There's too many birthday threads!!

Just recently, an odd thing has occured. Now whenever the urge to see if IGN has any new info comes up and I go there, I get an ad. No, that's not new. Just click on the skip button and, it's another ad. Okay, so by random chance I got it again.

Well, fast forward to 3 hours of me trying to get in, off and on, and you have someone who just can no longer access IGN.

What's the deal? Did IGN actually GET to this point without me realizing it?

The answer, is no. Turns out that the skip link no longer works correctly, but directly clicking on the IGN image on the left seems to have done the trick.

IGN SUCKS!

Correction, while I can now view the main IGN page, all clicks to articles lead to the same stupid advertisement page, and clicking on the IGN image only takes me back to the main page. At this point, viewing any and all articles on IGN has been rendered an impossibility.

Okay, after deciding to repeatedly try to just click on the article link itself, I can occasionally get through.

They made a very stupid mistake, because they don't understand basic probability.

They seem to have raised the chances of seeing one of those adds instead of the article to ABOVE 50%. This means that people will see the ads MORE often than seeing the article. What they don't get is EVERY SINGLE CLICK is independant of the previous attempt, so there is ALWAYS a greater than 50% chance. It is very likely that a person CAN in fact attempt to read an article many many times and fail on every attempt.

They have screwed their readers. I can understand needing to make money off of ads to sustain themselves. I never had a problem with their banners. This stuff though... Sorry, I just find no motivation at all to actually go to IGN any more. Gamespot it is then, for now.

Nintendo Power's interview with Sega's Simon Jeffrey

Quote:NP: Some of the beloved Sega franchises such as Panzer Dragoon and Shinobi haven’t done as well as they deserved on other consoles. With the success of Sonic on GameCube, why not bring some more of the classic franchises to the GameCube, or moving forward, Revolution?

SJ: I think that’s something that we’re absolutely looking at, to be honest. I think we’re really looking at which of our classic IPs are appropriate for different platforms. We’re very interested in Revolution at the moment. We obviously haven’t made any announcements, but we, like other people, are talking with Nintendo about what Revolution will be, about potential opportunities on Revolution. With regard to GameCube itself . . . it’s interesting how something like Panzer Dragoon Orta would have done on GameCube if it had come out on that versus Xbox. That’s an interesting scenario. I’m not sure what would have happened there. We’re always really looking at what we can do that best exploits for us the classic IPs that we’ve got for a particular market. A GameCube player, like you say, is very, very different from an Xbox player.

Quote:NP: Do you think that those rising costs might lead to even more cross-platform games, and if Nintendo decides to do something radically different with Revolution, is that going to potentially discourage third parties from supporting the platform? Or do you think it might be attractive in terms of trying something different?

SJ: A bit of both, probably. I think it depends how Nintendo rolls out its third-party relations. We’re very excited about the prospects of Revolution, because, like we were talking about earlier, the Nintendo platforms have been great for Sonic and the classic franchises. We think Revolution can absolutely be the same. But I think you’re absolutely right. If Nintendo does choose a different model than Sony and Microsoft, then it might be very difficult for some third parties to adopt this three-pronged, multi-platform approach.

NP: This is kind of a wild idea, but it could be very cool. At E3, Nintendo announced that the Revolution would have the capability to download NES, SNES and N64 games. Would it be at all feasible, do you think, to partner with Nintendo and perhaps add the Sega Genesis to that list?

SJ: That’s a pretty wild idea. (Laughs.) You should talk to Nintendo about that.

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Guess which console it wasn't announced for? :p

Resident Evil 5 Announced for PS3 and Xbox 360

who's going to get a revoution when it launches???

what game's are you going to get??

I'm too lazy to post the picture!

I just saw this thread over at Gaming-Age forums remembering Blast City.

At least a couple people remember Nintendo Cities or Rumble City too. Although Blast City was "much better". :p

They think ice-9 was a dick too. :D

Maybe somebody should let them know that the "Nintendo Cities" aren't dead.

deos anyone know of any final fantasy online game's



(it's got to be free!!!!!)

http://progressiveboink.com/archive/hyspace/

This is an amusing "My Space" blog site parody featuring blog entries from many of the characters of Hyrule. Go ahead and kill some time reading these things, they're great! XD