Countless stories have been written about these races, all of them slightly rehashed with a few small combinations changed but largely the races characteristics and their appearance have largely remained unchanged in all the media they have been portrayed in. Here at last is something new about these overused boiler plate races.
The smell of each of them is something new, will our mental image of them change after smelling them?
The idea is to wash liability off the ESRB and everyone and let parents decide exactly what they want their kids to play. If they cant be bothered to read it then they have no right to complain. As it stands right now the parents are saying "this 13+ rated game has too much violence" and the other 'mature gamers group is saying "you cant decide at what age we should play these games!".
There might soon be a time when parents will set up a steam account for their kids and be shown a checklist of games they are allowed to own on that steam account with max limits based on the questionnaire like nothing more than moderate sexual themes but no restriction on violence.
Why dont we just put the answers to the questionnaire online and then any parent who cares enough to read them will know exactly what they are buying. That way no one will be judging at what age you can play a game and the... unpleasantness of games is no longer reduced to a number. Parents who are sensitive to topics like drug abuse or gun control or sex can read the questionnaire and decide for themselves on a per topic basis.
A lot of us cant understand advanced pure science but anyone can understand religion. I could go up to someone and ask them to bottom line Christianity for me and it would be something like 'This person could perform miracles and died for your sins, if you dont follow his teachings you will go to hell'. Now its just a matter of faith if you want to believe such a thing or not.
With science its just that one does not understand it and hence has no opinion about it.
Why would you do it? Is the American market so lucrative that you can risk both piracy from the impatient and pissing off your customers abroad? What possible reasoning lead a good part of the industry to do something like this?
I RTFA and i still didnt understand why the API is bottlenecking, why the draw calls are one third of the draw calls possible on the consoles and why going direct to metal gives you orders of magnitude performance boost after considering both hardwares. Does directX reject the stream processors? or what exactly?
So where games today can make people play for hours on end to get virtual goods, where gamers get the sense of achievement by killing virtual monsters in a virtual world for virtual rewards (while playing real money), you DONT want to use sex as a reward? Especially sex/romantic relations with characters you have quite likely developed some sort of emotional attachment to? You want to just.. give away this ace up a designers sleeve? WHY!
The Ps2 was early and the ps3 was late. We might as well compare to MS's own consoles, the XBox in Nov 2001 and the 360 in Nov 2005 which means we are about a year and a half behind. They have been releasing a lot of versions for the 360 console itself, the controller, the XBL service and of course the Kinect. Considering they are hiring now for this, it looks like its going to be a while before we see it.
And yes, Valve and Steam are stalwarts for PC gaming, . It usually costs nothing to "port" a game to windows and costs nothing to publish on steam (although steam does take its cut). There ARE PC gamers out there, and this (and blizzard) proves that there is still money here to be made.
If the pirated copy comes much later than the original copy the pirates will still not buy the original. But if the legit copy comes much later than the pirated as is the case here (even unfinished) the true fans and fence sitters will be extremely tempted to download it and, of course, the pirates will help themselves as usual. This is why this is going to hurt them so much, and it is extremely unfortunate.
What he wants to say here is in the consumers mind, the curve of price and enjoyability is linear i.e. if a $2 game gives you x amount of value then a $60 game should give me 30*x which is simply not the case.
An indie shop with a programmer and an artist can put out a $2 game which is fairly enjoyable but as the scope of the game increases its complexity increases exponentially requiring producers, project managers, seperate QA testing, designers, workspace, engine and middleware licenses, graphics tools, marketing etc. So for every additional point of value you want out of the product you need to pay an exponentially increasing amount in price. He simply wants consumers to understand this.
Playstation Suite, a software framework that will let Android phones run Playstation games. Sony skimped on details, but said Playstation Suite will start with PSOne games when it launches for Android 2.3 phones later this year
Although this is modded 'funny' cant i do something like this? Post on my own wall once and for all that whatever i say here should not be taken as absolute or even near truth and should not be taken seriously. Whatever i say may or may not reflect my own view and may or may not be fact or fiction.
"i killed someone"
(is there a lawyer friendly way to phrase the above?)
Bad publicity for Capcom and good publicity for Twisted pixel. Capcom being a huge established studio with multiple franchises definitely does not need the bad publicity but for a small indie studio any publicity is good publicity.
You would think. But Game development companies have a nasty habit of doing this, they can use your passion for games against you to make themselves a ton of money. They always abuse the freshers first who dont know better, its the norm and there was a huge debate in IGDA (the internet game developers association) when some of the leaders of the organization (who were also heads of big game companies, ubi soft i believe)that were supposed to speak up for the rights of game devs said its unavoidable.
I've also worked those hours nad while it might seem extraordinary that some of us do them without complaint, we got a whole battered wives syndrome going and it seems fine to us till we are out.
