Anyone picking up a copy of Lego Indiana Jones when it ships will find this ad on the back of the game’s instruction booklet. Yes, a Lucasarts game based on an upcoming Star Wars property. SHOCKING.
Players looking forward to shooting their way through Far Cry 2’s 50-square kilometers of African wilderness best set aside the better part of a few weeks (at least!) to do so. Varying reports suggest it could take as long as 100 hours (for compass-be-damned wanderers, no doubt) to complete the game’s single player campaign alone.
Over the past few years, Sony’s controversial attempts at viral marketing for the PlayStation brand were not well-received by the general public. The company had been criticized on numerous occasions for various failed ad campaigns. Campaigns didn’t just fail to hit their target markets, but more importantly had an adverse effect leaving many upset
Valve thinks that PC gaming is strong, and getting better. The Steam service is about to evolve in an unexpected way: allowing you to access your games, files, and configurations from any PC, anywhere.
And yet, incredibly, not one credible image of Apple’s new product has yet been published.
With any exciting and new industry, there are all sorts of previously unheard-of ways to screw the customer. Video games are no different. As the technology changes, the rules start to get blurry, and publishers are eager to see just how much they can get away with.
The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers, MediaDefender apparently thought it was a good idea to spread their fake torrents through Revision3.
Apple as early as Monday is expected to announce its 2008 back-to-school promotion, which will encourage students to purchase a new Mac through some of the biggest incentives in the company’s history, AppleInsider has learned.
Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a new system in Steam that will retain gamers’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely.
Internet TV network Revision3 suffered a network failure during Memorial Day weekend as a result of a massive denial of service attack perpetrated by MediaDefender. Revision3 has asked the FBI to investigate the attack.
Microsoft is developing a new touch screen operating system that could mean the end of the computer mouse, Bill Gates has announced. Windows 7 aims to build on the success of the touch screen systems developed by Microsoft’s rival Apple’s iPhone.
It’s the sort of news that ought to scare the pants off Comcast executives. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed the commission auction off a portion of the 25 megahertz spectrum with a free provision — meaning that whoever licenses the spectrum must provide internet access to people for free.
