Adam Nuhfer on 7/5/2008 at 23:01
I found something very interesting.
Get your hands on issue 14 of " The way it's meant to be played" put
out by Nvidia. I got mine with my copy of Maximum PC.
On page 23 there is an ad for Tiger Direct.com. It's the background that got my attention right away.
Makes me wonder. Is it just for an ad or is there more to it considering the point of "the way it's meant to be played". With all the various game backgrounds they could have used why chose this one.
Makes for interesting rumor fodder.
Trance on 8/5/2008 at 04:06
A scan for us lazier folk, please?
ZylonBane on 8/5/2008 at 13:57
Mr. Nuhfer continues to uphold his usual high posting standards, by completely failing to mention WTF anything he's saying has to do with System Shock.
AxTng1 on 8/5/2008 at 21:35
Yes that is a point, especially considering the problems that Dark engine has with newer nVidia drivers (or the other way around)
Nameless Voice on 8/5/2008 at 23:01
I find it a bit laughable that they're using an image from a game that mostly won't even work on modern nVIDIA cards without third-party hacks.
Zygoptera on 8/5/2008 at 23:40
I wouldn't put any stock at all in the SS3 rumours. The trademark registration which was the only concrete evidence of anything SS3 related lapsed last year and hasn't been renewed.
redrain85 on 9/5/2008 at 00:18
Some knucklehead in Tiger Direct's marketing department probably just stumbled across that image and thought it looked "cool", without even knowing exactly where it came from.
Leading to the ironic outcome, that TD is promoting a game that doesn't even work properly with modern nVidia cards any more. (Well, any modern DX10 cards from either nVidia or ATI, that is.)
Of course, just like the nimrod at TD, I wonder just how many people today will recognize where that image came from.
ZylonBane on 9/5/2008 at 00:46
Also, that is without a doubt the high-res SHODAN render that Ryan Lesser sent me, so their use of it may very well not be entirely legal.
The Magpie on 9/5/2008 at 00:50
I wonder, too. Do you think that the people failing to get the reference still would consider themselves "experienced", or do you think they'd just shrug and say "oh well, guess I'm still a noob".
Either way, who has cleared the commercial use of that distinctive likeness, do you think? I mean, who do I talk to in order to obtain permission for using it to sell... uh, I dunno, kitchen utensils?
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Larris
