Evening Reading: FPS Fever!

by Brian Leahy, Apr 14, 2010 5:00pm PDT

This morning, Take-Two announced that 2K Marin is developing an FPS game based upon X-COM. The outrage was palpable.

I'm willing to give 2K Marin a chance here. I'm sure this is a move meant to echo Bethesda's work with the Fallout franchise, which led to the creation of Fallout 3.

Personally, I'm a much bigger fan of Todd Howard and Bethesda's work than 2K Marin's, but we'll see what the studio can cook up.

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Starbreeze working on new Syndicate game?.

Splinter Cell gets free weekly DLC.

Dead Space gets a prequel novel.

Major changes coming to all classes for WoW: Cataclysm.

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Verizon gets a new Droid phone.

Your clothes might be trying to kill you.

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Ah, modern slavery.
Buy an apple or microsoft product to promote it!

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/digital-life/digital-life-news/prison-conditions-at-gadget-factories/20100415-sfoj.html?selectedImage=0

Apr 14, 2010 8:10pm PDT

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- apple is actually pretty good at responding to reports of abuse : filthysock
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  I'd hope by now people would know this as common knowledge. However, I still buy hardware from these cou... : Moonbase Commander
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    I wonder how much the hardware would cost if it was manufacturered in the west ? I think it would be ver... : yautja
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      I've heard something like a Macbook Pro would cost around $15,000 if it was manufactured in The West. : The Key
      
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      Well, I am not up to date on wages paid to microfabrication technicians in North America but I would assume it is exponentially higher than 52 cents/hour.
      
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      Well, I am not up to date on wages paid to microfabrication technicians in North America but I would assu... : Moonbase Commander
      
      I'm also thinking stuff like pensions, currency changes, and various costs not priced into the formula, k... : The Key
- Lunch naps are a common practice in China. : dodob
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  what would they be doing without those jobs? : mwasher
  - Making 150,000k per year working 3 hour days obviously. : stump
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    probably owning some small piece of land and doing sustenance farming on it. : SpaecKow
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      subsistance farming. : Clay
      
      Yes you're right. : SpaecKow
      
      subserviance farming. : ventro
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      And in my opinion, that would be preferable over what their doing. : yautja
      
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      Well it's not really a matter of opinion. If you own your land as a farmer you have a far sweeter positio... : SpaecKow
      
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      Landowner? Is that a concept followed in China? Sounds pretty western. Also, subsistence farming doesn... : pigvomit
      
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      Uhm, no people in sub saharan africa are not comparable to farmers in Eurasia, especially considering the... : SpaecKow
      
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      You used the term subsistence farming, that implies farming to a minimum. Very small farms, only enough ... : pigvomit
      
      Some medieval farmers paid rents, others didn't. By the end of the Medieval period serfdom was largely ab... : SpaecKow
      
      The government owns the land in China. You buy 99 year leases which allows you to use the land however yo... : SigENeaT
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  Those are actually photos of ra1n's law firm. : pigvomit
  - i hear rikitiki cleaning up his resume as we speak : mwasher
  - Whatever makes ya feel better :D : ra1n

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