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More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing Half of pirated Vista is malware Google's Name Game Report: Half of PCs Not Vista-Ready Vista SP1 is due in the second half of 2007, after all Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped Windows 7 in the UK sells for half the US price Is it game over for Windows Vista? New Need For Speed Game is ready Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista, Researcher Says Microsoft To Ship Longhorn Server In Second Half Of 2007 Longhorn Server Beta 3 due first half of 2007 Half of American Business PCs Can't Run Vista Microsoft claims 'over half' of 360 buyers didn't own Xbox 1 Windows - Life Without Walls Microsoft Game Testers Wanted Microsoft Teasing New Game Device? WindowBlinds 5 FULL Sea Life Screen Saver Third-party Microsoft patches could get new life Microsoft Planning Life After IE7 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN Virtualization Saves Microsoft Customers Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Per Year Microsoft to Share Game Ad Revenue Full Speed v2.7 Full review of the iPhone Microsoft's Vista fails to find Second LifeNatural Selection 2 is the next wave in the war for survival between humankind and the Kharaa. Natural Selection 2 is the next evolution in multiplayer action/strategy gameplay and will be targeted for both competitive and public play. New features include dynamically changing environments, a new resource model, flexible game scripting and modes, and new weapons, abilities and upgrades. Natural Selection 2 will be a stand-alone commercial game for release on VALVe software's digital distribution service called Steam http://www.s teampowered.com.
Natural Selection was released on October 31st of 2002 and since then has been played by 300,000 players for over a billion player-minutes. It won Gamespy's Mod of the Year and became the most popular independent "mod" for Half-life. Natural Selection v3.1 is available for download free from the Natural Selection site http://www.unknownw orlds.com/ns. Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is a self-funded independent game company based in San Francisco, CA.
neowin.net - 02.11.2006Download Free Far Cry today
Ubisoft decided to release free versions of Far Cry, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Rayman Raving Rabbids.
Out of these
three games, Far Cry is the most well known one. The game appeared from nowhere - actually, from German studio ran by Turkish brothers- and
single-handedly wiped out launch effects of Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. This is the game that surprised the market, and with later appearance of 64-bit
enhancements and graphical tweaks, this game still looks rather actual. This was also the very first title to offer HDR (High Dynamic Range) - in a
form of manual controls.
We have spotted free games for download on File Planet, but were quite sure youll see them on other
download sites. During the writing of this story, more than 1500 users downloaded the game (it grew from 10084 to 11659), and were sure once the news
gets across, there will be thousands of people in line to download this brilliant game. As far as other two games go, we would recommend both if youre
in for some sheer summer gaming fun.
As always, there is a catch: these three titles are ad-supported, but we were not able to
see the ads in-game while using this downloaded client. Were downloading Prince of Persia and Rayman right now.
We're not sure
if this ad-spotting version of the game is compatible with those nice 64-bit upgrades AMD offered quite some time ago. Regardless of that, this
experiment will show Ubisoft there is a point in releasing older titles for free or not.
winbeta.org - 01.09.2007Steam vs. Microsoft Live... Fight!
If anyone stands a chance
against Microsoft's
pay-to-play Games For Windows
Live service, it's Valve's
Steam. Turns out the gloves
come off in just a few weeks.
Starting in July,
Valve plans to offer a free
update that adds social
networking services like
personal pages and gamer
profiles, groups, game
scheduling, the option to see
who's played what games (or
with whom), and both voice and
text-based chat. The services
work across all existing
titles, old or new. And for
all that, you'll only have to
pay? Absolutely nothing.
Microsoft Live currently
has Halo 2 and Shadowrun, the
former an oldie (if goodie),
the latter a middling
multiplayer-only shooter.