I hope they move faster on http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=277546 XNA support for Kinect. This will not only let indie devs create kinect games using nothing more than a pc and an xbox on a lan, but will also let people deploy kinect games for both xbox and pc simultaneously with support for the kinect and windows kinect respectively.
Except you are supposed to get bored. Its not supposed to be an adrenaline rush of information/fun/"social stuff", its supposed to be your whole online presence. Everyone's digital avatar under one roof, everyone's single point of contact online. You do realise that you can find ANYONE on facebook right? Its reached critical mass in a lot of ways, its easily extended with applications, facebook connect is everywhere, facebook mail will realllly make everyone put their eggs in one basket.
Everyone may say they are "bored" of facebook but really i've never heard of anyone quitting it.
Firstly, in the context of this story leaking is no way to give out information that you consider unnecessarily secret. There is way too much collateral damage when something gets leaked as opposed to getting declassified.
Secondly, 'the SA king is an ass' is in no way an official diplomatic position of any sort. These are private cables between embassies and their home base. Declassifying this would be akin to saying opinions that an employee shares with his coworkers about management should not be kept secret.
Also for the free players and non subscribers the whole purchasing system is presented very well. In the initial areas everything is unlocked, all quests are available and the main storyline is always available. Later on though you will start seeing little golden buttons and small messages saying you can buy so and so content whenever you encounter something locked. You can then simply rightclick the button/npc and it will open up the ingame browser and take you to the store where you can quickly and easily buy whatever it is you want or check out whats on sale. This i found was a big draw and what pushed me to open up my usually tight purse strings. The TP system is simply very well done.
Its the law that even if its a software error, or you are card counting, or you are sleeping with lady luck; they have a right to throw you out but they can NOT take the money you already won unless they can prove you were cheating. If they simply do not like you they can ask you to leave but they cant take what they cant prove you have stolen.
If i am reading the patent correctly, it says database driven distributed tournament system. This would mean that while matchmakign is done with a database (centralized) it is ultimately a distributed system i.e. peer to peer? Wow and farmville etc are centralized so why are they suing them? perhaps because MMORPG's were less prolific before 2000 while matchmaking for p2p mplayer has been around for a long long time?
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Countless stories have been written about these races, all of them slightly rehashed with a few small combinations changed but largely the races characteristics and their appearance have largely remained unchanged in all the media they have been portrayed in. Here at last is something new about these overused boiler plate races.
The smell of each of them is something new, will our mental image of them change after smelling them?
The idea is to wash liability off the ESRB and everyone and let parents decide exactly what they want their kids to play. If they cant be bothered to read it then they have no right to complain. As it stands right now the parents are saying "this 13+ rated game has too much violence" and the other 'mature gamers group is saying "you cant decide at what age we should play these games!".
There might soon be a time when parents will set up a steam account for their kids and be shown a checklist of games they are allowed to own on that steam account with max limits based on the questionnaire like nothing more than moderate sexual themes but no restriction on violence.
Why dont we just put the answers to the questionnaire online and then any parent who cares enough to read them will know exactly what they are buying. That way no one will be judging at what age you can play a game and the ... unpleasantness of games is no longer reduced to a number. Parents who are sensitive to topics like drug abuse or gun control or sex can read the questionnaire and decide for themselves on a per topic basis.
One of the games from the previous bundle (Cortex command) isn't even finished yet. Why are they including unfinished games again?
A lot of us cant understand advanced pure science but anyone can understand religion. I could go up to someone and ask them to bottom line Christianity for me and it would be something like 'This person could perform miracles and died for your sins, if you dont follow his teachings you will go to hell'. Now its just a matter of faith if you want to believe such a thing or not.
With science its just that one does not understand it and hence has no opinion about it.
Why would you do it? Is the American market so lucrative that you can risk both piracy from the impatient and pissing off your customers abroad? What possible reasoning lead a good part of the industry to do something like this?
I RTFA and i still didnt understand why the API is bottlenecking, why the draw calls are one third of the draw calls possible on the consoles and why going direct to metal gives you orders of magnitude performance boost after considering both hardwares. Does directX reject the stream processors? or what exactly?
So where games today can make people play for hours on end to get virtual goods, where gamers get the sense of achievement by killing virtual monsters in a virtual world for virtual rewards (while playing real money), you DONT want to use sex as a reward? Especially sex/romantic relations with characters you have quite likely developed some sort of emotional attachment to? You want to just.. give away this ace up a designers sleeve? WHY!
The Ps2 was early and the ps3 was late. We might as well compare to MS's own consoles, the XBox in Nov 2001 and the 360 in Nov 2005 which means we are about a year and a half behind. They have been releasing a lot of versions for the 360 console itself, the controller, the XBL service and of course the Kinect. Considering they are hiring now for this, it looks like its going to be a while before we see it.
