I thought the media reported later on that no video games were found in his dorm according to the police reports. I forget which media outlet it was but I know one of them had the sense to say "let's not start pointing fingers right now" in the first few days following the tragedy.
Granted it was a cheap money grab, but Fox actually put the first 4 episodes of 24 out on DVD following their airing as part of the 24 Season 6 premiere. However, I heard that they had sent these out as preview discs for promotional purposes so they probably had a large enough volume left over to try and sell to consumers.
However, I would like to see a studio step up to the plate and try and do this with a show. At the end of each month they put up the next disc in the series for purchase at retail, instead of waiting 6 months to do the boxed set. I don't think it would be that hard for them to do. This would be analogous to the iTunes distribution method anyways. The only problem I see is finding the time to do the special features stuff.
I still think this is pretty stupid on NBC Universal's behalf, but since when has Universal been smart in their dealings with Steve Jobs? I greatly look forward to reading the headlines in a year stating that revenue is down and pirates are to blame.
Agreed. Conversely, look at the number of titles that either completely jumped from PS3 to XBox360 or went cross-platform.
Back on topic, this is pretty much the main reason for this generation's drought of games for the Nintendo platform. Everyone thought the PS3 was going to emerge from November the champion and the Wii was gonna be left in the dust. Thus, publishers and developers positioned themselves for the PS3 and put significantly less focus on the Wii. Ubisoft, for some reason, took the contrarian route and have been doing pretty well since then. Everyone else is playing catchup at this point.
and it allows every "Comic Book Guy" esque nerd get their paranoia on for the day.
The BioShock problem got blown way out of proportion and sent me into angry curmudgeon poster mode in an off-topic section on another site railing against the idiocy of people. I swear the internet is only good for three things these days: stupidity, paranoia, and yes: porn.
Did anyone read the article before coming up with the post title? They say right in the middle of the article that it's not a rootkit, and "It is our belief that the MicroVault software hides this folder to somehow protect the fingerprint authentication from tampering and bypass. It is obvious that user fingerprints cannot be in a world writable file on the disk when we are talking about secure authentication. However, we feel that rootkit-like cloaking techniques are not the right way to go here."
This is also nothing new in terms of USB drives. I have a USB flash drive, which I can't remember the name of, that essentially keeps a secure partition hidden from Windows unless you run a special app to put in a password to make it visible to Windows.
If you think Final Fantasy XIII is going to be out within the next year, can I have what you're smoking? At best you're still looking at a November maybe December US release. And that's being overly optimistic. Oh yeah, and I'm talking 11/08 and 12/08. Which would be a miracle since the last update they gave put the completion at 13% (which might have been a facetious answer to begin with) a few months ago. I guess we'll see what they say at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show.
Even if they were to ship it in Japan in the Spring of '08, you still need at least 8 months for localization and production time for the US release. Unless they're planning a global simultaneous release, which would be a first, but I think they'll use Last Remnant as a testing ground for that, since they usually use side projects like Remnant to test the waters with riskier things.
Oh and even if they do give a rough estimate for a release date, how many times was Final Fantasy XII delayed?
Eh... I have a Wii and also my PC needs upgrading in about a year or so. Anything I've wanted for XBox (360) has come out on PC. I'm the patient type with enough of a backlog to keep me entertained for a good while.
The price drop on the core unit almost makes it a good Wii alternative, although you still need to purchase a game and you'll have to do the hard drive upgrade on your own....
I think this is a lot better than Sony's fire sale.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is the "other project" that was rumored to be shown at BlizzCon this year. Considering how the last BlizzCon unveiled the 1st WoW expansion, AND they're giving away BETA keys for something (they've already suggested that it's not going to be SC2 Beta) this year, this makes a lot of sense.
But I'd bet it wouldn't take long for the Feds to "politely" ask for your information from your ISP (which is... last time I checked... owner of a large coporate database) if they had your MAC or IP address. Unless you figured out a way to get internet access under the name "John Doe" with a P.O. Box (which is traceable to you) and can pay only in cash?
It just takes a little more work for interested parties to get your personal information from an ISP, especially if said ISP will just rollover as soon as they see any paperwork heading their way. I guess the cellphone just puts it out in the open. Oh yeah, let's not forget about the GPS thing that's required in cell phones for 911 too.
