Bloomberg reports that Google lost two court cases in Germany over the display of thumbnails in their image search results.

<<Google’s preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyrights, the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled, his lawyer Matthies van Eendenburg said in an interview today. Thomas Horn, who holds the copyrights on some comics that were displayed in Google search results, won a second case (...)

“It doesn’t matter that thumbnails are much smaller than original pictures and are displayed in a lower resolution,” the court said in its ruling for Bernhard. “By using photos in thumbnails, no new work is created,” that may have justified displaying them without permission.>>

(Thomas Horn is the creator of the self-proclaimed “subversive” goods fashion collection Psykoman, which started in 1988, according to TAZ.de. TAZ mentions that at one time Thomas’ best selling item was a design which reused the logo of shoe company “Puma”, replacing the puma animal with a poodle as a kind of parody.)

In the US, fair use laws make it possible to offer such third-party services without specifically asking for permission. Adult magazine Perfect 10 once lost a case against Google in these regards, after an original decision was reversed. (In any case, Google’s bots respect the “robots.txt” protocol, where webmaster can disallow the spidering of images.)

This ruling can be appealed too, as Bloomberg adds, so let’s see what finally happens here. In the meantime, Google is not amused. Germany’s Kay Oberbeck tells GoogleWatchBlog (my translation, edited for clarity):

<<The ruling of the Regional Court of Hamburg is bad for internet users and users of image search engines in Germany in general – just as it’s bad for thousands of site owners who based their business on image searches.

Charges were also brought against other provides of image searches, such as AOL, T-Online, Yahoo. With this ruling, the court of Hamburg throws German internet users back into the digital stone age. And this is not just in regards to Google image search, but all of them. We are confident that the Regional Court will correct the ruling in the appeals procedure.>>

Kay argues that with this ruling, “poster shops, image agencies, galleries based on image search are deprived of their foundation.”

On another note, German laws also set precedents when it comes to search engine censorship. And then, they made life for Gmail users harder in Germany; those entering “gmail.com” into their browser (instead of mail.google.com) are directed to a page which, due to a lost trademark battle, reads:

<<We can’t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we’re called Google Mail here instead.

If you’re traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.

Oh, and we’d like to link the URL above, but we’re not allowed to do that either. Bummer.>>

[Hat tip to Search Engine Land and Hebbet!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: German Court Rules Against Google's Result Th ... | Comments]

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EA confirmed that they're working on two different expansions for Will Wright's universe-in-a-hard-drive Spore this morning, both the previously revealed Spore: Creepy and Cute Parts pack and a new expansion for the game's "Space" phase, which is already exponentially larger than its co-levels.

Expect Cute and Creepy to add around 100 new parts -- some cute and cartoonish, some monster-like. "Cute" and "creepy" is fine as a title, but at a price of $19.95 those parts had better be nauseatingly adorable and perversely horrifying. It's due on Nov. 18 and will also work for those who only own the Spore Creature Creator.

The untitled Space expansion won't arrive until spring of 2009, but it sounds substantially meatier than the parts pack. According to EA, "players' space faring creatures will be able to beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions" and "a new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions."

