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Never played heavenly sword. Was one of the games that housemate took with him to California few years back as entertainment. It's never come back to the UK since. And since Fringe came out ages ago I'm well aware I'm not one to get too fussed over spoilers, especially on TV shows. I've grown up with the TV mag spelling out the next weeks worth of TV, it's not really something I care too much about.

So after I finished all the Stargates n Smallvilles n House started to get stale I've moved onto this. I'm only 2 episodes in up to now. Very JJ Abrams-ey, which tbh not too keen on "The pattern". I think it'd work quite well without any overarching plot, but from my understanding that's just how yanks do TV. Loving Walter, great character. Not so much on the others. FBI woman is a bit stale. Obviously the head of the agency is probably going to be a bad guy and Massive Dynamic are probably a company who support Green energy n file their taxes on time. I'm led to believe that Nimoy is in this at some point late on, so always something to look forward too.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21105 Writing is a bit rough, n some points are missed and others split across a couple points, but all in all about right.

Actually on the US Site Origin stocks Portal 2 and Orange Box. Boxed copies (which is kinda weird) but Valve games nonetheless. Also I wouldn't be so confident on the Valve/Impulse Stardock/Steam thing. Don't forget Stardock sold off Impulse to Gamestop. Gamestop now allow Steamworks games on Impulse and I see no reason why Stardock would want to be self-limiting to only Impulse now it's not their baby anymore. Be nice to see Sins on Steam.

I guess my part time job of writing subtitles for video games comes out huh

I'd say it's minaly going to get use through the fact they have Sims. But I know a lot of people are jonesing for BF3 and won't be happy that they can't pick it up through Steam. I'm all for services competing with Steam, but a publisher exclusive platform that feels more like it's taking games hostage that presenting much incentive to buy from them isn't really what I had in mind.

No it was a mock-up someone made. Note all the background Task Tray programs running. (I wouldn't be seen dead with a 4:3 screen anyway)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-15-ea-origin-compares-to-xbl-psn-steam And there's the stinger n where it falls apart. Also what's funny is they don't have to pay any licensing fees to the likes of Steam n co, but their prices are still higher. How does that work?

Consoles do have this advantage. (Though the related disadvantage of only having one store)

Dammit just came to post about that: From what I hear they now lost 2K as a client. When a PR firm fucks up PR that's a bad sign. Also it's a real bad sign of where the balance of power is that this thought would even cross anyones mind.

They're going to play as close as possible to a 360 pad/ Dualshock as the Wii U can deliver. That's the dominant control scheme. Given that fair chunk of muli-plats don't tend to map to the creative applications of kb/m well I can't see them putting too much effort into them making much use of the screen. And if the Wii U ends up with the same userbase as the Wii the M rated 3rd parties will dry up pretty fast. Nintendo haven't been too up front on any tech specifics, but it's guestimated to be around SD. It's a 6 inch screen, it would be quite expensive and pointless to be putting in a HD display. This is the Wii U after all and I'd wager the apple won't fall far from the tree. If it's easy to port then you'll see some multi-plats running on it. But once the new consoles from MS n Sony hit the 3rd parties won't care much for it, and it'll be back to COD: Reflex and other spin-offs made by outsourced studios. It'll only be rubbing shoulders in terms of power for about 2 years. Also the appeal of the console drops a fair bit when they show off this new controller, and ultimately most of your game time with the console is going to be with your old wiimotes like your old Wii. Considering the fact that it's most likely the controller that's going to make it expensive (as they've warned of) it's a bit of a sour point that the major cost of the console is going to be something you can't much use. It would be like if even the base 360 came with Kinect regardless and it only properly supports like 30 games. (kinect on top pushes 360 from £140 to £245, quite a bump) Been able to do two slightly ups it's chances, though that would be something to have maybe been sure of when they came to E3 instead of being a bit unsure even among the heads of Nintendo. (Though this news is through Pachter, and everyone else seemed pretty adamant it would only support one and they'd never sell extras in store so maybe some extra confirmation needed on that)

I'd just go with Wi-Fi because it'll more than likely be much faster. I wouldn't really want to do anything but Turn-based shit with 3G. Also downloading games could be a bit of an bother too. My biggest Android app is Angry Birds at 14MB. Only thing on the PSP (never mind Vita) comes close to that are some of the Minis, though they tend to hover around 30-50MB area. Regular PSP games in the 300MB-1.5GB area. Anyone want to get that on a 3G connection? There might be a few nice apps that could use the 3G, but most of those I can get on my Phone. So I'm not really seeing much use for the 3G model myself. Most of the games are too big to download on the go and 3G isn't snappy enough for multi-player.

