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Comment Re:uh, wrong. please check your math. (Score 1) 615

by MacarooMac on Monday January 28, 2008 @06:44PM (#22214422) Attached to: World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy

The Navy might start considering my 22 ft wooden hull ZODIAC to be a "serious ship" if I could only mount a 64-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun on it (with some decent bats, of course)!

Submission + - Are free "ad-backed" video games the futur

Submitted by MacarooMac on Tuesday January 22, 2008 @12:20PM

MacarooMac writes: EA Games recently announced they are to release a free online version of their PC game "Battlefield Heroes", supported by in game adverts and micro payments.
EA hopes the model of a free game as a download that is supported by advertising could be applied to other franchises it owns. For this particular title, no adverts will appear in the game itself due to incompatibility with the game's fictional world. Instead, adverts will appear on the website and the 'front-end' of the game.
But many other titles can and do provide for product placement during game play itself. How long before improvements in video graphics, combined with dynamic, and perhaps even interactive in-game advertising, start to generate revenue increases that enable publishers to substantially reduce the price of their games? Or am I just new here.

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