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February 4th, 2010, 20:25 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Valve's evergreen multiplayer shooter (in its PC incarnation anyway), Team Fortress 2, has been patched with a new game mode called Highlander.
The mode is simplicity itself: it's a nine-on-nine team deathmatch in which each team must be composed of one of each of the game's nine classes and no more. So careful teamwork and playing to the strengths of each class will be absolutely essential to victory.
Also in the patch notes is Steam Cloud support for key bindings and custom spraypaint images, meaning you'll be able to enjoy your own particular TF2 setup at any machine without fiddling.
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February 4th, 2010, 18:11 Posted By: wraggster
With the International Solid-State Circuits Conference less than a week away, Intel has released additional details on its upcoming hexa-core desktop CPU, next gen mobile, and dual-core Westmere processors. Much of the dual-core data was revealed last month when Intel unveiled their Clarkdale architecture. However, when Intel set its internal goals for what its calling Westmere 6C, the company aimed to boost both core and cache count by 50 percent without increasing the processor's thermal envelope. Westmere 6C (codename Gulftown) is a native six-core chip. Intel has crammed 1.17 billion transistors into a die that's approximately 240mm sq. The new chip carries 12MB up L3 (up from Nehalem's 8MB) and a TDP of 130W at 3.33GHz. In addition, Intel has built in AES encryption instruction decode support as well as a number of improvements to Gulftown's power consumption, especially in idle sleep states.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...Core-Processor
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February 4th, 2010, 17:58 Posted By: wraggster
One of the games industry’s most celebrated global success is enjoys its tenth birthday today, and while success very much depends on how you measure it, by any account The Sims is one of most successful and enduring video games series the world has ever seen.
Having first debuted on February 4th 2000, The Sims IP has since gone on to become the best-selling PC game in “nearly every major video game market worldwide”, shifting a massive 125m copies and generating $2.5bn of revenue in the process.
“The success of The Sims is something gamers and the gaming business as a whole can be proud of,” EA Play label boss Rod Humble stated.
“With its charming and quirky style, lovely emergent game mechanics and user created creativity that delights every day, The Sims is a game that can be enjoyed by everybody and reflects what you put into it.
“The future of The Sims is going to be a lot of fun; it is rare for an entertainment franchise to be gaining momentum a decade after release, so this is a particularly pleasant moment for everyone who has worked on the games.”
And while some series struggle to maintain their popularity in the quickly evolving market that is video games, there’s no sign yet of The Sims’ popularity abating. The most recent instalment, The Sims 3, has sold over 4.5m units since its release in June last year.
In addition, there have been nearly 110m downloads for the game and its community website welcomes in the region of 6m unique users each month, serving 300 downloads a minute.
The Sims’ success has spread to new formats, too, with The Sims 3 on iPhone being the best selling game on the App Store in 2009. The Sims 3’s YouTube channel is the second most subscribed on the service with over 55,000 users and over 26m video views.
So let’s raise a glass to one of our greatest successes. Happy birthday, The Sims!
http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/297...thday-The-Sims
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February 3rd, 2010, 22:49 Posted By: wraggster
A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine the installed office suites of millions of web users: they look for the availability of characteristic fonts being shipped with the various suites. What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02...are-In-Germany
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February 3rd, 2010, 20:42 Posted By: wraggster
Star Trek Online developer Cryptic has called on fans of the series to suggest ideas for future DLC, expansion packs and sequels.
Speaking to CVG in the first part of our new interview, Cryptic exec producer Craig Zinkievich told us:
"There is still so much we want to add to this game. There is just so much out there in Star Trek lore and history it would have been impossible for us to get it all in at launch.
"But we really want to see what direction our community and fans want the game to go and then we want to add that in. Is it more playable options on your bridge, or engineering room? Do you want more Klingon play? More species in general to be playable?
There are just a lot of directions we can go with the game and we definitely want more and more in the game."
So there you have it.
Star Trek Online is released on Friday, and you can read the second part of our interview with Craig right here tomorrow.
What do you want to see in future STO games, readers?
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS
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February 3rd, 2010, 15:41 Posted By: wraggster
An online petition has been raised that calls for the UK government to end its support for the nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6.
