SimCity 2013 launched a couple of days ago, and oh boy. It does not seem to have gone very well. I'm gonna take a look. Very important disclaimer: I have not played this game. Something I share with many people who've actually bought the game (more on this later).
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LULZ RULES THE NEWS
Oh Sony, I shed the single tear for you. You're getting a seemingly never-ending stream of bad publicity these days. The latest was a bunch of server hacks, exposing customer data. And now topped with a nice little piece on how the DRM on your cinema projectors is so egregious that theaters don't even bother trying taking off ( Read more... )

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I promised lady-E and my sister I'd drop them a line or two if something pertaining to content protection etc. popped up on my radar. Unfortunately, I have been very bad at this, because whenever I see something I just AAAAGH at the retardery of it all. So I figured I would explain to them why content protection and DRM is retarded. This took a ( Read more... )

I started thinking about all this catch-up Microsoft is playing - always branching out, trying their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy - only now it doesn't seem to be working as well. It's getting harder, because plenty of viable free alternatives are turning up. Undercutting free is pretty hard. You can do it with hardware - the Microsoft- ( Read more... )

Alright. I think I've figured out how to make online purchases work. This is nothing revolutionary, and I'm sure this has been suggested dozens of times before. No magic involved, nothing crazy, just straight-forward practicality.
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We're well into this next-generation video disc format war. For those of you who haven't paid attention, film studios have decided that it's about time they re-sell us all our videos again. Last time they did that was with the introduction of the Digital Versatile Disc. DVDs were great! Instant access to scenes compared to fast forward/ rewind, ( Read more... )