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Mod chips? legal?

An interesting article I read on Kotaku, so the fate of all hacked xbox 360 owners and “former owners” lies in the hands of Andrew Huang.

Andrew Huang wrote a book a few years back called Hacking The Xbox. He’s an expert on the subject. He’s such an expert, in fact, that federal prosecutors are trying to stop him testifying in a mod chip court case.

Courtesy of a report on Wired, Matthew Crippen is facing three years in prison if convicted of servicing Xbox 360 consoles and installing mod chips on them, offences which violate the United States’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Huang is willing to testify on Crippen’s behalf, arguing that installing a mod chip does not in itself constitute a violation of copyright. He points towards a recent U.S. Copyright Office decision to allow the “jailbreaking” of Apple’s iDevices as precedent for this; if they can be legally modified to allow third-party applications, so too should game consoles.

Federal prosecutors, however, have called for Huang to be barred from testifying on the grounds it would be “legally irrelevant”.

I don’t know. Seems pretty damn relevant to me.

Medal of Honor PC Open Beta Gameplay

Hey guys, so I downloaded the PC beta for MoH and I must say, I’m fairly impressed, I actually wrote a couple suggestions on the forums for beta testers.  Here’s what I had to say…

“After playing the PC beta last night, I was overall impressed, the textures, movement, sounds, models of everything is absolutely gorgeous, with appearance I give you guys a full 10. However regarding the mechanics of the game I noticed a couple things that could be changed.

-The time it takes for a sniper to ADS should be extended, maybe to 1 - 1.5 seconds, this should prevent snipers running around 1 shotting people instead of actually sniping; however don’t take away the power of the sniper rifles.
-The grenades don’t seem to be thrown as smooth, there seems to be a bit of a delay when throwing a grenade, and it doesn’t seem like grenades can be thrown far at all.
-The game randomly crashed on me while I was playing last night, no error code or anything.
-I would also like to see a little more recoil with the rifles, especially after 5 rounds; the sniper rifles should have a lot more recoil, I understand rifles will kick in a backwards fashion, but even after a 5 round spray the muzzle will still kick upwards a little.
-With the maps, providing alternate routes would also be ideal, having a small map with only a few routes will promote camping, maybe enlarging the maps a little with more routes will give both teams a challenge.

-I wanted to add one more thing, when an explosion goes off near a player, they should have a longer recovery time.

Thanks DICE, you guys spawned another great product.”

I also wanted to present a montage I put together last night after a couple rounds.

Deadrising 2 Lets Play Series

Episodes 3 and 4 of my “Lets Play Deadrising2” series.

My “Lets Play Deadrising 2” Series

I recently started doing commentaries and I published my first video last night, the quality is not that great but I captured it in the wrong resolution…(i’m a dumbass i know); but all these different resolutions and capture devices got me all mixed up.  Anyways, here is episode 1 and 2, enjoy.

NINTENDO 3DS DATE AND PRICE ANNOUNCED IN JAPAN

alliluvsgames:

FROM IGN

All the rumor and speculation can finally come to an end.

During Nintendo’s presentation in Japan today, the company announced the 3DS will go on sale in Japan on February 26, 2011. The unit will cost 25,000 yen ($300).

Nintendo did not provide a release date or price for European and North American territories, but stated overseas plans will be announced later through Nintendo’s overseas branches.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam

OK so here we go, the moment we’ve been waiting for, not sure how many Bad Company fans are out there and I hope you guys are just as excited as I am.  Here is a first look game play demo of Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion.  Although the title says Onslaught mode, I’m pretty sure this is a good ‘ole Conquest mode.  Enough with the talking, watch the video.