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She is (was) a game journalist for MCV pimping Tomb Raider all over the place and basically being S-E's shill, and Rab Florence called her out on it and wrote a piece about, essentially, ethics in this industry (in an article on Eurogamer), and so Lauren thought she was super smart and threatened legal action against Eurogamer or else take down the article or her tweets quoted in the article, and so Eurogamer removed it and Rab decided just to leave Eurogamer (of his own accord) and it caused a big shit storm and people started to notice how much of Lauren's stuff was connected to S-E and so she smartly decided to start pulling all her articles related to S-E off the web and pretend they don't exist and claim she never worked for or did anything covering S-E's stuff, then various websites started posting new rules about how their writers are going to try to stay neutral or at least avoid undue influence from publishers etc etc, but MCV says nothing conspicuously, then this Hitman thing comes up and we find out they finally ditched Lauren Wainright who was super smart because she took media law.
edit: crap i forgot to talk about the dorito thing. See links below in Ultimakay's post
edit: and now MCV's official twitter is going completely nuts like in a crazed sort of way
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These 2 PAR articles do a good job of summing things up. read this one first then read this one. That will then give a lot more context to the current MCV shit going down.
To me, it kind of feels like "There you go, there's the blood you're baying for, now shut up and go away", which is exactly why I had a problem with the whole angry mob making her the focus of the problem. Throwing one writer under the bus doesn't suddenly make them credible or excuse their actions.
The download's like a gig. The fact that about 5 gigs is taken up on all systems does not mean that this is what was downloaded, nor does it mean it's all actively being used or that it's the OS itself. It's likely that a good portion of that space is reserved for future use. For example, something like Nintendo Video that downloads and stores four videos at all times.
Revstu's blog has a really good log of the events and players, but seems to be down right now.
PA Report is pretty good too http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/libel-alleged-legal-threats-and-conflicts-of-interest-the-twisted-story-of-
Hah, I saw that and thought it was fantastic.
And apparently their army of moderators are doing a good job of instantly eliminating penis drawings.
Edit - And this crap will happen on the next two consoles too.
I'm not saying I wouldn't be upset too if I had bricked my console over an update.
But new console launches always get the fanboys stirred up that's for certain.
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Though it's likely that the next round of Wii Us will already have the Miiverse stuff in the system.
So that whole 'play it on the tablet while someone watches tv' deal, is that a thing that works with every game, or just supported games?
I think it depends on the game... you obviously can't do it with Nintendoland or (I'm guessing) ZombiU, since they incorporate both. NSMB U works like a charm though, and so do a lot of others from what I hear. Ridiculously handy feature and might be one of the key selling points of the system.
The games are fun (I have Nintendoland, NSMBU, Scribblenauts, and Zombi U), but the stuff around them? The glue holding it together? It feels rushed.
Miiverse is an interesting idea, but currently just functions like Steam forums on a console, not necessarily as a replacement or alternative to the unified achievement structure some consumers have come to expect. Simple Notifications from friend requests seem sporadic. If Miiverse is even up. Everything in the OS is slow on initial load (once you're in game, loads are fine). Weird little intuitive hiccups, like hitting eject causes an error instead of just dump you back out onto the Home screen. YouTube, Amazon, and Hulu are on the homescreen like they could be downloaded, but they're not live yet. And when you open those apps, there's no real notification that they aren't live yet (You can see what it looks like here).
The beautiful statue is there. You can see it. But the polish is not there.
Nintendo can fix it, but the 1GB day one update alone will throw some mainstream consumers for a loop.
Just supported titles. As cloud says, Zombi U plays like a large DS game, so the second screen is required. The more the game uses the second pad, the more likely it won't support the Tablet play feature.
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This is true. And I'll share my feelings about all of those launches as they happen. Much like my 3DS. Or my Kindle Fire. (And the OS load issue isn't a "few million people" issue. That's a per system OS problem)
Doesn't mean you skip being honest about what's wrong.
For example, in the case of the recently released Android 4.2, it's big speed improvement over 4.1, but Google has two large problems that aren't being fixed. Fragmentation still exists, and developers still love Apple more, leading to a dearth of tablet-specific apps on the Google Play Store. While I enjoy Android, that's still a real problem.
It's rough and Nintendo's online/UX guys were seemingly caught behind the eightball. Optimization needs to be a big priority, and I'm hoping Nintendo is taking that seriously. I mean, this is certainly not the Virtual Boy or anything.
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Actually, a key thing to remember is that Rab didn't call out Wainwright for pimping S-E. All he did is quote here defending some of her friends that tweeted an official #hashtag in order to get a chance to win a PS3 at some British awards show and then ask if that might lead someone to question her professional ethics.
All the evidence about her and S-E came from people on gaf googling around. It's the randomness of it that makes it closer to a indictment of games journalism in general rather than about one journalist in particular.
It would be very interesting to know if Rab knew a bit more when he wrote his article but somehow I doubt it. Perhaps he had a general impression that MCV was just a mouthpiece for PR.
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That's a fairly huge bug, I hadn't heard of. Damn. Who let that one pass?
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This is like someone fulfilling a promise of waiting for you in the parking lot when they want to beat your ass. Seriously the oddest spin I've seen put on anything ever.
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Can you qualify this exactly? I've seen no emotional cues from EA / Bioware regarding TOR's transition to F2P. The only reactions I see are from people posting on internet message boards. And it comes down to smug "Ha, I knew it all along!" to "oh no, the game is going to shut down
It's in the updated "People" app. Because it doesn't affect the actual calendar app, it's mostly a problem for setting birthdays of contacts. I imagine that Google is developing a patch ASAP.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/zombiu/critic-reviews
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/uncharted-card-game-revealed-for-playstation-vita/0106636 I am pretty sure an action-adventure tunr-based card game is a huge oxymoron. I can't tell if this is just a normal sideproject that they are just having One Loop games doing most of the vast development for while Bend Studio works on something less spinoffie, or are they actually dedicated most of their resources to this.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/black-ops-ii-storms-uk-charts-as-the-biggest-launch-of-2012/0106624 LIberation was the third largest release, now the fourth largest release, on the handheld. Victory to the POS with brand name power! On the other hand, it probably sold less than 20k for the week.
Sorry about the size.
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He probably is referring more towards TOR's extreme crippleware model that is being spun by Bioware as a 'free to play', as though they're really only adding it into the game as something of a token gesture to try to bait people back into their subscription model.
Mostly it was in jest. The whole $4 for the hide helmet option comes across as hilariously petty.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Oh they specified the prices on things? Can you provide a link?
While you're doing that, if it's true that they put a price tag on the hide-helmet function, fuck them. That is so dumb.
Jesus... yeah, now Square striving to fulfill their promise of a subscription fee suddenly seems awesome...
It's not hard to fuck up the Free-to-Play price structure. The key is to not nickel-and-dime your fucking consumers. I have yet to see the list and price tags but that helmet thing is a bad, bad first impression. F2P doesn't work because the consumers are idiots that will buy anything, it is not a ticket to do whatever you want. It is a carefully planned out thing. Granted some aspects do nickel-and-dime (I personally can't stand putting a price tag on chat functions), but for the most part I get why some shit has to be paid into.
Liberation isn't a pos with just a brand name, it's a really good game with some flaws.
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