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Oh yeah Portal 2. Thats on the tables for things I hope to beat when it hits.

Already mentioned how we were pushed from writing in cursive early on. But heres an example of my writing. Image is a tad blurry, sorry on that. If you want a really clear example I can scan it.

Also on older games that are free: GTA and GTA II Daggerfall and Arena (TES)

Hey guys we might have a new member to the gang. "brites-". Noticed me playing other week, recognised me from Kotaku so told em to swing on by over here.

Cranks fun, but it's not great. I'd say Crank the video game fits Yantes $20 assessment. Demo is downloading atm, so I'll give impressions later.

(aka Virgin or Sky) We have Virgin for our internet, but given that I don't have £30 a month to spend to watch a few channels at a time, it's mostly hinging on "costs notwithstanding". Freeview is built into my tele cost nothing but an aerial and has more channels than I'd need. Discovery is about the only one I'd want from Sky/Virgin.

Yeah the Orange Box is pretty bland, but I don't think the photoshop is much better. As for ginormous http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginormous Merriam-Webster added it several years ago. Oxford however afaik does not recognise the word officially. (yet)

Not good enough for digital. I do miss Dave. I assume it'll get better when the switchover happens, but for now it seems like it's an area that'll need an external aerial, and I'm not sticking one of those up.

@Yante: Not so much. There's provisions for allowing you to share with friends n family. Or mix tapes n such back in the day would of required loads of litigation. It's kind of a loophole folks try to use in courts. @TME: My mum n sisters tastes aren't too bad. Mostly just get the generic stuff off my mum, compilations n such, and my sister get's some of the indie stuff. I had a big HDD back in 1st year, we just kind of lumped our music collections together so I've got a huge variety of genres n such. It's also part of the reason I don't pirate much anymore. Years later I'm still whittling down those lists from the songs I don't like. Also on the TV front I guess I should point out I can't really get a TV signal, so can't really watch anything expect stuff online.

Still can't help taking those jabs at my music taste eh?

http://www.onlinegamesector.com/onlinefull/12215/icarus_proudbottom_in_the_curse_of_.htm via Rockpapershotgun. You fly and propel yourself forward by shitting yourself. Dodge birds, you have two lives.

I've not pirated any music for ages. Spotify has pretty much seen to that. I mostly listen to game OSTs n older songs when I'm out walking about, and I top off my library with whatever albums my mum n sister pick up. I grab TV series n such. I do buy some, but when it can be like £40 for a series it really turns you off. (For example I've only got the first few series of Smallville, if I'd got em all at original price on release it'd be about £400) Movies I grab too. Some I buy, some I don't. When we have a system in place that allows you to peruse at your leisure any film or such you have a mild interest in, then why not use it? Especially of late since I'd love to go to cinema, but it seems my two housemates don't and I'm certainly not up for going on my tod. So apart from going out and splashing £15 or so a pop on blu-rays on the chance a film can be good, I grab it from torrents. If it's good I buy it or add it to wishlishts. If it's bad I just toss it in the recycle bin. Sometimes it's bad but I know others who'd like it and I'll pick it up on DVD for them. I love just running a movie or TV show in the background while working. And I certainly don't have the funds to supply myself with 3hrs or so a days worth of movies/TV. iPlayer picks up the slack great, but even then it's not all great. Adobe are in a strange position where piracy helps them. It's their marketing plan. How many of you see adverts for Photoshop? (say compared to Office), or exposed to it at work? (also compared to Office). I bet most folks aren't, but it's passed around so much via piracy it's become a household name. I bet most folks don't even know there's other alternatives out there. So if say some small business needs a bit of photo tweaking or something, then if they're gonna pick up a image package, it'll be Photoshop.

It was the first one I threw up if memory serves. (ICO that is)

I've had it four times up to now: -When I first started -When it updated during beta (which also wiped my settings) I didn't play for a while until: -When I re-installed it -When it updated to the full game. So as far as my outlook goes it's basically throw up the tutorial each n every time. It should of really done it once.

Paxton used to show off his Revoltech stuff, always been interested in having a look at them. Don't even know how much they'd be, but they look pretty cool.

Same here. Looks like it's a link taken from a Tumblr account. Could use Smithsonian. I can't remember what the original image was to find an alternative.

Since it seems some folks didn't spot what I was getting at with the Okami boxart here's one that makes it a tad more obvious.

Caveman you needed to download the image then host it yourself, they take the images out their cache/servers after a while.

"This" as in the beta/demo. Which they also discussed a bit on the whole beta/demo thing where the two are used interchangeably these days. And as it stands since theres no PS3 beta we have no idea how well the PS3 version runs but this is their 2nd PS3 game, 3rd PC game and 1st 360 game, so maybe their skills aren't up to snuff? Potentially using features that the PS3 can take advantage of in the Cell?

Not ping issues, but fps issues. Apparently doesn't creep past 20fps. I'd test myself but Crytek seem to think the PC and PS3 versions run perfectly fine and of course don't need Betas/demos. (or EpicBattleCry theory: MS paid a fair bit to get this on their system, turns out it actually did need a beta)

So word on the street seems to be the 360 can't run this game very well. Bit of a bummer. I guess that maybe answers why the 360 got the beta/demo, but surely the PS3 can't of fared that well too? (though keep in mind Crysis MP is made by Crytek UK aka Free Radical aka made Haze which while shit, did seems pretty pretty for a early PS3 game) Wonder if this is why the game got held off? Crytek/EAs eyes bigger than it's stomach? It'd of been great if the engine worked fine on all platforms as promised. That Siggraph demo of the editor looked great.

See, I know as a € user you'd disagree, I'd say Steam is pretty good with prices. Even tkaing into account the increase on £ over $. But console DD is fucking ridiculous. If I wasn't the tin hat wearing type I'd almost suggest that they were purposefully sabotaging it.

Was mentionng earlier today how PSN version of Mass Effect 2 is £48. ($75 for those across the pond)