Johnny

Now THAT is a game I would play. =P

Deus Ex: Human Revolution oh wow, it's good.

@MasterDex: May I ask why? There's nothing about having a separate mic that makes it any less simple to just start skype/vent/mumble/etc. and chat away.

There's a few things you need to know about buying a headset. The first is that you shouldn't do it. You're paying insane prices compared to buying an equivalent pair of headphones and separate mic. Yes there are cheap headsets, but they are still bad value for the money. The price is higher than you should be shooting for if all you want is something to chat around on, and the sound quality is not good enough for professional productions - unless you've got a seriously deep wallet. Plus there's the whole "Replacing the whole thing if half of it breaks" with headsets. Now that we've established that you don't want to buy a headset, you need to figure out if you're getting a new pair of headphones, a mic or both. For headphones, my personal recommendation is the Sennheiser HD555. Great all-round headphones, does gaming and all forms of music well. A tad expensive for many, I know. I see it as an investment. For mics, I doubt any of you have use for anything fancy. If you want to conserve table space, I suggest a Zalman Mic1. You can probably find it cheaper than this, I just took the first english-language result I found on google. If taking up some space on your desk isn't a problem... Honestly, most mics above 10 dollars will do fine. It's not like the 90s and early 00s where you were likely to pick something up that would make your friends ears bleed. I see word of my arrival precedes me. Stop stealing my thunder, you ass But more important than any of that, even if you disregard my advice and go for a headset, never buy a sound product marketed to gamers. "Gaming" class sound does not mean good. Gaming class sound is when they take a 20 dollar headset, paint it black and red, and sell it for 40 or 50. This isn't like mousepads or gaming mice in that it's an industry focused on gaming devices. Razer, Steelseries and such companies are not good headphone manufacturers.

I buy an obscene amount of games on steam during their deep discount sales. Lovin' it. However not too interested in this giveaway. My PC would probably choke and die on trying to render this game. It's a bit really fucking crap. =)

Bastion is amazing. Anyone that likes hack-and-slash top-down style fares should pick it up. Great art style, good controls, nice selection of weapons (lots of choice in how to kill things) Extremely major spoilers below:

If your hypothesis is that budget = quality, I must direct you to a fine assortment of indie games.

NEWEGG Y U NO SHIP EUROPE.

*shakes hand* Hi, I'm Johnny and you can find my full name on any of my pressxordie articles. Anonymity my ass.

I purchased Bastion a few days ago. It was so worth it. Second favourite game of the year so far.

I agree with Yante. That said, the bit in the steam EULA where they say they can present the information "with or without attribution to you" doesn't sit too well with me.

I think Brotherhood's plot was a significant drop in quality from AC2. Still good, but not as good.

After watching TotalBiscuit's preview of this, I have to say... This looks like Gears of War: Fun Edition.

Just because you've played in a clan you're not a pro either. I've played in various clans in different games, and it can all be as serious as you want to. You're not a pro until you're doing it for money though... Which, to clarify, I don't do and have never done.

I hate to be a horrendous dick, but huge pet peeve of mine: getting a kill streak on a public match in a first person shooter is not the same as playing on a pro level. >_>

I'm one of those heathen who prefers Shaun of the Dead to Hot Fuzz. =P

I don't understand. Have none of you people played Torchlight or Diablo?

Personal experience: Have a driver's license. I don't, and can't afford driving lessons. It's become a bit of a problem.

I made an order for a few (seven) books to bookdepository.co.uk (great site!) about a week ago. The first one arrived friday: Edit: A second book arrived today! And I'm not anywhere CLOSE to done with Children of Dune yet!

Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas, Minecraft and heroes of Newerth. Bastion is so far quite amazing. Only played about an hour in, but it's great stuff.

@Dean: They are aiming for a more true port of 1.6 in the newest version of the Source engine, appealing both to the public and competitive player. It's not gonna be like a "mdoern military shooter" with iron sights, instant kill grenades or stuff like that.

I... uh... Man, WTF, do I dare ask what that cost you?

My old, already quite crap, router contracted a severe case of not working, so I went out and got this. Works like a charm.

No. I tried it last night and trying to play it with a mouse and keyboard was a horrible experience. It feels like they are just making the mouse emulate an analogue stick. After plugging in the 360 pad it worked better, but the controls weren't very precise then either. To be honest I wasn't very impressed at all during the 90 minutes or so I spent with it. The water physics are cool and just throwing sand, lava and water at each others to see what happens is amusing for a while, but once you start trying to get into the actual game it starts being mostly about moving sand around until your villagers' pathfinding accepts the surface as traversable - which seems to be a bit random - and they make their way to the objective. You are sometimes given a special power that is pretty cool the first time but ends up being pretty boring after a few uses. Jellifying water is pretty neat, but you can't actually DO much with it. Maybe it gets better later, but my opinion could be summed up as: Cool tech demo, shame about the lack of actual game.