Well, if someone get sued for violating this patent it wont be hard to prove prior art.
The various ways to play PS1 and PS2 games keeps growing.
But wait! What's this plot twist? Snake was cloned before his dealth? (!) The old snake may have been killed twice, cut up, then cremated, but his clone lives on!
They can bring him back from anything. :)
Agreed, PC gamers should be praising From for their half arsed port and give them all their monies.
Your post made me realize half the problem with PC gaming is the complexity of choosing a PC. You can build your own, which requires a considerable effort. You can buy one from a shop, which will be overpriced. You can buy a cheap Dell modal or something, which will still be a little overprice, and come loaded with their special bloated-crappy-software-suite which will make the PC hardware seem like crap because the CPU is too busy serving up Dell advertisements all the time. If Valve can...
There's been some talk of an internet blackout. Just imagine if when you visited Facebook/Twitter/Etc all you could see was a page giving information about SOPA. For added bonus, they could use peoples location (it's in their profile) to say "Oh, and your senator is supporting SOPA and is up for re-election in 2012, hint hint."
Do that for a week or so, and you'll probably hear a few more people talking about it. Maybe more than a few?
Wonder if they'll be surprised to learn that consumers like lower prices?
Yeah, it probably would be a casual machine, but they might make it an open platform meaning anyone could publish games to it, a lot like Android. It would have lots of games and be a very attractive target for indie developers who just want to make a game, and want to avoid the hassles of publishing on Live or PSN.
Wait... you can be a vampire in this game!?!
I'd like it.
I've been happy with Dark Souls because it's just more of the same, and I'll want more of the same a 3rd and 4th time too, so keep them coming.
In other words:
I'll keep my money, and you can keep your game, and we'll see who wins?
The key is a number. You can copyright a number.
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Fortunately the judges in the case agree with Jaffe. If Geo broke the law then he should be punished by the law.
The real question is "did he break the law?" Lots of differing opinions from very educated and well paid lawyers, and even more opinions from people who like surfing the N4G comment section. But in the end it's all up to the judge.
LBP is one of the few games to do something new. The subtitle of the first game has become the name of an entire genre of games; "Play, Create, Share." It may not be the absolute first of its kind, but it is an early champion of the genre.
Saying LBP isn't great is like saying Wolfenstine or Doom aren't great.
Geo should have won? You make it sound like there has been a ruling, it looks like the judges are just delaying, probably because they recognize this is about a lot more than the PS3.
It's funny that while judges, with all their study and authority, are trying to decide the legality of this situation there are lots of people on N4G who already know the answer. The judges should just surf on over to N4G and read every comment written in caps, then it will be an easy deci...
I would guess most game developers hope Geo wins, because this really is about hacker/programmer rights. Most here don't have the ability to program; they just want to spend their pay check and sit on the couch playing video games. They don't care.
For those with the ability to write software, and control the hardware; I'm sure they'd appreciate the right to do so.
I wouldn't call myself a game developer, but I have created a text based ...
Exactly, I don't know what else people expect Sony to do now that their root key is public.
It's just like a hacker disabled the lock and let me in my own house.
The hardware now does what the hardware owner tells it to do rather than what Sony tells it to do, that's all there is too it.
Or it could end up like iPhone development and approval process, it would go something like this:
Hacker: "We want to make an awesome game, will you approve it for us Sony."
Sony: "Sure, we want all awesome games. Just create the game and let us know when it's ready."
Hackers (hundreds of man hours later): "Our awesome game is finished."
Sony: "Sorry, it failed the approval process."
Hackers: "C...
I just poisoned him from afar, he never even fought.