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January 22, 2003 |
Blue’s News has a press release from Microsoft Game Studios announcing that Rise of Nations a real-time strategy game from Brian Reynolds of Civilization fame, will ship to stores in North America on April 22 and to most of the rest of the world in May. Age of Empires 3 or something different? 10:00:22 PM ![]() |
After a rambling introduction, science fiction author Spider Robinson writes that due to the rise in people’s life-span he supports the US Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extension of US copyright to lifetime of the author, plus 70 years. His reasoning is that the extension allows the author’s heirs more time to get the benefits of the ancestor’s work and to protect it. 9:39:37 PM ![]() |
Wired News reports that following the completion of his parole that prohibitted him from using connecting to the Internet or sending e-mail, hacker Kevin Mitnick surfed the web for the first time years on TechTV's live Screen Savers TV show. Like most people he encountered problems with plug ins and popups. Given that con man Frank W. Abagnale Jr. is now a security expert and the subject of a blockbuster movie, I’m sure that Mitnick will do more than appear on Tech TV. 9:33:18 PM ![]() |
New rumours suggest that Microsoft has agreed to buy Vivendi Universal’s gaming division which includes Sierra and Blizzard Entertainment. Microsoft owning Diablo? Sounds right, The Onion has reported that Bill Gates has a dexterity of 18, and an above-human charisma of 20. 9:21:54 PM ![]() |