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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19455 |  Phirewind (865) Feb 07, 2008 - 08:40 am
| | The stockholders should take a closer look at their own industry. The video game industry is almost autonomous in the economy, because even when everything else sucks, people will save their money to buy and rent games. In fact, they'll do it BECAUSE everything else sucks as a matter of escape. It would take a major financial disaster (not "oh I can't afford my new 106" HDTV") to really effect the industry enough to lower the true value of Nintendo stock. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19443 | Phirewind (865) Feb 06, 2008 - 10:21 am » Edited on Feb 06, 2008 - 10:22 am
| | Somehow, this is not the sort of thing I was expecting from Spielberg. Also, I'm not sure it matters if some hollywood name is attached to a party puzzle game, could just as well be the Ashlee Simpson Party Puzzle Parade. No, wait, that'd actually be an improvement on her career... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19433 | Phirewind (865) Feb 05, 2008 - 05:45 pm
| | Well, they may have been right on Stuntman. I really enjoyed it, but it was a straight on-the-rails type and people have been getting used to more free-flowing game worlds. However... smitty's right about Juiced. The whole concept just stunk of copycat production. Nothing new, nothing interesting, and nothing that wasn't done better in at least half a dozen other titles. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19421 | Phirewind (865) Feb 05, 2008 - 12:06 pm
| | I'm sure there are perfectly logical business financial reasons why the US constantly gets screwed out of cool stuff, but it still hurts.. right here... even though I don't care about the PS3, just the principal of the thing. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19419 | Phirewind (865) Feb 05, 2008 - 12:04 pm
| | With Fox's new on-demand player (far better than CBS or NBC's), the only thing keeping me interested in "real" cable is the DiscoveryHD (ooooooh... pretty colors) and the last glimmer of hope that something good other than Xplay and AOTS will come out of G4TV. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19409 | Phirewind (865) Feb 04, 2008 - 09:38 pm
| | Also consider the possibility of having the physics calculations be included in the workload on the GPU processor. It's all math, and if I recall correctly, there has already been at least one custom application where clusters of nVidia-equipped PC's ran computations using the GPU, as the shader engine was uniquely suited to the process. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19356 | Phirewind (865) Jan 31, 2008 - 01:53 pm
| | Well, Gears of War was the first shooter that I ever thought worked well on the console, because it's more "mortal kombat with shotguns" than "circle strafing fps". Including Halo, it was the best available, but still felt cludgy and slow. Call of Duty 4 is the first real FPS on console (including CoD2) where I actually feel at "home" with the 360 controller. Although I still prefer my mouse/keyboard for accuracy and response, and gotta have my mod tools... for the times when I just want to sit down and shoot people, the 360 version is making a very competent argument for the "couch FPS". Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19302 | Phirewind (865) Jan 28, 2008 - 10:16 pm
| | Actually, Take Two deserves what they get. Not because of the content itself, but because they denied that it was there, blamed third parties for creating the content, and did everything they could to deny responsibility for what was clearly their own fault. Even though it required a hardware mod to activate it, it was put in there by the creators. In the end, all they did was go out of their way to fuel the anti-game fires and make the rest of the industry suffer for their idiocy. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19295 | Phirewind (865) Jan 28, 2008 - 12:00 pm
| Ah yes, the Dual Schlock 3 controller, which apparently was so long in coming because it was "practically impossible" to fit the rumble effect and motion detection into a controller of that size (at least until the lawsuit was settled), even though Nintendo fit rumble, motion detect, IR position detection, wireless connectivity and an in-hand speaker into an even smaller package.
I guess Nintendo observes different laws of physics. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19282 | Phirewind (865) Jan 26, 2008 - 12:38 pm » Edited on Jan 26, 2008 - 12:46 pm
| People need to be FIRED for this crap, not just get away with "oh, I was wrong, my bad". It's not that this incident is such a big deal, that we should hang them for lying about games. They should be fired for lying, period.
Consider this rule of employment as it would appear in any other job. If I declare myself an expert in PS3 core technology, and somebody hires me to write the next awesomeness, and in 3 months all I have is a buggy Visual Basic version of Pong... I can't just say "my bad, see you next week for my paycheck and maybe I'll read a white paper on the PS3 processor".
ALL media has been getting too lax lately. Nobody seems to fact-check anything, and no networks will hold their people responsible. If the "experts" have never even SEEN the subject material, then they are NOT experts. They are idiots and need to be exposed as such.
"I had asked somebody about what they had heard." This isn't second-hand news. This isn't even third-party hearsay. This is second-hand news ABOUT third-pary hearsay, portrayed as authoritative fact. The fact that they were caught this time only makes me wonder how many things have been left uncovered. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19195 | Phirewind (865) Jan 21, 2008 - 01:37 pm
| | You could make an E-rated game about fluffy cartoon bunnies that live in meadows full of flowers and search for wild carrots, and if the title was accidentally called "BunnyPorn" in a press release, not one of these people would ever get past the title to see the content. There'd be "reviews" about playboy centerfolds posing for sex scenes, manipulating and raping women dressed as bunnies, a whole expose on the "furry" culture... but not one who says "hey, I played the game and there's no porn!" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19189 | Phirewind (865) Jan 20, 2008 - 09:14 pm
| | Hopefully the new Advance Wars will actually function properly in wireless mode. Every time I actually got a friend with AW to sit still long enough for us to play wireless multiplayer, the game would lose connection. We were sitting 8 feet away from each other, with fresh batteries, and it couldn't maintain connection. I almost threw the whole DS out the window. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19191 | Phirewind (865) Jan 20, 2008 - 09:10 pm
| Daikatana.
That's about all that really needs to be said. Romero has never done anything to accomplish even the slightest sense of credibility since then. Maybe he 's got something awesome on the way... but he should really just keep his face out of the spotlight until people who might buy the game actually DO buy the game, and like it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19113 | Phirewind (865) Jan 15, 2008 - 09:39 am
| | That's why we have to vote for "game friendly" politicians... and if you can't find one, target your favorite candidate and do everything you can to educate them and MAKE them "game friendly", and if they refuse, well, you just eliminated a candidate, didn't you? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19115 | Phirewind (865) Jan 15, 2008 - 09:33 am » Edited on Jan 15, 2008 - 09:37 am
| Consider this: The problem isn't just Uwe "I suck balls" Boll. We MUST hold accountable the game publishers that allow their licenses to be raped and pillaged by this man and his associates. How in the world did he get the Far Cry movie deal? You can't directly stop a man from making crap, but you can make it such a P.R. nightmare that no publishing company would use him. At some point, the profit made by selling the rights must be outweighed by the losses due to consumer refusal to purchase future products.
Therefore, let it be known: As much as possible with due diligence, from this point on I refuse to buy a game from any publisher that would knowingly allow Uwe Boll the rights to make films with their intellectual property.
Moreover, we should strive to ferret out the details of such licensing deals and make them highly public as a source of shame for all those involved.
Anybody with me? Flag this | Edit this post |
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