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Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra: "Valve will release a version of its Steam digital distribution service for Mac next month, along with Mac-native versions of its own games, the company confirmed today after days of hints mdash; and owners of Valve games will have access to both platform versions. The Source engine, which Valve uses to develop all its internal titles and also licenses to third-party developers, will incorporate OpenGL in addition to DirectX, to allow Mac support for all Source developers. ... 'We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform, so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360,' said Cook. 'Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/1924208/Valve-Confirms-Mac-Versions-of-Steam-Valve-Games?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/08/1924208"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F08%2F1924208%2FValve-Confirms-Mac-Versions-of-Steam-Valve-Games" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Valve+Confirms+Mac+Versions+of+Steam%2C+Valve+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fdpcdfg" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/1924208/Valve-Confirms-Mac-Versions-of-Steam-Valve-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDo7l_HlqyRu1MbS5rhBLfgD7zE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDo7l_HlqyRu1MbS5rhBLfgD7zE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDo7l_HlqyRu1MbS5rhBLfgD7zE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDo7l_HlqyRu1MbS5rhBLfgD7zE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/jvtT12ANsEU" height="1" width="1"/
Game Devs Only Use PhysX For the Money, Says AMD
arcticstoat writes "AMD has just aimed a shot at Nvidia's PhysX technology, saying that most game developers only implement GPU-accelerated PhysX for the money. AMD's Richard Huddy explained that 'Nvidia creates a marketing deal with a title, and then as part of that marketing deal, they have the right to go in and implement PhysX in the game.' However, he adds that 'the problem with that is obviously that the game developer doesn't actually want it. They're not doing it because they want it; they're doing it because they're paid to do it. So we have a rather artificial situation at the moment where you see PhysX in games, but it isn't because the game developer wants it in there.' AMD is pushing open standards such as OpenCL and DirectCompute as alternatives to PhysX, as these APIs can run on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. AMD also announced today that it will be giving away free versions of Pixelux's DMM2 physics engine, which now includes Bullet Physics, to some game developers."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/1636259/Game-Devs-Only-Use-PhysX-For-the-Money-Says-AMD?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/08/1636259"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F08%2F1636259%2FGame-Devs-Only-Use-PhysX-For-the-Money-Says-AMD" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Game+Devs+Only+Use+PhysX+For+the+Money%2C+Says+AMD%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9ufnRI" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/1636259/Game-Devs-Only-Use-PhysX-For-the-Money-Says-AMD?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/J3_9qUyEnw3KAlZKbU8u2z5jPAI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/J3_9qUyEnw3KAlZKbU8u2z5jPAI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/J3_9qUyEnw3KAlZKbU8u2z5jPAI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/J3_9qUyEnw3KAlZKbU8u2z5jPAI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/LyI9Atqp2Es" height="1" width="1"/
Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down
ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/004219/Ubisofts-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/08/004219"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F08%2F004219%2FUbisofts-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ubisoft's+Authentication+Servers+Go+Down%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaBUhXh" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/004219/Ubisofts-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7xCjRtgKI03FjOmnilixSqqnKEY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7xCjRtgKI03FjOmnilixSqqnKEY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7xCjRtgKI03FjOmnilixSqqnKEY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7xCjRtgKI03FjOmnilixSqqnKEY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/bqfKsfPm6jU" height="1" width="1"/
Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/1639225/Microsoft-Demos-Three-Platforms-Running-the-Same-Game?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/07/1639225"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F07%2F1639225%2FMicrosoft-Demos-Three-Platforms-Running-the-Same-Game" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Microsoft+Demos+Three+Platforms+Running+the+Same+Game%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbGhmfk" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/1639225/Microsoft-Demos-Three-Platforms-Running-the-Same-Game?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0zEVJnYnLwwV_KYogRYepzcVfMY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0zEVJnYnLwwV_KYogRYepzcVfMY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0zEVJnYnLwwV_KYogRYepzcVfMY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0zEVJnYnLwwV_KYogRYepzcVfMY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/A1m4P_x1oPA" height="1" width="1"/
Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression
Last year we discussed news that an Xbox Live gamer was banned for identifying herself as a lesbian on her profile. Microsoft said at the time that nothing sexual in nature could appear in Gamertags or profiles. Now, they seem to have reconsidered their stance, and they've updated their Code of Conduct accordingly. Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten wrote: "[The update] will allow our members to more freely express their race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation in Gamertags and profiles. Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self-identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs. However we have since heard feedback from our customers that while the spirit of this approach was genuine, it inadvertently excluded a part of our Xbox LIVE community. This update also comes hand-in-hand with increased stringency and enforcement to prevent the misuse of these terms."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1735200/Xbox-Live-Now-Allows-Gender-Expression?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/06/1735200"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F06%2F1735200%2FXbox-Live-Now-Allows-Gender-Expression" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Xbox+Live+Now+Allows+Gender+Expression%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcxIiLt" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1735200/Xbox-Live-Now-Allows-Gender-Expression?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AKaYX7qIIakpZD-SXYSuxzRCVG0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AKaYX7qIIakpZD-SXYSuxzRCVG0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AKaYX7qIIakpZD-SXYSuxzRCVG0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AKaYX7qIIakpZD-SXYSuxzRCVG0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/DImMoAWojJU" height="1" width="1"/
Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion
MojoKid writes "When a game developer releases a demo, it's typically intended to entice players into first trying and then purchasing the full version. This is the stuff of Game Design 101 for most of us, but a crack team of cutting-edge gaming researchers at Sony have applied for a patent based on a novel concept: game demos that become progressively less fun the more you play. Sony refers to this as 'feature erosion.' The idea behind this dubious concept is that gamers will become hooked on a game while it's still in demo, then squawk unhappily as features and abilities they've unlocked begin to disappear. In order to prevent this, the player ponies up for the full version. A demo or program that provides limited functionality or play time is one thing; a game that's purposefully designed to take your progress away, in an admitted attempt to get you to buy once you've been hooked, is something altogether different."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1048223/Sony-Patents-Game-Demos-With-Feature-Erosion?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/06/1048223"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F06%2F1048223%2FSony-Patents-Game-Demos-With-Feature-Erosion" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Sony+Patents+Game+Demos+With+Feature+Erosion%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9nRfRp" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/06/1048223/Sony-Patents-Game-Demos-With-Feature-Erosion?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EF812CB-MB-xBEsf_cw3LjMUQ-4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EF812CB-MB-xBEsf_cw3LjMUQ-4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EF812CB-MB-xBEsf_cw3LjMUQ-4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EF812CB-MB-xBEsf_cw3LjMUQ-4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/w03UHYNh1Us" height="1" width="1"/
Valve Announces emPortal 2/em
eldavojohn writes "Enough rumors, Portal 2 is due out for 2010. Valve also let users know through an announcement on Steam. Game Informer seems to be the de facto provider of Portal 2 information so far. Prepare yourselves for more aperture science! Notice anything funny about the underlined letters in Steam's announcement?"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/217251/Valve-Announces-emPortal-2em?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/05/217251"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F05%2F217251%2FValve-Announces-Portal-2" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Valve+Announces+Portal+2%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F92dpuJ" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/217251/Valve-Announces-emPortal-2em?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IoWVcStNwWA5e3PAQs2O_VwrJUk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IoWVcStNwWA5e3PAQs2O_VwrJUk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IoWVcStNwWA5e3PAQs2O_VwrJUk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IoWVcStNwWA5e3PAQs2O_VwrJUk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/rGlnEEhhMjk" height="1" width="1"/
The Most Painful Toy Hack
wintersynth writes "We hacked a toy brainwave reader to electrocute people if their brainwave frequency got too high (by concentrating). We took outputs off of the 5 level LED indicator, put the outputs through a transistor/resistor/relay circuit to give 2 levels of high voltage through an electric shock circuit right into the user's arm."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/1613259/The-Most-Painful-Toy-Hack?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/05/1613259"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F05%2F1613259%2FThe-Most-Painful-Toy-Hack" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Most+Painful+Toy+Hack%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbtDWYU" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/1613259/The-Most-Painful-Toy-Hack?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RioTtxKOk-Bb1YA-4jvgdoG7-WA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RioTtxKOk-Bb1YA-4jvgdoG7-WA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RioTtxKOk-Bb1YA-4jvgdoG7-WA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RioTtxKOk-Bb1YA-4jvgdoG7-WA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/WvqovQghnk8" height="1" width="1"/