So, yeah, EA is flogging Will Wright's new creation. If this comes as a surprise, we'd kindly direct you to the Sims aisles of your local game store.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mac/" rel="tag"Mac/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/simulations/" rel="tag"Simulations/a/pdiv align="center"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/sporespce.jpg" alt="" /br //div EA confirmed that they're working on two different expansions for Will Wright's universe-in-a-hard-drive ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Spore/"Spore/a/em this morning, both the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/11/ea-store-reveal-spore-creepy-and-cute-parts-pack/"previously revealed emSpore: Creepy and Cute Parts/em/a pack and a new expansion for the game's "Space" phase, which is already exponentially larger than its co-levels.br /br /Expect emCute and Creepy/em to add around 100 new parts -- some cute and cartoonish, some monster-like. "Cute" and "creepy" is fine as a title, but at a price of $19.95 those parts had better be emnauseatingly adorable /emand emperversely horrifying/em. It's due on Nov. 18 and will also work for those who only own the emSpore Creature Creator/em.br /br /The untitled Space expansion won't arrive until spring of 2009, but it sounds substantially meatier than the parts pack. According to EA, "players' space faring creatures will be able to beam down from their spaceships to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions" and "a new Adventure Creator will allow players to build and share online their own custom missions."br /br /So, yeah, EA is flogging Will Wright's new creation. If this comes as a surprise, we'd kindly direct you to the ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/Sims/"Sims/a aisles/em of your local game store. p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/ea-reveals-new-space-expansion-for-spore-confirms-creepy-and-cu/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1340483/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/ea-reveals-new-space-expansion-for-spore-confirms-creepy-and-cu/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/ea-reveals-new-space-expansion-for-spore-confirms-creepy-and-cu/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=huExm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=huExm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=eQe7m"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=eQe7m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/419568906" height="1" width="1"/

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Hi,

any advice how to do an easy upgrade from 2.0.2 to 2.1 ?

I have just patched my new 2.0.2 ATV with http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/ and would like to have the 2.1 functionality of using iPhone Apple Remote

but it looks like the Apple software update will only update to the latest 2.2
Since apparently quite a number of the plugins not yet work work 2.2 I would rather to to 2.1

any advice would be greatly appreciated

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WinterBoard Widgets-The Ultimate Guide.

A guide for the WinterBoard Widget, clock Widgets and mods.

Please see which widget you want, and read carefully through the instructions. I shall try to make them as clear as i can.

All the downloads for the widgets can be found attached to the post or with the widget information or on the original threads.

How to install: SSH in, goto Library/Themes and drop the widget files into there. And select in winterboard.

If something is not working, then please check the trouble shoot guide at the bottom. Dont PM me.

----------------------------

--Modding the theme for YOUR use--

This involves you modding the location.

This way of modding appears in nearly all of the themes, but there is one, where you have to use another way, i shall post that one when you get to it.

To do this, you have to open up the "configureMe.js" file. Which is found in "/Library/Themes/[Theme Name] Now you will have to have a look for the 'Private' folder. The file is in there.

Double click to open it.

Now, there will be lots of text which tells you what to do. Ignore it and continue with the guide.

So find the text that says: var locale = "(insert your living area here)" //e.g. 'Defiance, Ohio'|'Moscow, Russia'|'Ledyard, AT'|'London, UK'

So if you live in London, you will type London, UK.


--Modding the theme for YOUR use--


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The Weather Widget, the first widget for the iPod/iPhone.-Zetetic Apparatchik



As i have made a thread on this please go there: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/...ad.php?t=95468

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Weather and Time on Status Bar-therealduckie



Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1l7hbk


Edit the configure me.js as said in the --Modding the theme for YOUR use-- section.

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Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?iytznmfmmz4

Included are the blank apps for use with the theme.

Edit the configure me.js as said in the --Modding the theme for YOUR use-- section.

Installing blank apps:

Put them into /var/mobile/Library/WebClips and respring. Then move them to the right place.

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Home Screen(Lock Screen Widget)-aldwin



There are 3 variations to this theme, to see them all then check the thread: http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopi...d=16789820&p=1

Once again: Edit the configure me.js as said in the --Modding the theme for YOUR use-- section.


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WAD(widget)-Rocky5



Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1bekuq

Read the readme.txt file for editing the clock images.


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There are some other mods of the widgets, i shall Update and add new ones as i come across them.

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----Changing the temperature to Fahrenheit:----



To change the temperature to Fahrenheit, you will have to open the configureme.js


Find the line that says "var isCelsius = true //true|false"

Change the bit where is says "var isCelsius = true" to " var isCelsius = false"

Save file and respring.


