Tuesday May 31, 2005

[H]ardNews 6th Edition

Online Cheaters Editorial:

Gamers Hell has an editorial about online cheaters posted that most of you should be able to relate to. The author of the editorial wonders why online cheating seems to be tolerated and why others are so reluctant to do anything about it.

It no longer shocks me when someone jumps into the air and shoots at the wall, only to have the projectile somehow end up in the middle of my forehead. I think most of us have come to accept things like this. But isn’t that a problem? Isn’t using hacks bad news? When did it become ok for us to just accept it and not care about it anymore?

E3 Aftermath:

Bytesector is sure to re-ignite a few flame wars with the opinions expresses in their E3 Aftermath article. The article declared the PS3 the "most impressive next-gen" console despite the fact that no real world performance data is even available on the Cell processor and NVIDIA openly admitted the PS3 GPU hasn’t been taped out yet and is still in development. Nintendo was also heavily criticized in this article for what was called the “poorest showing in its history”. Agree? Disagree? Read the whole article and see what you think. Here is a quote:

Overall, I think the PlayStation 3 was the most impressive next-gen of the show, with its processing and graphical prowess. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 looks inferior compared to the PS3.