Left 4 Dead 2 ‘The Passing’ DLC pushed back, priced at 560 Microsoft Points
Mar 29th
We’re not exactly used to finding out hot scoops on Valve’s game projects from Xbox Live’s “Inside Xbox” feature “SENTUAMESSAGE,” so it was especially odd to us when we heard that Left 4 Dead 2’s upcoming Left 4 Dead 1 crossover DLC “The Passing” got an official price (560
/$7) — and an ambiguous new release date of “Spring” — from the feature. But that’s just what the latest episode told us, not to mention a handful of new deets on the DLC, including info on new variations of enemies and a few new weapons.
Back at X10 in February, Valve told us that the content was set to arrive on Xbox Live/Steam by “late March,” though it seems that the window has been extended a few more months. We’ve fired off an email to Valve to see if a more solid release date exists, and we’ll keep you updated if we hear anything back. In the meantime, we’ve embedded the Inside Xbox clip after the break.
[Via Kotaku]
When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost
Mar 9th
Glenn Fleishman at 4:33 AM March 9, 2010
Glenn Fleishman is a Seattle journalist who started one of the first Web-hosting companies in 1994, worked for Amazon in 96-97, and then decided he wanted a life. He writes for Publicola, The Economist, and TidBITS, among other publications.
Photo: Roman Pinzon-Soto
RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost–but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media.
The post-RealDVD world means that unless there’s a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a legal way to perform legal acts of copying or shifting protected movies, music, and games.
Take it from a guy who has a special E Ticket. The major movie studios can never sue me nor four other individuals ever for a variety of media-moving activities that you and 300 million other Americans could be subject to. It’s like a superpower. More on how we got this pass later.
