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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Criterion Gives its Official Response to the Hard Drive Issue on the 360

Submitted by Shane Whitehouse on February 4, 2008 – 2:34 pm2 Comments

Criterion Games has decided that it needed to put out an official response to the recent complaint over the fact that Burnout Paradise needs a hard drive attached to a 360 in order to play the game online. They worked with Microsoft to try and find a way to fit the online files needed for the game onto a 64MB memory card, but it just did not work as well as Criterion wanted. They do say that you will be able to play the most of the challege modes that compare your times to the online leaderboards, but there will be no online competition for the Core or Arcade systems anytime soon unless they get a hard drive.

I don’t think the problem is needing a hard drive for the game, but the fact that the game is not prominently labeled with this fact. A lot of people with the Core or Arcade system will come in and buy this and not realize they cannot play online, because there is no meaningful warning on the package to show this fact. Microsoft, start having game companies put HDD Required stickers on the boxes when necessary. At leaast it will let people know the entry items needed to play the game, instead of getting home and being disappointed.

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What’s the tags on the back of the box for then? It’s clearly stated there.

Yes, it does say “XBox Live” on the front, but as stated you get some of the features available.

I’m not saying that I agree with MS or Criterion, but asking for an extra sticker is like asking for a detailed description of the ESRB rating on the front as well. Or telling Nintendo that they need a “NEEDS NUNCHUCK” on the front of WiiPlay to be able to play all the games.

This is the reason why a console manufacturer should NOT segment the market by making parts of the gaming portion of their console “optional”.
Joe (Aeropause)

I would agree that the hard drive should of been standard, but the labels on the back are clearly not enough. Look at it this way, would this of been an issue if only five to ten people were affected? No, but with a 10-15% chunk of the Burnout purchases possibly affected, this should bring about the idea of maybe making this better known, either through advertising or a bigger disclaimer.

But you are right, in the end, it still comes down to a segmented market for the 360.