The Total Failure of Mass Effect 3′s Side Quests: A Play In Three Parts
ACT I INT. LIVING ROOM. AFTERNOON. A lone PLAYER is silhouetted in front of a TELEVISION, deciding the fate of the galaxy in MASS EFFECT 3. PLAYER (v/o) Wow, that Krogan storyline was intense. What a great ending! Now I’ll do some of these planet-scanning side quests! PAUSE FOR LOADING PLAYER (v/o) Hmm. It seems [...]
“Mass Effect is the most important science fiction universe of our generation”
I can’t choose just one thing to excerpt. A great read. Link: Pop Bioethics Caution: major spoilers for Mass Effect 1 and 2.
Excellent Gabe Newell interview on the PA Report
A few choice bits: Recently I was in a meeting and there’s a company that had a third party DRM solution and we showed them look, this is what happens, at this point in your life cycle your DRM got hacked, right? Now let’s look at the data, did your sales change at all? No, [...]
The worst of both worlds
Stephen Totilo, for Kotaku: I’ve heard from one reliable industry source that Microsoft intends to incorporate some sort of anti-used game system as part of their so-called Xbox 720. Wired’s Chris Kohler reacts: What we are possibly looking at now is an interim period in which the disc as a delivery method is still around [...]
Jonathan Coulton is a very smart man.
JoCo: Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
“depraved indifference to the consequences of one’s actions”
Boing Boing‘s Cory Doctorow on Consumerist: Even though a substantial portion of my living comes from the entertainment industry, I don’t think that any amount of “piracy” justifies this kind of depraved indifference to the consequences of one’s actions. Big Content haven’t just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the [...]
“an interest in preserving the status quo”
The Harvard Business Review: SOPA and PIPA are prime examples of big companies trying to do everything they can to stop new competitors from innovating. They’re also examples of how lobbying in the United States has become one of the most effective ways of limiting this sort of competition. But one characteristic is the same [...]
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