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Creator of flOw decries flOw-esque Aquatica iPhone game {Joystiq}
Jun 26th 2009 4:58PM Yes he's Chinese - born in Shanghai. That's what makes this extra amusing. This isn't a racial stereotype, it's a cultural stereotype - Chinese companies will steal and copy anything because they have no respect for the idea of intellectual property (whether they should is another debate). Even the national Green Dam spyware/filtering software turned out to be code ripped off wholesale from another program. This is such a cliche that Engadget even has a running 'Keeping it Real Fake' section which documents these.
So yes, I think it's a funny turnaround when a Canadian company takes the code of a Chinese guy, slaps a new name on it, and sells it.
Fewer than 1 in 3 PS3 systems connected to PlayStation Home {Joystiq}
Jun 25th 2009 8:36PM No, you're right. How could they do so well on Free Realms (for what it is) and blow Home so badly? Perhaps they need to need to get some of those people involved.
Actually, never mind, I don't care enough, it's not worth the effort at this point.
Blizzard still hesitant about console MMOs {Joystiq}
Jun 25th 2009 8:20PM This is just nitpicking, but I'm pretty sure my WoW install was up to 15 gigs after 3.1 (including whatever caches they have). I had to move it to another drive or I'd never have noticed. On a PC 10 vs 15 gig is just 'whatever'. On a 20 gig X360 or PS3 it's a lot.
Fewer than 1 in 3 PS3 systems connected to PlayStation Home {Joystiq}
Jun 25th 2009 5:50PM Bingo. I can't see a single reason why I would be wasting my time in this retarded sterile marketing dystopia with people who are even dumber than the people I encounter on XBox Live (yes I realize how horribly low a standard that is) when I could playing a /game/ like inFAMOUS, or even Flower.
Creator of flOw decries flOw-esque Aquatica iPhone game {Joystiq}
Jun 25th 2009 4:59PM Wait, these guys are Canadian and not Chinese?
Engadget's recession antidote: win one of 100 Microsoft Windows 7 pre-order discount codes! {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 4:55PM I was buyin' it... but I'll take a free one any day! Thanks.
Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds shooter leaked? {Engadget}
Jun 7th 2009 4:25AM Oh boy, this says $990 dollars for the camera and lens. It doesn't say which currency, but $990 Taiwan = $30 US and $990 Hong Kong = $127 US, which are both impossible. $990 Singapore Dollars = $680 US, which might be doable. But if it's actually $990 US, forget it. Anyone know for sure?
Hands-on: Joy Ride {Joystiq}
Jun 4th 2009 8:37PM This looks pretty good for a free title. You could do worse than blatantly borrowing from SSX and Stunt Driver. I might even forgive them for that Yaris thing.
Seen@E3: Protesting Dante's Inferno {Joystiq}
Jun 3rd 2009 6:08PM Let me introduce you to Poe's Law - http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law
Applied here it says that unless the protestors admit it, or you can trace something back to a marketing firm or some other smoking gun, there is no way you can tell the difference between a bunch of genuinely stupid people and a bunch of people trying to parody being stupid. Because no matter how hard the fakers try there is a real person out there doing something even more genuinely ridiculous.
All these arguments based on how they look, how the signs look (All the 'EA's look the same! Almost as if they were all paid off! ... or maybe they just drew the posters together based on a logo they got from the website because none of them knew how it looked otherwise) are fun to wank about but prove nothing either way.
This is the Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer you're looking for {Joystiq}
Jun 1st 2009 8:49PM If this is at all representative of the in-game style, then it looks like they've dropped the ridiculous body proportions we were seeing earlier.
