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Witcher 2. Though I think something fucked up with the EE content at the end cos Chapter III seemed to jump about a lot and assume things of my game that hadn't happened. For example at one point I end up chatting to Triss about Iorveth, a guy I've not seen since I fought him in Roche's flashback in Chapter 1. All very good though, feels much shorter than Witcher 1, but that's not a terrible thing given Witcher 1 dragged on in some cases. I kinda expected more nods towards the first game, but it mostly extends as far as "I met you in vizima once". And the story doesn't quite mesh with how Witcher 1 ends . But this story is compelling, and the choice to split Chapter II how it does certainly ballsy and a move I doubt many games would care to follow. Does certainly provide opportunity for playing the game through twice. I'm to assume Witcher 3 will be set in Nilfgaard?

Ya know it's pretty much trolls trolling trolls on Yahoo Answers right?

Well this is an upgraded version of the engine. Still, if you're wanting guarantees PC is the place to be, regardless of the temperature in hell.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/11/former_gamestop_vp_pleads_guil.php Gamestop head honcho guilty of embezzling $2million.

It's hardly like it's a surprise with Bethesda titles that PC is the place to be. Though yeah it particularly sucks for PS3 with Skyrim.

That was it, Wii U pre-orders. edit: btw Apple have the new statement up on their UK site. And while they said it would take 2 weeks to put that statement up, it seems in less than 48hrs they can recode their UK front page so that it's always going to have the bottom section hidden off the monitor, regardless of size. You can easily see this by doing a Ctrl+scroll (or +/- keys) on the UK and US site. http://www.apple.com/uk/ http://www.apple.com/ On the UK site the front page resizes everything so that until it's absolutely minute, it won't show the bottom of the page. Whereas on the US site it all resizes uniformly like a normal web page. It's nearly Xmas, why are Apple wanting to piss off the judges so much in this. Getting a statement put on their website is the least they can do to Apple.

If I have 10 bananas in stock and 30 oranges in stock and I sell 10 of each, my bananas are selling out. Never ever trust a press release that says that a product has sold out without giving any numbers. That's not an Apple thing either, someone on twitter saying similar of I think ..can't remember, it was a gaming device iirc. The nexus 7 "refresh" was a simple case of upgrading the high ends model from 16GB to 32GB and making 16GB the new low end version. The price is the same (unless you get the old low end 8GB model on the cheap at clearance, but obviously that's not an official price or product any more)

A teaser image for upcoming DLC. Kinda Dragon-Preisty looking. Trailer to come on 5th. (remember remember)

Swapped it out. Not that it matters much, you'd get the point either way. p.s This is what happens when images are incorrectly labelled.

You can pay a hooker, then either drive off or kill them and take your cash back. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if there's plenty of missions where you can kill the person you've just paid off. You consider killing someone in a gangster game "emergent level design"? Also GTAII onwards also has one incy-wincy little difference to GTA n GTA II. It doesn't have a score system.

PS3 dev kit has 512MB of system RAM (same VRAM, but the debug tools n such aren't loading into that ), that'd be twice the RAM of the retail PS3 itself.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/38600/ - Faerie Solitaire is free if you install it before 8th November. http://www.gog.com/en/promo/ea_weekend_promo_02_11_12 - GOG hae an EA promo on and that includes a lot of nice games.

Just to add here as I've done in status posts: Don't take the RAM to heart as devkits have higher RAM than the main console. I'm still wary on the whole X86 thing.

Thing with Just Cause 2 though is you generally end up doing it pretty much the same way each time, and the mission structure rarely deviates from "destroy this object" right down to the side missions being "destroy this object". That's pretty much the purpose of the game. with GTA IV if it was always just "kill this guy" then it'd get a bit dull without the scripting to make variety and interest like shooting the guy by calling him.

http://www.dayswithoutagoprapemention.com/ - Via my cousin.

Consoles provide an expensive way to play games though, while the "It just works" starts to come less true for consoles and more true for PC (and on-par for mobile OSes). Given neither alternate platform provides much of a way to play Halo and Uncharted they help keep those guys along, but many others will fall by the wayside.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/11/01/portal-2-in-motion-on-psn-tuesday-full-game-getting-ps-move-support/ Portal 2 on PS3 getting a DLC pack next week. It's basically the exclusive level pack from the Razer Hydra but now with PS Move like everyone said it should have been back when the game first came out. Oh and it's $10.

