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The official Star Trek Online forums were host to a visual treat for fans yesterday, as Perpetual Entertainment’s Mike Stemmle presented the first real screenshot of the MMO. The story lead explained, in detail, STO‘s Interaction System which “controls every non-combat, player-to-NPC interaction in the game.” Whether you’re negotiating with alien species, beaming from ship to shore or responding to distress calls, the Interaction System is where you’ll be pointing and clicking your mouse. That rather mundane stuff is hard to read when one’s picking about the minutiae of a screencap featuring an alien ambassador of (personally) unknown origin. Sure, it may look more Voyager than TOS, but that doesn’t mean we won’t have fun going where no MMO player has gone before.
An even bigger, better pic awaits you at the official forums.
STO DevLog 5.0 – “Interactions in Action” [Star Trek Online via Shacknews]
[Via Kataku]
Man I think I’ll have to try that game out when it comes on either a demo or I might just buy it.
As You can see Cnet is also getting hit hard by the Gerstmann firing. You can tell how much they have dropped after the firing. What do you think they will do? One angry BOL listener said this?
Hey buzzers,
OK, so I was mighty tempted to pull the plug on all my CNET subscriptions in the wake of the Gerstmann-gate hoopla, but have accepted your position that CNET.com and Gamespot.com are two seperate entities, and agree with Molly that not everyone should be tarred with the same big brush. However, I think there are still some issues here that have not been satisfactorily addressed. On Friday’s podcast, you promised to deal with the Gamespot issue on Monday’s show–you did but, I have to be honest, it didn’t feel particularly whole-hearted. As the self-described reporters on Buzz, it seems to me that you missed all sorts of buzz–the intertubes are packed with stories on this, all of which makes for very interesting reading, even if the medium is, in fact, the real message.
But, here’s my real issue with this. I’ll take, at face value, your assertion that the folks at CNET.com aren’t pressured by editors or advertisers with regard to content. But I can’t shake the deep suspicion that the opposite is true at Gamespot.com. I’ll also accept the assertion that those two sites are independent (more or less). The only conclusion to be drawn is that CNET.com and Gamespot.com are being held to different editorial standards. This certainly goes toward the (very skeptical) buzz about ‘gaming journalism’ that has been zooming around the tubes. At the end of the day, this is a huge sticking point for me, and I still think that ‘CNET Networks’ has some ‘splaining to do.
So does this mean they are having people being mad at them or is it that they are just getting the overflow of people from Gamestop? They I know are not the same entity but are both in the same Company? Mind telling me why they haven’t gone into more discussion of this? It’s like Cnet has been told to be quite also? IS that true or are they just holding there breathe to find out the outcome? I suspect it is Management that is doing the keep quite command. What do you think?
GameSpot has finally responded in force to the Jeff Gerstmann situation, addressing the topic once and for all…though still not revealing why he was fired for unspecified legal reasons. With no more ado, let’s just cut right to the chase.
Q: Was Eidos Interactive upset by the game’s review?
Well, were they??
A: It has been confirmed that Eidos representatives expressed their displeasure to their appropriate contacts at GameSpot, but not to editorial directly. It was not the first time a publisher has voiced disappointment with a game review, and it won’t be the last. However, it is strict GameSpot policy never to let any such feelings result in a review score to be altered or a video review to be pulled.
Q: Did Eidos’ disappointment cause Jeff to be terminated?
A: Absolutely not.
Q: Did Eidos’ disappointment cause the alteration of the review text?
A: Absolutely not.
Q: Did Eidos’ disappointment lead to the video review being pulled down?
A: Absolutely not.
As we heard before, GameSpot officially cited poor production for the pulling of the video review. They also clarify that all Kane & Lynch written review alterations were made to better match the 6.0 score. Wow, so copy should be edited to represent an arbitrary f’ing number? That clarification of practice really brings the credibility back to the site? Fundamentally, I can’t agree to the logic, but it’s important that GameSpot disclosed their process nonetheless.
[Via kotaku]
Well This is what I am concerned about they do all this and yet they still leave me with more questions then answers. I think they took to long to answer and they also might be hiding something. What do you think? I don’t believe they are going to keep hiding much longer something is bound to come out and bite them!!
At least, that was the case with an artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft Corp. that was designed to talk to children online. The Santa wandered off topic, saying, among other things: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else….”
Microsoft today confirmed the bot’s potty mouth and said it had snipped Santa’s Web connection.
“Yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows Live Messenger used inappropriate language. As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from the agent’s automated script. We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions, and have decided to discontinue the automated Santa Claus agent,” Microsoft said in a statement.
Once the report of the randy Santa broke, questions prodding the bot to give up even more questionable answers took off like eight tiny reindeer.
Users were able to steer Santa into admitting he was gay or that he was a pedophile.
[Via Computerworld]
What did I miss something? Did someone hack the system? It wouldn’t be the first time and probably not the last time. I do know that I don’t use MS Messenger or hotmail.
