Unless it's a T&A game, it seems all the booth babes would do is distract from the product they're supposed to be selling, no matter what kind of geek we're talking about.
Agreed, I can barely (if at all) tell what games these booth babes are actually promoting. Can't wait for E3 2010 when there aren't any games at all...
All they need to do is host an E3 show in a building directly next to a strip club. Next to? Why not in? Mmmm.... Warioware twisted would be interesting if it was demoed by a stripper pole dancing.
hen I played that damn dancing level where the button shapes would fly by and I had to hit the right one.
I fully agree. San Andreas was the first game I bought for the PS2 (there's lots of reasons I took this long to buy a PS2 that I'm not going to detail here) and that friggin dancing level drove me nuts. I'm sure it's fine if you've been using the controller everyday for years, but..
Wouldn't it have just been simpler to have BU, BD, BL and BR? the "bottom button" is much easier for me than X.
combat this problem, the next generation console's controller will consist of a single giant, red button. Users will rapidly push this button until the game is beaten. There's already a pokemon game like this in the arcase made by Banpresto. So this really wouldn't be revolutionary.
Got confused there for a minute. Read "a milkshape exporter" as "a milkshake exporter". Couldn't really understand the link between milkshakes and game development...I'm sure there is one...
From TFA, which apparently no one has read yet Jeez... who has time to read every article? I just get my little program to jump into the link and produce a clever response... sadly the response is only clever around 2% of the time... this is not one of those times, sadly.
Wish I had something similar for my students. Um... From TFA, The product costs $399 for schools and $699 for businesses per copy.
I hate interviewers who ask the questions that the person who is being interviewed wants to answer.
GamingNexus: What are some of the praises from developers already using XNA? What are some of the negatives?
Chris Satchell: We continually get great feedback from developers... Developer love PIX... developers really appreciated... continually get feedback on how easy it is...
Where were the negatives? Gee whiz, he didn't seem to answer that part of the question. Wonder why.
I don't really see the point of a site that is already gushing about a product interviewing the developer of said product. Just put up a press release and be done with it. I'm not sure how it adds anything. Maybe I'm being to harsh...
You kill the orc!
Yah! Take that you smelly orc.
I've only played a couple of MUDs and none of them have had such boring battle descriptions. But even so, how much more interesting could EverQuest be?
It is a genuine nuisance for your top-level PR reps to have to pitch something that won't be around for a long time while we have perfectly good products coming out soon.
But it does beg the question as to why Sony actually planned and announced the event in the first place? Really, if you plan (and announce)an event and then don't decide to do it, there must be a reason. Did they not realise that it would have put pressure on the developers when they announced it?
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Damn trains. Took my DS with Yoshi Touch and Go on the train this morning. Tried to play it, but because the train makes so much noise the DS reacted as if I was constantly blowing into the mic (therefore making the game unplayable on the train). Sob...
"but all it did for me was cement the fact that NBC is grabbing at straws and probably shouldn't be wasting their time trying to Americanize a formerly funny series"
Hmmm... who did the US version of Men Behaving Badly? I assume if they fluffed Coupling then they should fluff this.
You know there's a lot of reasons I'm not crazy about Hasbro but I really just can't see anything unreasonable about this.
Hmmm.... I think maybe the following: Because the e-Scrabble URL is of no use to you, it should be transferred to Hasbro. We also demand that you provide us with information concerning the extent of your uses of any elements of the SCRABBLE game, as well as information regarding the distribution of your electronic Scrabble game to enable us to assess more precisely the extent of the damage done.
Isn't this just Hasbro saying "we'll take the game and the site from you and run it ourselves... then possibly take any money you made from it in the last year"? Hasbro clearly isn't interested in a purchase...
Yeah, but this is someone reporting this to an ISP, who then need to forward it to the AFP. Why don't people just send it to the AFP? Maybe they won't know to do so.
