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inFamous is up for grabs on the PS3 and whoever hasn’t picked up a copy yet or preordered the game should hurry to the next store and get one – this game is going to blow your mind – supercharged!

Something to dig and spend time until the E3 hits us with more info on the highly anticipated games.

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Back in Feb there was a little special about the waiting game of Duke Nukem Forever – Recently there was an interesting twist of events. Rumors said that 3D Realms was short of funds and had to shutdown operations as a whole. There was a big ‘Goodbye’ picture to be found on 3DRealms.com (most likely it is still there) – that only stirred up the discussions in the forums.

After a couple days of speculations and whatnot the head of 3DRealms finally answered the call of the community to comment on what was going on. But this only happened after court documents were spread all over the net which made clear that Take2 was npw sueing 3D Realms for not delivering a new Duke game.

The official hearing is on June 4th – and it seems that the papers were issued before 3D Realms had to let its dedevelopers go – however the statement was clearly that 3D Realms will keep operating as a company even though all developers were laid off. So far 20 millions were pumped into the development of Duke Nukem Forever and it is to be expected that somehow the work around DNF will continue. The restraint order was denied which Take 2 was requesting to prevent any potential data loss and have a current copy of the game and its status handed over. Thus 3DR would be free to work on the title if they can somehow get their hands on money to continue funding of the game.

In the official statement from 3D Realms, Take2 was accused of using ‘bully-tactics’ to aquire the IP (Intellectual Property) of Duke Nukem.

We’ll hear more once the hearing is over and something conclusive can be said – everything else is up for speculation.

So apparently in North America they have freaking C3PO reading the weather forecast. As if driving down a deserted avenue wouldn’t be creepy enough you have a metallic and artificial voice talking to you about weather. I can hardly find anything appealing on a lovely girl voice yapping about sun, clouds and whatnot as it is but having Robocop instead is just a tick too much.

At least it’s more reliable than the weather feature in the windows vista sidebar, I think that one is just randomly selected images and figures. Half the time this gimmick tells me how cold and bad it is outside and there I am standing ouside my frontdoor in jacket while my neighbour violates his lawnmower in short shorts and tank shirt… another reason not to leave the house anyway.

So it has finally come to this… It is being demanded that the addiction-factor for MMOG’s/MMORPG’s is being measured. World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online as new age drug? Sounds pretty ridicilous to me but you know – politicians and self proclaimed game experts. There is only one question which I want to ask: “How do you measure an addiction factor of a videogame?”

Simply put; it is impossible. You can’t declare something to be addictive if you have no proof and no evidence that it actually is the case.

It is indeed very funny (in a sarcastic god-you’re-stupid way, not in a HAHA way) to me that in Europe you can obtain mild alcoholic beverages at the age of 16 while they are requesting to increase the age to be able to play MMOG’s to 18.

Why do we allow such people to talk even? How about taking care of the real problems instead of leading another crusade against the gaming nation? Easy target well thats a given but is the majority of people really so dumbed down to believe what so-called experts say?

On a sidenote: Why was the TV never considered addictive? How many hours to people spend infront of it? It is fully integrated into the media landscape – thats why no one takes that stand but bashing videogames is easy – gamers do not have a lobby. Maybe we should work together with National Gun Associations. I’m being overly sarcastic here but you know where I’m dragging this aren’t you?

Yes indeed dear gaming fellows – The Pope or how I like to call him “The Imperator” demands that we include modern media into our fasting spree for the next 7 weeks. Honestly, the church can wait a very long time till I would just remotely consider that.
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Background: On February 16th the trial of the well-known, swedish-based torrent platform “The Pirate Bay” started. TPB claims to be the largest cultural distribution network ever present in history. With the vertiginous number of 25 million peers this seems to be an undeniable fact. The team around TPB is accused to have broken numerous copyright laws and to have acted illegally. Several representatives of US companies are amongst the prosecutors as they have been trying to bring down the network before. What needs to be added is that The Pirate Bay does not conduct any illegal operations according to Swedish law – hence there is the common understanding that the lawsuit will most likely be unsuccessful…
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It’s 1997, on the cover of the monthly issue of a gaming magazine we can see no other than the DUKE! Behold, for Duke Nukem Forever has just been officially announced by 3D Realms – The fans were in a rush, finally after Duke Nukem 3D there will be another episode of Alien Ass Kicking from the Grand Master. Ever since we have been waiting, day after day we checked for news on and around the greatest action hero the world has ever seen… That was 12 years ago.
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