You know, then Sony would just make their own server farms and make money off of it. And what processing power do you sugguest the system reserve for "running" those pretty pretty games you want it to.
Besides, whats the use of finding a space buffalo if we can't kill it, eat it's flesh, wear it's skin, and turn the land it used to live on into farmland?
Multiplayer is only good if its same-room multiplayer on the Wii, the online stuff will likely always be crap.
For singleplayer games, I'd sugguest zelda, paper mario wii, and maybe rent elebits, rayman (its a singleplayer minigame game at heart), and metal slug (though the "new" metal slug 6 on it is absolutely horrid).
Remember this is a Zonk story.
It is a allegation that stalker may possibly use the same assets as are used in HL2 or D3, and an assumption that they did not pay for the rights to use these (through purchasing the same developer tools, or simply paying eachother off).
Good ol Zonk, posting a story that is not just an assumption, but an assumption of an assumption.
You really should look up the industrial revolution, and how many, many governments suddenly found themselves forced with the decision to either change to a more open form of government, or face open revolt.
Good working conditions actually give people inspiration to try to change their government, because now that they don't struggle to put food on the table every day they can spend time thinking about political issues.
I do have black friends, and even a black girlfriend, which is why I said that I am not racist. Notice how I did not specifically say anything about gangsta rap being specifically black culture? I see just as many low class (grew up among them, actually) white kids getting into it.
The USA does this quite a bit, and we really don't have so many subversive groups, because the way that it is done makes their subversive groups look like fringe crazies.
The thing china is doing wrong is that they are trying to stomp out subversive groups without addressing the underlying issues or at least swinging popular opinion against subversive groups. They need to cause their own terrorist attack (from XYZ subversive group in china) so that they can have public opinion behind the government again.
Ok, this is slashdot, we're all computer nerds, and at least a small percentage of us have an education, why would we care about 'hard core gangsta rap'?
Of course, this is off topic, but really, rap is for idiots without jobs or a real culture. (I'm not racist, just pointing out that the entire culture is a self perpetuating cycle of self-inflicted poverty and crime.)
I'm well aware that I'll be flamebaited for this, but I speak my mind.
China is really repressive of their younger generation gaming online, primarilly because their dissident groups start up from these under 18 people being online. Stopping them from gaming as much will help disrupt bonds between the groups and cause slightly less anti-government behavior.
Of course I think their system will collapse in a few years because of this anyway, but it is likely to stave off the inevitable for a little while at least.
I would like to point out that most medical research companies live in the idea that their products will be sell-able for a significant period longer than 2 years. 2 years seems to be an extremely short period of time to expect people to recoup losses, even windows only comes out with an OS every 3-4 years.
You know, someone just need to sit Sony down and say "Hey, Sony, this is a portable gaming system. Can you tell me what the purpose of the system is." then slap them in the face when they say something about next generation blah de crap (yes, thats a technical term).
Games are about the fun, if you make a game system that lacks games like that, that arn't engaging and easy to play on the go. They missed this point obviously because most of their games are made for people who sit around for hours and hours playing the same game.
Anyone noticing that the RIAA and their associated music companies (keep in mind that their name is supposed to be hated, we're not supposed to hate sony/universal/emi and warner) tend to do things to piss off the most educated people, while the least educated don't notice?
Also notice that the least educated people tend to listen to rap "music", and the associated pop music that these companies churn out?
Personally, I'm sure that some executive is thinking, somewhere, that having a less educated country means more people to listen to their music. Besides the fact that they're using someone else's money to fight their battles for them.
Although usually known and depicted as female, the Kojiki gives little clue about Amaterasu's sex. (Early Japanese language does not use gender-specific pronouns.) Some scholars have interpreted Amaterasu as male.
The author is completely forgetting to mention the sticky note with the root password that half of these companies have on the side of people's monitors because they force a password change every 3-6 months to something arbitrary. It also says to completely seperate the outside and inside network, which means that employees have no email, no google, no internet access at all. It mentions nothing about compartmentalized access rights to various databases, with a different division of admins having responsability and access to only their systems.
In fact, all it does talk about is transmission interception (which is much less common than those problems mentioned above), and data security.
You know hot coffee wasn't really so bad. Granted, it shouldn't have been in the game, but it was a pretty convoluted hack to get to it, and it wasn't really as big a step to take from a game about murdering hookers after you slept with them.
But back to topic. The ESRB rates games erratically, its hard to quantify dynamic content simply based on what behaviors and actions you perform in a game. Some game companies will submit many 'versions' to the ESRB just to get one thats rated at what they want it to be. The system is screwed up, but somehow manages to self regulate well 99% of the time. The main reason for this is because game companies realize that certain markets want violent games, and certain ones don't. You could try to get GTA3 rated as 'early adolecent', and heck, it might work, but why would you? Theres no profit in it, theres no motivation, there is no bucket of cold hard cash at the end of that tunnel.
WGA doesn't recognize my version of XP Tablet Edition. Its stright off toshiba's store, never been wiped, and I'm unable to do windows update because WGA would cripple my machine.
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You know, then Sony would just make their own server farms and make money off of it. And what processing power do you sugguest the system reserve for "running" those pretty pretty games you want it to.
Besides, whats the use of finding a space buffalo if we can't kill it, eat it's flesh, wear it's skin, and turn the land it used to live on into farmland?
