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[quote]"Wired has a lengthy investigation into the state of PC game mods, and the amateurs keeping the scene exciting in the wake of draconian DRM placed on many PC titles by major studios. It highlights a number of creative modders, such as Scott Reismanis, founder and editor of Mod DB, and his community-driven alternative to Valve's Steam
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[quote]"The pace of innovation on mobile phones and other smart wireless devices has accelerated greatly in the last few years. ... But now the attackers are beginning to outstrip the good guys on mobile platforms, developing innovative new attacks and methods for stealing data that rival anything seen on the desktop, experts say. This particular
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This was announced a while back. However, recently it has been confirmed that CoD: Black Ops will get DEDICATED SERVERS for the PC version of the game. ( EMPOSSEEBLEZ! )
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"Corporate Counsel recounts the profound legacy of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, author of the majority opinion in what some consider the most important copyright ruling of all time — the 1984 Betamax decision (Sony v. Universal City Studios) that established that consumers have a personal 'fair use' right to make copies
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An update from the piracy realm, UBI-Softs DRM Server has been emulated for a while and people are starting to play with the emulator. YARGH!! In related news... "More than three weeks after the release of The Settlers 7 , with the controversial 'always on-line' DRM, a lot of people still can't connect to Ubisoft's DRM servers.
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"AP is reporting that Activision has countersued former Infinity Ward executives Jason West and Vince Zampella. Activision claims West and Zampella 'morphed from valued, responsible executives into insubordinate and self-serving schemers who attempted to hijack Activision's assets for their own personal gain and whose actions threatened
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Shacknews wraps up a developer panel at PAX East discussing the future of gaming on the PC. They cover topics including DRM, digital download platforms and cloud-based gaming services. "Joe Kreiner of Terminal Reality: 'If you look at it from a giant publisher perspective, then the numbers on the PC just really don't make financial sense
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Well Steam does free trial invites as well to allow people who own the game to send an invite to a person who doesn't to test out the game, which i think is a pretty good system. Steam also does those weekend trials as well, but they only do it for the most popular games it seems(TF2, DOD:S, etc. etc). i don't really pay attention much to them
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It's to get the kids out of the house so the parents can go to work xD
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ooo lol didn't see that