Swiff\’s Rant is back, hosted by Swiff a.k.a Gary A Swaby. Check it out as Swiff vents on the current topics plaguing the industry.
This week:
- Microsoft only wanted to observe at Gamescom
- Microsoft don\’t care about the franchises that they try and get exclusive
Jadakiss says he has nothing to do with activities that led to two people being arrested for drug possession in an apartment leased under his name on Saturday.
Yonkers police raided an apartment leased to the MC and found seven pounds of marijuana, five grams of heroin and about $42,000 in cash, along with “other items,” according to a police press release. They were led to a building at 1 Van Der Donk Street after housing-unit officers stopped a suspicious vehicle out front on Friday. According to the report, an investigation “revealed the presence of marijuana inside the vehicle.” The driver was arrested and a passenger was taken in after a short foot pursuit.
On Wednesday (August 26), Jadakiss told MTV News that he was not present at the time and has not visited the home for months.
“What happened on Saturday was an unfortunate situation, but one in which I have no involvement in,” ‘Kiss told MTV News exclusively Wednesday afternoon. “Since the release of my recent album Last Kiss, I have been on the road touring and promoting my project. I am focused on my performance schedule and career.”
Gabriel R. Henriquez, 39, was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, second degree assault and obstructing governmental administration in the second-degree. Alberto Lajara, 25, was taken into custody for criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree and disorderly conduct, according to the report. Yonkers police say the investigation is ongoing.
‘Kiss has, indeed, been on the road this summer. While a tour planned with Cam’ron dubbed “The Bosses” did not take place, the pair performed several concerts together.
This question stems from an article that for some reason could not catch “heat” on the site’s Degree system.
It had been noticed that this particular article (seen here: http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-383141.aspx?CT=1&Page=1&Page2=1#C2699591 ) struggled to increase it’s temperature – as of 9am est 26 Aug 2009 – despite seemingly reaching all critiria with the site’s algorithm rules and standards. According to N4G.com themselves, they describe their heat degree system like this:
“What are the temperature signs beside each news article?
With hundreds of news stories being posted on N4G each day the more important stories can easily get buried by the less important stories. To solve this problem N4G has invented a temperature system which shows how hot a news story is. When a news story reaches 100° (degree Celsius) its temperature sign will turn red to make it more visible. The temperature of an article does not directly reflect the number hits it gets. The temperature is decided by an algorithm which looks at the combined attention a story gets and the nature of this attention over different time periods. This way the system can predict if a story is hot or not just a few minutes after it has been posted on the site. A system that only relies on how many hits a story gets which is used by most news sites is not as effective as it can go many hours before a story show up as hot. But the reality is that it was “hot” from the minute it was published.”
So under those same rules, that particular article that deals with factual sales figures of the 360 and PS3 should have, at least, caught heat over 600degrees.
A number of Users of N4G.com (have not attained permissions to use their user names for this article) had actually took time out of their day to check and see if it was possibly a glitch or perhaps legit that the article indeed did not generate as much interest (heat) as it would initially seem. However, their investigations revealed that the site, smgamers.com, actually received traffic – via the N4G link – that’s consistent with other articles that caught heat over 800degrees. So why is this article with over 110 comments struggling to get past 240degrees? In comparison, this article http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-384194.aspx?CT=2 caught heat to 250degrees as of 9am est on the 26th of Aug 2009… so what gives?
N4G.com has become a trusted media hub for gaming information for a lot of the gaming community. It’s reliability and integrity is depended upon to access all types of news about our beloved industry. If this source of info is indeed compromised I would think people need to know that N4G.com is perhaps not what it initially seems and is indeed controlled by corporate interests interests like Microsoft’s.
It would be nice if administrative staff from N4G.com could either clarify or rectify this (if it is indeed an error or glitch) but until such a time, you decide:
N4G.com, controlled by Microsoft? Here are the two comparable articles again; you decide.
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-383141.aspx?CT=1&Page=1&Page2=1#C2699591
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-384194.aspx?CT=2
Saturday, August 29 at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time to challenge fans in multiplayer matches featuring new characters and maps from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Character and Map Pack Plus.
Fox will be playing the new DLC content during her Game with Fame session.Her gamertag will be “Megan Fox 2009″ and interested fans can visit http://www.xbox.com/gwfmeganfox for more information.
Fans of the classic Transformers television series can take a trip down memory lane, as the new downloadable content includes Generation One Transformers characters along with additional fan-favorites from the blockbuster summer movie, new multiplayer maps, a new “Expert” difficultly level and new Xbox 360 Achievements and PLAYSTATION 3 Trophies.
This new DLC package will be available on Xbox LIVER Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 800 Microsoft Points and in the PlayStationRStore for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system for $9.99 on Thursday, August 27.