ar-Cry-Full-Game-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5D

I hate it when people do that, I wish there were editors to catch it.... sigh.

The link to the C&C page that actually gives you the files (C&C GDI, C&C Nod, and XP install instructions) http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.asp x?id=61#NewsMain

Rayman Raving Rabbids 11 meg
http://www.fileplanet.com/180428/180000/fileinfo/R ayman-Raving-Rabbids-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5 D

Prince of Persia Sands of Time: 1200 megs http://www.fileplanet.com/180411/180000/fileinfo/P rince-of-Persia:-Sands-of-Time-Full-Game-%5BFree-G ame---Ad-Supported%5D

Far Cry: 2.7 gigs (!)
http://www.fileplanet.com/180410/180000/fileinfo/F ar-Cry-Full-Game-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5D

I hate it when people do that, I wish there were editors to catch it.... sigh.

The link to the C&C page that actually gives you the files (C&C GDI, C&C Nod, and XP install instructions) http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.asp x?id=61#NewsMain

Rayman Raving Rabbids 11 meg
http://www.fileplanet.com/180428/180000/fileinfo/R ayman-Raving-Rabbids-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5 D

Prince of Persia Sands of Time: 1200 megs http://www.fileplanet.com/180411/180000/fileinfo/P rince-of-Persia:-Sands-of-Time-Full-Game-%5BFree-G ame---Ad-Supported%5D

Far Cry: 2.7 gigs (!)
http://www.fileplanet.com/180410/180000/fileinfo/F ar-Cry-Full-Game-%5BFree-Game---Ad-Supported%5D

You may want to give Ground Control a shot. While I don't think you can give orders while paused (it's been awhile since I played it), it is pure combat - no base building or anything.
You may still be able to get GC1 for free here or find it for next to nothing in a [forgot-the-word]-bin.
Btw: GC2 shouldn't be nearly as good.

Offering something to download and install on your computer to increase the speed? That practically screams 'malware'.

Yeah, that's what I thought about Fileplanet, too...

good-game-play-does-not-need-a-z-axis

Try this

If you want the original commercial versions, you are probably going to be bin diving at whatever game stores there are near you, raiding Ebay or cruising the darker side of the web.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

Yes, PlanetSide. Free 12-month trial is underway: http://www.fileplanet.com/161885/160000/fileinfo/P lanetside-Reserves-Installer-%5B12-month-free-tria l%5D

Sadly, its not just for CD's anymore! While trolling around on fileplanet for a FPS to try out the other day, i found a demo for Bet On Soldier http://www.fileplanet.com/98316/0/section/Bet-on-S oldier

This little beauty had StarForce right in the freakin multiplayer demo.

I did what was neccisary obviously, and uninstalled the demo, deleted the installer, and formated the partition ;)

http://www.fileplanet.com/trailers/

I recently purchased EverQuest 2 through the Direct2Drive service. I figured an MMO was relatively safe since I wouldn't need to deal with any of the weird DRM that most Direcr2Drive games require to be installed. The big problem was delivery of the game files. At least for EverQuest 2, in order to download the files I paid for I had to use the FilePlanet servers and a proprietary download program. The real problem is that unless you are a FilePlanet subscriber you can't use the "no wait" servers AND ads are displayed by the download application for the duration of the download. Now you can minimize the application and use your computer, but every couple minutes when the ad changes the application will pop up into the middle of your screen. The only way to stop this from happening is to subscribe to FilePlanet to disable the ads (keep in mind this is to download a program I PAID for, not a demo). Additionally, you can't just leave the download going overnight because the download app has a habit of timing out the connection, in which case the download needs to be manually resumed. I spent an exciting 3 hours watching the bits come down and had to resume the download more than 20 times.
I can understand problems with downloads timing out as the Internet is far from perfect, however forcing a paying customer to watch ads while the product they bought is being downloaded just boggles my mind.
I thought the Steam install process was much better although I waited until a couple weeks after Half Life 2's launch before using it. Just wish I could figure out how to install Steam programs on some drive other than C:.

Thrill Bill is the name and download. Fileplanet is a bit annoying but I couldn't find a link anywhere else.

I actually don't think I kept a copy, but my friend was able to dig up the name.

The intermission is pretty short, but it's one of the most clever bits of a stunting video I've seen.

Then MS bought Bungie, Halo for XBOX was announced, and Halo for anything else went away.