Putting on my skepticism hat, I ask : Is this a cheap publicity stunt by a group of under talented people who hate PublishAmerica ??
It's a cheap publicity stunt yes, but it's worth it. Publishers who claim that SF&F is easier to write or less worthy than other genres should be shown that this is false. Just like any genre there is good and bad examples. Usually when a genre becomes popular there is a glut of product, which increases the amount of crap in the marketplace. It happened with crime, SF&F, romance and these sort of modern novels. Sigh...
Anyway, I hardly think that if it was a purely money making effort by no-talent hacks, then it wouldn't be available for download (though I'm not sure if the PDF is the entire thing as it's still downloading).
Wow, I REALLY always thought Dune 2 was just the freakin' sequel to the movie...
Lucky you... the original Dune (game) was a shnore fest. Although Home of the Underdogs gives it a rating of 8.75... I did play it after I played Dune2... maybe I should try it again.
We never had Sony eyecam, MMORPG, Steering wheels, online gaming on a console before.
Steering wheel eh? Er... Colecovision? Just because you never had a steering wheel on a console before, don't assume that no-one else did.
Once had a lecturer (in Networking) who said in the first lecture every year, that if anyone hacked into his network, they would recieve an automatic High Distinction, even if they didn't do the test or attend a lecture. AFAIK no-one ever managed it (though I'm not sure anyone ever bothered to attempt it).
I somehow have gotten the impression that the AUS Government is very computer hostile unless it is at the behest of large corporations or pressure groups, could anyone living in AUS give the low-down on some of the problems that plague internet users there?
Sort of right. See the goverment used to own this company called Telecom which provided telecommunications. No one else could, the goverment owned all of the phone lines in the country. Which worked ok.
The goverment finally let other carriers in and in 1992 Optus launched in Australia. In 1997 the goverment sold (I think) 25% of Telecom (now called Telstra) and in 1998 sold enough to give the goverment 51% control (A Brief History of Telstra).
Which is where we are now. Basically Telstra owns most of the lines (because they were paid for by the Australian people) and it costs a fair bit for anyone else to roll out an entire network. But Telstra obviously set the retail and wholesale prices of the lines. And strangely, sometimes, the wholesale prices are more than or equal to the retail. Optus gets around this via thier TV cable services, Alphalink rolled out wireless and iiNet are doing what article says.
There were claims that Telstra blocked the introduction of broadband for it's own benifit and that it has been unfairly competing against other carriers (but I don't think Fair Trade has upheld any of these claims).
In reality the goverement is pushing to sell the rest of Telstra and the Coalition have never quite got enough votes in the Senate to get it thru by themselves. For the last two sales they mad stupid ammendments to appease an independent who calls himself Brian Harradine, who's very into censoring everything, including the net. Thankfully he's going, but Family First managed to get one senator in (and I'm ashamed that it's in my state) and they are a party who... shock horror... want to ramp up net censorship further than what Harradine dreamed he could get.
So the simple answer is it's not that the goverment are actively computer hostile, it's just that thier short sighted plan of selling a monopoly means that they have to be mean to all of us.
I think I might have ranted a bit there, but you should get the general impression of what's happening down here. Oh... and do a search on google for Telstra suck if you need more of an idea...:)
Now - this is the definition of target deomgraphic. all age 18-25, Male, Variety of Genres, online and single player, high speed, network play all available.
So you're saying that Nintendo are dying becaues they aren't targeting a demographic which Sony has already won over? Where's the market? Nintendo are targeting two markets, the 25 market with the nostalgic games. But you're view of the games is correct, maybe that's what's killing Nintendo. It's hard to pirate a Nintendo game and even if it weren't (us) Nintendo fanboys respect Nintendo too much to rip them off. How many of those PS1/2 titles are legal copies?
Now, Unless the N figures out how to grow up and provide content to Mature...
By mature I'm going to assume you mean Mature in an immature sense and will point to Conkers Bad Fur Day (although that was N64 and Rare are no longer with Nintendo....).
