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Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:03AM from the don't-anger-your-base dept.

mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Comment Re:Flash? (Score 1) 744

by Chief Crazy Chicken on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:39AM (#29910191) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released

The problem with flash content (for me at any rate) has been stability. On 64bit I've tried Adobe's preliminary native 64bit player, and it didn't work. So I'm back to using the nspluginwrapper to run the 32bit within my 64bit OS. After some period of time, the sound will go bad. Various other observations coming out of troubleshooting the sound layer led me to conclude that it is indeed the flash plugin that's wonky.

So, it's "there", but it's not stable yet.

Comment Unhackable laptop? (Score 5, Funny) 501

by Chief Crazy Chicken on Sunday September 27, 2009 @09:00AM (#29555347) Attached to: AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks

etch-a-sketch!

Comment Krutz (Score 1) 731

by Chief Crazy Chicken on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @10:47PM (#25636131) Attached to: Favorite Made-up Swear Word?

from Nodwick

A Look At the Warhammer Community 169

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 06, 2008 @09:13PM from the greenskin-buddies dept.

Gamasutra is running a story examining the development of the Warhammer Online community since its recent launch. The author explains how the gameplay and rules tend to affect social interaction. GamerDNA has a related piece looking at numbers for actual players involved with Warhammer's launch, and how it's affecting populations in other MMOs. "Getting on the computer to play WAR apparently reminded the WAR fanatics that they had a computer, because overall, their gameplay went up as a whole. They logged in more often to titles like COD4, Oblivion, and even AOC. But the MMO bug bit hard, and logins to LOTRO and EVE more than doubled after the launch of WAR."

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