Prince of Persia 2008

Un nuevo inicio para el personaje de Jordan Mechner.
Así es Prince of persia otra vez entre nosotros, ahora no paso casi nada de tiempo entre el cierre de la trilogía de las arenas del tiempo (con el no muy bien recibido capitulo intermedio que se movía al ritmo del Heavy Metal) aunque éste es un nuevo inicio para la serie.

El protagonista ahora es un aventurero que eventualmente se convertirá en soberano, pero aún no lo es.
La peculiaridad de éste juego es que no puedes morir, siempre tendrás a la princesa para rescatarte, una apuesta diferente, pero no inédita, ya el año pasado el mejor juego de 2007 lo hizo, en Bioshock tampoco podías morir, los gamers que se curtieron durante la decada de los 80 de seguro se estarán desgarrando las vestiduras.

El juego es muy diferente a la versión tan ágil de 2003, si quieres encontrarte a un acróbata consumado, olvidalo, éste nuevo prinicpe está más tieso que un tronco, sólo ala hora del combate tiene unos movimientos veloces, aquí si correras por las paredes, pero la meta es asirte de un objeto, recibir asistencia para un salto o dejarte caer usando el guante metálico que porta ahora.

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Miscelanea de imagenes 3/PC games

Éste par de imágenes son de las postrimerías del año pasado, cuando me encontré con esa joya que se llama Bioshock y lamente la pobre entrega de la saga de need for Street que se hace llamar prostreet

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STAFF MEMBERS at Ubisoft have been telling forum sites that they are no longer using the controversial maker of DRM products Starforce.

Ubisoft dumps Starforce DRM - claim

Forum leaks

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 13 April 2006, 15:02

STAFF MEMBERS at Ubisoft have been telling forum sites that they are no longer using the controversial maker of DRM products Starforce.

They say that maker of Heroes of Might & Magic has dropped Starforce DRM from its forthcoming release, number five, and will not be using it in the future.

That is not to say that the firm is dumping DRM, just that Starforce is no longer in the running.

The rider on this news is that nothing official has come from Ubisoft yet and the announcement has only been made by people identified as staffers on the various Heroes of Might & Magic forums.

More here. µ

Have You Been Starforced? (from 1up)

Have You Been Starforced? What is it? More importantly, how do I get rid of it? by Scott Sharkey, 03/21/2006

"I'm going to put some software on your PC to keep you from stealing my stuff. It's perfectly safe, other than opening up a possible trojan gateway and slowing down your CD/DVD burner, or maybe rebooting your computer if you're doing anything I think is suspicious. No, no, I insist. There. All done. What, you don't like it? That sounds like something a pirate would say." If it seems like I'm setting myself up for a serious face-punching there, please try to keep one thing in mind -- I was being far more polite about it than Starforce and the publishers incorporating it have been; I actually told you what I was doing. It's time to just come clean here. Starforce, the anti-piracy software which comes packed with a growing list of games, is malware. It installs itself without asking for permission or providing explicit notification, and it's a bitch to get rid of. A story in the April CGW finally confirmed that yeah, it slows down burn speeds and opens security holes. If that wasn't enough, this morning users on Futuremark's forums reportedly discovered a new system used by Starforce that forces a system reboot when "suspicious" activity is detected. This accusation is not based on Futuremark's research and hasn't yet been corroborated, but if true it would be just one more item on a laundry list of offenses. While many of the problems it can cause with a PC are still unconfirmed rumors, enough of them have been tested and confirmed for Starforce to easily land somewhere just below the plague on the "bad stuff you don't want" list. Russian developer StarForce Technologies still declares that these reports are "pure fiction" and are "probably initiated by frustrated pirates," offering as proof the fact that nobody took the time and expense to fly to Moscow to argue with them about it last year. In the CGW article Starforce PR director Dennis Zhidkov even went on to declare that "The issue on StarForce is obviously sponsored by our competitors or organized crime groups that run CD/DVD piracy [operations]." For those of us getting mysterious blue screens and messed up DVD-RW drives, however, the question at this point isn't "does Starforce screw up your computer" or "how much screwing up is it doing?" or even "am I really a mobster pirate and just forgot?" but "how the hell do I get rid of the damn thing?" Well, there's a handy-dandy guide to detecting the software on the aptly named Boycott Starforce site, as well as a guide for removing it. There's even a big, scary list of games incorporating it, in case you wanted to avoid getting scumware on your computer in the first place while simultaneously sending a message to publishers who really should know better by now. And by that I mean Ubisoft. I like you, Ubi, I really do, but this is like suddenly, unexpectedly getting the holy screaming crap slapped out of me by a favorite uncle. My little heart is so crushed. Somebody hold me.