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Dice announces Bad Company 2

Posted on Feb 6, 2009

Source: Battlefield.com

Dice has announced the sequel to the first hit Bad Company. Bad company was originally a console based version of the game with no port to pc. Bad Company 2 will be cross platform compatible which is awesome for us pc gamers. Only thing im concerned about as well as BF 1943, is that Directx 10 is required, as it will be with Battlefield 3 eventually.

Go over to the site and read up on it, not to much info yet but its a taste of whats to come.





Battlefield 1943

Posted on Feb 6, 2009

Source: Battlefield.com

From the guys that brought us Battlefield 2 and all other titles have now put together what seems like a downloadable verison of Battlefield 1943. Note the original of this was the Battlefield 1942 which was a huge success.

Watching the demo, i have to say im excited for this and cant wait to try it out. Its gonna be incorporating the Frostbite DX engine which is used in the Bad Company series. This title will also be available not only for PC but for xbox live and Playstation.

There will be 3 maps and 2 factions (US and Chinese). Play as either an infantry member crawling through mayhem to unlease carnage on the ground, or as a hard assed tank commander, and the final choice of a pilot which catches my eye every time :) The maps will be Gaudalcanal, Iwo Jima, and the classic Wake Island. Each map will have a max of 24 players.

The Frostbite engine will allow for better physics and realism. Map objects are now way more destroyable than any other title. The weapons are obviously all based on the era and they look fun indeed.

Keep posted for the download availability..





Google to develop ISP throttling detector

Posted on Jan 29, 2009

Source: Hothardware

“Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt–Senior Policy Director for Google–announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs:

“We’re trying to develop tools, software tools…that allow people to detect what’s happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they’re not happy with what they’re getting — that they think certain services are being tampered with,” Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.

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In an article written by Cade Metz, a reporter for The Register, Metz explains that when the net neutrally debate first popped up at Google, Google actually considered playing along with the network-throttling ISPs:

“We were pretty well known on the internet. We were pretty popular. We had some funds available. We could essentially buy prioritization that would ensure we would be the search engine used by everybody. We would come out fine – a non-neutral world would be a good world for us.”

But more idealist minds prevailed at Google, and the company has advocated network neutrality ever since–”or as Whitt likes to call it ‘broadband neutrality’.” Whitt didn’t mention when the network analysis tools would become available.

Other participants of the panel discussion had very different opinions on network neutrality, such as “George Ou and Richard Bennett, two networking-obsessed pals who have vehemently defended Comcast’s right to throttle peer-to-peer traffic.” The one thing that everyone on the panel appeared to agree on, however, was that ISPs need to be transparent with how they manage their network traffic. Google’s stance is that if the ISPs won’t disclose that information to the public, then consumers should have the tools at hand to determine for themselves what their ISPs are doing.”

I think this is brilliant, and commend Google on their insight into this matter. ISPs i believe should not have the ability to throttle, but they do have it and use it. Bad move. If any of an ISP’s clients find out they being throttled away from their supposed speed, then they will dump the isp faster than a big turd after xmas. Good going google.

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