Allow us for a while to postpone your trip to fantasy land so that we can all get real. You are all aware of companies , and its subsidiary Technologies, right? Okay for the love of God, the three are major suppliers and manufacturers of .
As we all know, we can't get any leveling or questing done if not for these graphics processing units. Interestingly, nVidia and AMD are currently under fire with the Department of Justice slapping them with a barrage of anti-trust actions. In case you are wondering why, the two were recently accused of conspiracy to take control of the graphics market.
Here is what the plaintiffs have to say: The allegation is the defendants and co-conspirators have engaged in a contract combination, trust or conspiracy, the effect of which was to raise the prices at which they sold graphics processing units and cards to artificially inflated levels. Executives of the company are also alleged to have had meetings and conversations to discuss pricing of graphics processing units and cards in the U.S.
If these allegations are proven to be correct, then the two are guilty of creating a cartel. The latter are definitely a no-no in a country that is back-boned by democracy and free trade. This is rather weird because not so long ago, the two released a GPU compatible with 10, .
You'd think that having more than six billion people populating our mother planet guarantees a constant flow of fresh ideas. But no, we still have to put up with the likes of The Terminator, Digimons, and a "family guy" trying to be cool. Fact of the matter is, every industry has a huge mainstream-stamped cargo strapped across its back.
You have that never runs out of the Asian-plus-wacky-western-guy combo, comic books that have WonderMan (replace the first four words with "sup" and you got the picture), and the music industry (if you could call it that) being lorded over by "artists" like Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake. Yep, the world's one fudged up place, and if you think we're safe from its clutch just because we're locked up in our room all day mashing buttons, you're dead wrong. True gamers would have now known what I'm trying to imply.
That the gaming industry, like all the money-driven organizations in the planet, is one huge merry go 'round - only instead of horsies, we have copycats, and boy are they running lose. 's Homies can show us nothing the Leone Mafia Family hasn't. How about 's (PSP) board-toting Djon?
He reeks of if you ask me. You think this is something new? Remember Golden Axe Warrior for the ?
Anyone who has taken over would immediately notice how shamelessly similar it is to earlier Legend Of Zelda installments. Here's another one - Rainbow Arts' Great Giana Sisters. The younger 'uns might never have heard of it before, but simply put, it's got all the Super Mario Bros.
elements in it - powerups, bricks shattered by heads, diamond (at least not coin) collection, and all enemies looking weirdly like the plumbers' bitc**s - only instead of brothers Mario and Luigi, you have sisters Giana and Maria. Click on the "full article" link below to read more about videogaming rip-offs! Scenario: Guys hijack plane, demand concerned parties to cough up a cash ransom to get said plane back.
Concerned parties call in Special Forces, who then end up killing hostages in a rescue attempt. No this isn't the botched 1985 hostage rescue, and it ain't a Chuck Norris flick. For the residents over at 's Mal'Ganis PvP server, this is the famed flightmaster hostage world PvP incident back on November 4.
For those who don't know what this is about, here's a brief summary: Last month, the highly eccentric Goon Squad Horde Guild (dudes from somethingawful.com) staged the kidnapping of the Alliance flightmaster over at Theramore. Their demands to the Alliance were simple: To buy two Lightforge Belts listed for 1500g at the Neutral Auction house, or they wouldn't be seeing their beloved flightmaster for the weekend.
In connection to this, Goon Squad also camped the Ratchet boat and kidnapped the Auberdine flightmaster. The "unofficial" event garnered quite a lot of player activity, and large numbers of Alliance members were prepping to combat the Horde for this incursion rather than pay the ransom, leading to a massive world PvP event..
.except it never happened. A few hours into the event, several people made complaints to the GM's regarding the kidnappings, who then summarily "killed" the hostage flightmasters.
No flightmasters, no hostage. No hostage, no PvP. Strangely enough, the Goon Squad got commendations from both the Alliance and the Horde for this original twist in PvP'ing, though inversely, the WoWInsider guys didn't take too happily to the GM's spoiling the fun.
GM Issues aside, this did spark the topic of the new DK-free PvP system for WoW. Given that have been removed in , we're wondering just what sort of escapades players like the Goon Squad are going to cook up. That, and if the GM's are still gonna be the game's reputed party-poopers.
From the in charge of making this game to the we're expecting when it launches, we've been covering a lot of high-profile angles on Sigil's . But for now, let's take a moment, and shift our attention to the unsung heroes that keep games like these running smoothly - the humble programmer. The Vanguard main site is featuring an employee spotlight, and the dude of the moment is programmer .
In the interview, Brian chews the yarn on how he first started out in Sigil, and about the daily grind of working as a programmer for this growing company.
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