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Submission + - Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger (bbc.co.uk) 1

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Ebon Praetor

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @12:29PM

Ebon Praetor writes: "The BBC reports that Blizzard and Activision have announced an $18.8bn merger. Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick, will become the head of the joint company, while Vivendi, Blizzard's current parent company, will become the largest single investor in the new group. Even with the size of the merger, the combined company will still be smaller than the industry giant EA."

Submission + - New Stargate Series In the Works

Submitted by Skythe on Thursday December 14, 2006 @09:49PM

Skythe writes: Gateworld reports that an exclusive, third Stargate series is in the works. From the article:
A production source informs GateWorld that the new series is in the concept phase, and is being actively worked on by the Vancouver creatives behind Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. No concept for the show has yet been revealed.
Gateworld also reports despite the cancellation of SG-1, the series is likely for a 2007 debut.
I wonder if the direct-to-dvd movies will any influence on the new series, and what the concept behind the show will be?

Journal Journal: Aurora Now Visible from Northern US & Canada

Journal by Ynefel on Thursday December 14, 2006 @09:48PM

http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/

Submission + - Microsoft Says PS3 Linux Not 'Competitive' To XNA

Submitted by nz17 on Thursday December 14, 2006 @08:40PM

nz17 writes: Gamasutra has a preview of its upcoming interview with Dave Mitchell, Director of Marketing for Microsoft's Game Developer Group, currently available. In the interview Mitchell dismisses Linux on the PS3 at a game creators' solution and has said, "What we [at XBox] are focused on doing is providing great tools at a free or low price point that are going to enable consumers to be absolutely successful at creating games for both the Windows and the Xbox 360 platforms."

Journal Journal: Cities in the Clouds

Journal by s20451 on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @07:43PM

As long as we are dreaming big dreams about colonies on the moon and Saturn's moon Titan, how about making a cloud city into reality? Not on Earth, of course, but floating high among the cloud tops of the outer gas giants such as Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, where there is no solid ground to st

Microsoft Makes Testing IE6 and 7 Easier 167

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 01, 2006 @12:20PM from the was-keeping-me-up-at-night dept.

davidmcg writes "Finally, Microsoft has made steps to make testing IE6 and IE7 easier for Windows users. Previously, you had to pay for an additional Windows license to legally run both versions of IE for testing purposes. Now Microsoft is making available free Windows XP/IE6 images available for VirtualPC (also free as MS is competing with VMWare). This means that you can run IE6 in a virtual machine while running IE7 on your host machine. The drawback is that the download is set to expire April 2007 ... although we are promised new versions will be released. What Microsoft doesn't mention is that Virtual PC also runs on Windows 2000 (and IE7 doesn't). Therefore it's possible to install this Windows XP VPC image on your Win2k machine. You can then update IE6 on the XP image to IE7, testing IE7 without upgrading from Win2k. This is all-around excellent news for web developers."

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