Wednesday, October 7, 2009

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 07/10/2009


bit-tech.net
What Makes You Quit A Multiplayer Game?
Those of you who listened to last week’s Gaming Podcast will know that, between the filthy jokes and my off-mike laughing fit, we talked about our lunchtime gaming habits – specifically COD4. We play every lunch time and occasionally after work too, with â€کwe’ being most bit-tech, ComputerShopper and Micromart staff.

In the wake of our most recent after-work game an interesting dilemma presented itself though and we schedule our next big match for November 10th. The day that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 goes on sale. Thus is was asked; do we carry on playing COD4 for the time being, or do we switch over to the sequel?

Strangely enough, only two people said that they wanted to switch to the new game. Many reasons were given – shortage of funds, can’t be bothered to install, PCs that won’t run it, etc. My own reason however was simply that I wasn’t ready to leave COD4 just yet and don’t feel I’ve got everything I can out of it.

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MS unlikely to simplify licensing options
Fielding a question at a press event yesterday, Steve Ballmer stated that the company has no immediate plans to simplify its often confusing licensing offerings.
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Ubisoft buys Trackmania dev
Ubisoft has announced that it has wholly bought out Nadeo, developers of the Trackmania games.
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Warren Spector details Epic Mickey
Warren Spector has finally unveiled Epic Mickey, the project he's been working on with Disney.
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Thousands of Hotmail accounts leaked
The details of around ten thousand Hotmail accounts - including passwords - have been leaked to pastebin.com, possibly as the result of a phishing attack.
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Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Review
With a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, two 500GB platters and 32MB of cache, the Spinpoint F3 is the latest performance hard disk drive from Samsung, replacing the much loved Spinpoint F1. You guys demanded the review, so finally, here it is!
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Modern Warfare 2 PC delayed
Modern Warfare 2 may have been delayed by up to two weeks on the PC.
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