P4: Gritty Reboot

Barry?

I like your body mutated.

Do we even have PC game sales numbers, given that Valve doesn't release numbers publicly? Last I heard there were some 30 million Steam accounts, which is pretty sizable. I don't think you can really call it a "niche market."

From the beginning, Source was designed to be modular so they could turn games around faster (LOL). So they have replaced the shading and lighting and models and all that since the first game's release in 2004. Now, I'm not saying it will last forever or anything, but I'm not gonna sob too loudly if HL3 is released on an updated version of Source.

Can't believe I couldn't find a topic for this. Anyway, whipped this up over on Press X or Die and was curious what your guys' wishes/predictions were for the next Half-Life installment. http://www.pressxordie.com/2011/06/28/half-life-3-wishlist/

What are you even talking about? You need an emulator on a new system to run an old game, just as in the console world, where new systems have to emulate old system's hardware to achieve backwards compatibility. You're comparing pulling out 30-year-old systems to run 30-year-old games to attempting to run 30-year-old games on brand new systems. I could just as easily pull out my old Intel 486 and run games sans emulator. You're not comparing apples to apples.

I'd like to tie up a few odds and ends: Bit.Trip Runner, The Witcher, Bioshock 2, and Dragon Quest IX. EDIT: and DKCR, A Boy and his blob, Red Steel 2...

Oh man, love me some Black Dog. I spun the whole of Physical Graffiti this morning. Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbxcNZiFGB0

So I tried to work on The Witcher 1 over the weekend, but I'm having trouble following some of the sub-plots. I was tracking it on Wikipedia, but the guys summarizing the plots over there jump right into spoilers with no warning.

My wife has been replaying Portal 2 over the past few days, and it's amazing how fresh the humor stays. The lemon bit in particular had me guffawing, though the part where he says was still kinda sad.

I played some TF2 with ol' Dracosummoner from Kotaku over the weekend. It was... actually quite fun; I haven't played much in a few years.

Valve featured the decision on their frontpage. Pretty cool http://store.steampowered.com/

Peggle is $5 on Steam today. Also, this thread waits with bated breath for the Steam Summer Sale... any day now...

But, Mr. GOH, in a roundabout fashion, if readers leave, they aren't serving their customers--the ad providers--very well.

Kotaku, keepin the pageviews coming, already has three separate posts up about the Supreme Court decision. Reminds me of when Gizmodo covers the Apple events (not that they're allowed anymore) and there are some two dozen posts up, one for each minuscule announcement made.

What is this in Starcraft terms?

Man, they're so delusional (at least Denton is). They seriously believe the new site design is the best thing ever.

Hello again.

I have one. Good phone. It's actually 40GB total I believe, 32 on the card and 8 in the phone. Oh yeah, Our Newest Album Ever is easily the best one, but I already have two copies I saw them one time in Pomona a few years before they broke up. Really good show.

Finding Nemo has a fair bit of merchandise out here even now, but nothing like Cars.

Bridesmaids. Funny but dragged on a bit. It was good to see a comedy dependent mostly on girls that had a lot of clever dialogue.

Just shy of 90 Fahrenheit here, blue skies and a tiny breeze. Perfect.

Pool party at our apartment, played some gShift and Steel Storm for PXOD reviews, not much else.

http://proun-game.com/Buy.html Saw this on RPS