By pmiller
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11 months ago
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Newsworthy
Photo courtesy of Till Westermayer via FlickrIt's a been a big few weeks for DRM. No, you did not travel back to the
heady days of the Napster backlash: DRM, which stands for
Digital Rights Management, is making a comeback.
For those unfamiliar, DRM might refer to any way that a copyright holder
could limit the use of a product by consumers. If you've ever bought a
song, e-book, movie or game and been unable to play it on the device of
your choosing, you may already be all too familiar.
By GuyCopes
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6 months ago
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Stuff We Like
We have discussed it many times here on the blog, but video game pricing structures are failing the consumer on a monthly basis. New games--particularly annual release titles--debut now with more bugs than a dilapidated tenement. $60, whether for a perfect title or one that essentially comes with broken gameplay, is a good bit of coin. To answer the question at the top: Yes, tiered pricing needs to be the future of video gaming.
By Rick.BroidaGuest Blogger
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6 months ago
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Holidays
I don't mind if my kids play
video games, but I have two rules: no more than 30 minutes per day, and nothing with blood, guts, guns, and other violent images.
That leaves out a lot of the most popular releases, like Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Medal of Honor 3, and even
Batman: Arkham City. If you're a parent like me, that can create something of a quandary this holiday season: The kids have outgrown the educational stuff, but you'd rather not expose them to all that realistically-rendered brutality.
Fortunately, alternatives exist. If you want to give the kids something new for the
Xbox,
PlayStation or
Wii, you can choose from dozens of fun-filled titles that haven't a trace of violence, gore or adult themes.
By GuyCopes
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6 months ago
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Stuff We Like
As we dive headlong into the madness of
Black Friday,
Cyber Monday, and the beginning of the that is the 2011 Holiday Shopping season, let's take a look at the biggest news to hit the video game world this week. Also, I'll answer the question, which games should you keep on your discount-radar heading into Friday and Monday?
