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http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/xlarge_apple1.png http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/xlarge_apple3.png http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/xlarge_apple2.png Today Cupertino released new renders of the facility. And they look mighty stunning. Like, I kind of wanna live in these images, stunning. The 175-acre, 2.8 million square foot spaceship will be done by 2015. In the meantime, we can only dream. [9to5Mac via TechCrunch]

Yeah, but you don't have to. You call yourself whatever the **** you want on facebook.

Decharted is a total rehash. Uncovered will rein supreme.

Uncharted Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHcM6aHPnE Unearthed Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8YACATSVvo Uncharted Gameplay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qowBTsPX0W0 Unearthed Gameplay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbOisqVBZ4

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It's EA, not DICE. EA's getting as bad as activision. They ****** with bioware, now they're ******* with DICE.

We're going to collide with Andromeda (M31) at some point.

In what will likely be seen as the next in a series of decisions intended to confuse and anger PC gamers, Battlefield 3 developer DICE has confirmed that the upcoming shooter will eschew the profile freedom the series has maintained for so long. In a recent tweet, DICE's Daniel Mastros states that "your name is linked to your origin persona." Yesterday it was confirmed that retail copies of Battlefield 3 will require Origin, and now the reason for that is just a little bit clearer. It's safe to say that this also answers yesterdays question regarding other services like Direct2Drive: Yes, Origin is required. It seems PC gamers will be locked into the same profile restriction that console gamers have known for quite some time. Only one Battlefield 3 soldier allowed per player? [battlefield3Blog]

Always online DRM is like going to a restaurant, getting up to go to the bathroom and having your food taken away from you because you lost contact with the table. You don't lose anything, you just have to restart your meal.

http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/08/galaxy-crash.jpg We knew galaxies collide with each other, but we rarely see beautiful pictures of them about to engage in a titanic cluster****. This is one of those: VV 340 North about hit VV 340 on the bracket. "VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South. Millions of years later these two spirals will merge—much like the Milky Way and Andromeda will likely do billions of years from now. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) are shown here along with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue). VV 340 is located about 450 million light years from Earth." Of course, the "about to" part will last a few million years. Or rather, it has lasted a few million years, since it already happened but we can't see it in real time because of the speed of light. I hope someone is setting up a camera that lasts for a few millenia, because that's going to be one hell of a timelapse. [NASA]

Google's horrible new policy on using real names in Google+ effectively means that the service is now a danger to real people. You have to ask yourself why a company that pledged to not be evil would do this. Google has said that if you don't "use your full first and last name in a single language" you're in violation of it's terms of service. If it flags you, you'll have four days to change it or it'll boot your ass. You can't use initials (even that's what you go by). You can't use a pseudonym (even if that's what you go by). And you can't use numbers or symbols (even if they are part of your name). Æ, e.e. cummings, Malcolm X, and T.S. Eliot would all be in violation of Google's policy. So, too (by my reading) would be Mark Twain, George Eliot and doubly so, R.U. Sirius. I'm pretty sure nobody whose name you actually know in the band U2 can use Google+ or, by extension, Gmail. It's hard to understand why Google would embark on such a wrong-headed policy. The most likely answer is that this is a pure identity play. Forget social networking, the big goldmine of the future is online identity verification. This could be Google prioritizing getting ahead in that race over its users' preferences and safety. In other words, it's Google putting money and greed over humanity. It's Google being evil. Last week, Danah Boyd very eloquently laid out the case against a real names requirement. In short, if you don't let people use pseudonyms online, you're putting people in danger. Real, physical, danger. Let's say you are a gay teen considering suicide who wants to reach out online without fear of your family finding out. Or maybe you are a whistleblower who fears retribution. Or a person of faith who could be subject to religious persecution. Or a dissident who fears imprisonment. A battered wife seeking shelter. Or maybe you're somebody whose actual real name violates Google's policy. For example, it doesn't allow any numbers or symbols. So, sorry, Jennifer 8. Lee. I know you're a highly-respected and well-known journalist, but your name has a number in it so you've got four days to change that or you can **** off back to Facebook. And I don't know what the heck Prince is going to do about this. The easy answer, of course, is simply to not use Google+. And I'm quite sure some people will posit that as a solution. But there are two reasons that's not the answer. First, Google is too big and too important. As goes Google so goes the Web. It is one of a handful of companies that has real power and influence, capable of changing the status quo all on its own. If this becomes Google's universal policy, soon it will be that of the Internet itself. Second, and this is related to the first, is that Google+ is a community. And we as a society we have a duty to work to make our communities free and open. We have a duty to change what is wrong, rather than to simply say "move along." Imagine, for example, if instead of working to change civil rights laws in the American South, the freedom riders had just offered one-way bus tickets to Massachusetts. If you don't like it in Birmingham, you should just move to Boston. Google is one of the largest companies in the world, it touches billions of people. Governments regularly subpoena data from it. The things it knows about you matter. A lot. Of course, Google does make it easy to quit Plus. It does offer a data liberation service that lets you take everything you've done on Google+ and put it on your hard drive. Yet while it's admirable that Google is offering ways to liberate data, it also ought to be offering to liberate its users from fear of persecution. Sadly, right now, it's doing just the opposite.

