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ZeniMax acquires id Software in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

this is from Bethesda's Fallout 3 ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software Brings together two of world’s best game studios Library of powerhouse franchises will include DOOM, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, QUAKE, Wolfenstein and RAGE June 24, 2009 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of noted game publisher Bethesda Softworks, today announced it has completed the acquisition of legendary game studio, id Software, creators of world-reno

Reply to Epic Fail! in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

A few days ago, a girl in Europe was using her laptop in the tub. And..the laptop was plugged in, and it felt into the water and the girl is still in the but. Well..you can guess what tragedy occured.

Reply to Woman ordered to pay $1.92 million for pirating ... 24 songs in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

the good old digital piracy issue. Hasn't companies learn that piracy as one of the oldest professsion or hobby in the world can not be stopped, and it has been tried for years and years. Just live with it already. If people wants to buy the product they will, if they don't they they won't or they will just get it off some other ways.

Reply to Overweight? Then airlines should charge you more... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Why don't they go by Body Mass Index. Would it not be better. So say, if a person is over certain BMI, then they get charged more.

Reply to How can you increase Torrent speed? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

use Utorrent, it is faster. better yet, if you have friends who have a business internet, use theirs for download. I have friend who owns an internet cafe, he pays X amount of money per year to get accessed to a server that have 1000s of games, whichever game he wants, he can get. If there is something that i can't buy at store or i need it really fast, i just get him to download it for me, otherwise, i just go buy the thing.

Reply to What's with all the DLC in games these days? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I think Microsoft should make windows 7 as an free update to windows vista. Afterall, Vista sucks period and after two years, it comes out with an operating system that is an improved version of Vista. MS owns its customer base to fix ALL the flaws that is associated with Vista, not try to milk more money out of them.

Reply to Terminator Salvation in Everything Else Demigod Forums

but the Bond movies reboot is good, so how come terminator movies can be a disappointment.

Reply to Has anyone read this: "The Economy of Piracy", as in (video/pc game piracy) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I never knew someone went to such a length as to write a big essay on software piracy.

Reply to Star Trek **SPOILERS** in Everything Else Sins Forums

anyone seen the star trek countdown comics, there were 4 of them. They were prequel to the movies, and gives the movie much more background and context. In that comic series, you will see how Mr. Data comes back to life. :) And you will see how that Nero's ship get so kicked ass powerful. And good bye to the Romulus homeworld.

Has anyone read this: "The Economy of Piracy", as in (video/pc game piracy) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I found this: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html posted on the Egosoft website in one of their discussion threads on DRM. That thread carried on two pages before it was locked by the moderators there. They have virtually zero tolerance for DRM or any DRM related discussions. I thought the article is interesting and a bit lengthy to put it mildly. I was wondering if anyone including an

Has anyone read this: "The Economy of Piracy", as in (video/pc game piracy) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I found this: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html posted on the Egosoft website in one of their discussion threads on DRM. That thread carried on two pages before it was locked by the moderators there. They have virtually zero tolerance for DRM or any DRM related discussions. I thought the article is interesting and a bit lengthy to put it mildly. I was wondering if anyone including an

Has anyone read this: "The Economy of Piracy", as in (video/pc game piracy) in Demigod Demigod Forums

I found this: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html posted on the Egosoft website in one of their discussion threads on DRM. That thread carried on two pages before it was locked by the moderators there. They have virtually zero tolerance for DRM or any DRM related discussions. I thought the article is interesting and a bit lengthy to put it mildly. I was wondering if anyone including anyone from Stardock has read it.&nbs

Pirate bay is back up and running in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just checked, Piratebay.org is back and running. Well so much for legal trials and what not. I honestly don't know who to feel sorry for, the devs, the downloaders, the crackers/hackers. Yesterday, Piratebay's site is done, so i went to Isohunt to see what they have said on their front page news, and they did not say a word about the incident, while every news channel on the net are claiming that other torrents sites are very cautious. I just read, that Tele2 i

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

In the end of that article, it saids "Rasmus Fleischer, one of the founders of Piratbyrån commented , “The sentence has no formal consequence and no juridical value. We chose to treat the trial as a theater play and as such it’s been far better than we ever could have believed.” As for the fate of the site, Peter has already promised that The Pirate Bay will continue. The site itself was

Reply to Torrents, Is it ever OK in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I think people will stop pirating games when games installed files are going to be like 20 GB. Unless the internet companies provided faster internet services at a cheaper price. It will be insane to be able to pirate anything like 20 GB especially there are limits to bandwidth usage, and extra charges for going over the limit. I download stuff, but just not games, but rather, i download academic books when i need it for academic research purposes, plus it will take forever

Reply to The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison in PC Gaming Sins Forums

aren't they having it a retrail due to judge's biased involvement with copyright support groups. I wonder how that is going to go.

Reply to X3 is it good as Sins? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

X3tc 2.0 update is pretty good, though i have not had the chance to go through the missions, Anyways, the AI can be humorous at times. So it can't be all that bad.

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Ah...thanks. Now i get the metaphor. :D

Reply to Do I just have a dirty mind, or... in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

someone mention stiff drinks a few pages ago, what does that have to do with this whole dirty mind business. I am sorry, but english is not my first language, so i am learning a lot about dirty jokes from you folks. Very educational for me. :D They never taught me this stuff in my ESL classes.

Reply to 3 PC Game industry myths in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

If you are in Hong Kong and they caught you downloading, the court has the right to ask the internest service provider to cough out your ISP number and track you down. That is the law by the way. So your internet service company have no choice but to comply. Which is much worse/better than in China. Depedning if you are rooting for civil liberties or combating piracy.

Reply to putting mac osx on a pc?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

yeah, but i can put windows on a mac. I don't see Bill Gates go knocking on mac user. So why should Steve Jobs has problems with us PC user putting mac OS X on pc.

putting mac osx on a pc?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was thinking the other day, now that we can purchase a glorified overpriced Mac and purchased pain in the behind Windows on it. Can we do the reverse with PC but instead load Mac OS X on it??? I mean..a computer is as good or user friendly as its operating system.

Reply to @Frogboy - This is a job for YOU! in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

why do people like Spore so much if it is such a piece of digital infestation.

Reply to Shacknews Covers Brad Wardell’s GDC Speech in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

World of Goo cost only like 10,000 dollars to make, and the two former EA guys who came up with the concept were absolute geniusl

Reply to 3 PC Game industry myths in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

well..my friend owns an internet cafe and he is chinese. So i asked him.."how do you get your games??" he told me that he gets a member of something call "ice cafe". Forgot the exact name. It is a chinese company that paids the publisher for the rights to have language localiztion done. But that is not all. Apparently, if you own an internet cafe that has a min of 10 computers running on a server (the company can check this), you then paid them a few thousa