Taking Stock: The Gibson-Goldstein Index
by Chris Faylor, Jun 20, 2008 3:29pm PDTThere's some blood in the water this week.
Spore
The free Spore Creature Creator arrives, flooding the virtual universe with monsters like twinkies and ding-dongs.
DRM
The dreaded tendrils of SecuROM ensnare Mass Effect and Alone in the Dark on PC. BioShock keeps struggling, but can't get away entirely.
Valve
The latest Team Fortress 2 update makes the Pyro blow, in a good way. Oh, and the Sniper pees in bottles.
Artistic Integrity
ZootFly's Ghostbusters prototype helps another developer get the license, and a game composer gets upset when McCain uses his work.
Lightsabers
That Wii lightsaber game we've always wanted is finally coming, but sounds much lamer than we'd hoped.
Tecmo
Sued on behalf of every employee for avoiding overtime payments, and the evidence affirms that something just isn't right.
Atari
Sues over negative Alone in the Dark review, alleging writer of piracy.
Intellisponse
A marketing firm leaves its backend open, exposes tons of concepts from soon to be ex-clients Activision and Microsoft.

"he is pony."
QQ user Pippo, who may be contributing to the decline of the Chinese currency.
"Awesomeball didn't make the cut. Sorry."
Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi on the community-created maps in the latest Team Fortress 2 update.
"We think that this is certainly going to be the best control scheme for RTS games coming out next week."
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath lead producer Jim Vessella on fixing an Xbox 360 control scheme "lauded by critics."
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U
The Last of Us digital download lets you start playing sooner





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Quite a few years back my computer, then, began to give me trouble. I was getting BSOD. So I reformated my drive. It seemed to work fine for a while, then I started getting BSOD again. I figured it's probably something I'm installing and running. I formatted for the 2nd time. This time I slowly reinstalled my programs, one by one. I ended up getting the BSOD once again. I formatted and reinstalled windows barebones. BSOD were still popping up. I finally figured it out that it was a HDD issue, and the HDD was failing on me. So I replaced the HDD and reinstalled windows. After about 6 months, I upgraded my HDD to a bigger one. When I did this, I reinstalled windows.
If you were keeping track, I reinstalled windows 5 times in a 6 month period. You know, I've always looked at something absurd such as this situation and tell myself "that will never happen to me." But I learned that it can, and it will.
During the time, I switched out ram (and upgraded them), motherboard, video card, etc. If this was around back then, I would've had to explain why I reinstalled so many times, and why my system kept changing in just a few months.
Limited installation is a PoS idea.
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