Mr. GOH!

Very well. The Reich accepts your surrender.

I liked Wolf Among Us much more than i thought I would. I mean, I knew I'd like it, but I came away impressed.

And so it ends. The Pax Germanica settles upon the world, and freedom rings in the beer halls of the Greater German Empire, from Kishasa to Vladivostok to London to New Delhi. America stand alone, and will soon be annexed, as their troublesome fleet is stuck half a world away. Good game, guys! Edit: You did a good job, P4, despite the wack-ass transport interface. Things would have gone quite differently had Ethan sent an army to Africa or Southern Europe. We were all getting our bearings this game, anyway.

Civil War is a lame comic book name, true.

"Days of Future Past" is a ridiculous nonsense phrase. That is all.

My guess is that it will be a combo, if Nintendo is really going down this route. Some games may gets demos, while others get a sort of neutered not-demo, but not really a separate game kind of thing. This is exactly the sort of half-measure that I think will not work very well at all for the Wii U. Imagine if Candy Crush stopped you at level 10 and asked that you buy a $300 console to continue. Ridiculous. This might, however help the 3DS, though only a bit, I'd wager.

It was a valiant fight, but the scourge of communism has been banished from Moscow. The peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia can breathe easier knowing that they are now beyond Comrade MaliciousH Stalin's bloody grasp.

How many Skylanders-type games can the market support?

Depends on how big you were already, Chewie. In a normal cardio workout, a man can sweat approximately 1 pound of water per hour per 50lbs of his bodyweight. A 200 pound dude can sweat 4 pounds during an hourlong workout. This varies based on the individual, and can go even higher. When starting a workout and diet regime, people usually lose a lot of water weight at first as their bodies get used to working out and shedding/replacing water more frequently.

I just make it my routine to go to the gym for cardio and weights three times a week. It's close to work so it's easy to stop by on my way home. The hardest part, for me, is starting a new workout routine because I feel so shitty after working out for the first week or two. I tend to stick with working out until there's a disruption in my life (graduating school, moving to a new city), and then it takes years for me to start going again.

Uplay works fine, since I was able to play AC4. I notice that sometimes the client seems to freak out and I get slow encode/decode consistently for no reason until I restart steam. Happened twice in 8 hours of gaming so far, with dragon age and civ 4.

It just means you should spend all your money on research, Ethan. There's a secret option that lets the US player unlock nukes, too.

Malicious: Ignore the reminder I sent you; thought it was a setting to remind me when it's my turn. Since you're first and this is your first time playing, don't worry about hurrying up. Take some time, read the rules, and confer with your team mates.

Me too, HotHeart. Some friends are visiting me with a brand-spanking new copy of the game and I'd like to get myself and my girlfriend up to speed.

In AARs, shitty visuals are a huge plus.

I prefer emails, but we can sort all that out in the initial burst of chat on the website.

Who all has played A&A before? And does the PBEM site have a team chat function? P4: feel free to give that email to the other players, too. Since this is a team game, we'll need to have strategic discussions via email.

Yes. My gaming PC is in my living room. My TV is my monitor and the coffee table my desk, for now. Although we have two TVs with cable, only the main TV has DVR capability because Time Warner wanted an extra $50 a month for a second DVR box. So when we DVR shows, we can only watch them on the main TV. But now I can stream to my laptop. I can even hook it up to our bedroom TV or, once we set it up, a small monitor in our second bedroom/home office. I have not tested streaming to the bedroom or office yet, but I think it should be fine since the modem/router has ridiculous (for New York City) signal strength; I get a "good" connection to my wifi half a block away at the end of my street. I did not expect to be able to play action games over in-home streaming, but it seems I will be able to, after all. It's not ideal, but it's far from unplayable. Edit: My main PC is connected by ethernet wire to the router. It streams to my laptop which generally is just connected via wifi. Edit: Did some testing this morning. Wifi is a bit wonky outside of my living room, meaning the hiccups are more frequent and last longer. Happens about once every five minutes for a second or two. Not ideal for action games. Since bedgaming usually consists of strategy games or RPGs, it's not a problem. When I wire the remote play laptop into the router for couch gaming while watching TV, however, it's smooth as butter. less than a millisecond input lag. Any slowdowns are the result of a slow decoder on my laptop, according to little fraps-esque overlay.

The whole Watch Dogs thing turned out to be an error on GameStop's part. But Nintendo is still fucked.

Thanks, Dean. You're the best. Link to the PBEM site, P4?

I'm game. But don't change the game just to fit me in if folks are set on A&A. I can sit out the first PXOD PBEM board game.

I'll be the 5th or 6th player. Gotta figure out what email to give you all. Edit: duh, 5 max. Dean reserved his seat first. Let me know when you guys start another board game by email. I spent a lot of time in law school doing this sort of thing, so I'd love to participate at some point.

I think he means the hiccups I mentioned. Yes, it's a shame Steam doesn't magically fix my kinda shitty cable company router, eh? I mean, when I stream amazon or netflix over wifi, it encounters the same sorts of hiccups, although caching helps cover them up. I notice mostly when downloading a steam game to my laptop when the DL speeds drop for a fraction of a second every few minutes. I had no expectation the same wouldn't happen with in-home streaming over wifi. I suspect that it will not happen if I wire my laptop into the router. I'll test it out this weekend. This would work just fine for me, since I plan to use in-home streaming when my girlfriend wants to watch DVR'd TV shows I have zero interest in.

Fuck if I'm going install Linux just to play a few games. It's all handled on the client. Gotta be logged in on both machines. Added bonus: finally being able to leave multiple machines logged into the same account!

GTX 570 in the host machine, a gt 335m (I think) in my laptop. It seems like the only bottlenecks are in the network, for me. The hiccups only occur on the laptop and not the host machine. It's fast enough in the same room that I can reliably use my laptop to control the game on the host machine with little delay, aside from during a hiccup. My router is a Motorola cable modem/router combo given to me by Time Warner cable. I was worried it would not work for streaming, but it's fast, apparently.