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MGS3 Demo Nabbed From Sony E3 Stand?
Ant writes "GamesRadar.com is reporting that a Metal Gear Solid 3 demo was stolen from the E3 videogames expo by nefarious exhibition attendees, as, allegedly: 'L.A. Convention Center security staff were left flat-footed and red-faced yesterday as two unknown perps had it away with a copy of the MGS3: Snake Eater demo... The code snatchers were able to gain access to the PS2 demoing Snake's hotly anticipated jungle rumble by cracking the perspex case on one of the pods on the Sony stand."
Yeah, but then honestly how many of us are in any danger of getting to go anyway? I mean oh no, I won't be allowed into a conference that I will never attend anyway.
Now for those of you that are in positions in which you might have gotten to go but now won't because of this, my condolences. I have a cardboard box you might be able to use to sneak in with if you still want it.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
You mean not let local store managers with almost no interest in gaming attend? Madness!
*rant I once knew a (former) EBGames store manager my area who had to attend a company conference down in Las Vegas. It was all expenses paid plane ticket first class, 3 days hotel, food and transportation arranged. Instead he blew it all so he could bring his girlfriend down (this guy was so NOT a gamer...) there himself and ended up paying for all that. *endrant
As much as everyone would like to admit the fact that E3 is an INDUSTRY SHOW and as such should remain closed to the public, its hard to deny the public access to these sorts of goodies and then expect them to have a half-assed knowledge of 'whats hot, whats not' without reading 20 different magazines and websites. Other than the hardcore gamer, its hard to say with confidence that the public even knew about the Half-Life 2+Radeon deal a few months back.
Fun fact - the European version of ICO has an objdump of the game executable right there on the DVD. While it's not source code, we do get all the filenames of the source code, and all the labels / method names, etc.
It's really interesting. For example, you get to see exactly which programmer coded what, as they all kept the code in their own directories. And they really did call Ico and Yorda just 'boy' and 'girl' in their code. The story must have been made up by the marketing department.
Does my bum look big in this?
...security on the game itself would have been better. Like, modchip that PS2 such that the chip provides a code in ROM that allows that DVD to read only in a PS2 with THAT chip. I dunno, just a thought, not that it matters _now_.
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