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CNET's Tom Krazit reports:
At the Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 event in Alameda, California, on Friday, November 16, panelists from Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Crytek reassured the cheering attendees that all was well in the PC gaming world - even though NPD's numebers show that sales of PC gaming software in 2006 were down substantially from 2001. The panelists claimed that those numbers do not reflect the increasing number of games distributed digitally, although the Krazit notes that they sounded defensive as they discussed some of the broader issues.
Krazit discusses why gaming consoles has the PC gaming industry on the defensive these days, what the PC industry would like to try to do to get gamers interested in the PC again as a gaming platform, and how the PC gaming is becoming more of a specialized experience for only certain types of games.
This will solve all the problems in our government.
We were perusing this month's Glamour (Shut up - like you can resist anything with Sandy Bullock on the cover.) and we came across "Glam cam," the feature where readers send in their photos in response to a mag-directed question. Do you see what we see? It's Gawker pal Julia Allison! Congratulations to our favorite extremely attractive sex columnist for continuing to seek out - and get - attention. Glamour is a big step up from AM New York. Now let's see you try to convince Brandon Holley you're a virgin.
Earlier: Gawker's coverage of Julia Allison
You knew it was going to happen...
IPEVO today announced that all of its Skype devices are compatbile with Mac OS X 10.4 and later, as is its software software. The company's Mac-compatible and Skype-certified phones include the Free.1 USB phone -- a plug-in handset designed exclusively for Skype with a slim and compact design -- as well as the Free2 USB phone and the TRIO three-in-...
Mysterious industry "insider" Surfer Girl reveals more "trainwrecks" and/or "nightmares" hidden behind the closed door of Ubisoft:
? How the editorials at Ubisoft have power of life or death over any project in the company.
? How Martin Tremblay, former CEO of Ubisoft Montreal, was "asked to resign" because a certain then senior producer named Yannis Mallat could not stand him. (Mallat has connection to the the Guillemot family that owns Ubisoft; After Tremblay's departure, Mallat was promptly promoted to CEO.)
? How Mallat influenced the editorials to kill an unannounced "AAA" HUDless FPS.
? The early troubled development of Assassin's Creed, and its secret sci-fi twist.
? Tom Clancy's connection (or lack of) to Ubisoft Montreal and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Ars Technica reports that the PC Gaming Alliance has declared themselves the "guardians of PC gaming," which includes finding ways to help gamers decide on gaming hardware, and to make progress on the issues of piracy and DRM. "[PCGA President Randy Stude said,] 'The PCGA will take up the challenge of piracy, not to assume the responsibility that the ESA has taken on... rather the PCGA would like to address the methodology that publishers might be able to take to solve, or to do a better job trying to solve, the piracy challenge for their substantial investments in content.' The PCGA won't give a standard approach to publishers, saying it is much more likely it will release a series of recommendations to publishers, and track piracy on an annual basis to see if the problem is growing or shrinking. The PCGA is also working on methods for members to track how effective their antipiracy measures are once a game has been released."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Chairman Strauss Zelnick directly addresses reports stemming from his address to a business summit earlier this week, says industry sales shouldn't be so holiday-centric.
Ready Lisp packages an ANSI Common Lisp
environment for Mac OS X users as a single
application bundle. It repackages and configures
the following components: Aquamacs Emacs, SBCL
Common Lisp, the SLIME Lisp IDE, and more.
License: Freeware
Changes:
This version is for OS X Leopard, for users with 32-bit and 64-bit Intel-based Macs. It will not run on 10.4 or PowerPC architectures. Previous versions that run on 10.4 with 32-bit Intel processors are available.
Date Added: Monkey Inspection 11/06/2007 08:30
Prime Minister Helen Clark must explain what she meant by ?tidying things up?
when she said the ?Minister for Crown Research Institutes (CRI?s) would be subsumed?,
says National Party Science spokesman Paul Hutchison.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said in a recent quarterly meeting that his company may no longer follow the traditional five-year console lifecycle when releasing a Wii successor.
Gil and Tony get into a deep conversation in the woods.
Hewlett-Packard has been credited with almost single-handedly driving the PC TV tuner market, by including TV capabilities with almost all of its PCs.