The petition, which at the time of writing has over 4,800 signatures, aims to initiate a nationwide move to upgrade to the latest versions of any browser – a move that it’s felt the Government must follow.
“Upgrading would be a massive task for government, but if the public is encouraged to lead the way and the government follows, that would create the momentum needed,” reads the petition’s accompanying statement, penned by Dan Frydman, the MD of Edinburgh-based web design firm Inigo Media.
However, Frydman also reveals motives that lie somewhat closer to home – at this time all Government contract companies are forced to build for IE6, due to the fact that the costs of upgrade are considered to be too high for the public sector to keep pace with the private.
“Most creative and software development companies are forced by government department clients to build websites for IE6 when most of the industry has moved on,” continues Frydman’s statement.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/33101...nt-to-drop-IE6
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February 2nd, 2010, 17:59 Posted By: wraggster
The Facebook version of Sid Meier's Civlization will not begin beta testing until June.
Meier and gang will start canvassing for testers soon, according to Variety.
Announced in October, Civilization Network will use Facebook to get friends working together or competing with each other as they attempt to build the best settlement around. It's ambitious and has ludicrously-lucrative potential should the photo-swappers bite.
The aim, at least until the game builds momentum, is to be free-to-play.
Keep an eye on the Civilization Network Facebook page to stand a chance at becoming one of those beta testers.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ci...-beta-for-june
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February 2nd, 2010, 17:49 Posted By: wraggster
CWmike writes with a warning that free preview copies of Windows 7 in the wild will start nagging users to pay up in a couple of weeks until ultimately shutting down the PC altogether in a month.
"Microsoft unveiled the schedule for Windows 7 Release Candidate's retirement in May 2009, when it issued the early look to the public. At the time, it said Windows 7 RC would expire June 1, 2010. Before that date, however, users are to receive warnings of the impending end. Starting on Feb. 15, Windows 7 RC will display notices every few hours that the machine will periodically shut down beginning on March 1. As of March 1, PCs running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours. Those shutdowns will come without warning."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02...hutdown-Warned
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February 2nd, 2010, 17:48 Posted By: wraggster
Several readers have written to tell us that AMD has published their code to support the Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" graphics cards on Linux in an open-source driver. Unfortunately the driver isn't quite as complete as some might hope. The current offering doesn't promise 2D (EXA) acceleration or 3D support.
"The DDX driver supports mode-setting on the Evergreen/R800 series GPUs with VGA and DVI connectors while the DisplayPort connectivity is still not working right, according to AMD's Alex Deucher who had written most of this code. These new AMD graphics cards have been around since September while there was no open-source support at that time. In December just before Christmas there was Evergreen Shader documentation that was made publicly available and around that time it was confirmed via our forums that initial VGA mode-setting was working with Evergreen internally on unreleased code. Since then the digital connector support has been added in and this code has finally cleared AMD's legal review. The revised target was to publish this code by FOSDEM, which is this weekend so AMD did hit the target this time."
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/0...ergreen-Driver
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February 2nd, 2010, 17:47 Posted By: wraggster
An anonymous reader points out that the latest Net Applications numbers show that MSIE 8 has become the world's most-used browser, taking over from IE6, which has been hit by the decline in the use of Windows XP. PCMag.com emphasizes another angle on the numbers, which is that Chrome is the fastest-growing browser. Firefox's market share has stalled just below 25%. Chrome is now in third place, ahead of Safari. The Guardian's article reminds:
"There's no guarantee that NetApps' numbers are accurate, and they are very unlikely to be correct to two decimal places. However, they do appear to be a good indicator of market trends."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02...Is-Rising-Fast
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February 2nd, 2010, 17:35 Posted By: wraggster
73 per cent of adults have received a scam email in the past year, making it the most common scam approach, research has found.
According to a study by the Office of Fair Trading, social media sites are also an emerging route for scammers to contact targets. Eight per cent of adults have been approached this way, while 12 per cent had received scam text messages.
The OFT also found that 21 per cent had been sent a scam letter.
Over four million people said they had responded to a scam, with almost a third of them losing money. Of those, 49 per cent lost over £50, while five per cent lost more than £5,000.
The release of the figures is part of the OFT’s Scams Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness of the scale of the problem.