New emCall of Duty/em Titles Announced, Fired Devs Sue For Name
eldavojohn writes "Activision has announced new Call of Duty titles while fired Infinity Ward Developer leads Jason West and Vince Zampella sue them for the rights to the name. According to Activision, 'The company intends to expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further[ing] the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.' Ars opines that Activision is set to over-saturate the market with tons of CoD titles similar to how it expertly brought down Guitar Hero."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/0719258/New-emCall-of-Dutyem-Titles-Announced-Fired-Devs-Sue-For-Name?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/05/0719258"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F05%2F0719258%2FNew-Call-of-Duty-Titles-Announced-Fired-Devs-Sue-For-Name" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=New+Call+of+Duty+Titles+Announced%2C+Fired+Devs+Sue+For+Name%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9fiFTP" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/0719258/New-emCall-of-Dutyem-Titles-Announced-Fired-Devs-Sue-For-Name?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0FPv1ZFUWIB8dB2pRCjrJkDraOM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0FPv1ZFUWIB8dB2pRCjrJkDraOM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0FPv1ZFUWIB8dB2pRCjrJkDraOM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0FPv1ZFUWIB8dB2pRCjrJkDraOM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/mjChG9qxVfY" height="1" width="1"/
NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games
After a group of StarCraft II beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 196.75, Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. "This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics." NVIDIA said they were investigating the problem, took down links to the new drivers, and advised users to revert to 196.21 until the problem can be fixed.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/0739241/NVIDIA-Driver-Update-Causing-Video-Cards-To-Overheat-In-Games?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/05/0739241"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F05%2F0739241%2FNVIDIA-Driver-Update-Causing-Video-Cards-To-Overheat-In-Games" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=NVIDIA+Driver+Update+Causing+Video+Cards+To+Overheat+In+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaExprd" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/0739241/NVIDIA-Driver-Update-Causing-Video-Cards-To-Overheat-In-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ONhguiWdl_h0nRRgUbQXR8osCzQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ONhguiWdl_h0nRRgUbQXR8osCzQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ONhguiWdl_h0nRRgUbQXR8osCzQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ONhguiWdl_h0nRRgUbQXR8osCzQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/FaWMjG1zpIs" height="1" width="1"/
Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day
Colonel Korn writes "Ubisoft's recent announcement that upcoming games would require a constant internet connection in order to play has been discussed at length on Slashdot ('The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work'). Many were of the opinion that this new, more demanding DRM would have effectiveness to match its inconvenience, at least financially justifying its use. Others assumed that it would be immediately cracked, as is usually the case, leaving the inconvenience for paying customers and resulting in a superior product for pirates. As usual, the latter group was right. Though Ubisoft won't yet admit it, Skid-Row managed to crack the new DRM less than a day after it was first released."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/027258/Ubisofts-New-DRM-Cracked-In-One-Day?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/05/027258"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F05%2F027258%2FUbisofts-New-DRM-Cracked-In-One-Day" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Ubisoft's+New+DRM+Cracked+In+One+Day%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9xB7W5" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/05/027258/Ubisofts-New-DRM-Cracked-In-One-Day?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RqNHVspi4oeJOewdWJhBmyfZTIY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RqNHVspi4oeJOewdWJhBmyfZTIY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RqNHVspi4oeJOewdWJhBmyfZTIY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RqNHVspi4oeJOewdWJhBmyfZTIY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/0U50Zhp9lYE" height="1" width="1"/
How To Play Poker With Your emRock Band/em Drum Kit
SeanLind writes "After writing a similar article for converting your Rock Band guitar I got flooded with feedback and requests for a Drum Kit versions. So that's exactly what I did, three easy steps to converting your Rock Band drum kit into a wireless game controller, and using that to play online poker."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/2220203/How-To-Play-Poker-With-Your-emRock-Bandem-Drum-Kit?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/04/2220203"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F04%2F2220203%2FHow-To-Play-Poker-With-Your-Rock-Band-Drum-Kit" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+To+Play+Poker+With+Your+Rock+Band+Drum+Kit%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaoEurh" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/2220203/How-To-Play-Poker-With-Your-emRock-Bandem-Drum-Kit?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dMw1SAt08FrhwDuA-EY3uiMXUEk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dMw1SAt08FrhwDuA-EY3uiMXUEk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dMw1SAt08FrhwDuA-EY3uiMXUEk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/dMw1SAt08FrhwDuA-EY3uiMXUEk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/HTvH1AszCBI" height="1" width="1"/
