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I was rather confused the other day when...Duke I think it was, said the RPS comments aren't that great. (The actual system itself is another matter mind)

Well I used my PXOD account to email 'em yesterday about the adverts. The reply today is essentially "what adverts?". So that's off to a good start. I also had a scout of the patch notes and there's nothing I can see regarding adding adverts, which either means they didn't feel like adding that to the patch notes, or it's something built into the game since launch and only just now activated. Personally my dislike for the adverts is 1. There was no prior word that the game would be running adverts, and there's still no official word from either Eidos or SE that the games are currently running adverts n why. Even though it's absolutely garish the Peacewalker stuff was at least known about upfront. So it does feel very dirty and underhanded. As others have pointed out about the main reason they'd keep quite and only activate the ad's a few weeks after launch is to avoid it being detrimental to review scores. 2. Adverts generate money for the publishers, money on a game that at least 2 million people have bought. That should generally cover the cost of the game. Normally adverts subsidize the cost of a game, in Angry Birds case it subsidises it to the price of free. If The Missing Link is going to be free DLC paid for by the adverts then hoorah. But I have a feeling it won't happen (I can enquire in my reply back to SE) 3. As has been pointed out in-game advertising, which isn't unheard of, would have been possible. There's a couple of billboards around Detroit at the very least. Even if you don't make coke vending machines that are used to murder cops with you can still fit unobtrusive adverts in. 4. Loading screen adverts slow down the game. And even on a non-technical level adverts in loading screens present a financial incentive for longer load times as it increases exposure. You don't want to put your advert on a loading screen that's over in less than a second. It's not suddenly making Human Revolution a shitty game, it is however a black mark against Square for implementing it in this fashion. And remember: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/09/actually-its-okay-to-complain/?

just keep in mind that we do run one-off guest articles: http://pressxordie.com/category/guest-2/ Which for rockyran became 2 then 3 then joining up fully. So if you just feeling like doing a spot of writing on some topic close to the heart, don't feel you need to be all signed up n stuff.

Well what would you want to be doing?

http://pressxordie.c...writers-wanted/ They're being hired faster than they can be replaced. So, any interest? In other news: congrats Cyber.

Are you at me or Windows? Window 8 very clearly defines them as separate things. Windows 8 is almost 2 different OSes in one. I will say if you're fine with Windows 7, and won't be getting a tablet or touchscren PC soon (and if Win 8 doesn't bring in a new DirectX) then you can quite safely skip it. It's Windows 7 with Windows 8 bolted on top, and Windows 8 is for tablet PCs n stuff like that. Useless on a desktop pretty much.

http://mintywhite.com/windows-7/install-windows-8-virtual-machine-virtualbox/ Followed these instructions and I also got the version with all the bells n whistles (It's the top link on the MSDN download page, includes the Metro SDK, example apps, Visual Basic, Expression Blend etc) Here's a bunch of screens I took: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2066351/1/Windows_8?h=925ee1 Feel free to ask questions. Oh I currently can't run any "apps" except Visual basic which is more program than App.

Why would you want to bend your handheld that much in the first place?

Given the tech inside it's quite nice that it's battery life is on-par with the 3DS. (given the slide pad requires it's own AAA I'm wondering what Nintendo put in the 3DS, a watch battery?) Longer would be nicer, but a quad core isn't light on energy use. It'll go up in time, the same happened with the PSP. The memory card is pretty disappointing though. I guess it saves having to teach people about class ratings on SD cards. Someone slips in a shitty cheap nasty SD card and find it doesn't work as well as a Class 10 SDHC card then sony get's it in the lughole. (not sure if it would need a Class 10 card mind, a Class 4 should do for most things). The price will soon drop, the price quoted is just RRP, and RRP for console games is £50 and they're always cheaper than that.

They also start at $80 for the non-US version, without shipping costs (which seem to only mention within US) And while it might have some nice ye olde buckling springs instead of mesh, it's missing half the features I want. (either way I bought the Sidewinder X4 this morning)

Microsoft Sidewinder X4 I checked back n it had gone down to £25, so that made it £5, so I splashed out a bit on delivery (normally go free) Also bought an iron: And I'm about to go n get a chopping board. (and rent, which seems I fail at setting stuff up on the internet cos the rang today to kindly tell me I've not paid the past 2 months. So for the last 2 months I thought my standing order or whatever it was has been working.)

They were extremely close together, and it's not like Hollywood doesn't have a habit lately of remaking foreign films. Even if the original isn't too foreign. Also nearly everything I'm seeing calls it an English remake of the Tomas Alfredson version. Including Hammer, who acquired the English movie rights. Given the fact it was 3 years between releases, unlike the hobbit example which was 3 decades and animated in a single film, I don't think you could say it was a straight adaptation of the book.

if he posted here it'd be even more obvious: http://forum.pressxordie.com/index.php?showtopic=172&pid=62378&st=680entry62378

If anyone gets this running on a VM will you give me a yell pls. I've tried both VMware Player n Virtual Box. Player comes up with a (new, unhappy) BSOD upon the "Windows Developer Preview" logo popping up, and Virtual Box crashes at the "Expanding Windows Files" stage. Looking about I'm not the only one.

Which thread are we in?

For those not into MC: A 2*2 pool of water is infinite. Ever bucket of water you take the pool is automatically refilled.

I guess I should make a point that I'm from UK and therefore US stores are a tad useless.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/game/ Class calculator is up.

Looking for a new keyboard to replace the one on the front page. I'm currently eyeing this up and given an amazon voucher n other stuff I have it's practically free: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0037KLSS8/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d0_g147_i3?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0NAHXR4K8TDEJNTW4GNC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294 However I am open to other suggestions, though preferably ones that can be bought from Amazon.

Oh it's not Game Maker as in the program, that was just the tag I used for the articles I was working on. Covering stuff like UDK, Source SDK, RPGmaker, and a few others that I'm keeping close to the chest.

Yeah Seuss if you're wanting to do this I'd look at other groups. There has been a few half-arsed attempts tried here in the past. It never really takes off. If you're wanting a base engine to start with I can maybe toss a few your way. I have a yet to be finished series running on the main blog that I have tons looked up but just a pain to have a spin with em all to write about them: http://pressxordie.com/tag/game-maker/ edit: wow I only did 2. Damn. Yeah need to get on top of those some point.

BUILD was today meaning: M-M-MEGA WINDOWS 8 BLOWOUT http://arstechnica.c...-tablet-age.ars http://arstechnica.c...tic-fingers.ars http://www.istarteds...art-experience/ http://www.istarteds...eloper-preview/ http://lifehacker.co...-8-in-8-minutes http://lifehacker.co...ew-in-windows-8 http://www.pcworld.c...le_tonight.html http://blogs.msdn.co...er-preview.aspx 2nd from bottom is news a preview build will be available. If anyone wants to give it a spin. (Yeah I just might) edit: http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2011/09/install-windows-8-developer-preview-on-virtualbox/ For those wanting to give it a spin, but not brave enough to risk a PC here's instructions on installing it to a VM.

http://savygamer.co.uk/2011/09/13/cheap-pc-preorders-48-for-two-games/ 2 PC pre-orders for £45 n up (it's £5 off)