It dosent matter how silly the online chats are - the fact is online exists for the interaction. WTF? You live in a dorm... Nintendo is king of local multiplayer gaming... why do you want to go online when you appear to have, what, at least 30 people? SSB:M online would suck, it's a game for mocking someone next to you. To quote Jim Merrick from Edge 143 'It's because I'm in the same room as you and I can sense your pain. I can taunt you and revel in my victory with you. And I lose a lot of that in an online environment'. Nintendo have different concepts of fun, just as different gamers do.
Hmmmm.... Let's do a quick wip around of my friends (modern) consoles. Most have PS2's, some have GCs and 2 have XBoxs (though one was bought purely to be modded). So on this basis Sony is clearly a winner, but they all have an original or colour Gameboy and an Advance or SP. Even my friend who doesn't own a TV has a Gameboy....
In any case I'm getting close to ranting. Just remember that because people you know aren't interested in something, doesn't mean that other people aren't. Nintendo have survived a lot of ups and downs... they won't go too easily.
The analogy's not even fair - unless those Rock musicians you listened to brought out the same album year after year, just reworked enough that you needed a whole new stereo to play it on!
I don't know... seems to me that techno manages to rework the same music you had before and sell better than original (and hardcore) music.
The do one better though, as they don't even have the upgrading platform excuse...
I've just been on holiday to Australia for the last three weeks
Given that Weather is a variable, surely this only applies to the UK? Our weather is fine over here and Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a sunny 31c for where I am.
But in any case (apart from the time based variables) this seems a little abstract and it'd be nice to see how variables like weather and motivation can be assigned a value.
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Unless it's a T&A game, it seems all the booth babes would do is distract from the product they're supposed to be selling, no matter what kind of geek we're talking about.
Agreed, I can barely (if at all) tell what games these booth babes are actually promoting. Can't wait for E3 2010 when there aren't any games at all...
All they need to do is host an E3 show in a building directly next to a strip club.
Next to? Why not in? Mmmm.... Warioware twisted would be interesting if it was demoed by a stripper pole dancing.
hen I played that damn dancing level where the button shapes would fly by and I had to hit the right one.
I fully agree. San Andreas was the first game I bought for the PS2 (there's lots of reasons I took this long to buy a PS2 that I'm not going to detail here) and that friggin dancing level drove me nuts. I'm sure it's fine if you've been using the controller everyday for years, but..
Wouldn't it have just been simpler to have BU, BD, BL and BR? the "bottom button" is much easier for me than X.
combat this problem, the next generation console's controller will consist of a single giant, red button. Users will rapidly push this button until the game is beaten.
There's already a pokemon game like this in the arcase made by Banpresto. So this really wouldn't be revolutionary.
Got confused there for a minute. Read "a milkshape exporter" as "a milkshake exporter". Couldn't really understand the link between milkshakes and game development...I'm sure there is one...
From TFA, which apparently no one has read yet
Jeez... who has time to read every article? I just get my little program to jump into the link and produce a clever response... sadly the response is only clever around 2% of the time... this is not one of those times, sadly.
Wish I had something similar for my students.
Um... From TFA, The product costs $399 for schools and $699 for businesses per copy.
I hate marketing jackasses.
I hate interviewers who ask the questions that the person who is being interviewed wants to answer.
GamingNexus: What are some of the praises from developers already using XNA? What are some of the negatives?
Chris Satchell: We continually get great feedback from developers... Developer love PIX... developers really appreciated... continually get feedback on how easy it is...
Where were the negatives? Gee whiz, he didn't seem to answer that part of the question. Wonder why.
I don't really see the point of a site that is already gushing about a product interviewing the developer of said product. Just put up a press release and be done with it. I'm not sure how it adds anything. Maybe I'm being to harsh...
You kill the orc!
Yah! Take that you smelly orc.
I've only played a couple of MUDs and none of them have had such boring battle descriptions. But even so, how much more interesting could EverQuest be?
