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Atari Brings Retro to Windows 8

The Windows 8 marketing campaign has begun, with that tile based user interface (UI) creeping into social consciousness quicker than any operating system (OS) ever before. This is of course in part thanks to the adoption of the UI by Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360, but it’s also due to the backing of many socially aware brands, the latest of which is videogames giant Atari.

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dirthurts4258d ago (Edited 4258d ago )

Atari Games, the biggest selling point of Windows 8...
The innovation is simply overwhelming.

AO1JMM4258d ago

It doesn't always have to be "innovative."

dirthurts4258d ago

I love Windows, but Windows 8 isn't what people are asking for.
Perhaps elderly folks who can't find the internet button, or tablet owners, but the rest of us(power users, workers, engineers, web developers) are being abandoned. The new os is terrible for anything remotely productive.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4258d ago (Edited 4258d ago )

windows 8 only gets performance right. Jumping back and forth from desktop to metro is awful because you have no choice.

Why would you like a tablet os on desktop?

Apple is smarter than them..

They customize your experience for phone and customize your experience for mac. They didn't take osx and ios and cram them together into all devices..

taquito4258d ago (Edited 4258d ago )

@dirthurts

lol....crappy ports of ps3 games with ever MORE jaggies and even SHITTIER framerates and last gen graphics like ps3, vita's biggest selling point

dirthurts4257d ago

dude, what are you smoking?
We're talking about Windows 8 over here...
ride your magic carpet back to wherever you flew from.

3GenGames4258d ago

So Windows 8 is as good as my browser or my emulators in MAME or even my browser for those games? Great to know, that's awesome.

ninjahunter4258d ago

Windows 8 is primarily a PC platform. You might want to go about showing that this doesn't much up gaming, modding and file management before you go about seducing little kids with wealthy parents.

Xof4257d ago

Isn't it too soon for Windows 8? I mean, I feel like I only -just- broke free of Vista to get Winny 7.

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PUBG Lite PC System Requirements

Are you looking for PUBG Lite PC System Requirements, If YES, then you have reached right page. You can checkout PUBG Lite PC minimum and recommended system requirements below. PUBG Lite PC is a new free version of the PUBG PC game with scaled-down graphics designed to play on computers and laptops equipped with lower-end …

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khiva41944d ago

PUBG is a good game I liked Pubg.Pubg is better then a fortnite game.

GamerzElite1944d ago (Edited 1944d ago )

Lol, I downloaded PUBG Lite from this site and found Free Fire game inside with Blue Stack.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey To Change Controversial DLC

After apologizing for forcing your character into a heterosexual relationship, Ubisoft is planning to issue a patch that will correct the error.

A controversial bit of Assassin's Creed Odyssey downloadable content will be changed in a future patch following a backlash from fans. Spoilers follow for the Shadow Heritage episode of Odyssey's DLC.

At the end of the Shadow Heritage episode, your character has a child from a heterosexual relationship. Those who had spent hours playing their Kassandra or Alexios as LGBTQ--or simply not interested in relationships at all--felt forced into a plot development

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Chaosdreams1950d ago

This is good to hear. *Thumbs up

Nobody loses, everyone wins.

Hungryalpaca1948d ago

Except now canonically it doesn’t make sense. This was supposed to be part of a bloodline.

If the character is gay...the bloodline ends...unless they still have children. So they’d need to tie that up now.

lilzay333111948d ago

why would it be a bloodline thing, they killed bloodlines in origins with the invention of the portable animus. there's literally no need for a child or even a relationship when the connection is to the person not their relative.

NewMonday1948d ago

so we can't say you can't have natural children with the same sex?

babadivad1948d ago

This may come as a shocker to you but, gay people have children all the time. . .

mikeslemonade1948d ago

I’m for gays but here’s another example of entitled people complaining about small things. Ubisoft should stand up against this and change nothing.

fathertime44641948d ago

@babadivad
Yeah gays have kids all the time through adoption or artificial encemination. One of two of these things didn't exist back then. Now add in the fact that you need the historical bloodlines you kind of just killed off the past games with this one.

