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Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or internet casinos, are online versions of traditional (”brick and mortar”) casinos. Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet.

Online casinos generally offer odds and payback percentages that are comparable to land-based casinos. Some online casinos claim higher payback percentages for slot machine games, and some publish payout percentage audits on their websites. Assuming that the online casino is using an appropriately programmed random number generator, table games like blackjack have an established house edge. The payout percentage for these games are established by the rules of the game.

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And Slot machines are.

A slot machine (American), fruit machine (English), or poker machine (Australian) is a type of casino game. Traditional slot machines are coin-operated machines with three or more reels, which spin when a lever on the side of the machine is pulled. The machines include a currency detector that validates the coin or money inserted to play. (The slot machine is also known informally as a one-armed bandit because of its traditional appearance and its ability to leave the gamer penniless.) The machine pays off based on patterns of symbols visible on the front of the machine when it stops. Modern computer technology has resulted in many variations on the slot machine concept. Slot machines are the most popular gambling method in casinos and constitute about 70 percent of the average casino’s income.

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Today Ubisoft announced that a new Prince of Persia is scheduled to release towards the end of 2008 for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

This new Prince of Persia marks the debut of the critically acclaimed franchise on next-generation consoles. Developed by Ubisoft’s award-winning Montreal studio and the same all-star team that created the previously acclaimed Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy, Prince of Persia is opening a new chapter in the Prince of Persia universe, featuring a new breed of gameplay. The game is poised to rejuvenate the action-adventure genre in addition to introducing a brand-new illustrative art style.

Ubisoft will also release a Prince of Persia game specifically designed for the Nintendo DS system, featuring an entirely new storyline and new characters. More details to be unveiled in the future.

The screenshots available in the screens tab are the ones leaked back in October 2007.

The following is Alone In The Dark’s official fact sheet. It is written by the game’s developers, so please take all the “revolutionary and awesome” descriptive with a grain of salt.

Alone In The Dark official fact sheet:

Central Park is hiding a secret. Built as a safe haven not for the people of New York, but for something else entirely, the vast parkland has been protected by generations of guardians while the most expensive city in the world reached skyward on its fringes. Now the truth can no longer be contained, and paranormal investigator Edward Carnby finds himself inexplicably cast into the eye of the storm as over the course of one apocalyptic night he must uncover the earth-shattering secret behind Central Park. New York will never be the same again.

Inspired by the gripping style of contemporary TV dramas, Alone In The Dark game delivers a new degree of narrative intensity, presented as a complete season format of episodes each containing action, twists and cliff-hangers. Bursting with innovative technology, including unprecedented environmental interaction, revolutionary physics, stunning visuals, uniquely immersive user interface, and DVD style chapter select, Alone in the Dark breaks gaming clichés to fulfil the next-gen promise and change what players expect from action games.

GAME FEATURES:
- Exhilarating gameplay: Blockbuster action, tense exploration, dangerous driving, and vicious fights as hero Edward Carnby fights to survive one apocalyptic night to uncover the earth-shattering secret behind Central Park;
- Intense story: taking cues from blockbuster TV dramas, the story is told in a TV season-style to deliver pace and intensity throughout, keeping the player hooked with action, plot twists and cliff hangers;
- Never get stuck: creating the first game that everyone can finish, the innovative DVD-style chapter select lets players move on if they get stuck, with the grand finale reserved for those who finish a certain amount of the game;
- Improvise to survive: a new level of environmental interaction based on real world rules where anything you could do in real life, you can do in the game. Use your imagination to create unique tools and devastating new weapons;
- Immersion: the player is plunged into the heart of the action in real-time with full movement control, in-game inventory system, on-body damage and healing system, and physiological effects;
- Pyromania: unique physics and light rendering are applied to the realistic-looking fire which propagates realistically across all flammable surfaces. Fire is a valuable ally, but can become your worst enemy;
- Photographic Rendering: a lavishly detailed game world with advanced cinematographic effects including depth of field, camera focus, numerous light sources, and High Dynamic Range effects.

Alone In The Dark Is scheduled for release on Xbox 360, Playstation 2, Wii and PC on June 20, 2008. It will be released for Playstation 3 later in the same year.

Speaking with PC Play Magazine, Crytek president, Cevat Yerli revealed that they won’t develop PC exclusives anymore, thanks to the platform’s high piracy rate.

“We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis”, said Cevat Yerli. “We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable.”

“I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy”, he continued. “To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we won’t have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.”

We respect Mr. Yerli’s experience and reasoning, but we must ask why does Crysis “lead the piracy charts by a large margin”?

We must not forget the game’s steep system requirements. Crysis’s gameplay play also is a hate-it-or-adore-it experience. In our opinion, a lot of potential buyers had the urge to play 2007’s game of the year (second to Call Of Duty 4 on MegaGame’s voting), but feared that their PCs weren’t qualified to handle it. Obviously, piracy was the answer for those gamers’ worries (not that we approve it). So of all those who pirated Crysis, we believe that the majority had PCs that aren’t able to meet its minimum system requirements and some just hated the game. Some of the rest were content with their pirated copy and some decided that they liked the game enough to buy it.

In other words, Crysis’s unreasonable system requirements served only to decrease its sales without affecting the number of pirated copies; and hence, caused that larger than usual piracy to sales ratio.

In a recent interview, Valve’s VP of marketing, Doug Lombardi was asked about the effect of PC games’ piracy on their business, and here is his response in full:

“Well, Steam allows us to eliminate ‘Day Zero’ piracy - which is between gold and when the game’s on the store shelves - and that’s when all the real piracy, the damaging piracy happens.”

