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"But that's OK, because that's not the point! This one's aimed at cashing in on Chinese new year's celebrations. The bundle includes a 20GB 360, a copy of Halo 3 and two wireless controllers, which is a nice touch. It'll set you back 669 Singaporean dollars (USD$440), which looks like a lot but is only S$20 more than the Christmas Viva Pinata/Forza bundle, a good deal since most buyers would probably prefer the second controller to the second - ie Viva Pinata - game. As for other Asian territories, it'll cost HK$3,199 in Hong Kong and NT$13,680 in Taiwan. Guey Hay Fat Choy!"

Which holiday would it do better in; Christmas or the Chinese new year? Does anyone else find it funny that they used the render from the first Halo 3 screenshot on the box?

~Hotapplepie

Source: Kotaku

"We love burgers — especially MOS burgers. They are truly tasty burgers! Over in Hong Kong, gamers who purchase Lost Odyssey at Toys 'R Us can take the receipt to their local MOS and get a free gift. Microsoft has teamed up with the Japanese burger joint for Lost Odyssey meals — something they didn't even do in Japan! Mmmm. Kaim burgers."

Wow. Maybe this will finally stimulate sales in China? Probably not judging on how gross that burger looks.

~Hotapplepie

Source: Kotaku

"Pre-order boxes for Rock Band's Stage Kit have begun turning up, giving us our first look at the all-in-one device. It appears...functional, albeit a little strange, since it looks less like something designed to aid in rocking and more like something that fell out of a Ghostbusters/HG Wells collaboration, and is now hell-bent on mankind's ultimate destruction. If you're willing to risk the future of our species - and pay $99 - for smoke and purple lighting while you play a videogame, that decision is yours and yours alone to make"

This is crazy. They might as well throw a couple hundred screaming fans and a stage in for the complete Rock Band experience.

~Hotapplepie

Source: Kotaku

"In case you're still holding out hope that somehow, someway HD DVD will make a last minute comeback and triumph over blu-ray as the high definition DVD format of choice, then has Microsoft got the deal for you. Effective today, the MSRP of the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on is dropping from $179.99 USD to $129.99. The price drop effects the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. As Microsoft's Larry Hryb points out, once you figure in Microsoft's ongoing five free HD DVD movie offer, which is still in effect until the end of this month, they you've got one hell of a good time to get in on the Betamax of the 21st century!"

Its a good price drop but it won't do anything to help HD-DVDs. Luckly, I have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray so unless a third party cleans out both of them I will be good to go.

~Hotapplepie

Source: Kotaku

Another quick update on the Xbox 360 3 Red Lights as a couple of you have been sending me emails asking how the Xbox Repair Guide works.

Well the reason that you get the Xbox 360 3 Red Lights is down to the components within the xbox taking to much heat and the guide will tell you how to simply get rid of this problem with household items.

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After this week's Law of the Game on Joystiq, I noticed quite a few recurring and/or interesting comments. I thought I would take a few minutes to address them, just to clarify the column. If you haven't read the article or the comments, now would probably be a good time.

(Note most of these are broad rephrasings, not actual quotes.)
1. "Can something you don't own be stolen from you anyway? Do you even own MMO goods?"

This was the elephant in the room for the whole article, and the answer isn't so clear cut. In some games, like World of Warcraft, you technically don't own anything. In others, like Second Life, you do still own certain things. In either case, though, even something licensed to you can be stolen. If I have a copy of Windows XP and the license for that, and it's stolen, I didn't truly own the software. The license was still stolen from me. So long as the TOS for the game apply, everything you have in the game is licensed to you. The other issue mentioned was when the game ends, then what? Well, the game terminated according to the TOS, and therefore your license terminates.

2. "Why should your MMO inventory be treated differently from MP3s?"

This was an interesting question. In terms of theft, I don't think there is a difference. If you've stolen my iPod and its MP3s, or if you've stolen my character and his inventory, they're roughly the same. The reason they are treated differently now, on the other hand, is because there is a special interest group forcing the MP3 issue, and not one pushing the MMO issue. The other difficulty is that in an MMO context, the universe is finite (unless there's a glitch) and so I, as a player, can't duplicate the item (generally speaking, and ignoring skills like blacksmithing). With an MP3, duplication is as easy as "copy" and "paste." That duplication of the MP3 may prevent what would otherwise be a sale. SecondLife complicates this a bit, but the same still generally holds.

3. "Digital items aren't infinitely replicable without cost."

While it is true, nothing is completely without cost, to create an additional digital item has a negligible cost. If I wanted to make 100 copies of a word file, what is the cost of those 100 copies? At most, a few kilobytes of storage space, space which was already paid for in other cost (purchase of the computer, for example). If I wanted to make 100 hard copies of the same document, what is the cost of those 100 copies? Probably $0.10 a page at a copy place, or the cost of paper and ink at home. If it were a real sword the company had to reproduce, it would likely be hundreds or thousands of dollars, whereas putting a new digital sword in your inventory is basically free.

4. "Items in MMOs aren't stolen, they're generally scammed out of people."

Scams, broadly speaking, often fall to "larceny by trick" or "false pretenses." Those are defined/explained:

Larceny by trick was created to punish the taking of property with the owner's consent when that consent was obtained by Fraud or deceit. Before the courts created the offense of larceny by trick, defendants who had swindled their victims were able to argue that they had not committed larceny because the victims had willfully given them property.

Shortly after the courts created larceny by trick, they created the crime of obtaining property by False Pretenses. Before, a defendant who induced a person to part with the title to property could escape prosecution because the victim transferred not actual possession of the property but only title to the property. This commercial form of taking was made illegal under the law of false pretenses.

5. "Speaking of theft, nice Ebaums link."

I just took the first link off Google.


The MMO theft issue is clearly a murky one that likely will remain at least partially unresolved for quite some time. However, the issue of virtual taxation, if it takes off, may force the issue of virtual theft to be resolved more quickly, as may the issue of valuation of virtual goods.

The Xbox 360 3 Red Lights have been quite a talking point online and there are a lot of mixed opinions on how you can fix this problem. I am making this update today as I have been recieving a few questions on what is contained within the Xbox 360 3 Red Lights guide.

Well if you have a look around you will see a few different Xbox 360 3 Red Lights guides out there that all claim to fix the problem but not any of them give you a video preview of what is contained within the guide.

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Do not buy any guide on the web that does not show you the videos first!

Or you will just get a guide that shows you how to do the towel trick from youtube and they will call that videos!!!

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