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Friday, February 9, 2001 |  |
Ed Fries has good news
Thanks to Iden (who mailed this to us this morning) and Forensic (who posted it to our forum a little later), for the heads-up on a comment posted at MSXbox.com. Ed Fries jumped into the thread started by the no-delay news bit we mentioned a few days ago. Here's what he had to say:
"Any of you who have large monitors with your PC's you'll be happy to know that we are most certainly supporting VGA output without any adapters needed! There was some speculation on wether or not we'd implement that feature right ouf of the box.
Also, the remote which will be required to view DVDs witll be very inexpensive. You're looking at roughly $20.00 american."
Good news for those wanting to use non-tv outputs! Thanks, guys. (Louis Wu 20:59:15 UTC) (permalink)
VE Best Dev Poll: Blizzard
And the recount is over... according to the readers of VoodooExtreme, the best game developer (with almost 30% of the 11,000 legitimate votes) is Blizzard. Bungie followed in second place, with 17% of the vote. Looking Glass (a dead studio) was third, followed by Valve and Dynamix. Makes you wonder what the logs REALLY looked like... (Louis Wu 03:02:51 UTC) (permalink)
Violence in video games - red herring?
Interesting. Adrenaline Vault has an article about the recent Surgeon General's report on the causes of youth violence. As we reported back on January 19, the Los Angeles Times stated that this report drew definite links between video games and youth violence. As you can see by reading the report for yourself, that conclusion was NOT put forth by the Surgeon General's office - in fact, the report says that there isn't enough information at all to determine the impact of video games. Additionally, according to AV,
The report is the second major government study in a few months that downplays the role of violent media in making people commit crimes. Last fall the Federal Trade Commission released a report that also raised doubts about the conventional wisdom on this subject. This latest report, like the FTC study, was commissioned in the wake of the 1999 Columbine high school shootings.
Good to know we're not all homicidal... (Louis Wu 00:20:31 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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Bungie slipping in VE poll MS says no delay |
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Monitor-hugging hippos HaloNews.Org opens its doors new Halo compilation movie available at MPZ Halo logo history revealed |
