Vu sur Jeux vidéo.com : le prochain Starcraft, jeu attendu par la moité des joueurs de la galaxie sera vendu en 3 saveurs. Comprenez par là que la campagne solo du jeu sera vendu sous la forme de 3 stand alone différents. Oui oui vous avez bien lu, pour pouvoir vous faire la totalité du jeu, vous devrez aquérir les 3 differents opus, sachant que ceux ci seront vendu de façon étalé dans le temps.

Aucune info sur le prix (après tout, si chaque campagne coute 15 euros, ça peut permettre au petit budget de profiter du jeu sans avoir à le pirater) et c’est bien ça qui inquiete la communauté qui se voit déja en train de payer entre 120 et 150 euros (40 ou 50 euros un jeu PC “star”) pour pouvoir diriger des hordes farouche de Zerg sur ces lopettes de Protoss et leur technologie de Hippie.

Sans parler du problème du prix, cette pratique est le signe d’un changement dans le monde des jeux vidéo. Les développeurs sont ils en train de chercher une nouvelle façon de rentabiliser leur blockbuster ? En effet, il est clair que Starcraft 2 se vendra par brouette, son nom étant auréolé d’une réputation sans faille. Mais la mode passe vite dans l’univers des jeux, et c’est là que cette idée a quelques chose d’interressant : le même jeu ok, mais le scénario est diffusé petit à petit, comme une série télé.

Ce qui fait plaisir dans cette démarche, c’est que ça va peut etre ENFIN ramener les developpeurs de jeu vidéo dans le giron des Créateurs avec un grand C. C’est beau l’espoir hein ?

L’article : http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2008/00029470-starcraft-2-divise-en-trois-jeux.htm

In an October 12 Los Angeles Times article, staff writers Robin Abcarian and Maeve Reston reported that at an October 11 rally in Davenport, Iowa "[Sen. John] McCain advocated for his tax cuts and his plan to balance the budget by 'the end of my term in office.' " However, Abcarian and Reston did not mention that McCain has repeatedly shifted on his time frame for balancing the budget, originally claiming he would balance the budget in four years, then pledging to do so in eight years, before reversing himself again to return to the four-year pledge. By contrast, in a July 8 Times article, Reston and Louise Roug reported: "Three months after he discarded his pledge to balance the federal budget in four years, John McCain on Monday renewed his vow to do so." In addition, in an April 16 article on McCain's economic agenda, LA Times staff writer Michael Finnegan documented McCain's first shift when he noted that McCain's April 15 pledge to "balance the budget within eight years" was "a retreat from his previous vow to do so within four."

As Media Matters for America has documented, both McCain and his economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin reportedly said on April 15 that, in the words of Reuters, "McCain believes he can balance the budget in eight years." This represented a shift from McCain's reported pledge in February to balance the budget by the end of his first term, as Media Matters noted. On April 16, New York Times reporter Michael Cooper wrote that McCain said that "economic conditions are reversed," requiring him to reconsider his four-year pledge. However, on July 7, Holtz-Eakin stated during a conference call with reporters that McCain was again promising a balanced budget by the end of his first term.

Furthermore, Abcarian and Reston did not note, as Reston and Roug reported in their July 8 article, that many economists and nonpartisan analysts have expressed skepticism about McCain's plan to balance the budget in four years, stating that his proposal for numerous tax cuts would bloat the deficit or require huge spending cuts, as Media Matters has repeatedly noted. Indeed, Media Matters documented that, in the July 8 article, Reston and Roug reported that McCain's pledge to balance the budget in four years "defied skepticism among fiscal analysts over whether he could balance the budget even within eight years. ... Many say his proposed expansion of President Bush's tax cuts would put that goal out of reach."

In fact, Holtz-Eakin reportedly acknowledged that McCain's healthcare plan would require massive budget cuts to stay "budget-neutral."

From Abcarian and Reston's October 12 Los Angeles Times article:

Meanwhile in Iowa, McCain advocated for his tax cuts and his plan to balance the budget by "the end of my term in office." He offered a scathing critique of the price tag of Obama's spending proposals and accused him of being vague.

"We've all heard what he's said, but it's less clear what he's done or what he will do," McCain told a crowd of more than 1,000 in Davenport. "Rather than answer his critics, Sen. Obama will try to distract. . . . He has even questioned my truthfulness -- and let me reply in the plainest terms I know: I don't need lessons about telling the truth to the American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn't seek advice from a Chicago politician," McCain said as the crowd responded with a roar.

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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Daring to utter the ‘L’ word: Obama on track to a landslide  —  WASHINGTON — Barring a dramatic change in the political landscape over the next three weeks, Democrats appear headed toward a decisive victory on Election Day that would give them broad power over the federal government.