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http://kotaku.com/5872606/ I heard about this through a RT lewieP did of someone else. It piqued my interest and..turns out Crecente is leaving Kotaku. Shame that the past year he's been replaced by Joel Johnson or it might have meant fun times ahead. In related (for all we know extremely related) news the McElroy brothers and someone else left Joystiq about a week ago. Personally I'm of the feeling they're aiming for a video game version of The Verge. (a stie set up late last year by a bunch of folks who left Joystiqs sister site Engadget)

Get a bit slimmer, get a job or failing that find some other form of money making.

If it's knackered it's broken yes. And you can kick someone in the knackers.

Remember we have a Steam Group for random chats n gaming. Current topic is upon best GPU for use in a home server. Check Tenshis status post to see earlier discussion.

So you know how the Steam stuff is now finished? Well over on GMG it's only just begun. Not as big though. http://www.greenmangaming.co.uk/ From Dust is currently £3.

A new year, new games, new completion stats.

Part of the reason for adding it to my rental list was cos 1. I thought it looked kinda interesting 2. I was curious as to what was so bad about it that EA would axe the entire studio before the game was even released. I've a feeling it's ultimately a case of EA wanted Bioware, they had to take on Pandemic as part of that deal. Bioware worked out much better for them than expected and EA hacked off the unwanted tumour of VG Holdings Corp.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114996-Fallout-New-Vegas-Project-Director-Releases-Personal-Mod Project Director has made his own mod for New Vegas. Think of it as a sort of Directors cut. I quite like this idea.

I'm currently playing The Saboteur and Fable 3. Saboteur isn't half bad. I like the climbing has a highlighter along the edges you're about to get too. Somewhat disturbing that the "Stats" page seems to imply I've 20% done with less than 2hrs in the game. This is open world. I usually expect to see at least 20hrs in those. It's sort of a bit like Assassins Creed in Paris with guns and nazis. You have hiding spots on roof tops, you have to walk slow to avoid detection, wear the enemies outfits, do stealth attacks, and you reclaim areas of the city by destroying certain areas or doing missions. All in all I'm enjoying it up to now. Certainly be on the look out for any upcoming games they have. Fable 3 I'd already played a bit of on Bens copy. It's not bad, it's just not great. It's good for a lark though, and I'm a sucker for economy sims so being able to buy stuff and watch my bank balance go up is always going to make me a happy bunny. At least the PC version, unlike the 360 version, isn't constant "buy the DLC" "Buy the DLC" "there's some DLC to buy" mode every time you open the start menu. The PC version does have its issues. Which also include some weird ghosting in cut scenes (the FMVs look a bit higher rez than I'm used to in ports though, it's fuzzy sure but it doesn't look sub-HD). Oh I've also being playing Bulletstorm, but I find I can only do it in half hour stints. It's a bit OTT for me otherwise. Bulletstorm is good though. I quite like the trick shot part of it. It makes it fun, unlike something like a MW campaign.

http://www.pcgames.de/Fallout-New-Vegas-PC-231321/Specials/Fallout-New-Vegas-im-Grafikvergleich-PC-vs-Playstation-3-vs-Xbox-360-Wer-gewinnt-794781/galerie/1447828/ For those without Chrome or German skills you want to click "Bild in Originalgröße" for the full size image.

First victory of a full game. As I do with most non-story based games. Which technically means I beat Atom Zombie Smasher with the slight problem that I completed the campaign but lost. So not sure if it counts.

I should maybe add what I was bought too I guess. Ethan picked me up the X Superbox. As I told him this morning: Metalcaveman picked me up Batman Arkham City Duke gave me The Ship Squishpoke got me "Secret of the Magic Crystals" which got forwarded to my little sister. And "other Johnny" (from steam chat) just got me Costume Quest "For treating me like an actual human being" And Mr Goh got me the previously mentioned bunch of stuff I posted in the santa thread.

hit "F" while selecting stuff in the main menu. Hit Q to bring it up in a battle. While hitting Q you can also pass over the items you want and his 1-0 to add them to your hot keys.

I need to update it some but: http://dl.dropbox.co...nts/Backlog.txt Actually you can tell its not been updated for a while cos I now own both games in the "to buy" and one of the 360 games I now own on PC (and will potentially be my first game to beat of 2012)

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4862 Tweak for the favourites menu. Does kind of making it basically a secondary spell/items menu. Rather than something quick.

As soon as someone beats something in 2012, they're free to start the thread.

http://www.xpgamesaves.com/topic/10646-converting-fallout-pc-saves-to-xbox-360/ Fallout 3, Oblivion n Skyrim too iirc.

And when you get banned...

http://pressxordie.com/2012/01/01/press-x-or-die-game-of-the-year-2011/ We've chosen our GOTY (We chose it a while ago, just needed Dave to come along)