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Two Assassin's Creed games. Two years. Two delays on PC.
This time around, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's had the poisonous delay dagger slipped between its ribs, and won't come out of its feverish coma until Q1 of 2011. The game's console versions, meanwhile, are parkouring like it's 1499 en route to a November 2010 release.
Ubisoft didn't offer any reason for the delay, instead opting to bury the news at the bottom of a press release about its upcoming console multiplayer beta. When Assassin's Creed II took its tumble, though, the publisher cited technical issues. We're guessing something similar's at play here as well.
Here's hoping we'll at least get a little time shaved off our sentence to Ubisoft's DRM hell out of all this. Happily, the publisher actually opted to use Steam DRM for its recent RTS, R.U.S.E. However, just as we began to plan a giant parade/party – complete with a 12-foot-tall “All is Forgiven” cake that, mostly jokingly, we were going to hurl off a cliff the second Ubisoft's Internet connection dipped – Ubisoft declared that its DRM would still be the rule for most of its games. R.U.S.E., unfortunately, was just an exception.
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We've been discussing for a while just how anti-transparent the USTR has been on ACTA negotiations, making totally bogus arguments, such as the idea that negotiators would walk away from the table if they didn't keep the document secret. Of course, it later turned out that it's been the US who has mainly been behind the secrecy. KEI has been pushing for more transparency on ACTA from the beginning, and famously had an FOIA request on ACTA denied due to ridiculously laughable claims of state secrets. However, a more recent request on any USTR discussions about transparency turned up an internal email from Stan McCoy, assistant USTR for intellectual property, entitled "Transparency soup," where he basically acknowledged the new (at the time) administration's request for more transparency, and laid out a "plan" for how to have the USTR pretend to be transparent, without actually being transparent. For the most part, the USTR has followed those plans, showing that it had already dug its heels in to be as opaque as possible, while paying lip service to transparency.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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Slashdot recently pointed us to the fact that OSNews received a legal threat from Commodore USA for publishing an article that was highly skeptical of Commodore's Amiga plans. Slashdot focuses on the fact that the legal nastygram is obviously copied from ChillingEffects.org, including odd formatting and references. While that part is amusing, I don't think it's that interesting. While there's been some discussion about copyright on legal documents, in general, lawyers copy others' legal language all the time, and it's (mostly) considered to be okay.
What's more interesting to me is the threat itself. It's yet another case of someone getting upset about someone's opinion, and thinking that threatening a defamation lawsuit is somehow a good idea, rather than one that simply draws a lot more attention to the content they don't like. Just because someone says something you don't like, it doesn't mean it's illegal.Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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