It is a genuine nuisance for your top-level PR reps to have to pitch something that won't be around for a long time while we have perfectly good products coming out soon.
But it does beg the question as to why Sony actually planned and announced the event in the first place? Really, if you plan (and announce)an event and then don't decide to do it, there must be a reason. Did they not realise that it would have put pressure on the developers when they announced it?
Take transit.
Damn trains. Took my DS with Yoshi Touch and Go on the train this morning. Tried to play it, but because the train makes so much noise the DS reacted as if I was constantly blowing into the mic (therefore making the game unplayable on the train). Sob...
Hmmm... Martha Stewart vs Delia Smith would be an interesting Grudge Match.
"but all it did for me was cement the fact that NBC is grabbing at straws and probably shouldn't be wasting their time trying to Americanize a formerly funny series"
Hmmm... who did the US version of Men Behaving Badly? I assume if they fluffed Coupling then they should fluff this.
You know there's a lot of reasons I'm not crazy about Hasbro but I really just can't see anything unreasonable about this.
Hmmm.... I think maybe the following:
Because the e-Scrabble URL is of no use to you, it should be transferred to Hasbro. We also demand that you provide us with information concerning the extent of your uses of any elements of the SCRABBLE game, as well as information regarding the distribution of your electronic Scrabble game to enable us to assess more precisely the extent of the damage done.
Isn't this just Hasbro saying "we'll take the game and the site from you and run it ourselves... then possibly take any money you made from it in the last year"? Hasbro clearly isn't interested in a purchase...
Cheat codes always make me think of Space Channel 5... "Up, Down, Up, Down, Chu, Chu, Chu!"
Yeah, but this is someone reporting this to an ISP, who then need to forward it to the AFP. Why don't people just send it to the AFP? Maybe they won't know to do so.
Hmmmm.... Fridge Magnet time again....
Putting on my skepticism hat, I ask : Is this a cheap publicity stunt by a group of under talented people who hate PublishAmerica ??
It's a cheap publicity stunt yes, but it's worth it. Publishers who claim that SF&F is easier to write or less worthy than other genres should be shown that this is false. Just like any genre there is good and bad examples. Usually when a genre becomes popular there is a glut of product, which increases the amount of crap in the marketplace. It happened with crime, SF&F, romance and these sort of modern novels. Sigh...
Anyway, I hardly think that if it was a purely money making effort by no-talent hacks, then it wouldn't be available for download (though I'm not sure if the PDF is the entire thing as it's still downloading).
Wow, I REALLY always thought Dune 2 was just the freakin' sequel to the movie...
Lucky you... the original Dune (game) was a shnore fest. Although Home of the Underdogs gives it a rating of 8.75... I did play it after I played Dune2... maybe I should try it again.
We never had Sony eyecam, MMORPG, Steering wheels, online gaming on a console before.
Steering wheel eh? Er... Colecovision? Just because you never had a steering wheel on a console before, don't assume that no-one else did.
Once had a lecturer (in Networking) who said in the first lecture every year, that if anyone hacked into his network, they would recieve an automatic High Distinction, even if they didn't do the test or attend a lecture. AFAIK no-one ever managed it (though I'm not sure anyone ever bothered to attempt it).
You'd be lucky to find them with equipment in your local exchange.
Unless you're in WA or in the inner part of the city. There's around 30 in the other states and heaps in WA. But I'm sure they'll keep rolling out.
I somehow have gotten the impression that the AUS Government is very computer hostile unless it is at the behest of large corporations or pressure groups, could anyone living in AUS give the low-down on some of the problems that plague internet users there?
:)
Sort of right. See the goverment used to own this company called Telecom which provided telecommunications. No one else could, the goverment owned all of the phone lines in the country. Which worked ok.