----Changing the temperature to Fahrenheit:----

--Credits--


Zetetic Apparatchik-The orignal Weather Widget-Link to thread

therealduckie-Weather and Time on Status Bar-Link to Thread

ilucas-Clock Screen-Link to thread

aldwin-Home Screen(Lock Screen Widget)-Link to thread

Rocky5-WAD(widget)-Link to thread

Images used are from the creators of the widgets.

--Credits--


-----Trouble Shooting-----

Something not working? Check here first.


My location does not show! :S

Well that would be you have not put the correct location settings, e.g, i live in "Shrewsbury, UK" if i put "Shrewsbury, England" Then it wont work.

so try different combination's if it does not work.


E.g "Shrewsbury, UK" or "Shrewsbury, England" or "Shrewsbury, Great Britain" If you have tried different variations, and it still fails to work, then please do post about it, i shall try and help asap.



I put the files in selected it and it does not show.

That might be because the widget is being canceled out by something else. So move the widget above the other themes you have selected.

If you need help on how to do this, then please check here: http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/...ad.php?t=95749

And scroll down a little.



I put the theme in but it cancels out my moving wallpaper :(

Yes, thats what happens im afraid. If you have any .html knowledge you have to merge the html files together, i dont. :/ If you dont, you could have a hunt around the internet, or you could ask over at mac themes.



If none of these worked for you, then please do post. Dont PM me.

-----Trouble Shooting-----


Enjoy ;)

img alt="CliffyB - Image 1" title="CliffyB - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124831/cliffyb-tall.png?875010" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"I see CliffyB is making bold statements yet again. Bold as they come, it's always interesting to see how a game developer assesses the current playing field that he is working in.brbrIn an interview with Gamasutra, span style="font-style: italic;"Gears of War/span creator a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/cliff-bleszinski/3090" id="tag" title="a.k.a. Cliffy B, lead game deigner for Epic Games"Cliff Bleszinski/a remarked that some of the more influential game developers out there aren't always given the honor or appreciation that they so deserve.brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I don't think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don't./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"As sad as it is, you're only as good as your last game, in many ways. In Hollywood, at least, you get movie jail for like a year, and you're out, and you get to try and make another good movie. In games, you screw up once, and no one ever wants to hear from you again. It's pretty sad./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Look at a guy like a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ken-levine/7233" id="tag" title="one of the founders of Irrational Games"Ken Levine/a or [Peter] Molyneux or a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/chris-taylor/11582" id="tag" title="creator of Supreme Commander"Chris Taylor/a or [Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people./pbrWell I'm not sure about him naming Kojima. I mean, the guy's pretty celebrated - oh yeah definitely celebrated. But maybe he's talking about the entire gaming industry, and not just the bajillion and a half span style="font-style: italic;"MGS/span fans who are doing most of the Kojima-celebrating for everyone else.brbrAnd then there's span style="font-style: italic;"Fable/span producer a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/peter-molyneux/8596" id="tag" title="top honcho of the formerly indie dev company Lionhead"Peter Molyneux/a. I hear him being criticized so many times now for being such an MS fanboy that I'm actually starting to doubt if he's just in it for the publicity.brbrSo anyways, what prompted this statement from CliffyB? Well, since he's currently filling the role of exec producer for the span style="font-style: italic;"GoW/span movie, it seems that he's starting to see the differences between the movie and video game industry. Apples and oranges as the two industries are, the similarities (and differences) he outlines are still quite valid:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It's a very structured, yet organic, process in Hollywood, where in games it's still the Wild Wild West in some ways right now./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It absolutely is very much a team effort, and I'm nothing without the 100-plus people who worked on Gears, but if I can go out there and evangelize the game and help sell the vision of it, that's a very useful thing, and we're all able to put gas in our gas tanks as a result of it, right?/pbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Molyneux-PS3-lacks-games-with-oh-my-god-moments-FFVII-defined-RPG-as-genre/pg/49/aid/124267"Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre/abr/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are quot;phenomenalquot;" href="http://www.qj.net/CliffyB-MGS4-s-cutscenes-are-phenomenal-/pg/49/aid/122021"CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are "phenomenal"/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Hideo Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5" href="http://www.qj.net/Hideo-Kojima-what-went-wrong-with-MGS4-why-he-won-t-tell-his-team-his-ideas-for-MGS5/pg/49/aid/124391"Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/ps3?a=SmUSgu"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/ps3?i=SmUSgu" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/419814659" height="1" width="1"/

