Saturday, June 27, 2009

Blogger DMCA takedown notification

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.

The notice that we received from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the record companies it represents, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided.

The IFPI is a trade association that represents over 1,400 major and independent record companies in the US and internationally who create, manufacture and distribute sound recordings (the "IFPI Represented Companies").

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Affected URLs:

http://tlundmark.blogspot.com/2009/06/nasa-volta.html

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"A VOLTA" from NASA Project: Narco-Cholo Game Ultraviolence
Good thing that the video is only like 5 years old
Oh no, they figured out I'm a pirate!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Evercracked - The Phenomenon of Everquest

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Action Half-Life 2 Released!

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BT - See You On The Other Side

Temperature on the Swedish game industry

GRIN: -~100 ppl (closing down two studios) (May'09)
DICE: Recruitment stop (trial employments don't get upgraded)
Avalanche Studios: -77 ppl (October'08), -20 ppl (May'09)
Starbreeze Studios: Almost only recruiting seniors and very experienced people

GRIN are yet to confirm the closing of their two offices in Barcelona, and in Gothenburg, aswell as the laying off 30 people from their Stockholm office. Below are some statistics as of why they would've needed to close down some studios:

Game - Sales - Avg. Score
Terminator - Salvation: 45,000 (50%)
Bionic Commando: 27,000 (74%)
Wanted - Weapons of Fate: 100,000 (65%)
Bionic Commando - Rearmed: 130,000 (first week only) (87%)

Just Cause dev Avalanche to lay off more staff
Gone fishing - BRB new year

Offworld - The awesome game blog

Offworld

Behind the Scenes: BIT.TRIP BEAT

Fret Nice gets Tecmo as publisher

Ninja Gaiden papercraft

Side-scrolls: 8-bit Ninja Gaiden in paper

Bit Shifter - March of the Nucleotides

Mobigame - Edge (iPhone)

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Blood Run map added to Quake Live

Blood Run map added to Quake Live