The goverment finally let other carriers in and in 1992 Optus launched in Australia. In 1997 the goverment sold (I think) 25% of Telecom (now called Telstra) and in 1998 sold enough to give the goverment 51% control (A Brief History of Telstra).
Which is where we are now. Basically Telstra owns most of the lines (because they were paid for by the Australian people) and it costs a fair bit for anyone else to roll out an entire network. But Telstra obviously set the retail and wholesale prices of the lines. And strangely, sometimes, the wholesale prices are more than or equal to the retail. Optus gets around this via thier TV cable services, Alphalink rolled out wireless and iiNet are doing what article says.
There were claims that Telstra blocked the introduction of broadband for it's own benifit and that it has been unfairly competing against other carriers (but I don't think Fair Trade has upheld any of these claims).
In reality the goverement is pushing to sell the rest of Telstra and the Coalition have never quite got enough votes in the Senate to get it thru by themselves. For the last two sales they mad stupid ammendments to appease an independent who calls himself Brian Harradine, who's very into censoring everything, including the net. Thankfully he's going, but Family First managed to get one senator in (and I'm ashamed that it's in my state) and they are a party who... shock horror... want to ramp up net censorship further than what Harradine dreamed he could get.
So the simple answer is it's not that the goverment are actively computer hostile, it's just that thier short sighted plan of selling a monopoly means that they have to be mean to all of us.
I think I might have ranted a bit there, but you should get the general impression of what's happening down here. Oh... and do a search on google for Telstra suck if you need more of an idea...
Now - this is the definition of target deomgraphic. all age 18-25, Male, Variety of Genres, online and single player, high speed, network play all available.
So you're saying that Nintendo are dying becaues they aren't targeting a demographic which Sony has already won over? Where's the market? Nintendo are targeting two markets, the 25 market with the nostalgic games.
But you're view of the games is correct, maybe that's what's killing Nintendo. It's hard to pirate a Nintendo game and even if it weren't (us) Nintendo fanboys respect Nintendo too much to rip them off. How many of those PS1/2 titles are legal copies?
Now, Unless the N figures out how to grow up and provide content to Mature...
By mature I'm going to assume you mean Mature in an immature sense and will point to Conkers Bad Fur Day (although that was N64 and Rare are no longer with Nintendo....).
It dosent matter how silly the online chats are - the fact is online exists for the interaction. WTF? You live in a dorm... Nintendo is king of local multiplayer gaming... why do you want to go online when you appear to have, what, at least 30 people? SSB:M online would suck, it's a game for mocking someone next to you. To quote Jim Merrick from Edge 143 'It's because I'm in the same room as you and I can sense your pain. I can taunt you and revel in my victory with you. And I lose a lot of that in an online environment'. Nintendo have different concepts of fun, just as different gamers do.
Hmmmm.... Let's do a quick wip around of my friends (modern) consoles. Most have PS2's, some have GCs and 2 have XBoxs (though one was bought purely to be modded). So on this basis Sony is clearly a winner, but they all have an original or colour Gameboy and an Advance or SP. Even my friend who doesn't own a TV has a Gameboy....
In any case I'm getting close to ranting. Just remember that because people you know aren't interested in something, doesn't mean that other people aren't. Nintendo have survived a lot of ups and downs... they won't go too easily.
The analogy's not even fair - unless those Rock musicians you listened to brought out the same album year after year, just reworked enough that you needed a whole new stereo to play it on!
I don't know... seems to me that techno manages to rework the same music you had before and sell better than original (and hardcore) music.
The do one better though, as they don't even have the upgrading platform excuse...
Or I'm just getting old...
Insert obligatory comment about Nintendo being "kiddy" here:
Insert obligatory Nintendo fanboy retort here:
I've just been on holiday to Australia for the last three weeks
Given that Weather is a variable, surely this only applies to the UK? Our weather is fine over here and Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a sunny 31c for where I am.
But in any case (apart from the time based variables) this seems a little abstract and it'd be nice to see how variables like weather and motivation can be assigned a value.