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E3 Wrapup
If you read Slashdot with any sort of regularity you probably noticed a lot of game posts last week - new stuff being shown off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Let's wrap up the last few submissions and put the Expo to bed for a year. Neil Yates writes "210 pictures, 56 booth babe shots, spread over five pages - what more can we say; this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!" angkor submits a link to a NYTimes story noting that sales of video games were way up last year, no doubt driven by the new consoles. And we had another submission, but the link seems to be broken, so I guess that's about it.
this is the killer E3 Expo pictorial feature - only on Envy News. Dial-up users beware - this is broadband territory!
this is the killer Slashdotting feature - only on Slashdot. Small Envy News sites beware - this is broadband++ territory!
it's in my head
as if millions of computers suddenly initiated connections to port 80 of www.envynews.com ... and were suddenly silenced. i feel that something terrible has happened.
In case y'all haven't seen it...
Doom III gameplay video - not very good quality, 11 minutes long. It's best, I think, to look at screenshots first and then watch the video.
The video is amazing. You should definitely download it.
The music, movie (was on /. a while ago) and now the game industry is doing profit records and yet they claim that piracy is going to driving them out of business?
Excuse me? Could someone explain?
(not inteded as a troll/flamebait, mod me down if you wish)
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...as thousands of geeks who didn't get a chance to go to E3 are just dying to see the babe shots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew games and stuff.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
I agree. I'm tied into an OC38. No bandwidth problems on this end. I don't even get thumbnails from that slashdoted site. It's 5:30 AM Pacific time. What will they do after the rest of the contry wakes up and goes to work?
The truth shall set you free!
this is not true as members of what like to call themselves "gaming generations" grow up the addictions they've developed for games has continued, it could be beceuase of gaming stopping an imagination of any form from forming so bored with life they turn to games or beceause they developing their social interactions of chat rooms waiting fiding people to play online with they can't live otherwise or it could just be that they have found games to be an enjoyable passtime. while waiting to meet a friend nearby a game rental place i saw numerous people reaching 30 going in and hiring games and discussing with the owner who was outside having a smoko what games are good. this shows that games way be a childs apsstime but they are not exclusivly for people with childrens ages. personally i think that it is someone that so many people are growing upo with that while they may begin to play them less they will never stop even if they can hardly find the time with work.
Slashdot users beware - this is slashdotted territory.
I think I'll check back later... like next week.
News for dorky consumers, stuff that matters to their capitalist overlords.
I *really* look forward to Doom 3. Does anyone know if it will be released for Linux?
Ummm. Do research on a fiber optic cable from the South Pacific that comes ashore in Oregon. It is terminated in Hillsboro OR. A major router to tie it into Qwest is here. A streaming media center was built here by Intel. Yes my office proxy machine is connected to it. If Slashdot could post photos, I'd do a screen capture of my speed to DSL reports. The DSL bar on the graph looks like a dialup blip. I typicaly get DSL reports of 60 MEG, not 1.5 MEG of typical DSL connection speeds at my desk. It's fun to be in R&D. I just tried TRACERT and PING to slashdotorg (64.28.67.150) and dslreports.com (209.123.109.175) to give some times. They have disabled ping and tracert at the border so I just get timeouts. :-(
I just did a speed test at http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/
My up speed is 5253 kbps and my DL speed is 4790 kbps. (OK I only got 5 meg tonight. It's a shared pipe.)
What size pipe do you have?
The truth shall set you free!
Oh, as opposed to the link being broken 3 minutes after the story is posted because of the
It's like the Darwin Awards for webservers.
I had some other wisecrack to say, but it's been a long weekend and my skull is broken, so that's about it.
Um, proof of the pudding is here. It's hard to refute the evidence of the visit.o m?r=329
http://www.dslreports.com/archive/intel.c
The truth shall set you free!
>Dial-up users beware - this is broadband
>territory!
Broadband is overrated: I get a timeout at exactly 90 seconds using either a 56k at home or T1 at work.
I won't be upgrading to broadband anytime soon!
"We have an A-Bomb...what more do you want, mermaids?" --I.I. Rabi, speaking in defense of Robert Oppenheimer
I just went in through the google cache, and it loaded just fine, no /. effect, so it's probably referrer-blocked...
I wonder if they're going to attribute increased sales to "strengthed" copy protection schemes. You know, those strengthened schemes that force legitimate users to find and download the NoCD crack.
Don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to a 2003 chock full of games whose copy protection scheme isn't compatible with my CD-ROM. I'm sure it's stopping pirates, though!
I've been following the proceedings on Blue's but it seems like almost every video I've seen linked is in Windows Media Format (or the latest DIVX -- gotta love a codec that breaks compatibility with every release).
So has anybody converted these to MPEG or something?
^H means (Control-H) which is what most terminal emulators use for the backspace character. So when you hit backspace, it sends out a ^H. Back in the text days, if you had your terminal emulation set wrong, if you hit backspace, instead of deleting a character you would see ^H. So the joke is that they type Booth Babes^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNew Games.
This means they typed booth babes, backspaced it and then retyped new games.
found this link to a number of mirrors
Looks like Games Domain have come up with the goods: http://www.gamesdomain.com/e3_2002/
Well, if it's E3 babes you want, it's E3 babes you shall get! ;)
Honestly, who cares which year's E3 it's from?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Ok, here's some more booth babe links here they are! and here! more and more here too here's a documentary on the species and here's an interesting article including interviews with the babes
The U.S. Army-made game, America's Army was the single most surpising game to come out of E3. The thought that the Army is making a good, super-realistic, free game somehow makes me proud to be an American. It certainly shows that the Army's advertising department is willing to try out new ideas.
I wonder, if this is a success, will we be seeing a sequel? Or how about other games based on the Navy/Air Force/Marines/etc.? Well, we already have a plethora of good air combat sims already...
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Right.
The game is free, except for the fact that you have to be within the ages of 13-34 to get them to send it to you; some posters have previously pointed out that the age 13 minimum may because of COPA (the Child Online Protection Act), but there's absolutely no reason for an age 34 maximum. That doesn't make me proud to be an American, it makes me afraid to have anything to do with it because I don't want them to draft my ass immediately the next time there's a war and say "Oh, you got the highest score in your area, so we pushed you through to recruitment asap..."
Take a look at these Booth Babes from last years E3!
We had a great time. I especially enjoyed the photos with the police girls!
Gururise
However, in order to really get maturity as a medium, the age of booth babes - meant to appeal to sex-deprived lonely geek-gamers - is going to have to come to an end. It's embarassing and sad to see game developers pander like that. I was at E3, and the whole phenomenon of watch 20 pasty-faced pudgy gamer fan-boys gape at bored second-rate models in metal bikinis (and I'm a big fan of metal bikinis, mind you) was just sad. I'm an adult. I have a fiance. I wanted to look at games, not at babes. (I don't think it an accident, however, that the strongest games usually aren't promoted by bikini-babes - perhaps an expanding association between poor games and cheesecake will address the matter.)
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Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy.
I thought it was interesting that Acclaim unvieled a console game with full frontal nudity, Dave Mirra: XXX. No nude screen shots (unfortunately), but IGN has a story about it. Here's the link. As far as I know this is a first, but can anybody fill me in as to past console games with nudity (at least, North American games)?
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
If you'd been to E3, you would have seen the effect of this.
The South Hall, which was traditionally a PC game hall, was filled with more consoles than PC's. While I can name a dozen or more impressive console titles off the top of my head, I can only think of about two, maybe three interesting PC titles. PC gaming, compared to a few years ago, is more stagnant and smaller. That's not completely piracys fault, but it is a factor in Publishers and Developers shifting focus (what? I can sell 5-10x more copies by releasing on a console? sure!)
Piracy isn't driving any of the console players out of business, since only the uberhardcore have the patience to mod their consoles and swap discs everytime they want to play pirated games. The only console that was affected was the Dreamcast, since all you had to do was download and burn a disc.
It is driving PC sales down, since all someone has to do is download (P2P-Client-of-the-month) and click on "l33t-gta3.iso", and presto - instant game.
So no, it's not some OMG HOT HOT RIAA-esque conspiracy where they're selling more and fudging figures to claim piracy, it's because PC gaming is being heavily affected by it, while console gaming isn't.