No, unfortunately not our own…but it looks like, overall, the Kotaku culture is enjoying it. Check out this story and read the comments section to see what your fellow gamers are saying about the beta.
Category: Misc
We have something fun planned for tomorrow, but for now, check this out: Ars Technica has a story up linking to a Dutch study that shows no correlation between users of file-sharing networks and a decline in sales. In fact, based on the report, people that use file-sharing networks are the industry’s “largest customers”; they are more likely to have bought media in the past 12 months, buy more movies and games, and file sharers go to more concerts and spend more on merchandise.
Image obtained from space.com
This news is slightly outdated by Internet standards, but apparently there is a huge storm raging on Saturn. Keep up the great work, amateur astronomers. Your contributions are a valuable asset to keeping an eye on the universe around us.
Apparently, the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of Avatar are having some widespread DRM issues. I’ve been telling friends and my family to wait for the inevitable double-dip edition anyway, since this one is just a barebones disc with no making-of featurettes or anything special, but it looks like we now have one more reason to do so.
If you missed it, you can read our review of Avatar here (the review was written based on the 3D theater version).
Halo developer Bungie recently signed up for a publishing deal with Activision. Yes, that Activision. What are the implications? Why would they do something like this? Click through for our opinion.
Today’s link of the week is rather personal for me. Although I work for a different company, I work in same building that Sodexo’s corporate headquarters are, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Yesterday, there was an SEIU protest outside the building…and guess who got arrested? Danny freakin’ Glover. Naturally, it occurred on my day off -_-;;
It has been confirmed that Peter Steele, lead singer and bass player of Type O Negative, died of heart failure yesterday, April 14th 2010. His deep baritone voice and unique bass playing style defined their sound, and his music inspired a generation of goth metal enthusiasts. Their music played a huge part in my life when I was high school/college age…the world has lost a truly talented musician.
Rest in peace, Peter.
We are going to be out of town for a while, so there won’t be any updates to the site again until April 1st. We’ll see you then!
The link of the week for this week is from Ars Technica. In the aftermath of France’s new three-strike rule, peer-to-peer use is down but overall piracy is up.
In this edition of link of the week, scientists believe they may have broken a law of physics. Crazy stuff! physorg.com has the story.