Yes, then Halo for PC came back, probably because of all the people who (like me) said "I'll buy this crap for PC but there's no way I'll play an FPS with a gamepad."

Take a look at the next Unreal engine. Many of these advanced features are already there. The demo video is quite incredible. There's also Project Offset which I'm eagerly awaiting as well.

How about getting your facts straight. Dakota hasn't worked at GameSpy for about 2 years now. And how did he "sell out"?

Okay I guess I missed that, but can you please point me in the direction of the employee listing at Gamespy? Not really public knowledge, is it?

Dakota traded Captured.com for a career with Gamespy. Captured wasn't paying any bills, and Gamespy did. How isn't that selling out? Obviously he had his reasons for leaving, but it still was a financial choice -- wasn't it?

Selling out isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it just makes sense -- but it's still considering finances over art. Dakota didn't have time to run Captured, and I think GSN pulled the plug because CTF readership fell off. It went from being a kind of early blog to being a news site, to being a p1mp subsection of PQ, to being DOA. Is Dakota happy with that lifecycle? I doubt it.

But the bulk of my comment was simply a reply to the person who wanted to know how video game journalism has progressed, and it's really on point in my opinion. The whole games industry has gone very corporate/bottom line, and I think it sucks.

Looks like Dakota did leave GSN, and from his sig, here is where it looks like he went. If anything, this proves he sort of felt like getting away from GSN, and seeing that he's not doing games related stuff, maybe he had a change of heart?

but the concept of subpixel rendering for LCDs is general enough to apply to any image with sharp edges

No. It only applies well to objects that are all-black or all-white. Say that R means red-on and r is red-off. Then, subpixel rendering takes advantage of the fact that solid white is rendered on LCD as RGBRGBRGB (for 3 horizontal pixels). A horizontal line from 0.66 to 1.33 could be drawn as rgBRGBRgb.

That technique works because white/black objects use the 3 color elements in equal proportion. The program is free to stop the chain of RGB at any point, knowing that the shape still looks white. Any non-greyscale image will have bias towards one of the components, meaning that subpixel rendering would create a left or right tendency in the percieved visual. (Reddish things are leaning a partial-pixel to the left, blueish things lean to the right).

If the shape were colored (unlike text, which the viewer knows is almost always solid black), then a transition from figure to ground is not readily distinguishable from a texture pixel in a different color.

but the concept of subpixel rendering for LCDs is general enough to apply to any image with sharp edges.

If Quake involved sharp edges somewhere...

And what is the silhouette of a polygon in a Quake model?

They don't have significant silhouettes, unless the player has replaced the skin and terrain texture maps with high-contrast fullbright colors, which was a common cheat in years past.

If the game in question were not Quake, but instead some monochrome line-rendered shooter like PencilWhipped, subpixel rendering could work, just as it does for text.

They already have:

http://www.fileplanet.com/157860/150000/fileinfo/G TA:-San-Andreas---Defamation-of-character:-A-Jack- Thompson-murder-simulator

Blizzard is too evil to even play with gamecards as they seem determined to screw europe (why didn't we get a free trial?)

I mentioned in the story that the high-resolution version of the client is only available to paid subscribers of Fileplanet. The good news is that they've lifted that restriction and its now available to all Fileplanet members, paid or unpaid:

http://www.fileplanet.com/158497/download/Dungeons -&-Dragons-Online:-Stormreach-Client-%5BHigh-Resol ution%5D

/K

If you want to check out another MMORPG, you can get a 10-day free trial of World of Warcraft from File Planet, or a 14-day trial from the current issue of Maxim Magazine (with Cindy Crawford on the cover). I did the 10-day trial from File Planet and ended up buying the game.

Go download the stresstest and be as disappointed in DDO as I am.

From the FAQ:

Q: How are participants for the Stress Test Event selected?

We are offering a limited number of Stress Test Event slots as an exclusive to FilePlanet members. Stress Test Event access will be offered on a first-come first-served basis until the total number of Stress Test Event accounts has run out.

Q: I was accepted into the Stress Test Event. Does this mean I'm in the Beta now?

No. The Stress Test Event is separate from the Beta. Acceptance into the Stress Test Event will grant you access to special servers for three days only.

Q: If I am a FilePlanet member, where do I go to get signed up?

http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/ddo_stormreac h/stresstest/


Come on...
Looks like FilePlanet just want boost its members numbers... again.
Nothing to see here, move along.

The first one is free.