I'm back for Tuesday! I hear Trent has successfully migrated to his long term hotel, so you will all get your favorite Original Daily Author back on Friday. In the meantime, it's time for a What's for Lunch? GameDev.Net Daily.
The Duke Nukem Forever saga isn't over yet! Take-Two's lawsuit against 3D Realms has just been published, and it's rather strange. Apparently Take Two was going to leverage its rights as publishers to hand over the source code to another studio to develop a 360 version, but that Apogee shut down development without telling Take Two beforehand. They also believe that Apogee has a lot of money available in an off-shore fund. Unfortunately the case is expected to go to trial in nine to twelve months, and even then I'm guessing they'll settle out of court and we'll never find out what really happened. Lame.
GamaSutra also has an interview with Microsoft's Shane Kim. He discusses all sorts of things about the Xbox 360, although it's coated in a paint or twenty of pro-MS spin and PR goodness. It's a pretty good interview otherwise; just remember that it's hardly a candid look at the ecosystem.
If the SlimDX visitor stats are anything to go by, you're all predominantly Firefox uses. But Opera's been around for a long time too, and are even busily litigating their way to relevance in Europe. But in the meantime, they've rolled out Opera Unite in order to reinvent the web. By "reinvent" they of course mean "expose age old features in some vaguely new way", but that's alright. It looks like a neat toy to play with it. And there's a video after the break, if that's what you're in the mood for.
frobMember since: 3/12/2005 From: Salt Lake City, UT
Posted - 6/16/2009 3:12:43 PM
I wonder what ESRB is thinking about the Apple App Store ratings.
From the linked article, 'ESRB head Pat Vance said her organization could handle the extra volume. "ESRB has seen increases in rating submissions each year since its founding and has always been able to keep pace," she said.'
Getting an ESRB rating is not cheap, and very few App Store games could afford it. How the organization believes those apps would go through them is beyond me.
I think if Apple were to do anything, they would just expand their existing rating system.
UnconnectedMember since: 6/21/2003 From: Kelowna, British Columbia
Posted - 6/17/2009 3:01:04 AM
Bah! Screw uniting the web.. Fix Flash Support for Opera and I would be happy.. It loads pages twice as fast as Firefox is more efficient on memory and cpu but flash crashes it out time and time again..
I am dying to switch off firefox if they would just get that last bit together
Sik_the_hedgehogMember since: 1/31/2009 From: El Palomar, Buenos Aires
Posted - 6/17/2009 12:37:39 PM
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Original post by Unconnected
Bah! Screw uniting the web.. Fix Flash Support for Opera and I would be happy.. It loads pages twice as fast as Firefox is more efficient on memory and cpu but flash crashes it out time and time again..
I am dying to switch off firefox if they would just get that last bit together
I use Opera and I never had problems with Flash. And that having used several versions of both Opera and Flash =/
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