Tag archive: ICO

People who are serious about their video games got some disappointing news earlier this year when Sony confirmed that The Last Guardian, the upcoming game from Ico and Shadow of the Colossus developer Team Ico, would not be arriving during the holiday 2011 timeframe, as had previously been planned. It's not clear where the game is at right now, but there's word from “Japanese video game development sources” speaking to… Read More

How do you review games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, two relics of the PlayStation 2 era from Fumito Ueda that to this day stand among the best that the medium has yet seen. You don't. Not really. You just thank your lucky stars that it's your job to journey through these fantastic experiences once more and then tell everyone all over again how they shouldn't be missed. I've spent the past few weeks following… Read More

US users aren’t the only ones up in arms over Google+’s account name policy. The Register reports that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office will be “looking into” the anti-anonymity terms of service Google has recently enacted. While there is no formal investigation to announce, “the ICO is nonetheless using official man-hours probing Mountain View’s recent changes to its profiles and username sign-ups.” What it seems like the ICO has a… Read More

The team behind the best games hardly anyone played, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, is back with a new adventure that follows the same esoteric style that won Team Ico the love of the devoted, and left others wondering what the return policy for their game was. If you never played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus, the trailer for this game might seem utterly bewildering. Both were PS2 exclusives that gained an immediate cult following, and if… Read More

Following the success of the God of War Collection, Sony continues to mine the vast depths of the PlayStation 2 library to re-release old hits with an HD facelift. Next up for the HD conversion will be the Sly Cooper HD Collection, which is tentatively, although unofficially, scheduled for a November 16 release, and according to Kotaku, the next games after that will be Ico and Shadow of the Colossus as a single collection. If you haven’t… Read More

After hundreds of complaints, and an incident where residents former a cordon around a camera car trying to photograph their village, the Information Commissioner (ICO) has ruled that Google’s Street View does not breach British privacy laws. Responding to an official complaint from Privacy International, the ICO said: "If consent were required by the law, then the producers of, say, [soccer program] Match of the Day, would… Read More

It’s just last Thursday that Google took its UK Street View live, and yesterday came an official complaint by Privacy International (PI) to the Information Commissioner (ICO) about the service, regarding the "clear embarrassment and damage" it has caused to some Britons. Privacy International cited more than 200 reports it had received from people who were able to identify themselves in the pictures, in spite of… Read More

When Google’s Street View mapping tool was proposed for the UK, privacy groups were quick to shout no, but now the Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has given the nod to the service, although it has requested another meeting with Google prior to the UK Street View launch. The system uses panoramic photographs to show locations in cities and towns, which are added to Google Street Maps. The technology debuted in the US in… Read More

UK agencies haven’t had a good record when it comes to keeping data private. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs lost a pair of discs containing dataon over 25 million people, while the Armed Forces have managed other losses in recent months, enough to shake consumer confidence in the way data is handled by official bodies. A survey from theOffice of the Information Commissioner (ICO) has determined that 88% of people are now checking… Read More

In the UK it’s beginning to reach the stage where almost everyone’s personal information has been lost at least once. In fact, if yours hasn’t, you could almost feel as if you don’t count.   This time, at least, it’s not the government at fault. Giant retailer Marks & Spencer admitted that the personal details of 26,000 employees were lost when a laptop was stolen last April. The details were not… Read More

The machine, which debuted in Japan in early 2000 and the United States in late 2001, will hit Chinese shelves on December 20 with a price tag of 1,988 yuan ($240). That compares to $179 in the United States. “We have to realize the reality, that piracy cannot be controlled 100 percent, not only in China but also in other parts of the world,” Sony China Chairman Hiroshi Shoda told reporters Friday in an upscale Beijing cinema.… Read More