With a 4 GB drive, couldn't this turn into a potential nightmare for the RIAA/MPAA? Even though the upload rate will be horrid, imagine a thousand micro-Pirate Bays running around in people's pockets...
Ideally, bittorrent would be a much bigger nuisance though.
I've been playing Nintendo games since I was 5 on the original NES. I've grown up with this industry. Honestly though, once I hit college I started doing other things and I really haven't had as much time as I used to for video games, and that's been the case since sophomore year of high school when I got onto the advanced college track of courses.
Anyone who considers themselves "hardcore" and rails against the Wii really need to re-evaluate why they game. I game because it's fun. Good gameplay is fun for me. If graphics were fun, then I'm pretty sure I'd be content just to watch a movie or my computer eek out 3D renderings in povRay or benchmarking utilities like 3D Mark. I've had a lot of fun with my Wii, and honestly I don't see a reason to shell out $600 for a PS3 if I'm content with my $250 investment, despite my long-running relationship with Final Fantasy games. I just finished Zelda a couple weeks ago after buying it in January and eeking out hour long play sessions when I get the hankering to do so. The drought doesn't bother me because I know the industry misjudged the system and is scrambling to put out quality software. Also, more time between releases that interest me is good because that gives me more time to finish stuff like Zelda in time for Prime 3 or to go out and get Super Paper Mario without feeling pressured to keep up with the Joneses.
I'm the type of player who still keeps his NES and SNES hooked up to the TV because there were just a lot of great games for that system. Sure Mario looks pixelated in HiDef but it's still a great game and it's a fun way to kill time with friends even if they don't normally play games.
I'm still interested in stuff like Unreal Engine 3, but what matters to me most about Unreal Tournament 3 is whether or not the game plays better than UT2004.
I wholly agree with Nintendo's strategy this generation. I've played Brain Age and it's a lot of fun if mental challenges are your cup of tea. If not, oh well. I don't get the complaints fired at Nintendo after this E3. Nintendo has been saying from day 1 that the Wii was going to target a different audience, and here we are a year later and everyone... correction, a very vocal minority, seem to have finally read that memo.
Unfortunately, this is the crisis the hardcore gamers face. They are quickly realizing that they are NOT a majority in this industry. These are the same people who cannot comprehend how games like The Sims (eeewww it's dolls!) or Myst (where's my f***ing gun?) were able to become the #1 selling games of all time, beating out beloved favorites such as Doom or Zelda. These purists are stuck in the same situation of the 10 year old kid who suddenly has a younger sibling and is losing the attention of mommy and daddy. Temper tantrums ensue.
Video games are an industry. The whole point at the end of the day is to make money, not please a vicious fan base which at times is not the most logical crew out there. If you can make more money by catering to a much larger audience than your traditional fans, damn straight these companies are going to do it. Especially when the casual market is a hell of a lot easier to awe and keep happy.
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But you have to talk to SNK, Capcom, and Technos to get those done. That's not Nintendo's problem, it's the rest of the industry.
Really? I felt dirty after watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Didn't get the same feeling after playing Twilight Princess. Although I thought TP could've moved along a little faster than it did.
Might I point out that 600 pages of Harry Potter = 300 pages of just about anything else in print. The books are huge tomes mainly due to the font size, line spacing and large margins. But it certainly makes you feel accomplished when you finish!
Well if we can have articles announcing the death of The Lone Gunmen, I don't see why we can't have this. This is the end of a successful and popular fantasy series which has acted as a gateway to other fantasy series for mainstream readers. I think this discussion deserves a place on/..
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that.
I told another avid fan that it seemed like she was catering it towards a movie form. Their reply was "well yeah, there's a lot more action than thinking cause she's wrapping it up." But seriously, did we need to have two plot elements that kept me thinking about Ocean's 11 and Mission: Impossible?
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I thought the media reported later on that no video games were found in his dorm according to the police reports. I forget which media outlet it was but I know one of them had the sense to say "let's not start pointing fingers right now" in the first few days following the tragedy.