Steam has Half-Life, Half-Life
2 (plus all the upcoming
episodes), Medieval 2: Total
War, Trackmania, Civilization
4, Hitman: Blood Money, Sid
Meier's Pirates,
Counter-Strike, Geometry Wars,
Sam & Max, The Movies, DEFCON,
and several dozen more
critically well-received
games...
winbeta.org - 22.06.2007New York Governor approves tightened video game regulations
New York Governor David Patterson yesterday approved a bill that will make ESRB video game ratings mandatory, require parental controls in consoles,
and fund a study of the correlation between in-game and real-life acts of violence...
betanews.com - 23.07.2008Over half of adults play video games
According to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, over half of American adults play video games of some kind. The
survey shows that age is the biggest factor, with young adults most likely to play video games and that as adults get older, game play decreases. Of
adults over the age of 65 who play video games, nearly a third play video games every day. In comparison, the survey found that only 20% of young
adults play video games every day. A persons age is also a factor in whether they play on a computer, games console or other device, such as a mobile
phone.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 08.12.2008Microsoft's greatest marketing site/time waster since minesweeper
Silverlight may be Microsoft's new media platform, but with their latest video game campaign they're not showing it with a new marketing site that runs using Adobe's Flash. It's part of a massive
campaign to get people to buy the third game in the Halo series, but even if you're not a video game fanatic, or familiar with it, the site is really
worth taking for a spin. It revolves (literally) around a massive diorama of some intense futuristic battle. You're given control to roam back and
forth using your mouse and arrow keys, and at various points even stop where you are and move freely around in a 360 degree mode. There's also an
autoplay button, that will let you sit back and just watch.
Along your way around the battlefield you'll find all sorts of
things to click on, including images, text snippets, and videos. Each of them is highlighted in blue, and when clicked on, provides a download link
for a related full-size desktop wallpaper or other media item.
The real draw however, is the scale of this thing. While the
diorama might only be a few feet wide in real life, flying around an inch above the ground creates this really neat effect that's half Matrix, half
this-is-what-it's-like-to-be-an-NFL-football-that-just-got-thrown-for-80-yards.
winbeta.org - 15.09.2007Microsoft: XP SP3 won't
arrive until '07
Aiming to keep its focus on
Windows Vista, Microsoft is
now targeting 2007 for its
next Windows XP service pack
update.
In a
posting to its life cycle Web
site, Microsoft set a
preliminary date of the second
half of next year for the
release of Windows XP Service
Pack 3 for both home and
professional editions. That
puts its debut well past the
arrival of Vista, which is
slated for the second half of
this year and later than both
outsiders and some insiders
had originally
predicted.
"We
will be releasing another
service pack for XP over the
course of the product life
cycle, and we are tentatively
targeting the second half of
2007 for release," a
Microsoft representative said
in an e-mail to CNET News.com.
"However, right now our
priority is Windows
Vista--we'll have more
information to share about the
next service pack for XP after
Windows Vista ships." ..
winbeta.org - 18.01.2006Sony slashes price of PS3 SDK to fix game problem
While some may view it as a sign of desperation, Sony on Monday said that it will cut licensing fees for the PS3 SDK in half to spur additional game
development...
betanews.com - 19.11.2007Carmack shuns dedicated PPU cards
John Carmack has spoken out on
the subject of dedicated PPUs,
stating that "I'm not a
believer."
He believes
that multi-core CPUs are a
much better proposition for
developers wanting to do
physics calculations as their
adoption is becoming more
widespread.
Carmack
is another big name in the
world of game developers that
has turned away from Ageia's
PhysX in favour of multi-core
CPUs. Valve Software's
Half-Life 2: Episode Two and
Crytek's Crysis both do
advanced physics calculations
across CPU cores, and
Remedy's Alan Wake is another
game that will make great use
of the CPU for physics
calculations...
winbeta.org - 19.07.2007Second Life Items Get eBay Go-Ahead
Traditionally, virtual items
are banned from eBay; however,
the company said Monday that
it would exempt items from the
popular Second Life
virtual world. The change in
policy comes from a
reconsideration of what the
company considers a
"game."..
betanews.com - 30.01.2007Google make Time-Life archive public
Today Google and Time Warner announced that they will be releasing millions of images from the Time-Life archive to the public. For many years most of
the images have never been seen by Time-Life themselves let alone the public but Google have offered to host at least 97% of the images for anyone to
view and download. The images themselves have their own page but they will also be put into the default image searches so you can find them easier
when searching for a specific term.
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story.....
neowin.net - 19.11.2008Survey: Parents fear in-game sex, real life drugs
An informal poll conducted by What They Play, a sort of Rotten Tomatoes site for
video games, recently pointed to parents' areas of concern in video game content...
betanews.com - 12.08.2008Screenshot Gallery: #1 App in AppStore - F My Life
F My Life was just released last weekend, and is already the number one free app in the App Store. There hasn't been much publicity on this fun
little app, so we thought that we would put together a nice screenshot gallery for it.