img alt="CliffyB - Image 1" title="CliffyB - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124831/cliffyb-tall.png?875010" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"I see CliffyB is making bold statements yet again. Bold as they come, it's always interesting to see how a game developer assesses the current playing field that he is working in.brbrIn an interview with Gamasutra, span style="font-style: italic;"Gears of War/span creator a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/cliff-bleszinski/3090" id="tag" title="a.k.a. Cliffy B, lead game deigner for Epic Games"Cliff Bleszinski/a remarked that some of the more influential game developers out there aren't always given the honor or appreciation that they so deserve.brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I don't think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don't./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"As sad as it is, you're only as good as your last game, in many ways. In Hollywood, at least, you get movie jail for like a year, and you're out, and you get to try and make another good movie. In games, you screw up once, and no one ever wants to hear from you again. It's pretty sad./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Look at a guy like a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/ken-levine/7233" id="tag" title="one of the founders of Irrational Games"Ken Levine/a or [Peter] Molyneux or a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/chris-taylor/11582" id="tag" title="creator of Supreme Commander"Chris Taylor/a or [Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people./pbrWell I'm not sure about him naming Kojima. I mean, the guy's pretty celebrated - oh yeah definitely celebrated. But maybe he's talking about the entire gaming industry, and not just the bajillion and a half span style="font-style: italic;"MGS/span fans who are doing most of the Kojima-celebrating for everyone else.brbrAnd then there's span style="font-style: italic;"Fable/span producer a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/peter-molyneux/8596" id="tag" title="top honcho of the formerly indie dev company Lionhead"Peter Molyneux/a. I hear him being criticized so many times now for being such an MS fanboy that I'm actually starting to doubt if he's just in it for the publicity.brbrSo anyways, what prompted this statement from CliffyB? Well, since he's currently filling the role of exec producer for the span style="font-style: italic;"GoW/span movie, it seems that he's starting to see the differences between the movie and video game industry. Apples and oranges as the two industries are, the similarities (and differences) he outlines are still quite valid:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It's a very structured, yet organic, process in Hollywood, where in games it's still the Wild Wild West in some ways right now./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It absolutely is very much a team effort, and I'm nothing without the 100-plus people who worked on Gears, but if I can go out there and evangelize the game and help sell the vision of it, that's a very useful thing, and we're all able to put gas in our gas tanks as a result of it, right?/pbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Molyneux-PS3-lacks-games-with-oh-my-god-moments-FFVII-defined-RPG-as-genre/pg/49/aid/124267"Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre/abr/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are quot;phenomenalquot;" href="http://www.qj.net/CliffyB-MGS4-s-cutscenes-are-phenomenal-/pg/49/aid/122021"CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are "phenomenal"/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Hideo Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5" href="http://www.qj.net/Hideo-Kojima-what-went-wrong-with-MGS4-why-he-won-t-tell-his-team-his-ideas-for-MGS5/pg/49/aid/124391"Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/wii?a=yI2tvN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/wii?i=yI2tvN" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?a=hfbrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?i=hfbrM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?a=1XyJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?i=1XyJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?a=IR69M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/qj/wii?i=IR69M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/419812200" height="1" width="1"/