“Gamers are generally good people, right? They’re pretty intelligent, you know, they usually have a job. They’re not derelicts out on the street, looting and robbing all of the time. But when they’ve been hyped up on a project and they really want to play this game and they can’t wait to play it… Maybe they bought a new computer or console just to play it, and it shows up on a torrent site and it’s not at the store… Temptation’s going to come into play.”

But with Steam you can’t, right? We tell you to pre-load the game, regardless of where you’re going to buy it. Download it now so you’re ready to play it the day it comes out. The disc that we send out is useless until we turn it on launch day. So we don’t have the problem of sending the disc to replication and having some punk grab it and put it on a bit torrent site and take the sales away from us.”

We saw that in 2004 when we released Half-Life 2. Doom 3, Halo 2 and whichever version of GTA came out that year were all available on the pirate network before they came out at stores. The final version of the games. Half-Life 2 wasn’t. The only difference was that Half-Life 2 had Steam anti-piracy stuff in place.”

There is no official patch for GTA IV Playstation 3 freezing bug yet, but an inquiry on Rockstar’s technical support site received a detailed 12 steps guide to, hopefully, fix it.

Rockstar’s technical support response reads fully as follows:

Please run through the following, go through in order.

1) Delete the game’s install data. This is done via the PS3 options. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the ‘Game’ tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the ‘Game Data Utility’ Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, from the menu select Delete. This will delete the game’s install information.

2) Delete the game’s save files. To delete any save files you will need to do the following. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the ‘Game’ tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the ‘Save Data Utility’ Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, and from the context menu select Delete.

3) Disable your Internet connectivity for the PS3. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the ‘Settings’ tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the ‘Network Settings’. Now scroll down to the Internet connection option and press x, now select the disable option. Once this has been done unplug the ethernet cable if you are connecting to the Internet if using this.

4) Disable the console’s information board. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the ‘Network’ tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the ‘Information Board’, highlight this and press triangle. From the menu select ‘Do not display’ Press X to confirm this.

5) Disable Media Server functionality. Scroll to Settings, now scroll up / down to ‘Network Settings’ select Media Server connection. Once this has been done press triangle and change the option Disabled.

6) Delete all of the system’s Internet cache. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the ‘Network’ tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the ‘Internet Browser’, highlight this and press X. Once you browser opens press the triangle button once, from the new menu highlight the ‘Tools’ option and press X. Scroll down the menu until you reach ‘Delete Cookies’ and press X. Confirm the files deletion. Repeat this for ‘Delete Cache’.

7) Turn off the PS3 screen saver. Use the cross media bar to scroll to ‘Settings’, select ‘Display Settings’. Now highlight ‘Screensaver’ and set this to ‘Do not use’.

Once this has been done, manually restart you PS3 by holding down the power button for 5 seconds it will beep once and then shut down. Release the power button and re-press it and hold for about 5 seconds. The system will then boot and reset all display settings. You will be prompted to reset your display settings to how you require them.

9) Once restarted please try the game again, you will be prompted to reinstall.

Once the game has started please turn off the following features:

1) The game’s auto-save. Press Start, Game, and locate the Auto-save option. Turn this off.

2) Turn off the game’s flicker filter. Press Start, Display and locate the Flicker Filter option. Turn this off.

3) Turn off the controller vibration feature. Press Start, Controls and locate the vibration option. Turn this off.

If that doesn’t solve the problem, Take-Two allows tech support users to reopen their cases within seven days.

In a recent interview, Game Republic founder and Street Fighter II creator Yoshiki Okamoto expressed his concern that Nintendo DS’s market might have grown too fast for its own good and that it might deflate soon

“Actually, and again, and this is those whispering voices saying this, but you’ve started hearing the phrase ‘Atari crash’ pretty frequently. People are talking about how the second ‘Atari crash’ is around the corner. And Nintendo is the one that has to figure out a way to stop it.”

Mr. Okamoto refers to the infamous North American videogame crash of 1983 when the console market was flooded by dozens of consoles and hundreds of mostly low-quality games. The lack of consumer interest as well as the games’ overproduction resulted in an economic crash that almost destroyed the fledgling industry and led to the bankruptcy of several companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America. Actually, the bizarre black and white photo included alongside this article is taken from a September 1983 Alamogordo Daily News article which reported that between ten and twenty semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari storehouse in El Paso were crushed and buried at the landfill within the city.

“In Japan we often say that history repeats itself, and it’s going to take some serious effort to keep it from happening this time”, Yoshiki Okamoto continued. “Japan had its economic bubble in the late eighties, and that burst. I think some of the same things are happening in the American economy right now. Like, they’re going to have to do something to prevent it. It’s foolish to keep making the same mistakes people have already made.”

“So, Nintendo’s going to need some sort of strategy to deal with this. I think it’s a fact that the market blew up more rapidly than even they thought it would. And the faster something expands, the easier it is for it to deflate again, right? I hope they come up with a way to avoid this with the DS. But for one thing, there are way too many titles out all at once.”

Another similarity Okamoto noted is the abundance of low quality titles. “[At least in Japan] all sorts of companies that have never made games before are getting involved. I mean, the cost of development is really next to nothing. And what about this flood of ‘brain training’ games? Can they really keep that up?”

“Nintendo put a lot of thought into the original, and ran some really cool commercials for it. But some of these companies just slap something together, put the word ‘brain’ in the title, and release it. There are a ton of them, and barely any of them are interesting.”

Microsoft is still holding its position that the death of HD-DVD doesn’t mean that Xbox 360 will be getting a Blu-Ray attachment any time soon, but the Chinese beg to differ.

According to the Chinese Economic Daily News, Pegatron, an OEM subsidiary of ASUS, has won the order from Microsoft to assemble “Xbox 360 consoles with Blu-Ray drives”.

Shipments are expected to begin within Q3 2008 and the consoles should be available for consumers by Q4, same year.