And they've started yanking games from Steam. One reaction: They are really heavily banking that people really really want these games so much they'll go through Origin. Given the current DLC ill will I can't see it going down too well. People like to buy games through Steam, if your game isn't on Steam it can have a heavy effect on sales. MS had GFW Marketplace and even they conceded to Steam n put up Fable 3. BF3 is getting quite a lot of PC love of late, so maybe it will work out for them. But it is a pretty huge gamble. Given they already had a transition of putting their games on Steam a year or so ago it's a bit weird their thoughts would change and they'd pull out again.

So with Steam launching their F2P collection and with a few guys on here signing up to Dungeons and Dragons Online I was thinking it may be worth setting up a game we can all grab and join in on. Free games work out very well for this because there's no financial commitment (most do have micro-transactions though) so no issue if you only play a short-while then hop off. It might be nice to have something for over the summer we can join in on now n then, play with each other, maybe set up a guild or something. So what games would people be up for playing? One main issue would be the need for global servers as we're all around the world. I'm unsure which ones do this. DDO does, and I'm sure Cyber may be able to fill us in on what Champions Online is like. Anyone with any experince on the otehr games what to pipe up? The poll is multiple choice, so pick any you're up for. The two FPS titles I added may have issues with lag and obviously to make more worthwhile would need coordinated events to play together, unlike MMO where it's not entirely required to all be online at the same time. But they're FPS so it adds a bit more variety to the list. Just something that's a bit persistent and free really, so suggestions are welcome. http://store.steampo...ee%20to%20Play/ http://www.ddo.com/ http://www.quakelive.com/#!home http://battlefield.play4free.com/en/

Not to my knowledge, not even mods have it as far as I know. Only game with tree growing I know of is Far Cry 2. Though not really a "plant a seed" kinda growing.

Didn't Oblivion have this (or was supposed to) in regards to how vegetation changed over time? No, Fable was.

Mini-wheats there wasn't really a need to get that sarcastic. Given that the Wii U controller isn't jsut a simple case of splitting off this into 4 different screens but adding extra functionality, such as the silent scope game they had going on which would be pretty much limited to only one person since the controller in that used the screen. Any multiplayer game is pretty much going to be Wii-like. What is the point of adding in this new controller if the majority of multi-player is going to be done with the old Wiimotes? I think there was one game shown off where in the conference it was pretty much said whoever had the Wii U controller controlled the multi-player/had an advantage through it by having the extra information on their screen. It would be like you having a dualshock and then anyone playing alongside in multiplayer has to use the DDR pad or DVD remote(that's an anecdote, we thought we'd try it. People on non-dulashock failed miserably) And they don't offer a bunch of play options. They offer all the play options the Wii already had, or a singleplayer/lopside MP experience, with the Wii U pad. Dev's are going to have to be really creative with multi-player to take into account that the main player won't have the same controller as everyone else, and most likely will just treat it as if the Wii U is a Classic Controller. In which case what's the damn point in it?

It is if Nintendo said it is. If they design the console to only use a single controller then that's all it'll be able to do. They do have a year to maybe change that, though given there will be a fair few games already in development for it I doubt there will be that drastic a change. Maybe some homebrew hacking later on, but if it's hard wired to only do1 then no matter the capability it's going to be tied down to what Nintendo dictates.

I'm thinking it's main advantage will be it will probably be able to actually put out full HD unlike the other two. But that's about it. Unless Sony n MS go a bit stupid then next gen will by moores law have quite a bit more of an increase than the current rumoured 50% or so of the WiiU

See there's john hurt with a penis popping out of his chest, and then there's alien rape with all the awesomely chosen atmosphere n noise effects to go with it. Though I have a feeling you're purposefully ignoring that bit and just thinking we're talking about the bit right at the end given your zombie comment. Despite the fact DoP mentioning it just a few posts up as the focus of the video.

Wow that's