Gamers who live in the state of New York are already experiencing a benefit from President Obama's recently-passed stimulus package.
CNN reports that New York has scrapped a plan to tax digital downloads such as iTunes music and video game DLC.
Instead, Gov. David Paterson and New York legislators will utilize $1.3 billion in stimulus money to help balance the state budget.
Grif: Hearing rumors that Anonymous plans to take down PSN for at least four days. Can anyone verify this? I can't find anything on it.02/14/2012 - 4:54am
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Cheater87: R18+ heading for Australian parliament http://www.gamespot.com/news/6350339.html02/14/2012 - 1:14am
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Uncharted NES: David Jaffe Rails Against Storytelling Games- http://slashdot.org/palm/10/12/02/13/1943236_1.shtml02/13/2012 - 5:04pm
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DorthLous: Australian government holding anti-piracy talk behind closed door: http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/13/govt-holds-second-secret-anti-piracy-meeting/02/13/2012 - 12:31pm
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DorthLous: SONY new CEO says Hardware is important, but the future lies in content and service: http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414925/incoming_sony_ceo_hot_gadgets_aren_t_enough_anymore02/13/2012 - 12:27pm
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Andrew Eisen: That article is over five years old, Uncharted. A fun blast from the past though.02/12/2012 - 10:47pm
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Uncharted NES: Critics: 'Left Behind' game glorifies violence- http://tinyurl.com/wu64s02/12/2012 - 4:34pm
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Zen: I felt Brutal Legends was a funny & beautiful look at the world of rock from Double Fines point of view. The only parts I wasn't hot for were the RTS bits as it felt forced. Otherwise fantastic.02/12/2012 - 1:34pm
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DorthLous: Passed 1.5M$. And I'd also say that Brutal Legend is far from being a bad game. I just think it was a few levels under what people expected from the people working on the project.02/11/2012 - 8:25am
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Technogeek: Brutal Legend wasn't bad so much as "marketing had no idea how the game actually played", causing it to suffer accordingly.02/10/2012 - 10:38pm
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RedMage: It looks the CIA's website has been DDOS'ed. Anon?02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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RedMage: Brutal Legend.02/10/2012 - 7:52pm
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ddrfr33k: Has anything Tim Schafer ever made been of crap caliber? I'm struggling to think of one...02/10/2012 - 7:37pm
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Guamish: I think it is in good hands. Tim did a game for the GDC award show and that was fun for how short it was.02/10/2012 - 12:22pm
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Andrew Eisen: It'll be tragic if the game ultimately sucks.02/10/2012 - 12:17pm
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james_fudge: $1.3 million02/10/2012 - 11:32am
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Uncharted NES: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA [Update: ... Yet]- http://tinyurl.com/7r2twrg02/10/2012 - 11:21am
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Andrew Eisen: Damn. Double Fine's Kickstarter fund has already passed a million dollars.02/09/2012 - 8:16pm
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Andrew Eisen: Audrey didn't quote the sassy parts. Here's IGN's article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1218359p1.html And here's my original post: http://tinyurl.com/7y68a3902/09/2012 - 7:50pm
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james_fudge: I hope you some said something sassy! Where's the link?02/09/2012 - 7:46pm
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Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital Download
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Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital Download
Woot, here comes President Obama's S. Package to save the day!
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
Um, I live in NY state and I am already paying 8.75% sales tax on PSN games bought from the PSN store and Wii points when bought from a store or on a site like Amazon. Not sure about Wii points from the Wii shop channel because I have never tried. So your saying they were gonna add another tax to these items, they are already taxed, and they have always been taxed.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital Download
What a great use of stimulus money. Balance the state budget instead of using it to STIMULATE THE FUCKING ECONOMY.
Of course, I saw this coming. But still, I would've expected at least a bit better from New York.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
So we use tax money to make sure we don't get any more taxes?
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I'm actually not sure how I feel about that. It's better than them getting the stimulus money and then still adding taxes at least.
Though it doesn't stop them from raising taxes on cigarettes. Went up to 7.40 a pack yesterday. >_>
Tea and cake or death! Tea and cake or death! Little Red Cook-book! Little Red Cook-book!
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
Well, I'm glad he was able to SEE why these taxes were a bad idea.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
Well that's just tasteless.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
It's all on how you look at it.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Tea and cake or death! Tea and cake or death! Little Red Cook-book! Little Red Cook-book!
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital Download
Finally good news for gamers in new york.
http://www.magicinkgaming.com/
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital Download
Fucking finnally. I hate living here. Politics full of total crap.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
i bet the real reason isn't the stimulus but the fact patterson is good as ousted once we yorkers get a chance at him.
the guys actually been rated lower than spitzer! how do you get a rep lower than a prostitute buying moron?
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
Maybe its because its a moron minus the prostitue buying. xD
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
the guys actually been rated lower than spitzer! how do you get a rep lower than a prostitute buying moron?
Well, Spitzer did have a decent reputation going for him from his AG days before the whole prostitute thing was brought to light. After people found out about him frequenting prostitutes, he resigned too quickly for it to have much impact on his ratings.
-Gray17
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
true true.
more recent things have also compared patterson to bushes country wide rep at the end of his term :p
either way ya look at it, patterson is as well liked as a fresh pile of dog crap on a bare foot.
Re: Stimulus Money Convinces New York to Nix Digital ...
So our tax money is being used to make sure we don't have to pay more taxes (assuming you live in New York)?
Ok so it's fed taxes vs. state taxes but still.
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