The trade occurred two weeks before the public learned that Hurd and Patricia Dunn, HP's former chairman, had signed off on a plan to uncover the source of a news leak from the company's board.Īs part of the leak hunt, HP investigators obtained private phone records of board members and journalists, including several CNET reporters, so they could learn which directors had spoken with members of the media. Hurd was asked in December by members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to explain the timing of his August stock sale. "The trade also had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the practice of 'back-dating' or 'spring-loading' which has been of concern in public policy circles," Hurd wrote. Though Hurd has not been accused of involvement in the stock options backdating scandal that has swept the technology world, he addresses the subject in his letter. "My August trade was not a case of bullet-dodging."Ĭritics charge that the August sale was Hurd's effort to cash out before news broke of the company's potentially illegal probe of journalists and board members. "HP's stock has risen by more than $5 per share since the date of the trade," Hurd wrote in the letter. He wrote that the sale of 100,000 shares on August 25 represented only 5 percent of his HP holdings and noted that Wall Street had yet to punish the company's stock over the spying scandal.
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In a December 21 letter to Congress just made public on a congressional Web site ( click for PDF of the letter), Hurd said the sale was prearranged and part of an ongoing investment strategy. And, while there’s no release date for the dark action RPG just yet, you can add it to your Steam wishlist.Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd says he did nothing wrong when he sold HP stock shares before news of the tech giant's pretexting scandal went public. Round8 built Lies of P from the ground up using Unreal Engine 4. And the lies you tell will affect how the story ends. There are enhancements that will help you in battle, but also some that offer other unique features. The major unique feature of Lies of P is that the more you lie, the more human Pinocchio becomes. The skill system in Lies of P revolves around you changing parts of Pinocchio’s body. You’ll even be able to combine weapons in numerous ways to create entirely new instruments of slaughter. To help you, you’ll be able to craft weapons you find along the way. You will need to fight your way through everything in your path to survive and find Geppetto. The city has gone mad and your only clue to what happened is a note that reads, “Find Mr. The game begins with you waking up in an abandoned train station in Krat. Lies of P combat, crafting, and becoming human “It’s definitely a version of this classic story that you’ve never seen before.” “To us, Pinocchio has always been a grimly dark tale of the lies we tell to get by in a world that’s not always black and white,” said Jiwon Choi, the director of development for Lies of P. Finding your maker is key to unraveling the mystery of what happened to Pinocchio and the world. As you will know from the original story, and the hints dropped in the trailer, Geppetto is Pinocchio’s creator. Your goal is to find the whereabouts of the famed Mr.
Players take on the role of puppet mechanoid Pinocchio and need to navigate a world obliterated by a plague, where all humanity is lost. The announcement of Lies of P comes with a story trailer that paints a hauntingly dark picture of the narrative. The game is described as a dark baroque take on the story. Neowiz and developer Round8 Studio, the same team behind Bless Unleashed, has just announced Lies of P, a new Souls-like action RPG inspired by the classic Italian novel, Pinocchio.
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