BitTorrent-what's left of the company, at least-announced a deal with Israeli content delivery firm Oversi to reduce the demand that P2P applications place on networks. The plan, which is meant to complement similar work from the P4P working group and IETF, "intelligently" directs BitTorrent requests to the best peers.
The continuing efforts in this area from both P2P developers and ISPs like Comcast are an encouraging sign that detente can be reached in the P2P wars, at least when it comes to bandwidth concerns. Both P4P and the new Oversi announcement claim to boost download speeds for users while reducing the (expensive) traffic that leaves an ISP's own network to traverse the Internet.
Shenmue: Reclaiming the Path is a fan game using Dreamcast-era visuals, and tells a new story within the Shenmue saga taking place in both Hong Kong and Guilin. Its expected to release on September 16th.
Something about recreating old school graphics in an era of HD high poly photo realism just hits a spot. I'm not nostalgic cause I mostly played GameCube and GB/A, but it's a visual style that gets over looked even by indies.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
CCP Games has unveiled an ambitious roadmap for their sci-fi MMO EVE Online in 2024, headlined by the massive Equinox expansion set to launch on June 11th.