And an FYI to all you politically correct morons, ITS A GAME SET IN ANCIENT GREECE , THERE WASN'T SAME SEX COUPLES. YES THERE WAS ALWAYS HOMOSEXUALS, BUT THEY MARRIED AND PROCREATED WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX!

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JokerBoy4221948d ago

Explain how this supports the science of the Animus now. They pandered to the LGBTXYZ cuz those cancers of society never shut the hell up about anything.

Chaosdreams1948d ago

It’s not pandering. If the devs didn’t see a proper solution then they’d leave it be, but since they’ve chosen to update the content that leaves an impression they found a solution, narratively speaking.

Considering the content with the update hasn’t been addressed - all I see are cancers flipping out.

NewMonday1948d ago

@Chaosdreams
the impression it leaves is that they compromised their artistic integrity under mob pressure.

Batnut001948d ago

Well they already covered this in Origins where you don't need bloodlines anymore to go back in time for Assassins.

Chaosdreams1948d ago

@NewMonday

In that context I understand the frustration/worry.

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xRacer74x1950d ago

Now I expect this from both sides from now on. I do not want any game to force non hetro relationships. If one side can be offended then its certainly okay for the other side to offended.

Batnut001948d ago

Well if the game prides itself in offering player choice to the point of advertising as such and than suddenly forces your character who you've decided to play as hetero to suddenly be forced into a same-sex relationship than absolutely

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xRacer74x1948d ago

I usually do not care. But Im growing tired of the LBGC complaining at every turn. The last 2 or 3 years the USA is has become inundated with this crap. Love who you want to love, I just have no desire to hear about it and I will do the same.

fathertime44641946d ago

Well by pandering to the pansies they've kinda killed the entire game series. It's what's called a paradox. Now that they've made it so you don't have to procreate they've completely screwed the entirety of all previous assassin's games.
I'm aware that they did away with the whole bloodlines thing in origins, but you needed them in previous games and now you have a virtual butterfly effect in that the non birth of one person eliminates the birth of many people and can also change the course of human history completely. Thank you lgbqt community for ruining everything you touch and thank you Ubisoft for being so politically correct (idiot's)

Sashamaz1948d ago

Yeah, I feel like most games now force you to do things one way, I guess it's all about who shouts the loudest.

WitcheRivia1948d ago

Ugh, nothing worse than a bunch of heterophobes.

tar_tar071948d ago

Crazy times we live in man.

Profchaos1948d ago

So they abandoned the whole idea of needing a bloodline to utilise the animus?

lilzay333111948d ago

yes they did away with that in origins.

Profchaos1948d ago

I always thought the modern day segments were pointless after AC3 i still have no idea why they bothered with black flag it felt forced

Sophisticated_Chap1948d ago

@ Profchaos

Ubisoft plans on re-telling the story, allowing for Artificial Insemination, to fill in the plot holes.

Cobra9511948d ago (Edited 1948d ago )

It was, until they made it an issue.

beulahland1948d ago

Well, if they hadn't transformed Assassin's Creed in a full RPG game, this would not be an issue. But...

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Microsoft Disables Safedisc DRM On Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, & Windows 8/8.1

DSOGaming writes: "Last month, we informed you about a Windows 10 update that disabled Safedisc DRM on Microsoft’s latest operating system. Well, it appears that Microsoft has applied this security update on all its other operating systems as well. This basically means that the Safedisc DRM is disabled on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, thus rendering a number of games unplayable."

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MCTJim3170d ago

Both pieces of DRM are no longer maintained, meaning that any vulnerabilities could be easily exploited given the way they hook into the operating system. SafeDisc, for example, tries to load the SECDRV.SYS driver with system-level permissions, and it was found to be insecure back in the day.

So good riddance to bad rubbish. There is a work around that enable you to use your old software..it takes just a few seconds to implement.

DarkBlood3170d ago

Well hopfully my steam games will still work like usual

contradictory3169d ago

It shouldn't affect anything from Steam.
And they issued a work-around on the article anyways