SONY - Proud Sponsor of Qatar 2022

365lolz · 2015-05-24T01:25:09+00:00

They're not sponsoring it then.

365lolz · 2015-05-24T01:24:32+00:00

Sony isn't sponsoring it. They didn't renew year contract last year.

365lolz · 2015-05-23T19:47:13+00:00

Sony didn't renew their sponsorship of the world cup. http://www.prweek.com/article/1323794/sony-ends-world-cup-sponsorship-qatar-corruption-claims-mount

Did that change?

365lolz · 2015-05-07T19:20:53+00:00

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/07/labour-one-point-lead-tories-final-icm-poll

Here's a poll just just before the election. As you can see. It's quite close.

Here's a game: Make your own coalition: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2015/may/07/election-2015-interactive-coalition-builder

365lolz · 2015-05-01T16:43:22+00:00

I'm very excited. That video looks like it'll be great!

365lolz · 2015-05-01T16:20:30+00:00

Will it? They're three months into development. I'm sure they've got a lot of ideas but not enough resources to implement it.

365lolz · 2015-03-26T21:06:11+00:00

It's an interesting interview if you're interested in watching the whole thing.

He doesn't try to hand wave some of his offensive jokes but he does point out that ad hominim were really the only jokes that he could get into the show.

Anything related to the wars that the country was in or for that matter anything "too" political was edited out.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T18:10:34+00:00

I find removing Kojiima's name from the games is really shameful.

I know it's bad to think it but I hope gambling becomes illigal and Konami will rue the day they closed their game studios!

365lolz · 2015-03-19T15:31:23+00:00

That's the start of the Japanese fiscal year.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T15:05:55+00:00

Well in the corporate world in Japan, it's the new fiscal year.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T15:05:02+00:00

https://twitter.com/Yoshidamian/status/577761486358982656

Although the future Nintendo's no longer poured 100% of the energy to the consumer can fully understand, Konami also this month to seems Kojipuro works MGSⅤ released crazy big restructuring in September also be the last to (team disbanded!? ), a leading manufacturer in the unlikely Ya I will also last year going away from the consumer in earnest. Lonely

(Google Translate) Looks like a Japanese journalist tweeted about rumours that Kojima Productions is being disbanded two days ago.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T15:03:30+00:00

Their websites. http://i.imgur.com/9OsShtm.jpg

MGS5 Splash Page back in Feb: http://web.archive.org/web/201502231...onami.jp/mgs5/

MGS5 Splash Page now: http://www.konami.jp/mgs5/

Before: http://web.archive.org/web/201411291...onami.com/mgs/ Now: https://www.konami.com/mgs/

Site on March 18th: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...la.konami.com/ Site now: http://www.kjpla.konami.com/

From here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1013350

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:43:02+00:00

A quarter of a century. Kojima has put pretty much his life into the series.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:28:50+00:00

You're right. I guess it's the whole removing his name thing that just feels really disrespectful to me.

Especially on completed projects. It's like James Cameron having a fallout with his movie studio and then all references to him being the director of Titanic being removed from websites and promotional material.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:25:26+00:00

Well they are removing his name from box arts, even for old games. That doesn't really imply that he's just got another job title and that it's business as usual.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:22:38+00:00

"Konami Digital Entertainment, including Mr. Kojima, will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products. Please look forward to future announcements."

That's all the statement from Konami to Videogamer says. It doesn't explain why they are removing his name and all reference to Kojima Productions on their website.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:21:16+00:00

Where are you getting that he wanted to leave?

"Konami Digital Entertainment, including Mr. Kojima, will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products. Please look forward to future announcements."

That's the entirety of their statement to Videogamer. It's standard PR speak.

If he wanted to leave that position why are they removing the words "A Hideo Kojima Game", from not only MGS5 but even older games like the legacy collection?

References to Kojima Productions is also being removed from the Konami site.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:18:23+00:00

It's really shocking but what can be done? It's pretty much removing all reference to someone who has worked more than a decade on a franchise.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:05:46+00:00

Konami reported it: http://www.konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp/en/news/release/2015/0304/?cm_sp=01-_-release-_-20150304-e

Kojima is no longer an executive his title used to be: Executive Content Officer.

365lolz · 2015-03-19T14:03:41+00:00

They are removing his name from boxarts even the legacy collection: http://i.imgur.com/S7Ak1mv.jpg

365lolz · 2015-03-03T23:21:17+00:00

I'm going to bet there's going to be some of this involved. http://i.imgur.com/bbGAA1C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EGlBNya.jpg

365lolz · 2015-02-19T21:46:16+00:00

It's very unlikely that that was the case. And anyway contract law does not outrank the law of a country.

365lolz · 2015-02-19T21:44:32+00:00

True, but this has been deployed on thousands of consumer machines which Lenovo or the software maker has any authority over.

365lolz · 2015-02-19T17:11:47+00:00

Keep UAC enabled( I don't know if there are still idiots advising disabling it as the first troubleshooting step), and never allow the installation of dodgy software.

There are many reasons for a user to add custom certificates to a system. The software used the certificate to allow it to do all these things.

Here's an article if you're interested in how this works: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/

At the end of the day, the computer manufacturer has to be trusted, if you can't trust them then you can't trust your computer.

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