img alt="CliffyB - Image 1" title="CliffyB - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124831/cliffyb-tall.png?875010" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"I see CliffyB is making bold statements yet again. Bold as they come, it's always interesting to see how a game developer assesses the current playing field that he is working in.brbrIn an interview with Gamasutra, span style="font-style: italic;"Gears of War/span creator a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/cliff-bleszinski/3090" id="tag" title="a.k.a. Cliffy B, lead game deigner for Epic Games"Cliff Bleszinski/a remarked that some of the more influential game developers out there aren't always given the honor or appreciation that they so deserve.brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I don't think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don't./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"As sad as it is, you're only as good as your last game, in many ways. In Hollywood, at least, you get movie jail for like a year, and you're out, and you get to try and make another good movie. In games, you screw up once, and no one ever wants to hear from you again. It's pretty sad./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Look at a guy like a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ken-levine/7233" id="tag" title="one of the founders of Irrational Games"Ken Levine/a or [Peter] Molyneux or a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/chris-taylor/11582" id="tag" title="creator of Supreme Commander"Chris Taylor/a or [Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people./pbrWell I'm not sure about him naming Kojima. I mean, the guy's pretty celebrated - oh yeah definitely celebrated. But maybe he's talking about the entire gaming industry, and not just the bajillion and a half span style="font-style: italic;"MGS/span fans who are doing most of the Kojima-celebrating for everyone else.brbrAnd then there's span style="font-style: italic;"Fable/span producer a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/peter-molyneux/8596" id="tag" title="top honcho of the formerly indie dev company Lionhead"Peter Molyneux/a. I hear him being criticized so many times now for being such an MS fanboy that I'm actually starting to doubt if he's just in it for the publicity.brbrSo anyways, what prompted this statement from CliffyB? Well, since he's currently filling the role of exec producer for the span style="font-style: italic;"GoW/span movie, it seems that he's starting to see the differences between the movie and video game industry. Apples and oranges as the two industries are, the similarities (and differences) he outlines are still quite valid:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It's a very structured, yet organic, process in Hollywood, where in games it's still the Wild Wild West in some ways right now./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It absolutely is very much a team effort, and I'm nothing without the 100-plus people who worked on Gears, but if I can go out there and evangelize the game and help sell the vision of it, that's a very useful thing, and we're all able to put gas in our gas tanks as a result of it, right?/pbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Molyneux-PS3-lacks-games-with-oh-my-god-moments-FFVII-defined-RPG-as-genre/pg/49/aid/124267"Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre/abr/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are quot;phenomenalquot;" href="http://www.qj.net/CliffyB-MGS4-s-cutscenes-are-phenomenal-/pg/49/aid/122021"CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are "phenomenal"/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Hideo Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5" href="http://www.qj.net/Hideo-Kojima-what-went-wrong-with-MGS4-why-he-won-t-tell-his-team-his-ideas-for-MGS5/pg/49/aid/124391"Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?a=b8t9zj"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?i=b8t9zj" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=yEunM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=yEunM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=309YM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=309YM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=D6lYM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=D6lYM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/419812107" height="1" width="1"/

