Scribe's "Bounty" blurs movie-Web-game lines
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Screenwriter and  producer Darryl Quarles didn't fully comprehend how much work  would be involved when he came up with "Underground Bounty  Hunter," an online project that combines movies with video game  interactivity.
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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Mike Elgan reports on a device that lets you rat out fellow movie-goers for being annoying.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent  has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the  Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking  notice.
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Shiny Entertainment's Dax Berg outlines the challenges of bringing the beloved books to interactive life in videogame form, even as a movie adaptation rolls toward the silver screen.
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Imagine the simple queries that separate you from your online bank accounts forming the basis of a nightmarish game show. Let the interrogations begin! Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Tycho:  I should have all the science lined up by the end of the week, ready to stuff into the piano black lozenge I've obtained to celebrate my return to personal computing.  Wish me luck; I've never before had the opportunity to fry four processors at once.       I know things.  Specifically, things that may be of interest to you.  For example, I know if playing Eye of Judgment online is an onerous as it might seem.  It is not!  I cannot express my relief.    Well, let's try.  In my last, vast expose, I broke down a card's unique language and expressed some misgivings about online play - ultimately just accepting it, because what they're trying to do is so weird that there's no prior art.  Essentially, you "register" your thirty card deck with the system itself, where it is stored and named for future use.  This process is extremely straightforward:  it is simply a matter of you laying your cards anywhere on the mat, a few at a time.  It will probably take two minutes if you really keep on it.  Then, you jump online, choose what nation you want to play for, and track down a partner.  At this point, the game will "draw" you your five card hand by showing you the card art onscreen.  You get one Mulligan (or redraw), but if you like your hand you move into the game proper.  We laid out our deck by element, face up, and this smoothed the turn to turn process considerably.      In the build we have, and I hope this is changed for release, it shows you these cards in a single file line without their name or text - just the art.  Once you got familiar with these images, slightly modified from their card format, it's pretty quick - but the names should be displayed on this screen.  You can use the controller to pull up the names, but let's be serious - at no point should the player be forced to interact with a mundane controller once the game is underway.     You should know that the game really wants a well-lit environment.  You don't need a flare gun or anything, but we didn't have what we needed before and certain squares would slow down the game flow with partial reads that would only resolve after several attempts and minute card adjustments.  I should state that here in the office, we removed all the overhead lights, installing a single track of illumination that we point at the ceiling, where lights used to be.  We tend to transform any place we live into a cave.  So, our scenario might be somewhat atypical.    Also, I know if playing Rock Band with all the instruments off of a USB hub is onerous.  You will be happy to know that it is not - we played said instruments spread out on an actual stage, and found it more than satifactory.  The reality is that the drum kit already needs its own wire, so it isn't as though the future had actually arrived anyway.  Plus, the mic isn't wireless either. This makes the contrived brouhaha over wired guitars a fairly transparent traffic ploy.    This is a matter quite apart from Microsoft's reticence to play ball with unique, third party hardware.  And when I say "play ball," I'm taking about the shakedown operation they've got going licensing their wireless technology, which either makes products for their system more expensive or (in the salient case of Rock Band) results in them bundling a wired controller for the same price as a wireless one on a competitor's system.  This is the last holiday they can get away with this sort of thing...  right?
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Tycho:  I watched this video myself on Friday, and then watched it again, and then watched it a third time when Khoo came in - providing commentary throughout, which I'm almost certain was unwelcome.  I urge you not to watch the embedded, nasty  version over at GameVideos, but to take advantage of their "Download" or "Watch Larger Version" options.  This way, you can obsess as I have - pausing on each screen of the character generator or battle interface, drinking deep of their  forbidden texts.  (CW)TB
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By Rodney Tanaka, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif.  Feb. 17--MONROVIA -- The video screen shows a choppy-looking streaming  movie trailer that skips and stops.    Then, another connection is made and the streaming video plays crisply  and clearly.
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For a business that relies on entertaining people, the movie industry really needs to take some pages out of the video game play book.
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A screensaver developed by Lycos Europe that gives spammers a dose of their own medicine is attracting plenty of attention, but not all of it good.
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A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
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Does casting a star raise a movieâs box-office take? A paper soon to be published in The Journal of Marketing tries to solve that problem using a site that lets participants trade in âstocksâ of movies.
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If you think you spend too much time stuck in front of a computer screen, spare a thought for bleary eyed gamer Eric Furrer.
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SuprNova.org, one of the Internet's most  popular sites for finding links to download pirated movies, has  been taken offline by its creator amid a legal crackdown by  Hollywood's copyright cops.
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Facing a copyright lawsuit from MPAA, company is trying to avoid disclosing user information.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.