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Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List

Posted by Hemos on from the where's-the-product dept.

alacqua writes: "Wired has an article titled Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises which is a top-ten list of last year's vaporware. 'You've Got Smell!' made it, but the Justice Department did not. Says Wired, 'Speaking of Microsoft, some smart-aleck readers opined that the most vaporous thing in tech last year was the Justice Department's failure to deliver on its promise to punish Bill Gates for his company's monopolistic misdeeds -- but we thought that a bit of a stretch.'"

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  1. Slashdot moving to PNG from Gif by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone remember that one?

  2. you know... by Rev.LoveJoy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Duke Nukem Forever should really be renamed Dikatana2.

    Cheers,
    RLJ

  3. Re:FPS are, by definition, cookie-cutter by magicslax · · Score: 4, Funny

    But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays If it's another FPS, how can it NOT be cookie-cutter ?

    it probably contains an abnormally large amount of vulgarity, nudity, and monsters. perhaps even vulgar nude monsters.