Anti-Porn Crusader Sues Over Bar Probe: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance > Coral Gables, Fla., attorney Jack Thompson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Florida Bar, alleging it is harassing him by investigating what he calls baseless complaints made by disgruntled opponents in previous disputes. > Thompson is known nationally for waging campaigns against [...]
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Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce
Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce – PC News at GameSpot > Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. “Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy-protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases,” said a rep for the company. The announcement means that [...]
Starforce enforces DRM by instant reboot
Starforce enforces DRM by instant reboot (without warning) – CD Freaks.com > Now, Futuremark has uncovered a very dangerous anti-piracy system Starforce is now using. This copy protection system installs a driver that runs at the highest level of access on the system, which gives it low level access to the PCs hardware and any [...]
19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot
19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot – Yahoo! News > CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges they used the Internet to pirate more than $6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies. Goodbye RISCISO. Been ages since I’ve seen a game I’d wanted at all, and [...]
World of Warcraft Surpasses 5 Million
World of Warcraft Surpasses 5 Million – News at Gaming Horizon > Blizzard Entertainment today announced that World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed 5 million customers worldwide. Eggads. 5,000,000 x $14 = way too much money per month.
Fatal1ty wins CPL Wold Tour
The Adrenaline Vault | News | Fatal1ty Wins The World Tour Finals > The Grand Finals of the CPL World Tour 2005 have finished and Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel goes home with $150,000 – the largest prize ever seen in gaming history. Makes me wish I’d stayed at home and played Quake and friends a bit [...]
Kids Death Linked to Game
RED HERRING | Youth’s Death Linked to Game Parents are claiming their kid jumped to his death while acting out something from World of Warcraft. If a kid believes he can take the same amount of falling damage as a level 60 warrior in a game, I think it’s a good example of Natural Selection [...]
Fatal1ty – Pro Gamer
My Way News Earning a 6 figure income while playing games sounds like a dream come true. But, it’s a lot of hard work, and according to people who know him, he has a very good ability to predict how people will react and plan accordingly. Wish I’d thought of professional gaming when I was [...]
Rag Doll Kung Fu
Rag Doll Kung Fu is a small, cheap ($14.95), innovative game with great old-skool gameplay. It saddens me to see a pirate version of the game three days before it’s released for sale on Steam. Have a look at the [gameplay movie](http://storefront.steampowered.com/video/RDKF_trailer.avi) to see how much humor and passion this game has.
support@planetarion.com
A few years ago, a couple of friends and I created an online web-game called Planetarion with 180k players. As we were just three people, we had to deal with email support ourselves, and I recently found a CD with quite a few of those old emails. Have a look at a [few examples of [...]