Daily Tech writes: "A new twist has emerged with the death of HD DVD. After Warner, Best Buy, Walmart and Netflix jumped on the Blu bandwagon, the fate of HD DVD was already sealed.
Despite the grim news, the principle HD DVD developer, Toshiba Corporation, refused to initially comment on its plans for its HD DVD. However, as many analysts predicted, Toshiba came out last week and officially surrendered to Blu-ray.
Many saw Toshiba's willingness to give up on HD DVD as a logical business decision and perhaps an admission of Blu-ray's superiority. However, there might be a little more to the story. Reuters reports that on Wednesday Toshiba and Sony Corporation, one of Blu-ray's principle developers, agreed to a major business deal, reached just after Toshiba made its final HD DVD decision".
Salman from Tech4Gamers writes "Mortal Kombat 9 revived the series from a low point after bringing it back to 2D combat. It marked a new high-point for the franchise due to its incredible roster, exciting cinematic story mode, and high-octane combat."
That game was actually goated. It was the first time ever that I actually tried to get good at a fighting game. Unfortunately the online connection was so dogshit it made it hard to enjoy and eventually I gave up. Haven't really played much fighting games since.
The new unit comprises over 500 developers representing the entire World of Warcraft development team.
I used to be anti-union, it kills productivity, investment and turns product mediocre. Their games suck anyways though so what was lost? Might as well get their people paid until they are dissolved.
Taking a trip back to Housemarque's forgotten platformer.
very very interesting to say the least!
so toshiba and sony partners.......microsoft and toshiba trust been hurt.....very interesting!
...*Silence*
This should help them earn a few of their HDDVD dollars back.
"Toshiba, IBM and Sony were the principle developers of the Cell microprocessor, but Toshiba previously showed little interest in using the chip for any of its own projects. Sony touts the Cell broadband engine in its Playstation 3 consoles; IBM uses the Cell processor in high performance computing clusters. Toshiba has vowed to now use the Cell in its upcoming products.
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what an erroneous statement. Toshiba had plans to use cell before it was ever produced back when the formed the IBM TOSHIBA SONY. they made workstations where they model hair in real time and recently their tvs with cell.
It's no secret that Microsoft wasn't REALLY interested in assisting the HD DVD camp.
All MS did was using toshiba to try to prolong the format war, thus making it easier for Microsoft's digital downloads to take over and "save the day".
In all honesty, Toshiba only has themselves to blame for that part. If they were paying attention, they would have noticed that any company that didn't support hd dvd, Microsoft got some sort of agreement with them to put their shows and movies on xbox live (digital downloads).
So yeah, Toshiba allowed themselves to be used.
As I said, this could be their way of sticking it back at MS. As the saying goes, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
This should be a lesson to ANY company that allies themselves to MS. MS USUALLY (not always) has an ulterior motive