Unbiased Game Reviews Through Micropayments

Posted by Hemos on Sunday August 3, 2003 @11:52PM from the cool-ideas dept.

a reader writes:"Fed up of games reviewers giving in to advertiser pressure to go easy on high-budget turkeys? A group of distinguished British videogames journalists has set up an independent site called Digiworld. It's funded by an interesting micropayment system: you pay 50 pence (about 80 cents US) a week for full access, although new content is available for free on weekdays (details here). For extra geek appeal, the look of the site imitates the 8-bit Mode 7 graphics of Teletext, a British system that uses spare TV signal bandwidth to transmit pages of textual information (some of the staff previously worked on a Teletext gaming page called Digitiser). Even if you're not a gamer, the bizarre humor and characters make the site worth checking out."

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Micropayments and Slashdot by AtariAmarok · 2003-08-04 00:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I now have a system whereby -1 Trolls now give me micropayments every time they post on Slashdot. I expect to turn my first million dollars by the end of the week (including my own contributions)

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Re:gah. horrible site design by KDan · 2003-08-04 02:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Agreed 500% - this site looks absolutely awful.

Daniel

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man, oh man by joshsnow · 2003-08-04 03:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

10 MODE7
20 *VDU 128,2,21
30 *VDU 19,2,2
40:
50 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"THIS IS A QUIZ ON"
60 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"THIS IS A QUIZ ON"
70 :
80 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"HEAVY METAL"
90 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"HEAVY METAL"

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75 FOR A%=1 TO 10000
76 NEXT A%

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