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Would you rather be blind or deaf?

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1kyndb/complete_gta_v_soundtrack_leaked_list_of_songs/ GTAV soundtrack has leaked should anyone care to know what songs are on it.

Cryteks pitch for third party CryEngine use. They've never seemed to make much of a huge effort in marketing the engine to external studios. It's obviously ended up a in a few games, but never seemed to be much of an engine studio as Epic have been.

http://www.spinvfx.com/work/game-of-thrones/ Some VFX for Series 3. They've used their own player that's like Vimeo, but not quite so can't embed. Man the ice looks a bit bad :/ But the rest is pretty neat.

Saw a good point; $60+few months of $15 then going F2P = more than starting F2P. And given SWTOR went down the shitter fast they likely know this'll be going F2P just as fast. Name power means diddly squat, being a subbed MMO is a thing that's next to impossible to make and maintain these days.

Who is this mythical "someone" that turns off thier PC midway through a save? I want a dev to point this person out: "Hi, this is Frank. He has a mental disorder that means he powers down electronic equipment when he sees video game logos rotate, so we have to put a warning at the start of each game and every now n then on every loading screen too just to remind him to stop doing that."

The save thing is more of an issue with the fact that within PC games it's pretty pointless to warn you to not turn off your console/PC because as noted no one just flips the switch on their PC mid-way through a game. Save icons specifically I remember reading awhile back the suggestion that consoles have a unified auto-save system/icon, then you don't even need to teach people each time they load the game up what particular icon you're using to represent as auto-save. Which lead to one guy dying in ME2 because I thought it was auto-saving, not giving me a "paragon" trigger thing. RTS game do make sense to have weakened units do weaker damage. Yeah within a JRPG sense it makes sense for the last hoo-rah of bosses but JRPGs tend to have quite their own little set of tropes. Few games here n there do have weakened armour/weapons. The cutscene thing is pretty sane and reasonable. And there's plenty of films where I wish I could grab a separate volume slider for music, effects and dialogue.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/21/rules-for-games-do-dont-6/ RPS have done another Do's and Don'ts.

Elder Scrolls Online to be F2P in record time.

I had a black mage in beta..cos well Black Mage. I kinda enjoyed the beta, but can't justify a monthly MMO.

Yeah, how will we know he's beaten that game? Is it when all the zombies in the world are out-ran? Is it when the plants take over? How would we know if he get's a game over?

"Tech tree" is maybe giving it a bit more credit than it deserves.

I'm waiting on reviews and such but come september might be investing in the Firefly game.

29th Novembre! Pas Octobre comme certaines des rumeurs suggéré. Excitant d'avoir une date à la hâte.

Given they did a mostly complete re-build on the game midway through development it doesn't surprise me too much. Bit of a shame they tried to rework the game to ft the XCOM branding, instead of keeping the old game and ideas and changing the game name. But thus is the big publishers affinity to hold on tightly to IPs.

No, Battlefield 3, the game you quoted.

They're already giving them away.

I think he meant as in they've got a popular language; like English. So going "well we can't release to Sweden because we can't translate to Swedish" when most of them likely know English (or German/Spanish/French etc) would be a bunk excuse. We live in a post-British Empire world. A large part of the world speak English well enough. Certainly within spots like Europe. And like hell do they do localisation on spelling. Whenever we're saying "Oh film/game X won't come out in UK until n months after UK because it'll need translating" we're joking. And this is MS, they've not even bothered to localise Word over the past two decades, doing it to games is asking a bit.

So someone want to explain something for me in Dark Knight Returns

Thanks for the help dudes. Though I feel a bit of a jerk now because I've bypassed it all and my sister got Sims 3 instead. Though holy hell are the instructions for that a pain in the butt. I assume/hope Sims 4 will be a tad more straightforward but hey nothing else I've touched on Origin so far has been.

http://imgur.com/a/OTC9B Some comparison shots of the progress of the HD version of Wind Waker. Mainly that they've knocked back the bloom.