Multiplayer is only good if its same-room multiplayer on the Wii, the online stuff will likely always be crap.
For singleplayer games, I'd sugguest zelda, paper mario wii, and maybe rent elebits, rayman (its a singleplayer minigame game at heart), and metal slug (though the "new" metal slug 6 on it is absolutely horrid).
Based on Xbox360 sales and the sales of Halo 1 vs Halo 2, I'd certainly contest that statement.
why do announcements of an upcoming demo release warrant being made into actual headline news articles?
Remember this is a Zonk story.
It is a allegation that stalker may possibly use the same assets as are used in HL2 or D3, and an assumption that they did not pay for the rights to use these (through purchasing the same developer tools, or simply paying eachother off).
Good ol Zonk, posting a story that is not just an assumption, but an assumption of an assumption.
Arguably, so are most of our elected officials.
You really should look up the industrial revolution, and how many, many governments suddenly found themselves forced with the decision to either change to a more open form of government, or face open revolt.
Good working conditions actually give people inspiration to try to change their government, because now that they don't struggle to put food on the table every day they can spend time thinking about political issues.
I do have black friends, and even a black girlfriend, which is why I said that I am not racist. Notice how I did not specifically say anything about gangsta rap being specifically black culture? I see just as many low class (grew up among them, actually) white kids getting into it.
The USA does this quite a bit, and we really don't have so many subversive groups, because the way that it is done makes their subversive groups look like fringe crazies.
The thing china is doing wrong is that they are trying to stomp out subversive groups without addressing the underlying issues or at least swinging popular opinion against subversive groups. They need to cause their own terrorist attack (from XYZ subversive group in china) so that they can have public opinion behind the government again.
Ok, this is slashdot, we're all computer nerds, and at least a small percentage of us have an education, why would we care about 'hard core gangsta rap'?
Of course, this is off topic, but really, rap is for idiots without jobs or a real culture. (I'm not racist, just pointing out that the entire culture is a self perpetuating cycle of self-inflicted poverty and crime.)
I'm well aware that I'll be flamebaited for this, but I speak my mind.
China is really repressive of their younger generation gaming online, primarilly because their dissident groups start up from these under 18 people being online. Stopping them from gaming as much will help disrupt bonds between the groups and cause slightly less anti-government behavior.
Of course I think their system will collapse in a few years because of this anyway, but it is likely to stave off the inevitable for a little while at least.
I would like to point out that most medical research companies live in the idea that their products will be sell-able for a significant period longer than 2 years. 2 years seems to be an extremely short period of time to expect people to recoup losses, even windows only comes out with an OS every 3-4 years.
You know, someone just need to sit Sony down and say "Hey, Sony, this is a portable gaming system. Can you tell me what the purpose of the system is." then slap them in the face when they say something about next generation blah de crap (yes, thats a technical term).
Games are about the fun, if you make a game system that lacks games like that, that arn't engaging and easy to play on the go. They missed this point obviously because most of their games are made for people who sit around for hours and hours playing the same game.
Anyone noticing that the RIAA and their associated music companies (keep in mind that their name is supposed to be hated, we're not supposed to hate sony/universal/emi and warner) tend to do things to piss off the most educated people, while the least educated don't notice? Also notice that the least educated people tend to listen to rap "music", and the associated pop music that these companies churn out? Personally, I'm sure that some executive is thinking, somewhere, that having a less educated country means more people to listen to their music. Besides the fact that they're using someone else's money to fight their battles for them.
Actually, no, it really isn't. Black and White did it, and so have a few other games. This is just the first time a console game has done it.
Says the 885380 to the 2403? Respect seniority buddy.
Wikipedia, such a wonderful thing.
If your going to correct someone's spelling like a Spelling Nazi, at least do it well.
It also says to completely seperate the outside and inside network, which means that employees have no email, no google, no internet access at all.
It mentions nothing about compartmentalized access rights to various databases, with a different division of admins having responsability and access to only their systems.
In fact, all it does talk about is transmission interception (which is much less common than those problems mentioned above), and data security.
Is it just me, or do all the new slashdot stories seem to have come from digg.com first?
You know hot coffee wasn't really so bad. Granted, it shouldn't have been in the game, but it was a pretty convoluted hack to get to it, and it wasn't really as big a step to take from a game about murdering hookers after you slept with them.
But back to topic. The ESRB rates games erratically, its hard to quantify dynamic content simply based on what behaviors and actions you perform in a game. Some game companies will submit many 'versions' to the ESRB just to get one thats rated at what they want it to be. The system is screwed up, but somehow manages to self regulate well 99% of the time.
The main reason for this is because game companies realize that certain markets want violent games, and certain ones don't. You could try to get GTA3 rated as 'early adolecent', and heck, it might work, but why would you? Theres no profit in it, theres no motivation, there is no bucket of cold hard cash at the end of that tunnel.
WHOOM! Oops, half the planet is on fire...
Yes, I know that it wouldn't burn without oxygen in the atmosphere, but work with me here people.
"Funcom and Microsoft are preparing Age of Conan to be a showcase title in a modern generation of Windows games"
And finally Namco, who primarilly makes games for the Xbox 360.
This drivil is just people spouting M$ propaganda, because they write their paychecks.
WGA doesn't recognize my version of XP Tablet Edition. Its stright off toshiba's store, never been wiped, and I'm unable to do windows update because WGA would cripple my machine.