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Another one of Microsofts "Vision" videos. Always neat to look at. This one doesn't have a year on it though.

Tonight Matthew I'm going to be dressed as a member of the Thieves Guild. To be partying my way around Cyrodil while tricking and treating. The tricks being Open Lock, Detect Life and Ease Burden, and the treats being whatever isn't nailed down.

Yeah I'm gonna go with the fact that Todd Howard has generally refrained from ever touching upon the first half an hour other than to say "yeah that's the beginning of the game", and the fact that since we're talking Kotaku here it's most likely a major spoiler for the game so yeah let's not touch that with a 10 foot pole.

Yahoo answers is pretty much just trolls trolling trolls. If you want actual answers go somewhere else.

Is that in the abandoned warehouse type thing after a car chase with Roman, when you first get a gun(his gun)? If so, I had him go out the window too. Was a bitch to recover the gun.

I think it's a depressing sign of the times that it's both a general feeling of such huge amounts of wrongness that it can't just be put in a simple snappy tagline, and that it's generally being ignored and dismissed because it can't be put in a tagline n instantly understood. "What do we want? Womens suffrage/black rights/gay marriage!".So snappy and easy to understand. But "What do we want? A working representational democracy that represents the people of america instead of the rich 1%; to have the banks and financial institutions that allowed the recession to happen, to continue with fat profits while unemployment rose, to be punished instead of rewarded; to have corrupt politicians to be ousted or at least to bear their mark of their buyers, truth, justice, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg!" takes a bit of rehearsal and for subtitles to be turned on. I guess you could go with "what do we want? To fix everything!" but it's a bit too broad. With something like gay rights it's easy to understand the solution. You protests a bit, rise awareness, change public opinion, have laws written in, voilà gays can marry. With this though it's harder to find a solution. You can raise awareness, and it seems the public opinion is definitely sure something in general is wrong with US atm. But where do you go from there? There's no political solution. You're gonna get the politicians you reckon are in the pocket of the financial institutions (that could easily pay to have laws changed regarding protesting in certain places at certain times changed), to change their ways, to vote in laws that would punish their beneficiaries and hurt their pockets?. All you can do is vote on who represents you. The elephant or the donkey, same two every four years. What would change? Just one group of politicians for another. A protest doesn't make changes like this. You're looking for an R word (There's at least 2, I'd suggest the really long one that leads to a change of the C word that dictates how a country works) Of course it doesn't help that most of your media are owned by "the 1%" so it's going to be hard to get support there. And if police continue like in Oakland someone will get killed. And it will turn ugly. And it's on a flip of a coin if it becomes a major outpouring of sympathy to the movement, or if the resulting riots that will happen make it easier to paint the whole thing (no matter how small a fraction involved) to be bad. The weather is turning, it's going to be harder to stay out n camp. I think that'll tell you who is dedicated or not. Oh and the fact that unemployment is one of the issue does lend a healthy amount of supporters with the time to dedicate to camping out. So that's handy I guess. (Though it seems like some Americans I've seen are quite happy to mock and dismiss unemployed people as some kind of sub-class. Quite disgusting)

By the time they hit it should really be up to DX12 level(It comes out with Win8). And that's the important distinction. Only the 360, as an MS product, actually uses DirectX. PS3 uses a tweaked version of OpenGL, as does the Wii.

I think the problem with posting verbatim from a forum is that 1) up until NeoGAF changed the TOS a few hours ago it wasn't really something either party could do, and hte forum poster had/has no choice in the matter. Kotaku now generate earnings off what a random form poster has said on a totally unrelated site. 2)It's a forum post, it's something meant for discussion. It's not an article like posting from RPS. It's like taking photos of a play park and just showing presentation slides of it to kids during breaktime. It's a bit against the point of forums It's entirely one sided to Kotaku. NeoGAF are unlikely to get many hits in returns, and it's unlikely to spark much more discussion on their due to the NeoGAF registration process. And hte NeoGAF posters themselves don't seem to get much say on if their posts get lifted to be posted on kotaku or not which isn't going down so well. Anyway do you have any idea how many people from Kotaku even bother to sign up to forums?