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Always-on digital rights management and online passes are two trends that sparked an abundance of gamer rage lately, but only one will actually find its way into the game Rage. In an interview with Eurogamer, creative director Tim Willits confirmed that the postapocalyptic shooter would lock out some content for people who bought the game used but wouldn't require a constant online connection. http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2011/26/Rage_16_43796_embed.jpgSince when did letting people into a sewer become an incentive? Instead of taking the standard online pass approach of locking out the game's multiplayer modes unless a user enters a one-time code that comes with new copies or pays a $10 fee, Rage will rope off some single-player content. Diligent players will come across sewer hatches in the world of Rage that take them to new missions. If those players bought the game new (and bothered to download the associated content), those hatches will be open to them. "[M]ost people never even see it," Willits said of the hatches. "I can tell you, some people will buy Rage, download that, and still never set foot in those things. They just won't. I think that's fair. It's cool. It's outside the main path. We're not detracting from anything. But I know some consumers, when you can't avoid it, then you get a little touchy subject." As for DRM that requires a constant connection, the sort that was recently confirmed for Diablo III and championed by Ubisoft, Willits said that won't be used in Rage. However, he did call himself a "big proponent" of the idea and believes a game as eagerly anticipated as Diablo III will go a long way to making that approach acceptable for gamers. "If you have a juggernaut, you can make change," Willits said. "I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game and then have that be acceptable, awesome." Willits acknowledged that some people would continue to resent the need to be online in order to enjoy a single-player game, but he said it would wind up being better for everyone involved. He cited automatic updates as a particular benefit to the scheme Welcome to the future of video games.

That is the joke.

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http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/valve/protest/vavleprotest610.jpg Civil unrest has gripped the streets of Bellevue, Washington outside of Valve's headquarters…and by "civil unrest" we mean two dudes with cardboard signs and lawnchairs. These identified men set up camp outside of Valve's offices with cardboard signs reading "Canada 4 The Release Of Half Life 3" and "Half-Life 3​…Is It Left 4 Dead?" While it wasn't the most crazy protest we've seen, what it lacked in anger it made up for in lunch. It turns out that Valve head Gabe Newell​ actually came out to meet the gentlemen and even brought them food. Let's hope Gabe took note of their signs, as this is one cause we definitely support.

http://vimeo.com/27522131 Skip to 12:40 for Notch Skip to 22:20 for a Real time demo Euclideon, a small company consisting of 9 people in Brisbane Australia, was in the news again in early August 2011 after having released a demo video of it Unlimited Detail Technology to give its fans a one year update. This video received almost 2 million views in the first 4 days and generated a lot of questions. Euclideon is a very secretive company that normally declines interviews. Recently though, public outcry for it to respond to its critics has been so great that Euclideon kindly agreed to an exclusive interview with [H]ardOCP. [H]ardOCP is proud to present this full feature video, behind-the-scenes interview with Bruce Dell, the founder and CEO of Euclideon, and the original creator Unlimited Detail technology. John Gatt interview's Bruce Dell for a full look into the past, present, and future of Euclideon and the Unlimited Detail technology.

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http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/bethesda/fallout/falloutnewvegas/lonesomeroad/lonesomeroad610.jpg The Lonesome Road to New Vegas has hit a pothole. Today, on Bethesda's official blog, senior producer Jason Bergman posted an announcement to fans that the DLC add-on pack Lonesome Road for Fallout: New Vegas will not be released this month and -- at current time -- the company has no confirmed date for its release. “We just wanted to drop in here and let you know that due to circumstances beyond our control, Lonesome Road won’t be out this month. This isn’t due to any major issue with the code or content, but there are lots of factors involved in releasing these things, and one of those is causing us to slip past our intended release date. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we’re working to get it out as quickly as possible. We’ll be announcing the final date, along with a couple of other interesting FNV-related items in the near future." With the announcement, the company did release the first screenshot of Lonesome Road, pictured above.

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