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Well the "escorted person gets taken away and now you've got to get them back" is a standard feature of escort games. It's more an issue of the AI that I have. Issue with Bioshock 1 was mainly the whole GFWL stuff (Infinite is Steamworks) and 2 being ballsed up controls and no controller support, but that wasn't Irrational made. I'm kinda hoping those two main issues should be smoothed out come Infinite.

Where've you heard about the PC version having problems? Also if you're really wanting a look at the leak, here it is posted on Reddit. (Just don't open it on a phone as mobile site doesn't render the spoiler code CSS)

PS3 version has leaked (scoff at PC piracy problem once more) which means /v/ are filling the interwebs with spoilers. So bit of a warning there. As far as Elizabeth goes, she better be good cos game-long escort quest already docks a bunch of points in likeability of the character.

http://science.time.com/2013/03/20/humanity-leaves-the-solar-system-35-years-later-voyager-offically-exits-the-heliosphere/ Voyager is officially out of the Heliosphere, but they're still undecided on the whole "out of the solar system" thing.

http://ridiculoushuman.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/pure-folly-miss-polygon/ Polygon have done some more stuff, which Stuart Campbell has filled out on. It dotes on RPS a bit much, but more about Polygon showing true colours (with special cameo by our fave EiC of Kotaku) n stuff, good round-up of past week n bits antics.

I thought China had distanced itself from Korea

I thought the first one was so fluffy I could die.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21827631 Cambridge have being working on virtual avatar tech. Rough early days, but certainly easy to see how quickly this kind of tech can advance. Especially when private companies, such as film of computer industry, throw in a few million.

Via MasterDex n Saturnine

My 4:1 ratio of beat:buy. I've gone n made Bastion my first game to pick up. tbh had been hankering after a bit of Kingdoms of Amalur, Dishonoured or something. Didn't realise what I'd done till I hit buy.

Bought Bastion on the Humble Weekly thing. Fuck.

Well it's by the same developers as Bastion, it's not actually Bastion. Same as Fallout and Skyrim get their won threads.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-19-final-fantasy-10-hd-includes-10-2-hd-on-ps3 With the time it has taken I'm amazed it's not coming with XII as well, but does make sense for a FFX collection to have X-2 included as well.

It's from the first H2G2, Deep Thought is built to compute the meaning of life, then builds Earth to compute the question. Which is blown up minutes before the question is calculated.

Netflix for me. edit: Oh goddammit. Rev what the hell you doing to this place man?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224760/ It seems porting to PC is cheaper than patching the game 100K+ people paid for on Xbox. And the quoted interview, and Tweet.

It just dwindled in users and they're not a cheap thing to run. More so than TF2 servers I think.

Hehehe. Nice to see you about (Well..on here since I've got you on Facebook). Shame on the Minecraft server.

It was also a financial institution that had favourable interest rates and foreign investment.

But EU is what is keeping the rest of the booty in there. The scenario is: EU does fuck all, people lose all their savings as the Cyprus banks collapse. Or EU provides a bailout, puts a levy on accounts, and the rest of the savings are saved. There's also the issue of the Russian savings there too, since they're not part of the EU but are benefiting from the EU bailout.

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/45684087997/apathy-and-refunds-are-more-dangerous-than-piracy A post from one of the Team Meat guys about how piracy is a lot less of a loss than other things that crop up (like R&D for DRM, and returns of a product). It's mainly framed around SimCity..and K-Mart.

http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=749234 John Ricititliolio.lo has resigned/fired as CEO of EA. It seemed somewhat inevitable given regardless of whether you attribute the various issues of late with EA to "vocal minority" or not, EA is losing money and that does speak to investors and board members. One fun line of speculation I've seen raised however is that John Ric might be the last vestige of "old style" EA-ness in the face of DS3 Micro-Transactions, SimCity "always online-socialness", and Real Racing 3 type stuff and so they're bumping him off to get someone more pliable. Though that somewhat falls flat when you take into account that John took back over from Larry Probst in 2007 (which'd be the year that Bioware-Pandemic was acquired in still iffy scenario*) and it's from about that period onward that EA starting bringing in the day one DLC n project $10 n etc etc. So it's equally possible it's the reverse. I guess it's a bit of a knife edge which way it could go, those kind of things could scale back in the face of them seemingly not working, or they could ramp up in the face of them not working enough. It'll be fun to see who is the next CEO of EA to lead them into 8th gen. Gotta say, laying him off amidst the SImCity thing, which is hitting national news outlets not just speciality press, is brilliant timing :/ *for those not up to speed: prior to his EA CEO'ship John worked form a company called Elevation Partners, with whom Bioware and Pandemic were forged into a single company, VG Holding Corp, to find a buyer. John then became CEO of EA and lo and behold EA bought VG Holding Corp. And the rest we know is history. (but if you don't know that history Pandemic was closed and Bioware went through asexual reproduction and currently accounts for 8.56% of studios on the planet and rising)