Recent content by jacodemon

Totally.

Fantastic article (because it gives me what I want... damn). I write press and comms for a living, and seeing my press releases reproduced word for word in not one but two free local newspapers and their websites is dispiriting to say the least. The best/worst part is when they DO use our...

All I can find is a lot of second-hand copy - has no-one asked Apple's press office for a statement on this yet? With emphasis on the why rather than the what?

Psygnosis over here. Shame about their recent crap, but their body of games is ace. Especially given that 40k (well, Rogue Trader) described the tyranids in 1992, when Starcraft was 1998.

Doesn't disc-based optical media degrade over time anyway? I heard (from a friend's uncles' former roommate) that CDs etc should ideally be cold-stored or they have about 20 years before the reflective bit degrades and can no longer be read... So the media has an inbuilt obselescence beyond...

Yes. Look at the DLC situation for Orange Box (well, TF2) on XBMP and PSN. Valve seem pretty pissed because they have no choice but to charge players for updates and content (ie. a part of Valve's superb relationship marketing)... imagine EA being pissed off at making more money out of their...

C'mon guys, don't wreck the future here. The way you've got it all figured out, the next generation of kids'll all have some kind of education or something, and then who will buy all the games? The videogame industry NEEDS stupid people like me to be the majority. How could it be expected...

A whole board of people who never played an age-restricted game before they should've? Impressive. Praise your perfect progenitors! The chain of horror, immorality and crime that has been my life to date had up until now mystified me... I never considered that my stupid, irresponsible...

Also, have you seen how labyrinthine some patent documents are? Check the wording on Nintendo's original US patent on the D-pad, or for even more of a giggle check the patent for the improved dome-switching technology that Texas Instruments patented in 1975. Nutzoid. I expect to be sued...

No depth, really?

Sweet. Real war baaad. Virtual war goood. I (EDIT: think I) know that one of the lead texture artists on GTAIV was headhunted from a software developer for military apps, ho ho

Good one! But the military does use mouse and keyboard for FPS-style realtime battlefield training simulation software.

CG yes. Give it to one of the quiet, sad-looking guys tucked away at the back of the Disney/Pixar office. You know, the kind of guys who have horribly disfigured scale models of Nemo at home that they've posed being chainsawed by their McFarlane "Ash from Evil Dead 2". Shame it's inevitably...

This all puts me in mind of the semi-pro "Eurotekken" tourney in JB's nightclub, Dudley, West Midlands in about 1999. It was those two days that ended my love affair with fighting games, after discovering that there are people who are so dedicated to them it is beyond understanding. People...

Don't be sorry.