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by Nick Breckon, Jun 06, 2008 10:18am PDTThis week was far more interesting than it deserved to be. Duke footage, Crytek news, and cool Fallout clocks. Add a little corporate craziness and we've got ourselves an article.
Duke Nukem Forever
First gameplay footage squeaks out. Stuff blows up. Minds still blown that it exists.
Time Warner Cable
Field-testing max bandwidth caps of 40GB a month, all for only $55. So much for our Desperate Housewives HD downloads.
Jack Thompson
Recommended for extra-special, decade-long disbarment. In other news, Diablo 3 to be set in Antarctica.
Crytek
Says it will no longer develop PC-exclusive games. Ends Crysis support. Announces PC-exclusive Crysis Warzone. Who's on first?
Forbes
Claims the iPhone could kill the Nintendo DS. In other news, airplanes could totally kill cars.
Take-Two
Phenomenal Grand Theft Auto 4 profits easily cover the company's legal battle against EA hostile takeover. Wanted level increased.
Resident Evil 5
Racist? Not racist? Who knows. Either way, between this and Far Cry 2, "welcome to Africa," gamers.
Fallout 3 Survival Edition
We're tripping over ourselves to grab one of those clocks. But where's our official Vault Tech/Brita filter?
"We are healthy."
LucasArts public relations director Margaret Grohne, after confirming layoffs of between 75 and 100 LucasArts employees.
"They're essentially mini-finales. But we hate to use the word 'mini.'"
Valve writer Chet Faliszek, explaining "crescendo events" in his company's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead.
"And here I thought gamers liked long endings!"
Metal Gear Solid 4 associate producer Ryan Payton, squashing rumors that the game will feature 90-minute cutscenes.
Comments
By then of course we'll be too far gone, the internet will be locked up just like radio, tv, cinema and we can look forward to the same raping of consumer dollars for the same uninspiring products. As one of the commentors said in the original post, offering a local, uncapped, mirror sounds like a good compromise until you realise that they control the content on that mirror and so have full control over who and what you can access without paying more. Mmmm now doesn't that sound familiar?
This has little to do with usage costs. A dark fibre line or a fully utilised line ages the same, pretty much same for the hardware. So really what is the huge impact the bandwidth heavy users have?
Can they clog the local capacity? Only as much as someone who stays under the cap. During peak hours service will be degraded whether people download a lot over the month or a little. During off peak times it makes no difference if you're downloading.
Sorry for the rant, these moves are so douchey and blatantly about increasing their profits while screwing their customers that it makes me embarrassingly mad.
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So like "The Gaming Index jumped 10 points with the new of Jack Thompson's immanent disbarment, while PC Gaming is up 7.48 with the release of the first Duke Nukem Forever gameplay footage". Or something. Then we could tell how the state of gaming as a whole is preforming. Huh, huh? Sound good?
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