John Fingleton, chief executive of the OFT, said: “Scammers are using ever more sophisticated and cunning tactics to dupe people out of their cash. We want people to recognise the warning signs, and feel confident enough to seek advice from friends and family or from Consumer Direct.”
Consumer Minister Kevin Brennan added: “It is really important that people are on their guard and know that help is available as scams can bring real upset and misery to their victims. We have invested £7.5 million to create 'scambuster' teams across the country. These specialist Trading Standards teams are working hard with the Police and others across local authority boundaries to come down hard on the worst scammers.”
The OFT study follows security firm Sophos' announcement that malware attacks on social networking sites had increased 70 per cent.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/33097...ar-scam-method
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February 1st, 2010, 23:22 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/PNphpBB2-file-...c-t-14525.html
Privateer: Ascii Sector is a free remake / demake of the classic game Privateer.
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Changelog:
* Fixed incorrect numbering on the roulette.
* Fixed bug that wouldn´t allow you to buy an Orion.
* Fixed bug that made it impossible to exit Combat Mode when engaged in combat on the Lucky Lady.
* Fixed bug that messed up the game if a ship that you´re docked with is destroyed (this will now also destroy your ship).
* Added keypad support for entering bet amounts in the casino.
http://www.asciisector.net/
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February 1st, 2010, 21:43 Posted By: wraggster
EA has launched the multiplayer open beta for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, and all you have to do is sign into your free GameSpot account and wait.
You see, waiting for your key is the key to waiting to get into the C&C 4 multiplayer beta. GameSpot is doling them out by the thousands, giving players access to four maps from the game, including Afflicted Arena, a Polynesian GDI military dock under siege by the Brotherhood of Nod. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Even the game's lead designer thinks so.
"We could not be more excited to give fans a taste of what's in store for Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight with the new multiplayer beta," said Lead Designer, Samuel Bass. "Players can expect the fast-paced strategic RTS action they've come to know and love in the Command & Conquer franchise augmented with new gameplay elements that really ratchet up the intensity, especially in our 5v5 multiplayer modes."
I can hardly wait, but wait I must. Upon logging into my GameSpot account on the beta page, I was greeted by this:
Thanks for your interest in the Command & Conquer 4 Open Beta. We're currently limiting the rate at which we're distributing keys, but we've just secured you a place in line. We'll display your key here when we release more keys in the coming days, and we'll be sure to notify you by email as well.
Hell yeah, I've secured a place in line! Now to bide my time until that fateful day. Oh the biding I will do.
http://kotaku.com/5461361/join-the-q...semi+open-beta
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February 1st, 2010, 12:11 Posted By: wraggster
Spam and hacking attacks increased by 71 per cent during 2009, IT security firm Sophos has revealed.
According to the Financial Times, the research showed that around 57 per cent of social network users have received spam messgaes, while an additional 36 per cent have received malicious code through their preferred social website.
“People are used to receiving spam and malware on e-mail, but are lulled into a greater sense of security on social networking sites, because they assume they are just getting messages from friends. They are more likely to open messages,” commented Sophos’ senior technology consultant Graham Cluley.
Although malware is on the rise, it is still growing at a slower rate than the websites themselves. Last year, Facebook grew by 600 per cent while Twitter grew by 2,800 per cent.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/33083...up-70-per-cent
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January 31st, 2010, 21:45 Posted By: wraggster
Lord Avebury tabled a parliamentary question in the UK regarding the security of Internet Explorer and whether the UK government would reconsider its use. He got an answer from the UK Home Office that's unlikely to please most Slashdot readers. The UK government contends that 'there is no evidence that moving from the latest fully patched versions of Internet Explorer to other browsers will make users more secure.'
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01...Is-Less-Secure
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January 30th, 2010, 18:56 Posted By: wraggster
Google announced Friday that it will be phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6, more than two weeks after the attacks on Google's servers that targeted a vulnerability in IE6. In a blog post, Rajen Sheth, Google Apps senior product manager, said that support for IE6 in Google Docs and Google Sites will end March 1. At that point, IE6 users who try to access Docs or Sites may find that 'key functionality' won't work properly. Sheth suggested that customers upgrade their browsers to pretty much anything else.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01...upport-For-IE6
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