3 Jul 2009 at 7:42am
According to the online edition of the Chicago Tribune, the acquisition of bankrupt company Midway Games by Warner Bros. received the legal approval to continue (Midway developed and published titles such as Mortal Kombat, Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron and NBA Jam.)
The acquisition had been stopped following certain legal disputes over several of Midway's IPs. This conflict saw the involvement of several companies, including Threshold Entertainment (they produced two movies based on Mortal Kombat beat'em-up series) and Tigon Studios (founded by actor Vin Diesel, they developed Wheelman in partnership with Midway).
Warner Bros. offered 33 million dollars for the purchase of all Midway assets.
3 Jul 2009 at 7:04am
According to Reuters, the CEO of EBank, the largest player-run bank of space MMO EVE Online, stole billions of kredits and exchanged them for real money.
The gamer in question is a 27-year old Australian playing as Ricdic. Married and father of two children, the Australian player said he stole the 200 billion kredits and sold them for 5.100 dollars in order to solve certain real-life financial problems. “It was a very on the spot decision”, he said.
CCP Games deactivated Ricdic's account because his act “unbalances the game” (as specified by company representative Ned Coker).
This penalty wouldn't have been applied if Ricdic had only stolen the kredits, without also selling them for real money. "We have never seen ourselves as gods who make the rules of social interaction," said CCP economics adviser Eyjolfur Gudmundsson. "You are able to lose the things you have created. That's what makes the world interesting."
EBank was known as one of the few trustworthy player-run banks in EVE Online, and CEO Ricdic also had a positive reputation. Following this incident, EBank had to deal with a wave of panic among customers, but the other players running the bank managed to keep it afloat.
3 Jul 2009 at 6:01am
Valve Software announced that postapocalyptic RPG Fallout 3 will be available on Steam at half the price (22.49 euro) this week-end.
Bethesda Softworks had unveiled they would launch this summer another two DLCs for Fallout 3: Point Lookout (already available) and Mothership Zeta (available in late July). Before these, the developers had offered three more downloadable content packages: Operation Anchorage, The Pitt and Broken Steel.
3 Jul 2009 at 5:17am
Ubisoft announced it acquired the rights to publish simulator Heroes Over Europe, sequel to Heroes of the Pacific. This announcement comes after, early this year, publisher Red Mile had unveiled that the project's fate has become uncertain after Atari abandoned it. Ubisoft also specified that it will launch Heroes Over Europe on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in September 2009.
Developed by Australian studios Transmission Games, this new title will allow players to follow the stories of three Allied pilots and take part in some of the most important aerial battles of World War II, including those above London, Berlin and the French Alps.
Heroes Over Europe will make use of a new engine and it will feature four online game modes for up to 16 players, customizable planes and localized damage.
2 Jul 2009 at 10:34am
Deep Silver announced that the international launch date for fantasy RPG Risen was established for October 2.
According to Deep Silver Brand Manager Daniel Oberlerchner, the game already entered the beta phase, and all the dialogues have already been recorded. Risen is being developed by Piranha Bytes, creators of the Gothic series, without being linked to it.
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by Soulskill 4 Jul 2009 at 10:44am
CNet reports that the lawyers representing Jammie Thomas-Rasset have confirmed she will be fighting the $1.9 million verdict handed down in her case against the RIAA. "The Recording Industry Association of America said on Monday that it had made a phone call to Sibley and law partner Kiwi Camara last week to ask whether Thomas-Rasset wanted to discuss a settlement. An RIAA representative said that its lawyers were told by Sibley that Thomas-Rasset wasn't interested in discussing any deal that required her to admit guilt or pay any money. ... 'She's not interested in settling,' attorney Joe Sibley said in a brief phone interview. 'She wants to take the issue up on appeal on the constitutionality of the damages. That's one of the main arguments — that the damages are disproportionate to any actual harm.'"
by Soulskill 4 Jul 2009 at 9:29am
thefickler writes "Clearly, the rise of free antivirus is starting to worry Symantec, with one of their top executives warning consumers not to rely on free antivirus software (including Microsoft's Security Essentials). 'If you are only relying on free antivirus to offer you protection in this modern age, you are not getting the protection you need to be able to stay clean and have a reasonable chance of avoiding identity theft,' said David Hall, a Product Manager for Symantec. According to Hall, there is a widening gap between people's understanding of what protection they need and the threats they're actually facing."
by Soulskill 4 Jul 2009 at 8:16am
Ponca City, We love you writes "David Ropeik writes at MSNBC that there's a lot more to making a basic firework display than putting a fuel source and an oxidizer together. Pyrotechnic chemists, who are trying to create bedazzlement instead of bang, don't want their work to explode, but to burn for a bit, so it gives a good visual show. To achieve the desired effect, the sizes of the particles of each ingredient have to be just right, and the ingredients have to be blended together just right. To slow down the burning, chemists use big grains of chemicals, in the range of 250 to 300 microns, and they don't blend the ingredients together very well, making it harder for the fuel and oxidizer to combine and burn, thus producing a longer and brighter effect. Surprisingly few emitters are used in pyrotechnics, and there are no commercially useful emitters in blue-green to emerald green in the 490-520 nm region. Energy from the fire in the basic fuel is transferred to the atoms of the colorant chemicals, exciting the electrons in those chemicals into a higher energy state. As they cool down, they move back to a lower state of energy, emitting light. So, you actually see the colors in fireworks as they're cooling down. To get the really tricky shapes, like stars or hearts, the colorant pellets are pasted on a piece of paper in the desired pattern. That paper is put in the middle of the shell with explosive charges above it, and below. When those charges go off, they burn up the paper, and send the ignited colorant pellets out in the same pattern they were in on the sheet of paper, spreading wider apart as they fly."
2 Jul 2009 at 1:35pm
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