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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20779 |  Gatt (41) Aug 20, 2008 - 11:00 pm
| Maybe a bit more investigation should've gone into this?
The independent journalists include:
Comcast, San Jose News, LA Times, Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Popular Science, and a number of others.
All told, an easy half of those Journalists don't actually have anything to do with the video game market.
Gamespot is also included twice, as Gamespot and 1up, despite being essentially the same, never mind the fact that they can be bought.
To add icing on the cake, Fallout 3 was nominated for the same awards last year based on an non-interactive demo, a speech, and not a second's worth of independent gameplay.
I call shennagins. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20714 | Gatt (41) Jul 29, 2008 - 09:14 am
| Um, the best way to make money is to sell games, there's no magic formula that guarantees vast sales. Stop the funding of games, you suddenly have fewer chances to make money.
As far as Ghostbusters goes, the people who saw it when it came out are early thirties, which is a much larger group of gamers than teenagers. Demographics are readily available and quite well known.
As Firingsquad itself noted, Activision is only 1 bad year away from being in desperate trouble, WoW's income helps offset that, but they're still very vulnerable. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20198 | Gatt (41) Mar 28, 2008 - 09:50 am
| I could see it. Without some major shift in cooling, engineering these things is going to be a major problem, never mind the ever scaling power requirements.
Though I sincerely doubt the infrastructure's there for digital on-demand virtual consoles will be there. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19843 | Gatt (41) Mar 05, 2008 - 09:57 am
| | From hit points to stats, it's in there. Don't misunderstand, I have the highest respect for the Japanese to the point where I've put enourmous effort into learning the language, but the influences are present. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19843 | Gatt (41) Mar 04, 2008 - 03:20 pm
| Every RPG/CRPG/JRPG has a basis in D&D. Whether it's borrowing elements, or looking at D&D and modifying elements, or looking at D&D and avoiding it's conventions, every one is touched by D&D.
He co-created an entire genre of entertainment, the value of his work is inestimable. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19686 | Gatt (41) Feb 21, 2008 - 06:39 pm
| To my knowledge Intel's never bought/owned a gamehouse before. They've funded a few games to showcase CPU features like MMX, but never bought a studio.
Intel isn't hardware only though, they do a lot of compiler development. In fact, their development on a compiler that'll automatically thread out code for the programmer is quite interesting.
I would imagine that this has something to do with the alliance though, Offset is a pretty promising project that demonstrates a set of Dev's that probably have a good grasp on gaming. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17946 | Gatt (41) Oct 19, 2007 - 09:01 pm
| 1. LD isn't comparable to HD-media, the difference in picture quality for LD was marginal at best.
2. The market will convert over to HDTV's. Best Buy is discontinuing SDTV's now, hit the news this week. Not a question of if, question of when.
3. Any SDTV over the 40" mark is likely to be a projection TV, whose lifespan sucks worse than OLED.
4. They'll upgrade anyways even if they're less than 30", just like Y2K, half the country will think their SDTV will be useless when analog goes dark shortly. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17864 | Gatt (41) Oct 15, 2007 - 02:43 pm
| That's nice. So how do you propose solving the Heat Dissipation issues in a small poorly ventilated case?
While you're at it, how do you propose solving the power requirement issues that will cause just as many problems?
It'll be a miracle if there's another generation of Consoles. Heat and Power will be insurmountable by the time they're looking to make the next generation. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16695 | Gatt (41) Jul 26, 2007 - 07:09 pm
| Perfect comparision, Dealerships aren't owned by the companies, they're owned by people who started a dealership and signed an exclusive contract.
So, I'm sorry, there's nothing wrong with exclusivity. No illegal buisness practices.
We can discuss Fast Food restaurants if you'd like instead. Why's McDonald's only carry Coke products? If you were right, then every McDonald's in the U.S. is commiting decades of illegal buisness practices.
In the end, BR's the stronger brand. Target knows this, just like Denon, just like Blockbuster, just like Fox, just like Disney, etc. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16298 | Gatt (41) Jul 02, 2007 - 09:04 pm
| Actually, they have, in a stealth kind of way like they did with X-box.
