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Is Revolution that "all electricity has stopped...except not quite?"

Or that Lord of the Rings has much in common with a Haynes manual. You do know what the S in ESRB stands for right? And why it has the E.

Behold some of the first snippets of GTAV leaked to the web.

Totally forgot to ask my housemate if he wanted to watch this with me on monday/sunday when im back or if watch it whenever.

Firstly Ethan split it off. He does do Mod things now and then, and well this all blew up while I was at work. Video Games are quite easy to define what is an what isn't purely down to the fact it's a video game. It comes from adding the word "video", as in "visual-audio" to the word "game", as in board game, table top game, outdoor games, etc. Not the other way around. A large part of the issue comes down the fact people forget that at the end of the day it's all software, video games have more in common with Excel than they do with other "artforms". Which at the end of the day leads to big huge muddy waters as people try and bridge the gap between pong and Mona Lisa. It's a bit like whales, tuna and llamas. Whales have more in relation to llamas than they do with Tuna, but whales hang out with tuna more often than llamas so people tend to forget of that underlying link. In general definitions games have rules and objectives, usually with some form of competitive element. Be it video games or board games. It's not necessarily about the interaction. Many things are interactive. It's about the goals and rules. I think everyone can agree Pong is a video game. As is Tetris. Generally if it shares many elements with those two you're golden for the "is it a video game". The more you're lacking in common with these then the shakier ground you're on. I think folks just call stuff like Dear Esther and Proteus "video games" out of laziness to create a new taxonomy. When they reach a certain volume you'll see a new definition crop up for them. Kinda like MOBAs/Dota-likes. Linger in the Shadows is demoscene. It's about as much a video game as everything on Nvidias page, or the PSX T-Rex demo and such. It's related to video games, but generally it isn't built as a game. There's also simulations, which are generally also related to, but not actually video games. Kinda sometimes spills into "toys", which (well because it's what he likes to call them) includes stuff like Sims. Not quite a simulation, but overly lacking in clear direction yet still playful, much like a dollhouse in real life. (As opposed to say..a weather simulator). End of the day it's a bit like defining life. There's always going to be outliers like viruses.

Because video games aren't video games anymore. They're "experiences" and you're archaic if you expecting a fun interactive game with challenges and objectives and not just a digital walk about.

You can't have simultaneous use of the library, as Thursday just quoted, when the account owner wants to play a game, you get the option to buy or quit the game you're currently "borrowing".

It's thinner than the reality would be. Also another thought: We're all going to have phones that have the same size screen now? It's just another one of those uni projects that's good for a video and such but impractical in reality.

Hadn't noticed the "10 devices" thing before now. Seems significantly less like family sharing. I also imagine it's going to get pretty annoying with fuckers wanting access to your library, it's already annoying with the trades.

And yet he's called Gabe ten times compared to being called Mike three times. It doesn't take too much digging to find yours or my real names either, though many still call me "deanb" and you Tenshi. Even with Goh covering both bases he still calls Jerry Tycho in his last post. Yes we can know his real name, and the real names of many people isn't overly hard to find if you go digging about, but it's still partially anonymity if only some of your audience will bother googling your name.

Incidentally it won't work. Or at least for it to work in practice it'd be about the size of a brick. Large part of the reason you can have a phone as thin and svelte as you have is because it's built and designed as a single unit, everything crammed into each other.

Could be done a bit better in some regards, but generally a good send up of modern trailers. Always a fan of re-edited trailers. Was showing housemate Scary Mary other day which is probably one of the better done ones.

The "partial anonymity" would be covered by the fact that Mike's online persona is Gabe. He's Gabe in his comics, he's Gabe on his twitter, he's Gabe in his blog posts. We know his name, just as I know the real name of many of you guys. Doesn't remove all anonymity if you're still appearing under that online persona.

PC I guess? Not going to be getting it at launch, and I'm not seeing much point in buying new multi-plats for consoles at this point, so might as well wait out for PC. As the internet as shown, GTA is hardly a game you need to get at launch.

Well the theory applies, just it becomes: Normal PErson + partial anonymity + HUGE audience = Total fuckwad.

http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/ You can now share games on a single PC. Guess it's good for family PC, but I imagine for a large majority of people these days it might not be a major game changer. Certainly won't be for me.

The well written responses that got Gabe to reconsider would be: -Wired for the Dickwolves thing (cos when it was bubbling small blogs and people for a few days after PAX it didn't matter, but Wired is big and they couldn't ignore it at that point). -And for the cis/transgender stuff he changed his mind (well..more decided to be less of an ass about it, I think his point was he'd hold his original views but not tweet on them anymore) when one of their past transgendered employees basically emailed him and was like "heh, you're being hurtful with this". Basically they will ignore you unless you're either bigger than they are, such as Wired, or they deal with you in more than an online fashion, such as past colleagues. The problem the two create, Gabe especially, is that they are front persons for things much bigger than they are. "Penny Arcade" is a brand, and it expands to the hundred thousands at PAX,the charity Child's Play, their media works beneath them such as Penny Arcade Report (where Kuchera isn't exactly the most tactful either), and Extra Credits. There's quite a few peoples livelihoods that somewhat pivot on Jerry and Mike not fucking things up severely for the brand. In fact it would not surprise me if over time we'll see PAX pushed out from Penny Arcade. For one it's a huge event, now spread over to two continents, and for two the whole brand issue that Mike creates. It's funny, because he's the one that created the "greater internet fuckwad theory", and yet it could be posited there's an upper limit where once the audience reaches a certain size the anonymous element no longer applies.

http://lolnein.com/2013/09/06/2ds/

Well there is some science there. Like in the earlier '05 titles there was the dopler effect. Also they're reckoning now there's bits of the universe that are bigger on the inside. Meh, regardless of what it's like once there's a Brian Cox show things can only get better.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24038234 There is a lot of content coming for the 50th Anniversary. So keep eyes peeled if you're international and wanting a watch of all the extras. It's not often BBC get's to flaunt it's long running franchises.

It's coming to PC, PS3 and 360.

Yeah that. Dunno why I said July considering I had the article right next to me.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/09/09/final-fantasy-xiv-ps3-players-will-upgrade-to-ps4-version-for-free-ps4-beta-starting-in-february/ Buying PS3 version will net you PS4 version free, including beta participation in July.