Granted it was a cheap money grab, but Fox actually put the first 4 episodes of 24 out on DVD following their airing as part of the 24 Season 6 premiere. However, I heard that they had sent these out as preview discs for promotional purposes so they probably had a large enough volume left over to try and sell to consumers.
However, I would like to see a studio step up to the plate and try and do this with a show. At the end of each month they put up the next disc in the series for purchase at retail, instead of waiting 6 months to do the boxed set. I don't think it would be that hard for them to do. This would be analogous to the iTunes distribution method anyways. The only problem I see is finding the time to do the special features stuff.
I still think this is pretty stupid on NBC Universal's behalf, but since when has Universal been smart in their dealings with Steve Jobs? I greatly look forward to reading the headlines in a year stating that revenue is down and pirates are to blame.
Taken a look at Pokemon Battle Revolution?
Agreed. Conversely, look at the number of titles that either completely jumped from PS3 to XBox360 or went cross-platform.
Back on topic, this is pretty much the main reason for this generation's drought of games for the Nintendo platform. Everyone thought the PS3 was going to emerge from November the champion and the Wii was gonna be left in the dust. Thus, publishers and developers positioned themselves for the PS3 and put significantly less focus on the Wii. Ubisoft, for some reason, took the contrarian route and have been doing pretty well since then. Everyone else is playing catchup at this point.
and it allows every "Comic Book Guy" esque nerd get their paranoia on for the day.
The BioShock problem got blown way out of proportion and sent me into angry curmudgeon poster mode in an off-topic section on another site railing against the idiocy of people. I swear the internet is only good for three things these days: stupidity, paranoia, and yes: porn.
Since when is something x if it is x-like?
Did anyone read the article before coming up with the post title? They say right in the middle of the article that it's not a rootkit, and "It is our belief that the MicroVault software hides this folder to somehow protect the fingerprint authentication from tampering and bypass. It is obvious that user fingerprints cannot be in a world writable file on the disk when we are talking about secure authentication. However, we feel that rootkit-like cloaking techniques are not the right way to go here."
This is also nothing new in terms of USB drives. I have a USB flash drive, which I can't remember the name of, that essentially keeps a secure partition hidden from Windows unless you run a special app to put in a password to make it visible to Windows.
If you think Final Fantasy XIII is going to be out within the next year, can I have what you're smoking? At best you're still looking at a November maybe December US release. And that's being overly optimistic. Oh yeah, and I'm talking 11/08 and 12/08. Which would be a miracle since the last update they gave put the completion at 13% (which might have been a facetious answer to begin with) a few months ago. I guess we'll see what they say at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show.
Even if they were to ship it in Japan in the Spring of '08, you still need at least 8 months for localization and production time for the US release. Unless they're planning a global simultaneous release, which would be a first, but I think they'll use Last Remnant as a testing ground for that, since they usually use side projects like Remnant to test the waters with riskier things.
Oh and even if they do give a rough estimate for a release date, how many times was Final Fantasy XII delayed?
Go play a persistent NWN module?
Eh... I have a Wii and also my PC needs upgrading in about a year or so. Anything I've wanted for XBox (360) has come out on PC. I'm the patient type with enough of a backlog to keep me entertained for a good while.
The price drop on the core unit almost makes it a good Wii alternative, although you still need to purchase a game and you'll have to do the hard drive upgrade on your own....
I think this is a lot better than Sony's fire sale.
Aside from Prey, what exactly have they done for the industry lately? Other than providing the punchline for one too many jokes...
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is the "other project" that was rumored to be shown at BlizzCon this year. Considering how the last BlizzCon unveiled the 1st WoW expansion, AND they're giving away BETA keys for something (they've already suggested that it's not going to be SC2 Beta) this year, this makes a lot of sense.
But I'd bet it wouldn't take long for the Feds to "politely" ask for your information from your ISP (which is... last time I checked... owner of a large coporate database) if they had your MAC or IP address. Unless you figured out a way to get internet access under the name "John Doe" with a P.O. Box (which is traceable to you) and can pay only in cash?
It just takes a little more work for interested parties to get your personal information from an ISP, especially if said ISP will just rollover as soon as they see any paperwork heading their way. I guess the cellphone just puts it out in the open. Oh yeah, let's not forget about the GPS thing that's required in cell phones for 911 too.
