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I’ve been slacking on posts lately, and this isn’t even tech related, but very very cool. Don’t watch this if you suffer from vertigo…enjoy!
Rare: People are “less tolerant of really long games”
 We’ll all agree that the first Banjo game was massive back on N64. Not just in terms of sales but in size too. But what does the man who helped crate Banjo Kazooie think about a game’s length in today’s terms?“
I guess people are now less tolerant of really, really long games,” Rare’s head of design, Gregg Mayles, says. “Or if you’re going to have a really long game it has to be structured in such a way that the majority of the players play the game up to a certain point and are happy with it, but that section is shorter and then make sure the tail-end of the game suits the people that want to carry on.”
He continued, “The trick is not forcing everybody to play it for a colossal amount of time. So if people want to try and complete it in like 20 to 30 hours that’s fine. If people want to then carry on, that’s fine.”
Source : www.computerandvideogames.com
Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Pulled from Auto Update
Microsoft has been forced to halt automatic updates to Vista service pack one (SP1) because of glitches with its Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS), which has already laid waste to XP SP3.
The Dynamics RMS bug delivered a nasty shiner to the software giant late Tuesday. Now it’s emerged that Vista SP1’s auto distribution was also suspended while the firm scurries to provide a fix with its point-of-sale app.
GTA IV Will be Revolutionary
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Rockstar co-founder and creative VP Dan Houser has said that he hopes players will get the same feeling with GTA IV as they did when they played Grand Theft Auto III for the first time.
“What we wanted was the feeling when you saw GTA III after GTA II”, he said in an interview with Variety. “The feeling when [you] see IV compared to III, hopefully it’s not difficult to see differences.”
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HP Annouces a new Mini-Notebook PC, HP 2133
HP released a news statement this morning detailing a new mini-notebook to compliment the current line of best-selling notebook PCs. The new mini-notebook is aimed at the education market, and is smaller and lighter than most math and science books (weighing in at just 2.5 lbs). It also features an 8.9 inch 1280 x 768 screen and an accelerometer that can shutdown the hard drive in severe shock situations.Â