Or, as a few NeoGAF folks pointed out, it's just formalising what they already do They run the daily speakup posts, they republish other sites, they've now started doing few paragraph long Yes/no reviews, they've been running those tweet length articles for ages. And now republishing forum posts. Anything that maximizes the amount of content, (and page hits and therefore ad revenue) while minimising the overall workload is always awesome.

The level editor. Looks sweet n really piss easy if it's gonna be like this.

http://www.neogaf.co...ad.php?t=450058 It's somewhat odd to re-publish NeoGAF posts when the impression I get is that if Kotaku was to go down in flames one day NeoGAF would petition to have it made a national holiday. edit: eeep, someone did some TOS digging: edit2: And apparently the TOS has now been tweaked in reverse. that's never going to be pretty.

Anyone here off to MineCon? (Since they've just tweeted it's only 4,500 people, which is tinsy, I'd say statistically chances are low, but you never know)

So some folks recently discovered http://www.steamcalculator.com/ and gone "wow I've spent $1570.05 USD on Steam" when in reality you've spent $498. It's not very good as it just looks at your library and then adds up the current price of the games you own. So if you got it in a sale for 80% off that's instantly going to inflate the value Steam Calculator comes up with. For example for me it starts off right away with Alien Breed 2: Assault for $10. I got it free with my Summer Camp tickets. It also adds stuff like HIB games you've added and any games you've been gifted and all that. To get the actual amount you need to go to your Account. you can either follow this link and sign in (beware Steam Guard will kick in) or hit up the link in the top right hand side of the Steam client that says Username's Account. Then on this page click the "Store Transactions" link and voila: http://dl.dropbox.co...s_account_2.png Then open up Calc and work it out to find the true amount you've spent. You can include what you've gifted too, though most likely with these it may be to pay off someone who gifted to you. A bonus with combining your account page n Steam Calculator site is you can figure out how much you've saved. In my case about $1000.

Same, something to do before Skyrim.

How would Origin know if the Battlelog website is down though? IF your PC has no internet at all that's easy enough to tell, but if a remote website is down or inaccessible then only your web browser will be returning the 404 or whatever. Unless the EULA clause about scanning your computer involved checking what your web browser is doing in which case Origin can GTFO out of my PC. btw those of you with BF3 servers hit me up (if you want) can maybe toss them up on either/both PXOD n the steam group.

Using images out of catalogues is cheating.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-27-ea-announces-major-third-party-support-for-origin Thing is Saint's Row Third is a Steamworks title (hence it not being sold in the UK Steam(see other posts I've made regarding this)), so how the fugg does that work with Origin?

I think Thursday was getting at when releasing the full games. For example DA: Awakenings in UK (maybe Europe too) on PS3 was only released on PS Store. No disc counterpart you could pick up. It was £37. £3 less than buying DA:O new at launch. I will agree that it's not like MS don't cock it up on Marketplace too. Even gave a statement how the increased cost is for the "convenience"

(Does mean you can chop its head off as there will be no restrictions)

I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't, but at least they look cooler this time. Though from what I understand, there is a special Dragon armorset, so at the very least, that's +1 armor option than there was in Oblivion. My biggest gripe about the armor wasn't the lack of options, it was the lack of options per "level" of armor. Beginner of light armor always wore leather and worked their way up to elvish and blah blah blah. Everybody ended up looking the same when they maxed out. From what I've gathered they've massively overhauled the levelling system, so I think with this you're not going to end up with set armour for certain levels.

HAHAH. As I wrote it out I was going to put that in on the end but felt it'd be odd with saying Hoffman had great lines. Personally one of my favourite lines:

Was gonna ask if that's Maddox of "best page in the universe" but then I noticed he has a count down for the book http://maddox.xmission.com/

Someone took the G4 video, re-cut, and then removed the crap commentery in favour of "epic music". Beware it's hugely spoilerific. Or you could have this for non-alan wake music http://tubedubber.com/#Nm80VuP1q0I:xBSiIeu1Yg8:0:100:0:0:1 (Slight problem of not lasting as long)