Weren't they in stasis for a while? Holograms get old, fact of life. Also in Halo 2 it looks like she was wearing some kind of clothing/spandex. I don't get why they couldn't have done that.

I'm to understand Danny Wallace is actually writing a chunk of these, not just his in-game persona. p.s this would be a better picture if Ubisoft hadn't delayed PC release.

For a console that has green as a sort of brand colour, they sure don't want their mascot have any. The jump to Halo 4 is neat, but given Halo 3 is pretty fugly not much to write home about.

Yeah it's using the "PS menu". The main issue though is that menu and back are two default buttons of android phones and tablets, which means most games are built on the assumption they're there. So when you want to open a menu in the game, there's a menu button. When you want to back out of a screen/menu etc, there's a back button. Means they'll need to make a few extra tweaks to their games that mightn't have needed to be done if it had a back n menu button on the controller, or used the triangle n circle as such.

My post was mostly quotes btw. From the Okami HD review press kit. http://gamerlymusings.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/a-bizarre-review-request/

As already pointed out most app sales are games. Which I know on Play makes it super annoying as games aren't filtered from general apps so the top "Apps" tend to be the games from the top "Games" section. Here's Play stores "Top Grossing" section: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topgrossing Swiftkey is the first non-game App and that's at #13, with Comixology being the only other non-games app in the top 25. When it comes to Top Paid there's much more regular apps, but those don't tend to have IAP monetisation projects like games and comic stores can. https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topselling_paid I have no idea how to link to iOS equivalent, they're still a bit behind in that regard.

@FDS: I'm not against it, just saying it's not much of a "ooh look at what great improvements Windows 8 brings, a hidden software setting or brightness, that thing laptops come built in with anyway". Obviously using the android power off thing as an example of how you can make a new system/OS and retain old paradigms was a bad idea you've failed to comprehend. Let's hope you understood the shutdown image thing better since it's much more on target. Nope, you at least understood that part but still think it's much better placement in Windows 8. Apple? The phone company? Oh wait, you mean Apple the company with fuck all of the computer market. You think the new start menu is intuitive and well placed and you think Apple is doing well in the computer space. Bet you're confused on why people mock Superman's wardrobe decisions. Anyway, Apple are a consumer computer company, and have a small slice of the pie, should kinda tell you something. In productivity and for RSI, more in less space works a lot better. What school did you go to? What'd you mean I'm ignoring laptops? do I have to say "desktops, laptops, netbooks, ultrabooks" when I can say "desktop" And you know, though being a pedant don't, I'm talking of any device with a screen, mouse/trackpad, keyboard laid out in a perpendicular fashion as opposed to something like a tablet which is a screen. And that's about where it starts and ends. It's a pretty simple distinction, regardless of X86 or ARM. "Turn computer off" isn't a setting though. "Automatically log into this user" or "run the defrag at 3AM on Wednesday or when next idle" is a setting. On or off is a basic fundamental state of being for a computer. "Even the differences between various Linux distros/UIs, OSX, and Windows versions confuses the shit out of most people." (especially as you're referring to the shutdown thing) @Fuchi: WinRT is the main framework of Windows 8, the underbelly of the whole new Metro stuff and all that. It is on all versions of Windows 8, it is in essence "Windows 8". Windows RT is the confusingly named version of what was once "Windows for ARM". So yeah, it's not just the new shutdown that's a confusing ill thought out thing either. MS had it fine, then changed it for changes sake. @Eleven: We're aware it's built for tablet's. That's our issue, cos we're on desktops(laptops/netbooks/ultrabooks/IBM-compatibles), not tablets. And a problem with the "convergence" devices is that it's full of comprises. It's going to be larger, heavier, pricier and less portable than a tablet. And in laptop use it's going to be compromised on the UI side because it's an OS that wants to be used as a screen (which it can't because you're using it as a laptop, using the touchscreen at that position is bad for you). The Shutdown is there as a central pillar of what defines the needless change of Windows 8 for changes sake. We've not even gotten into the Control Panel(s) of Windows 8 yet (hint, that "(s)" is a big part of the issue), or the legacy and WinRT programs, the bundling of IE10 into the OS. Shutdown is old faithful, and focuses the discussion somewhat.