One of the primary problems is the DVD Drive(Again), it'll be unable to read discs throwing "Read errors" and it'll go downhill from there. I suspect it's cheap materials from a cheap producer that end up warping from the heat produced by the components. The newer models have some kind of software fix that'll spin down the drive and kill a music track, let it cool down, and then spin it back up on the next data access. So you only get the "Read Error" if you have a data access while it's spun down.
MS has switched drive manufacturers, and added newer heatsinks, they're stealthing the problem out. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16264 | Gatt (41) Jun 29, 2007 - 08:54 am
| He's wrong, they are different. Spectator vs Participant, no other media allows the end user to participate.
As such, some methods of telling a story such as a man beating someone to death come off quite differently when the Player is beating someone to death.
Doesn't have the same intended effect upon the participant, one's supposed to evoke disgust and similiar emotions, the other can't because if it did, no one would play the game. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15404 | Gatt (41) May 08, 2007 - 10:27 pm
| I don't think that's true. My first 360, last fall, regularly gave me a disc read error. I returned it after christmas and got a replacement, which still gives me disc read errors and will probably need replaced.
Out of the 2 other people I know with one, one works fine, the other's scratches discs and gives the disc read error.
Whoever's making their DVD Drives is using very crappy materials. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4042 | Gatt (41) Apr 16, 2007 - 02:27 pm
| Now I'm not defending this inicident in any way.
But you'd have to be the most naive person on the planet to believe that gun control laws would have any effect whatsoever. Drug laws haven't stopped drug sales, prostitution laws have stopped prostitution, and gun control laws will not stop criminals from getting guns.
All it will do is put everyone at the mercy of anyone with a gun. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15000 | Gatt (41) Apr 09, 2007 - 07:45 pm
| That's quite a reach. "Everyone".
Most people are barely computer literate. Doubt highly they know what a Hard Drive is, much less want to download to it.
Plus, you're ten years or more away from digital downloads of any meaningfull variety. Just for the equivalent quality of pirated DVD rips you're talking Petabytes of storage needed. For 1080p you're talking an order of magnitude greater than Petabytes needed. Not going to happen anytime soon.
That's before we start talking about the fact that the 'net can't handle 200 million simultaneous sustained transfers of gigabyte sized material.
It's also before we start talking about the significant portion of people who don't believe things exist unless they're in physical form. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14953 | Gatt (41) Apr 05, 2007 - 10:21 pm
| Consoles will die out.
Simply because heat dissipation will be impossible in a tiny poorly ventilated box.
There's only 2(3?) more die shrinks to go before we're flat out at the smallest possible level. From there it'll be dissipating as much heat as possible to get the highest clock. The only way a console can do it is to become a closed-box PC.
Look at the power consumption of an 8xxx series GeForce, look at the thermal dissipation of current gen tech. Scale it up over a few years, no console can handle it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14731 | Gatt (41) Mar 19, 2007 - 07:25 pm
| » Unless...
Unless he gives me my money back for B.C. 3000 A.D. I'll *never* purchase a product developed by him again.
Got it on the day of release from Eggheads, no instruction manual, so many bugs you couldn't even get past the second(first?) mission. It was ridiculous. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14679 | Gatt (41) Mar 14, 2007 - 08:03 pm
| Actually, There is one. It's called Space Horse. You can find it at www.shrapnelgames.com
It's a reasonably good translation, works like the first one did, down to the "Hidden man in the mountains". The names of the ores were changed so EA wouldn't sue. It's got some new events, but the length is still the same. It includes Lan play, and I believe Hotseat and net play. For what it costs, it's a fair buy.
Little know fact: There was a M.U.L.E 2 in development at one time, but the original creator stopped development when EA insisted she put in Bombs. She wanted a non-violent game, and wasn't about to cave. I believe the problem now is her relatives own the IP and EA owns the right to publish, and they aren't on good terms IIRC. Flag this | Edit this post |
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