My isp charges a bomb for installation of last mile.
Scroll to the end to see what GN does with his money.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=302
And yes, Valve and Steam are stalwarts for PC gaming, . It usually costs nothing to "port" a game to windows and costs nothing to publish on steam (although steam does take its cut). There ARE PC gamers out there, and this (and blizzard) proves that there is still money here to be made.
If the pirated copy comes much later than the original copy the pirates will still not buy the original. But if the legit copy comes much later than the pirated as is the case here (even unfinished) the true fans and fence sitters will be extremely tempted to download it and, of course, the pirates will help themselves as usual.
This is why this is going to hurt them so much, and it is extremely unfortunate.
What he wants to say here is in the consumers mind, the curve of price and enjoyability is linear i.e. if a $2 game gives you x amount of value then a $60 game should give me 30*x which is simply not the case.
An indie shop with a programmer and an artist can put out a $2 game which is fairly enjoyable but as the scope of the game increases its complexity increases exponentially requiring producers, project managers, seperate QA testing, designers, workspace, engine and middleware licenses, graphics tools, marketing etc. So for every additional point of value you want out of the product you need to pay an exponentially increasing amount in price. He simply wants consumers to understand this.
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Update3: Please no one call and harass Benihanna or their employees. You can show your support in other ways. Thank you.
And yet.... sony seems to love smart phones...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/218065/sony_hedges_bets_with_playstation_suite.html
Playstation Suite, a software framework that will let Android phones run Playstation games. Sony skimped on details, but said Playstation Suite will start with PSOne games when it launches for Android 2.3 phones later this year
Although this is modded 'funny' cant i do something like this? Post on my own wall once and for all that whatever i say here should not be taken as absolute or even near truth and should not be taken seriously. Whatever i say may or may not reflect my own view and may or may not be fact or fiction.
"i killed someone"
(is there a lawyer friendly way to phrase the above?)
will be a nightmare to play. I would imagine zombies smell really really really bad.
Bad publicity for Capcom and good publicity for Twisted pixel.
Capcom being a huge established studio with multiple franchises definitely does not need the bad publicity but for a small indie studio any publicity is good publicity.
You would think. But Game development companies have a nasty habit of doing this, they can use your passion for games against you to make themselves a ton of money. They always abuse the freshers first who dont know better, its the norm and there was a huge debate in IGDA (the internet game developers association) when some of the leaders of the organization (who were also heads of big game companies, ubi soft i believe)that were supposed to speak up for the rights of game devs said its unavoidable.
I've also worked those hours nad while it might seem extraordinary that some of us do them without complaint, we got a whole battered wives syndrome going and it seems fine to us till we are out.
I hope they move faster on http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=277546 XNA support for Kinect. This will not only let indie devs create kinect games using nothing more than a pc and an xbox on a lan, but will also let people deploy kinect games for both xbox and pc simultaneously with support for the kinect and windows kinect respectively.
Except you are supposed to get bored. Its not supposed to be an adrenaline rush of information/fun/"social stuff", its supposed to be your whole online presence. Everyone's digital avatar under one roof, everyone's single point of contact online. You do realise that you can find ANYONE on facebook right? Its reached critical mass in a lot of ways, its easily extended with applications, facebook connect is everywhere, facebook mail will realllly make everyone put their eggs in one basket.
Everyone may say they are "bored" of facebook but really i've never heard of anyone quitting it.
Firstly, in the context of this story leaking is no way to give out information that you consider unnecessarily secret. There is way too much collateral damage when something gets leaked as opposed to getting declassified.
Secondly, 'the SA king is an ass' is in no way an official diplomatic position of any sort. These are private cables between embassies and their home base. Declassifying this would be akin to saying opinions that an employee shares with his coworkers about management should not be kept secret.
Also for the free players and non subscribers the whole purchasing system is presented very well. In the initial areas everything is unlocked, all quests are available and the main storyline is always available. Later on though you will start seeing little golden buttons and small messages saying you can buy so and so content whenever you encounter something locked. You can then simply rightclick the button/npc and it will open up the ingame browser and take you to the store where you can quickly and easily buy whatever it is you want or check out whats on sale. This i found was a big draw and what pushed me to open up my usually tight purse strings. The TP system is simply very well done.
Its the law that even if its a software error, or you are card counting, or you are sleeping with lady luck; they have a right to throw you out but they can NOT take the money you already won unless they can prove you were cheating. If they simply do not like you they can ask you to leave but they cant take what they cant prove you have stolen.
If i am reading the patent correctly, it says database driven distributed tournament system. This would mean that while matchmakign is done with a database (centralized) it is ultimately a distributed system i.e. peer to peer? Wow and farmville etc are centralized so why are they suing them? perhaps because MMORPG's were less prolific before 2000 while matchmaking for p2p mplayer has been around for a long long time?