Venezuela Bans Hostile Videogames and Toys
An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to 'help improve child education and prevent misconduct,' the Venezuelan government began enforcing a law on March 3rd banning war videogames and toys, imposing a fine and 2.5 years in prison on the production, distribution, sale, hiring and use of video games and toys inciting violent behavior. Alberto Federico Ravell, former director of opposing news network Globovision, has already come on twitter denouncing the authorities for seizing imported Gameboy, Wii and PlayStation 3 consoles, due to considering them violent."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/2136257/Venezuela-Bans-Hostile-Videogames-and-Toys?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/04/2136257"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F04%2F2136257%2FVenezuela-Bans-Hostile-Videogames-and-Toys" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Venezuela+Bans+Hostile+Videogames+and+Toys%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbVvaUW" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/2136257/Venezuela-Bans-Hostile-Videogames-and-Toys?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ycvir-G7Xju3CDUCCCb27KkOrek/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ycvir-G7Xju3CDUCCCb27KkOrek/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ycvir-G7Xju3CDUCCCb27KkOrek/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ycvir-G7Xju3CDUCCCb27KkOrek/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/DX5C3QIGWFI" height="1" width="1"/
Cross-Platform Mobile Gaming Gaining Traction
andylim writes "Several mobile gaming companies are developing cross-platform multiplayer games allowing Android and iPhone users, for example, to play games against each other. Last month touchArcade reported on a cross-platform baseball game developed by Com2Us called Homerun Battle 3D. Unlike turn-based multiplayer mobile games, Homerun Battle 3D allows players to compete against each other instantly, but you don't see the other player mdash; instead you only get to see your competitor's score being updated. Pushing cross-platform multiplayer games even further, a company called Bulky Pix has created a table-football-style game that displays the action as it happens mdash; both players see the ball moving around. This hopefully suggests that cross-platform, multiplayer mobile shooters aren't far behind."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/1635250/Cross-Platform-Mobile-Gaming-Gaining-Traction?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/03/1635250"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F03%2F1635250%2FCross-Platform-Mobile-Gaming-Gaining-Traction" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cross-Platform+Mobile+Gaming+Gaining+Traction%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa1pX4e" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/1635250/Cross-Platform-Mobile-Gaming-Gaining-Traction?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/idvkLFbN7tAZ9m_h0JP7LjKwxBA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/idvkLFbN7tAZ9m_h0JP7LjKwxBA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/idvkLFbN7tAZ9m_h0JP7LjKwxBA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/idvkLFbN7tAZ9m_h0JP7LjKwxBA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/UYZ5Zb0ooek" height="1" width="1"/
emPortal/em Update Hints At New Game
An anonymous reader writes "It appears Valve has begun another ARG (Alternate Reality Game) similar to the one that led up to the release of the original Portal game. A recent Portal update unlocked a new achievement which has uncovered various hidden images and sounds containing references to the Portal and Half-Life universe. Many believe this to be part of the run-up to the announcement of Portal 2 and/or the next installment of the Half-Life series. A thread on the Steam forums has already reached over 1 million views as people piece together the information. Another thread summarizes the information found so far. Based on clues from the ARG, some are speculating an announcement at the 2010 Game Developers Conference where Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell is to receive this year's Pioneer Award."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/165202/emPortalem-Update-Hints-At-New-Game?from=rss"img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/03/03/165202"/aa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F03%2F165202%2FPortal-Update-Hints-At-New-Game" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Portal+Update+Hints+At+New+Game%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbCL7kD" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/03/165202/emPortalem-Update-Hints-At-New-Game?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZM59lLKmT892gUnLDxXn5xt-c68/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZM59lLKmT892gUnLDxXn5xt-c68/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZM59lLKmT892gUnLDxXn5xt-c68/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZM59lLKmT892gUnLDxXn5xt-c68/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGames/~4/FwIeeXnrZ9U" height="1" width="1"/
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Concept art from HL2 Episode 3 leaked?
