Rogers "Fastest" and "Most Reliable" Network in Question

Canadian wireless provider Telus seems to have won a legal battle against rival Rogers, at least for now. The company was awarded a court injunction preventing Rogers from claiming its wireless network is the “most reliable” in Canada.

“Our sole interest in filing the suit was to have Rogers remove what we always believed was a false, misleading and harmful claim from their advertising and this orders them to do that,” said Telus spokesman Shawn Hall.

Bell and Telus teamed up this year to launch a new and improved “shared” network, leading Judge J. Christopher Grauer to state “the present network technology is at least equivalent between Rogers and Telus.”

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Datel Sues Microsoft Over Memory Cards

Datel isn’t ready to give up on the nice little market it has created for itself just yet. For some time, Datel has provided third party memory cards for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Memory cards that exceed 2 GBs. That all changed when Microsoft sent out a dashboard update a few weeks ago, limiting memory units to 512MB. Coincidentally the maximum sized card Microsoft makes. Now Datel is fighting back.

Datel has launched a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming it should have the right to sell memory cards compatible with the Xbox 360. The company says it would like to “restore competition” which would be beneficial to consumers.

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DeLorean Mod For Crysis Has Us Singing Huey Lewis Again

 

When some Russian coders cooked up a crazy little Ghostbusters mod a few years ago, the interwebs were lit ablaze with Ghostbuster fandom/reminicence. Today, we reap the reward in the guise of a brand new game and a possible 3rd Ghostbuster movie being penned by the guys from ‘The Office’. Now, a new mod for Crysis is giving gamers goosebumps all over again… what would the DeLorean from Back To The Future look like in a videogame? And is your heart racing at 88-miles an hour like mine is?

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Happy 5th Birthday World Of Warcraft!

Wow! I mean WoW. We could come up with something witty to say about how many hours you’ve sunk into this game, how many friends you’ve made and lost, how many (real) sexual encounters you’ve missed out on. Suffice to say that you’ve probably already heard it from everyone else in your life at least a dozen times before. Happy 5th Warcraft! We wouldn’t have our lives manipulated any other way!

Ex-Pandemic Employees Go All ‘Office Space’ On Printer

 

In a nod to the cult-classic tale of working in cubicles, sleeping through the alarm and bosses who say “Yeeeah”, some ex-staffers at Pandemic put together this video after getting their pink slips from the shuttered studio last week. The tribute shows how to release all that rage and frustration from getting shit-canned on a single inanimate object: in this case, 1 printer… and if the word is true… it actually came from the Saboteur team’s own office space. Nice! But don’t breathe in that toner boys! At least they didn’t burn down the building…

[Via Kotaku]

Sony Confirms Premium Subscription for PSN

Oh come on! Don’t look so surprised. We all knew it was coming. Sony has always reminded us its online network was free, even if it doesn’t quite live up to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Well it appears that will soon change. Sony’s Kaz Hirai has admitted the company will be adding a “premium level” subscription service to the PlayStation Network sometime next year.

So what does premium give you? At this point we’re not sure. Hirai only mentioned it would be include “premium content and services.” Sony insists there will still be a free level of service which will continue to include things such as Facebook, Netflix and the ability to play games online.

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PS3's Cell Processor "Dead in the Water"

Guess the PS4 won’t be using the highly touted cell processor after all. German website Heise Online has quoted IBM’s Vice President of Deep Computing, David Turek, as saying the line is done and no successor will launch.

The cell processor was supposed to be all that and a bag of chips. Then Sun released Niagara at 1.4GHz, which was more than 13 times faster than the 3.2GHz Cell at long string pattern matching.

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iPhone Worm Targets Bank Accounts

A second iPhone worm has unearthed itself, only this one wants to do more than “Rickroll” your handset.

Anti-virus analysts say the newly discovered worm targets Dutch online bank ING Direct customers. When they log in to their account with their infected iPhone, the worm redirects them to a phishing site and mines user names and passwords.

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British Spy Agency Looking for the Next James Bond

Are you a British gamer? Perhaps you could be the next James Bond or John Steed.

GCHQ, a British intelligence agency that also works with MI5 and MI6, is looking for a few good gamers. The agency will start running ads over the next six weeks on the Xbox Live dashboard and in-game banners. GCHQ is targeting 18-to-34 year olds which is also the main demographic of Xbox.

According to a Guardian article, many of GCHQ’s recruitment requirements are “reflected in game-play experiences on Xbox, such as quick thinking, problem solving and teamwork”.

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Gaming Critic Closes Doors

Some game developers are quietly high-fiving themselves this weekend with news of the imminent closure of the National Institute of Media and the Family (NIMF). The Minneapolis-based non-profit watchdog group prided itself on being a consistent thorn in the side of the industry for its research and criticism of sex and violence in games. After 14 years, NIMF became best known for its MediaWise Video Game Report Card, which routinely criticized video-game makers and parents and lamented the influence of games on children.

Although the haters may call out NIMF for being part of a charge to sanitize video games or for promoting the opinion that games are just for kids, the organization did draw attention to the role of media in society and the role parents must play in educating their children about the media they consume.

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