GameSpy briefly met with MindArk, the developers of Entropia Universe, at the rear of the gaming pavilion at the CES. Their hope had been to catch a glimpse of how the game will look now that MindArk has licensed the CryTek graphics engine, the eye-popping powerhouse that drove the visuals for last year's amazing Crysis. Unfortunately, the revamped game wasn't being shown on the floor. They did, however, chat with the team about some interesting new developments that are underway for 2008.
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
No system will ever be perfect, but there needs to be a review, unless it blatant.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
The Montreal-based team behind March of Giants joins Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 MOBA game where players take on the role of giant combatants.
I personally play this game and I can't wait for this update to come.
For people who don't know. Entropia Universe is a MMORPG. Which has a huge amount of land space, with more planets to come in the future.
The game has tons of professions to choose from. You could be a miner or a hunter or a hair dresser or a designer or a crafter and blah blah.. on and on. And you can take up as many professions as you want, if you have the money to buy the tools to gain experience in those professions.
The game economy is also a real world cash economy. The ingame money "PED" is 100PED = 10USD.
There are people who make a living off this game.
Think second life, but not so cluster $#cked with randomness. More of a game then just a second life.