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Reading through Slashdot noticed an article named PS2 the Most Played Console In 2008. Wondering why? I might have the answer.

One of the best features of PS2 is ability to run PSX (PlayStation One) games. And that means that PS2 owners have access to a lot of cult and classic games along with new ones. Yes, latest PS2 game struggle from poor graphics (shame on you Sony with your marketing!), but new games are still made for this console.

Basically PS2 gives a player access to a greater array of good games then any other console and even if you have XBox360/Wii/Whatever, you still sometimes turn on PS2 and play Tekken (: PS2 rocks!

Yep, that's right! Enjoy! And by the way since Rockstar released total crap use latest beta drivers from nVidia to run the game - it will improve your FPS and graphics quality.

Right now there are 54263 (!) leechers on The Pirate Bay downloading GTA IV. And in comments you will find a link to a piece of software which helps bypass online activation. Let's play!

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This post about pt.hexmode.org content update. Site is in Russian.





Обновил pt.hexmode.org, а именно:

• добавил сводную таблицу характеристик автомобилей;
  
• добавил страницу с описанием установки игры.
  

Вот такие вот дела (:

I already have a post about software piracy. Today I would like to write a bit about situation around a very cool game - Spore. Right now an anti-DRM Internet flash mob takes place at amazon.com. People send negative reviews and explain why DRM in Spore is bad. More detailed info on zdnet, but here I will write a bit about my own experience with games. Since I'm living in Latvia and not a multimillionaire I do use pirated software including games. But I try to buy my favourite games to support developers. Well, I'm a software developer myself and if no one buys our software I will die starving. Since becoming a full-time employee I have a bit more cash, so buying software is not a real problem right now (the problem is that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Collection Edition is not in Latvia yet...), but when I was a kid I had only few legal games. Theese were only two, actually: Ukrainian Cossacs and Russian/Polish Gorky-18. Now I have much bigger legal game collection (:

The real problem with legal games is that they are "protected". Protection systems lock you to using game cd while playing. Cossacs game cd was blown away inside my cd rom. FCUK! My first legal game, a very good game...

This July I bought new King's Bounty with StarForce. Guess what? This DVD is totally unreadble in my dvd drive in PC (but it works just fine in laptop, but laptop can't give good performance) and StarForce support guys does not want to help me out. FCUK again!

I can give you more examples from my life, but you already should get the point. When legally buying games everyone has somekind of problems with protection systems (DRM). Just google for it! And then Spore was available in fully working condition, all included, without hassle a few days before official release. And yep, I'm playing pirated version of King's Bounty - legal one does not work on my PC. Ain't that funny?

Conclusion? Dear developers! Follow the path of our gamedev company - STOP USING FUCKING PROTECTION SYSTEMS!!!