The FML website basically shows people who have
their life messed up. It makes you feel better about yourself, and can give a good laugh. This application does just that. You can view the new
submissions, or all of them by category. Users can rate which ones are the best, and there is also a 'Favorites' list. A download link to the
AppStore is below for those of you with an iPhone or iPod Touch.
jcxp.net - 18.04.2009Sony delays 'Home' virtual world for PS3
In yet another embarrassing delay for Sony, the company is delaying the launch of its "Home" virtual world for the PlayStation 3, initially planned
for later this year, until next spring.
The announcement Thursday came from Kazuo Hirai in his first major public appearance as
the new chief executive of Sony Corp.'s video game business, Sony Computer Entertainment.
"We wanted to wait until we could
offer what would be totally satisfying for consumers," Hirai said in a keynote speech at the Tokyo Game Show, an annual event where game machines and
new software are shown.
"Home" is a real-time interactive online world much like Linden Lab's "Second Life" and other
so-called "metaverse," except it's designed for PlayStation 3, Sony's newest home console.
Millions of people now enter
"Second Life" on personal computers, moving avatars or computer graphics images of themselves in a virtual universe...
winbeta.org - 20.09.2007Over Half of Second Life users come from Europe
Research firm comScore has
found that throughout March,
61% of active Second Life
residents were from Europe,
compared to 19% from North
America and 13% from Asia
Pacific. Germany had the most
Second Life residents, at 16%
of the total, beating
France's 8% and UK's 6%.
Approximately 1.3 million
people ran the official
software and logged in to
Second Life in March,
representing an increase of
46% in the number of active
'residents' from January.
ComScore also reported that
61% of residents are male and
39% are female. Secondlife.com
was visited by 3.6 million
worldwide visitors aged 15 and
older during March, up 17%
from February and up 46% from
January.
" With
nearly 800,000 active
residents in Europe, Second
Life is proving to be popular
on an international scale.
It's especially fascinating
to note that the number of
active German residents
exceeds the number of active
residents in the entire US. It
is little wonder that bricks
and mortar businesses are
seeing Second Life as a
virtual-world way of accessing
a real-world customer
base ," said Bob Ivins,
managing director of comScore
Europe.
neowin.net - 09.05.2007XNA Game Studio Express Beta 1
Released
As previously announced,
Microsoft released a few hours
ago XNA Game Studio Express
Beta 1 on Connect. XNA Game
Studio is aimed at simplifying
game development for both
users developing as a pastime
and professional developers.
Unlike what was
expected, XNA Game Studio
isn't a standalone program
based upon Visual C# Express
2005, but rather a plugin to
it, adding pre-made simple
project files and some new,
simplified libraries.
XNA Game Studio Express
Beta 1 is available to any
Connect user by using the XNA
Connection in Microsoft
Connect, and also has a direct
download link at Microsoft's
Download Center, provided
below.
jcxp.net - 31.08.2006Sony Debuts PSP Download Service
Sony debuted its title
download service for the
PlayStation Portable game
system Tuesday, initially
offering five classic
PlayStation titles. Consumers
will download the games
through the PS3...
betanews.com - 05.12.2006UK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair
A British woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his online alter-ego was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world of
Second Life, media reported on Friday. Amy Taylor, 28, said her three-year marriage to David Pollard, 40, came to an end when she twice walked in on
him watching his online character, Dave Barmy, having sex with other virtual women. Second Life enables players to create online lives in which their
virtual alter ego, or avatar, can socialize, develop relationships, buy property and set up businesses in an imagined world using the game's
virtual currency.
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story.....
neowin.net - 15.11.2008New Direct Feed Crysis Trailer
A new Crysis direct feed, high
resolution Crysis Trailer from
GC has surfaced. Shown is
some amazing game footage with
more of the most life-life
graphics seen yet in a game.
For those of you who don't
know what Crysis is, this
video will give you a good
overview including the story,
and graphical/gameplay
features.
Crysis is
set to be released early next
year, with demo(s) right
around the corner.
neowin.net - 23.10.2006