And this is different from your MAC address or your installation key how?
With a 4 GB drive, couldn't this turn into a potential nightmare for the RIAA/MPAA? Even though the upload rate will be horrid, imagine a thousand micro-Pirate Bays running around in people's pockets...
Ideally, bittorrent would be a much bigger nuisance though.
I always thought it was a saftey net so mommy doesn't start suing companies when little Jimmy learns some new four letter words from his games.
Knowing blizzard:
Either a nerf bat or a ban hammer.
"The ultra-long JRPGs were again usually third party jobs, at least until the Pokémon era"
Blasphemy!
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I've been playing Nintendo games since I was 5 on the original NES. I've grown up with this industry. Honestly though, once I hit college I started doing other things and I really haven't had as much time as I used to for video games, and that's been the case since sophomore year of high school when I got onto the advanced college track of courses.
Anyone who considers themselves "hardcore" and rails against the Wii really need to re-evaluate why they game. I game because it's fun. Good gameplay is fun for me. If graphics were fun, then I'm pretty sure I'd be content just to watch a movie or my computer eek out 3D renderings in povRay or benchmarking utilities like 3D Mark. I've had a lot of fun with my Wii, and honestly I don't see a reason to shell out $600 for a PS3 if I'm content with my $250 investment, despite my long-running relationship with Final Fantasy games. I just finished Zelda a couple weeks ago after buying it in January and eeking out hour long play sessions when I get the hankering to do so. The drought doesn't bother me because I know the industry misjudged the system and is scrambling to put out quality software. Also, more time between releases that interest me is good because that gives me more time to finish stuff like Zelda in time for Prime 3 or to go out and get Super Paper Mario without feeling pressured to keep up with the Joneses.
I'm the type of player who still keeps his NES and SNES hooked up to the TV because there were just a lot of great games for that system. Sure Mario looks pixelated in HiDef but it's still a great game and it's a fun way to kill time with friends even if they don't normally play games.
I'm still interested in stuff like Unreal Engine 3, but what matters to me most about Unreal Tournament 3 is whether or not the game plays better than UT2004.
I wholly agree with Nintendo's strategy this generation. I've played Brain Age and it's a lot of fun if mental challenges are your cup of tea. If not, oh well. I don't get the complaints fired at Nintendo after this E3. Nintendo has been saying from day 1 that the Wii was going to target a different audience, and here we are a year later and everyone... correction, a very vocal minority, seem to have finally read that memo.
Unfortunately, this is the crisis the hardcore gamers face. They are quickly realizing that they are NOT a majority in this industry. These are the same people who cannot comprehend how games like The Sims (eeewww it's dolls!) or Myst (where's my f***ing gun?) were able to become the #1 selling games of all time, beating out beloved favorites such as Doom or Zelda. These purists are stuck in the same situation of the 10 year old kid who suddenly has a younger sibling and is losing the attention of mommy and daddy. Temper tantrums ensue.
Video games are an industry. The whole point at the end of the day is to make money, not please a vicious fan base which at times is not the most logical crew out there. If you can make more money by catering to a much larger audience than your traditional fans, damn straight these companies are going to do it. Especially when the casual market is a hell of a lot easier to awe and keep happy.
But you have to talk to SNK, Capcom, and Technos to get those done. That's not Nintendo's problem, it's the rest of the industry.
Really? I felt dirty after watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Didn't get the same feeling after playing Twilight Princess. Although I thought TP could've moved along a little faster than it did.
Might I point out that 600 pages of Harry Potter = 300 pages of just about anything else in print. The books are huge tomes mainly due to the font size, line spacing and large margins. But it certainly makes you feel accomplished when you finish!
Well if we can have articles announcing the death of The Lone Gunmen, I don't see why we can't have this. This is the end of a successful and popular fantasy series which has acted as a gateway to other fantasy series for mainstream readers. I think this discussion deserves a place on /..
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that.
I told another avid fan that it seemed like she was catering it towards a movie form. Their reply was "well yeah, there's a lot more action than thinking cause she's wrapping it up." But seriously, did we need to have two plot elements that kept me thinking about Ocean's 11 and Mission: Impossible?