Daily News Spin — May 10, 2001 (Thursday)

Is Bruce Geryk gay?

We've established that Bruce Geryk doesn't like Majesty. But for each Geryk Analysis, there should also be a Geryk Rebuttal. So Old Man Murray's Erik Wolpaw pulls Geryk out of the back seat of the car, sticks a finger in his face, and says, "Hey you, get your damn hands off her." Read it here.

Brad Wardell loves bastards!

Faster than you can say "tank rush", Brad Wardell has the solution to cheese tactics in online multiplayer gaming. Read the latest installment of The Airspeed Velocity of Unladen Gaming.

Wild web chase

A clever online promotion has been created for A.I., Steven Speilberg's upcoming summer movie starring Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law. Clues have been dropped into promotional materials for the movie that lead to a fictional woman named Jeanine Salla, who has a personal web page and a bio page. These lead to this Yahoo group which serves as a springboard for exploring a fairly elaborate murder mystery, which is probably connected somehow with the carefully guarded story of A.I. This MSNBC article has further details that would probably be considered spoilers.

You can see clearly now

Blue's News has linked to a story on Riva Station reporting that the latest drivers for ASUS' GoForce cards have again enabled the option to renders walls transparent in some first person shooters. After it was discovered, this cheat was removed from ASUS' later drivers versions, but now it's back in v11.01. Whether it's been intentionally or accidentally re-introduced hasn't been confirmed.

This just reinforces for us the point that without a secure server, dealing with people you don't know or can't trust is a built-in limitation of online gaming. If ASUS has intentionally restored this cheat to their latest drivers, their actions are hostile to online gaming as a whole. With friends like these...

The doctor is in

Bruce Geryk explains why Majesty is an awful game. By "explain", we mean he just rants about not liking it. Read The Geryk Analysis and look for a rebuttal later this week from a very special guest.

3am

We saw a re-mastered print of the anime classic, Akira, in a digital projection theatre last night. It looked gorgeous on a full-sized screen, but we have one question: can someone explain anime to us? Although Akira is certainly a big brash splash of a movie, we prefer the moody introspection of Ghost in the Shell.

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