Archive for May 8, 2008

Forget September, Killzone 2 dated February 2009

Live from Sony’s PlayStation Day 2008 in London, David Reeves has just announced Killzone 2 for February 2009, ending speculation that the game would arrive this fall.

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RIAA: piracy fight more important than ‘Net neutrality bill

As the House Committee on Energy and Commerce considers the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, testimony from the interested parties reveals that opinions on ‘Net neutrality may tell us more about those doing the testifying than what a neutral ‘Net entails. For the ISPs, at least, it appears that neutrality is a threat to their ability to innovate

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Rockstar sells 6 million GTA IV units in 5 days ($400)

Rockstar sells 6 million units of GTA IV in 5 days (by Louie July)

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Spielberg’s “Boom Blox” is “best use of Wii controls yet”

If this is the future of casual gaming, motion controls, and Wii, count me in. Boom Blox may not be the best Wii game, depending on your proclivities, but it’s definitely the best use of the Wii yet. It’s immensely accessible, wonderfully tactile, and stands as one of the best treatments of gaming in a 3D space.

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Doom 4 announced!

Id Software announced Doom 4. Also, they’re hiring, in case you have a knack for designing better in-game flashlights.

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Senator to ISPs: “Think twice” about Net neutrality, or else

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) stepped in front of a group of tech executives in Washington this morning to deliver a caffeinated and surprisingly sharp defense of network neutrality. Pledging to use “every ounce of my energy to protect network neutrality,” Wyden had a message for ISPs who might be pondering new charges for various forms of access: “think t

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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?

Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys.

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Russians to operate computers by power of thought

The scientists of Southern Federal University won a $750,000 award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control.

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OS X Capable PC Arrives

Because we think it’s informative to see how OS X performs on a computer that isn’t a Mac,

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Old man and the GTA

A 70-year-old’s take on Grand Theft Auto IV, his first experience with a GTA game.

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FBI Uses Patriot Act Against Internet Archive But Loses

The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning.

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Rockstar Patches GTA IV’s PS3 Online Play

Rockstar Games just confirmed that they have released a patch for the Playstation 3 version of GTA IV which was causing issues with online play.

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