With Ouya’s Kickstarter
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console]
page going live yesterday, people have been asking me what I thought of the new
console. I’ve had some time to think it over, and I keep coming to the same
conclusion. The Ouya is little more than a smartphone masquerading as a home
console. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just what it is.
Hardware
Lets start with the hardware. It’s near-identical to what’s found in the current
gen
> People don’t like advertising almost as a general rule; Advertising is simply
The Way It Is. People who make content learn to like it, because they want to
make content, and they also want to eat food and sleep under a roof, and the
opportunity to do both at the same time seems like a pretty good idea.
Honestly, I thought this was a joke at first. It falls way beyond what
Kickstarter was meant for- that is, time-limited projects. Either way, it’s an
interesting take on the crowdfunding issue
With the success of their Steam Workshop, Valve has found a way to crowdsource
the approvals process for Steam.
If you’re computer savvy enough to figure out how to get Linux installed, and
setup WINE to get Diablo 3 playable on an unsupported OS, you should be smart
enough to realize Blizzard’s in-game security, Warden will throw off some false
positives on occasion. Blizzard is not going to waste time sorting through
thousands of bans to verify you’re just playing, and not having multiple VMs
open and botting.
Moral of the story: If you play an online game, dont complain if you get banned
or something
The problem — really the only problem, but a big one nonetheless — is they
couldn’t ever find a way to make those numbers grow. Nothing they did worked,
and Rosedale doubts that even early Facebook integration would have helped.
Right, Second Life didn’t Fail. It just could never figure out what it wanted to
be.
Taylor Cocke finds the promise inside the deeply flawed Hydrophobia in this
Joystiq story
Upgrading PostgreSQL from 8.1 to 8.4