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...filing all this personal info. Send you Game Informer.

Anyway back to the issue at hand. If any store was to do this in the UK, or get any info from your card. Anything at all other than the machine sayign "they can afford this" then they'd be in deep shit. But as far as I'm aware you guys don't yet have the Chip n Pin technology. right?

"without their knowledge or consent." Come on dude, what's up with you tonight?

Man you're gonna be fucked if you ever get in a partnership. Co n Co

People who ask stupid questions.

Well it's a bit of encouragement isn't it? And what answer did you honestly expect? That they weigh it on scales that measures in hours. Ask yourself, how would you figure out how long a game takes to do an average play through.

I tossed it up in the News Feed but here it is any way: http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/84352/gdc-2011-dragon-age-ii-signifficantly-shorter-and-more-cinematic/ Their head of localization. So the guy who kinda has to know this sort of stuff. As for figuring out the game play hours I figure they..play it. Maybe with a clock running.

http://static.cdn.ea.com/crytek/u/f/crysis2/Crysis_2_Multiplayer_Demo.exe The Crysis 2 MP demo for PC is now out. This one has the rooftops map from the 360 demo and a port side map as well. I've set up a steam event for Wednesday/Thursday

I was inspired http://pressxordie.com/2011/03/01/so-long-video-game-trailers/ (Though I mostly used my comment as a basis) I'm trying to keep in the swing. I've lulled somewhat as of late.

And the numbers from Bioware themselves: Dragon Age: Origins 1,000,000 Words 1,000 Cinematics 1,000 Characters 56,000 Spoken Lines 60 Hours of Gameplay Dragon Age II 400,000 Words 2,500 Cinematics 500 Characters 38,000 Spoken Lines 40 Hours of Gameplay How come you now have a voice characters and the spoken lines has decreased? Nearly half as much too. But at least you have more video to watch. :/

psst, it's usually expected to explain your choices a bit too

I've ran Dead Space 2 via the survey the other day then Mass Effect 2 this afternoon. Didn't play much of either, seeing as one is scary and I've played the other. It ran pretty smooth, though at first, like menus, it's a bit sluggish. I think it tries to calibrate or whatever. It's certainly different to what I expected. I mean the home page doesn't give a shit about anyone actually playing. It's all aimed at developers,advertisers n content hosts. It's an amazing concept and I'm pretty interested, especially as someone running a gaming site, to see where it will go. Onlive has a dinky console and wants you to plug it in to your TV and play PC games like you watch Netflix. Gaikia wants you to consume advertising the same way you'd watch a game trailer. Why stream a video of someone showing gameplay when you can stream the actual game? It's the video game version of wonkavision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivqdpliyA0 It's weird because when they were first shown Gaikia and OnLive looked almost the same, but after Gaikia was shown off yesterday it became apparent their business models were very different, and I think both will be very successful in their own way. This screenshot pretty much guarantees it: @pirandello: as far as I'm aware they're not that much set up in the US, at least like how OnLive is (which is the reverse with OnLive where you're lucky to get a connection from EU)

http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/28/quick-shots-portal-2-kicks-gdc-into-gear/ Bunch of pretty pictures. I have a feeling GDC is going to lead to a fair bunch of Portal 2 stuff.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/28/big-screen-steam-valve-want-your-tv/ http://store.steampowered.com/news/5063/ Well er.... I guess it's always been coming, and many have called for it. RPS may have gotten the wrong end of the stick, but I guess we'll see later this week. I'm thinking it's more of the Steamworks on your console kind of thing like Portal 2 on PS3. Though a HTPC like support may be good. I doubt it's any plans from Valve for a console.

