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Outspoken Silicon Knights prez Dennis Dyack has made a deal with NeoGAF forum members about the quality of Too Human, putting his virtual pride on the line. Read More...

Silicon Knights' Dennis Dyack is no stranger to controversy, having spoken out against the haters who've trashed his long-awaited title, Too Human. We sit down with Dennis to get a feel for the man behind the flamewars.Read More...

Silicon Knights President Dennis Dyack is considering stepping down from the position in order to focus on the more creative aspects of making games.Read More...

Is Eternal Darkness 2 actually in development? According to Denis Dyack... now's not the time to discuss such a venture.Read More...

TiVo has a message for network executives: the majority of commercials in the millions of homes with DVRs will go unseen. Getting advertisers on board with TiVo's platform is key to the company's long-term survival, as it has less than a 10 percent share of the DVR market.Read More...

At least part of the Yahoo saga is coming to a close, as the company and Carl Icahn have reached a settlement in which Icahn will get a seat on the company's board, which will expand to seat two members of his choosing.Read More...

South Australia Attorney General Michael Atkinson has explained his reasoning for keeping an R18+ rating for games from being put in place.Read More...

Using XMPP4R--Simple these Ruby code snippets show a user's status change and any messages they may have sent you since the last time.

# user1 changes their status to away
jabber.presence_updates do |friend, old_presence, new_presence|
puts "Received presence update from #{friend.to_s}: #{new_presence}"
end

# user1 sends the message "do you like Tofu?"
jabber.received_messages do |message|
puts "Received message from #{message.from}: #{message.body}"
end

Carl Icahn is trying to convince Yahoo shareholders that he's change they can believe in, and he's getting some help from Microsoft, which happily confirmed that they've been discussing a new buyout offer should Icahn's efforts to dump the Yahoo board succeed.Read More...