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Pakistan's First Arcade Game - Shera Jutt (Promo)
This is a demo of Shera Jutt a game which was supposed to come out 2 years ago but couldn't due to sponsorship issues.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/YzQ26M4RnHs" height="1" width="1"/
World of Warcraft: Translating the gnomish binary (0101010)
You remember the Matrix Punchograph's and punch card's in Gnomeregan and always wondered what all that binary (01010101) really means?Well, here's the translation to them all.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/uSdieebp2QE" height="1" width="1"/
10 moments where you have felt like shouting MORTAL KOMBAT!!
"These ten moments will make you say "MORTAL KOMBAT!!! again "img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/nGgux0--yMI" height="1" width="1"/
Ubisoft DRM Servers Go Down
Ubisoft's DRM authentication has been a huge concern since their announcement and now one of those issues have derived. It turns out, Assassin's Creed 2 players are unable to connect at around 8am GMT and 10 hours has past and yet, the issue still has not been fixed.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/toTnbSrfEm0" height="1" width="1"/
Police: Baby Starved as Couple Nurtured Virtual Kid
A South Korean couple addicted to the Internet left their 3-month-old daughter to starve to death while they raised a virtual daughter online during 12-hour bouts at a cyber cafe, police said.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/gEzyOq6XeMk" height="1" width="1"/
Activision-Blizzard has Plans for Multiple Diablo Sequels
It?s been close to a decade since the release of the last Diablo title, and Diablo III lies somewhere along the corner, with hopeful fans looking at a 2011 release at the earliest. With Activision at the helm, it comes as no surprise that the company may opt to milk the franchise for all its worth, with Diablo III subsequent expansions.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/s0KtvaKG0gs" height="1" width="1"/
Ah Memories (PIC)
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World of Warcraft: Ruby Sanctum - New raid instance leaked!
eaked Ingame Exploration of the Ruby Sanctum - World of Warcraft's new raid instance! The instance is intended to be a prelude to Cataclysm and should provide some advancement for the new expansion's storyline before the 4.0 patch. Video provides high definition footage of the zone and Blizzard's under development testing areas surrounding it.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/vfWxsKr9t3o" height="1" width="1"/
Can BioWare Put The RPG Back in MMORPG?
You can?t help but wonder whether BioWare?s upcoming MMOG, Star Wars The Old Republic, will be able to port the same roleplaying aspect their successful single player games are known for to a new platform.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/-jxg4UDt0NU" height="1" width="1"/
Starcraft 2 Beta Cracked Available for Download
TeknoGod and Darkblizz have successfully cracked Starcraft 2 beta with a working AI against computers. Teknogods team, LazyTown has plans to emulate a Battle.net server in the near future, but for now, it's just comp stomp.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/gWh_cLXQDwU" height="1" width="1"/
A Brief Review of PC Gaming Manuals
PC games without manuals are like keyboards without mice. But is there more to these booklets than a pile of printed musty paper?img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/jMyy6tu-Jmo" height="1" width="1"/
Fallout Artist Reveals Original Childkiller Vault-Boy Image
Brian Menze, original Fallout artist, just revealed the hilariously disturbing original image for the Childkiller reputation in Fallout 2, never used in the game.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/JMTB6isPG5M" height="1" width="1"/
Bad Company 2 PC: the MW2 question
The Bad Company 2 beta on the PC has been one of the larger time sinks for shooter fans in recent years. While the code is slightly rough, the mechanics and gameplay are polished and tight if played with a good group of players. If you hide inside a building, mortar rounds can take it down.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/qOyDdHQxtk8" height="1" width="1"/
Compilation of SWTOR Developer Quotes on Companions
This experience will be light years beyond any Pet Character we have seen in previous MMORPG's.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/pc_games/popular/~4/54NN7T7LvEs" height="1" width="1"/
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