PSU is the most important piece. Without it nothing else works, and if it fucks up and dump a ton of power across all your circuits, nothing works either. So NEVER EVER skimp on the PSU. Get something branded, and make sure you know what watts all your parts require. Then go 100 or so above that. Maybe more if you plan on upgrading to SLI/Crossfire down the line. Surge strips also help. Though don't go too overboard on a PSU. Like you don't require a modular PSU. They're nice, but not needed. As for sound, it's to taste. I'm rocking on-bound sound and a surround sound kit I picked up from Tesco so you can see where I sit on that. (I want a nicer place before I splash out on a nice bit of sound kit anyway) I'd say for most people it's enough. Some extreme guys will get a sound card to save on CPU cycles and frame rates (like maybe 1/6th of a frame per second ¬_¬) and the rest get it for better sound. It's an expense that eats out of other stuff so you want to balance that. I think that's the main difficulty with PC build. It's a set budget and trying to balance the cash, do you want a good case with good build and looks, or will a cheap case do and you'll use the save cash for plasters(band aids) and a can of spray paint. More CPU grunyt or GPU grunt, which is really weird these days with GPGPU, Physx, CUDA etc. GPU pulls it's weight much more than it used to. Are you buying a pre-built, you buying the parts yourself, or going to a custom builder? When buying parts I go to http://www.ebuyer.com/ since I'm just used to buying from them. They've been great, generally good prices, good customer service, speedy shipping. But there's http://www.scan.co.uk/, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/, http://www.aria.co.uk/, and http://www.misco.co.uk/. I've only bought from overclockers of those. Wasn't for me though, was getting card for a friend. Very good prices. Misco are who my dad uses time to time as his work does them. They're more for supplying business, but do sell to general public. Means their prices have until recently shown up as exclusive of VAT, so be wary on that. But if you can get VAT knocked off then they'd be worth going to. Custom built I'd say to stay away from Eclipse Computers. Good prices (or where) but terrible customer service). http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/ I've heard to be good. Not used them personally, but they're site is really good to price up a rig and parts. It's sometimes best to build up a PC on their site then google the part and buy and build yourself. Then you know they all go together. Now to reply to Advent, who I meant to ages ago but then the thread went out of new content As I've mentioned to Thursday there's kind of three types of PCs. Most are "pre-builts" so these are from Dell, HP, Packard Bell, etc. If you're going into enthusiast PC gaming, these are to be avoided at all cost. They're pretty much single use PCs. Upgrade options are purposefully limited and they're over priced with branding and labour costs. Then you have Custom Builds. These are made by companies like that Cyber Power link. They generally use good quality parts, you can usually modify your system to your liking. But they build the PC for you, test it, install OS and set it all up for you then ship it to your home. You pay a premium in labour costs, but they're good for beginners without too much parts knowledge or a fear they'll fry stuff. You have the peace of mind in a warranty. Then the best and most satisfying of all, the self builds. These you source the parts yourself, though some custom builders can also ship you unbuilt systems for people who want the satisfaction of making it themselves, you can get them dirt cheap in sales, you know exactly what it going in your system, there's no labour or branding fees. You put it altogether, turn it on and hear the whir as your baby wakes up. If you're building for your first time you'll want someone along side you that has prior experience. Once you know the in's and outs you can put together a PC in about half an hour. But your first time is going to be a few hours, and most of it will be looking at a motherboard manual going "what the fuck does this all mean?" (it makes sense , and for something so complex is actually pretty simple), then the rest trying to find out why none of your sound and USB ports work, or why hitting reset button on your PC starts it up and the power button resets it. (Guess which cables dean finds the fiddliest) If you've got someone along side you make sure they're not doing it for you, they're there more to make sure you don't try to jam a PCI-E card in a PCI slot or plug your PSU right into your CPU power. And to help trouble shoot. If they do it for you, you don't learn. Also have some nice classical music in the back ground. No TV, it's distracting. Also that they're someone you can chill with, not someone who is stressy or bossy. For the most part they're just going to be watching you. As for pricing, depends what you want. The sky is the limit. More you spend now the better results you'll have with games and generally the longer it will last. I'd say if you spend about £700 on parts (not including monitor and OS, sorry I'm a student) you can get a PC that should run all current games on high and last you a couple of years before that starts to change much. Especially these days with consoles holding most stuff back. I'd say not to spend less than £500. You start to slip into budget land and buying stuff that won't run modern games past medium. Your first decision, for both of you, is if you want Intel Inside, or AMD somewhere (wtf is their slogan?). And if you're in camp green or camp red. I'd say Nvidia GeForce personally. They cost more than AMD(ATi) Radeons, but I find their non-gaming applications of GPGPU CUDA and it's PhysX support to more than make up for the slight cost increase. That may not be the case for you. The Nvidia line also tends to have better driver support, though Steam now does driver updates for ATi owners. So that's your choice. Sandybridge as you may have heard has issues with SATA ports (powers HDDs, SSDs n Blu-Ray) on the motherboards. MSI just started shipping fixed boards. So if you want Sandy Bridge chips I'd hold out a month or so for everyone else to catch up. Also check your motherboard has USB 3.0 support. Most should these days. Oh and you'll all want something like this: http://www.play.com/...ty/Product.html Strap on your wrist, clip goes on the PC case If at any moment none of this made sense just quote it and I'll expand. I'm sure others can fill in too on their preferences for parts. e.g I'm up for anything on MoBos, but maybe someone will have stuff to suggest Foxconn over Asrock or Asus over MSI. edit: holy shit, I wrote all of this?

See I don't much care for yours. It could maybe go in a sig. But it's not like you're repeating your username each time unlike others.

Ah, so when a racing horse gets a broken leg you guys think we're giving it injections?

I only use ~ as an "about/approximately". As for the wordy stuff, it's a bit of a pet peeve when folks don't just jump right to the point and obfuscate their argument in trying to push the average syllable count up. It doesn't give your argument more weight because you have used a word longer than antidisestablishmentarianism. Just makes you look like an ass that probably has nothing to say at all.

HAHAH. I assume that's aimed at Gerbil? On kotaku there's a guy called "AK-blanc" and he used to finish each of his comments with And I replied to him once saying how it's a bit of a waste of screenlines doing that each time since it was a comment section not a forum, so no need for a sig. And that unless he was writing a super long essay in the comment section and excepted us to forget his name by the end of it, there wasn't much reason to add it on. The reply chain between us went on for a bit but it's now So if you ever see that on kotaku, that's cos of me

I've been falling asleep playing FFIV. But that's because I've been curling up in bed with it on the purpose of falling asleep. I've not fallen asleep with it on though. Once I know I'm nodding off I'll just shut the DS lid. I maybe shouldn't game before bed, but I can read a book. Both just things to do while my body get's the hang of this lying down flat business then draining final reserves. As for sleeping I've been doing biphasic sleep recently(about 2 months to the day actually, I started not around new years along with my increased water consumption), it's not bad until you stop then you sleep more than normal in the night section But when it's working it's awesome. You can go to bed about 2am-3am, wake up at 8-9am and be actually awake rather than groggy awake, go for a nap like 2pm-3pm, wake up recharged n work throughout. No energy drinks or shit like that, and you get to cram in more work hours. Not going to be good for when I actually go into work mind. I don't think they'll take into account a hour long sleep session

Oooh go on. I'm always up for a bit of kotaku gossip. (Though tbh it's probably something I already know )

Wheelie Bin = In regards to pets (and sometiems humans- Jabs = Injections. Though normally it you jab someone it's like a sharp poke. You can see why the word is used for those two things, I'm unsure which came first.

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