img alt="CliffyB - Image 1" title="CliffyB - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124831/cliffyb-tall.png?875010" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"I see CliffyB is making bold statements yet again. Bold as they come, it's always interesting to see how a game developer assesses the current playing field that he is working in.brbrIn an interview with Gamasutra, span style="font-style: italic;"Gears of War/span creator a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/cliff-bleszinski/3090" id="tag" title="a.k.a. Cliffy B, lead game deigner for Epic Games"Cliff Bleszinski/a remarked that some of the more influential game developers out there aren't always given the honor or appreciation that they so deserve.brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I don't think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don't./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"As sad as it is, you're only as good as your last game, in many ways. In Hollywood, at least, you get movie jail for like a year, and you're out, and you get to try and make another good movie. In games, you screw up once, and no one ever wants to hear from you again. It's pretty sad./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Look at a guy like a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/ken-levine/7233" id="tag" title="one of the founders of Irrational Games"Ken Levine/a or [Peter] Molyneux or a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/chris-taylor/11582" id="tag" title="creator of Supreme Commander"Chris Taylor/a or [Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people./pbrWell I'm not sure about him naming Kojima. I mean, the guy's pretty celebrated - oh yeah definitely celebrated. But maybe he's talking about the entire gaming industry, and not just the bajillion and a half span style="font-style: italic;"MGS/span fans who are doing most of the Kojima-celebrating for everyone else.brbrAnd then there's span style="font-style: italic;"Fable/span producer a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/peter-molyneux/8596" id="tag" title="top honcho of the formerly indie dev company Lionhead"Peter Molyneux/a. I hear him being criticized so many times now for being such an MS fanboy that I'm actually starting to doubt if he's just in it for the publicity.brbrSo anyways, what prompted this statement from CliffyB? Well, since he's currently filling the role of exec producer for the span style="font-style: italic;"GoW/span movie, it seems that he's starting to see the differences between the movie and video game industry. Apples and oranges as the two industries are, the similarities (and differences) he outlines are still quite valid:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It's a very structured, yet organic, process in Hollywood, where in games it's still the Wild Wild West in some ways right now./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It absolutely is very much a team effort, and I'm nothing without the 100-plus people who worked on Gears, but if I can go out there and evangelize the game and help sell the vision of it, that's a very useful thing, and we're all able to put gas in our gas tanks as a result of it, right?/pbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Molyneux-PS3-lacks-games-with-oh-my-god-moments-FFVII-defined-RPG-as-genre/pg/49/aid/124267"Molyneux: PS3 lacks games with 'oh my god' moments, FFVII defined RPG as genre/abr/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are quot;phenomenalquot;" href="http://www.qj.net/CliffyB-MGS4-s-cutscenes-are-phenomenal-/pg/49/aid/122021"CliffyB: MGS4's cutscenes are "phenomenal"/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Hideo Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5" href="http://www.qj.net/Hideo-Kojima-what-went-wrong-with-MGS4-why-he-won-t-tell-his-team-his-ideas-for-MGS5/pg/49/aid/124391"Kojima: what went wrong with MGS4, why he won't tell his team his ideas for MGS5/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/ps3?a=X4W81p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/qj/ps3?i=X4W81p" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/419710108" height="1" width="1"/

img alt="CliffyB - Image 1" title="CliffyB - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124831/cliffyb-tall.png?875010" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"I see CliffyB is making bold statements yet again. Bold as they come, it's always interesting to see how a game developer assesses the current playing field that he is working in.brbrIn an interview with Gamasutra, span style="font-style: italic;"Gears of War/span creator a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/cliff-bleszinski/3090" id="tag" title="a.k.a. Cliffy B, lead game deigner for Epic Games"Cliff Bleszinski/a remarked that some of the more influential game developers out there aren't always given the honor or appreciation that they so deserve.brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I don't think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don't./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"As sad as it is, you're only as good as your last game, in many ways. In Hollywood, at least, you get movie jail for like a year, and you're out, and you get to try and make another good movie. In games, you screw up once, and no one ever wants to hear from you again. It's pretty sad./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Look at a guy like a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/ken-levine/7233" id="tag" title="one of the founders of Irrational Games"Ken Levine/a or [Peter] Molyneux or a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/chris-taylor/11582" id="tag" title="creator of Supreme Commander"Chris Taylor/a or [Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people./pbrWell I'm not sure about him naming Kojima. I mean, the guy's pretty celebrated - oh yeah definitely celebrated. But maybe he's talking about the entire gaming industry, and not just the bajillion and a half span style="font-style: italic;"MGS/span fans who are doing most of the Kojima-celebrating for everyone else.brbrAnd then there's span style="font-style: italic;"Fable/span producer a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/peter-molyneux/8596" id="tag" title="top honcho of the formerly indie dev company Lionhead"Peter Molyneux/a. I hear him being criticized so many times now for being such an MS fanboy that I'm actually starting to doubt if he's just in it for the publicity.brbrSo anyways, what prompted this statement from CliffyB? Well, since he's currently filling the role of exec producer for the span style="font-style: italic;"GoW/span movie, it seems that he's starting to see the differences between the movie and video game industry. Apples and oranges as the two industries are, the similarities (and differences) he outlines are still quite valid:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It's a very structured, yet organic, process in Hollywood, where in games it's still the Wild Wild West in some ways right now./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp s