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Sunday, Mar 03, 2013

Steam Top 10

Here's this week's list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam:

  1. Tomb Raider
  2. BioShock Infinite
  3. Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Revolution
  4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Season Pass
  5. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  6. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn
  7. Arma II: Combined Operations
  8. Sniper Elite - Nazi Zombie Army
  9. Mark of the Ninja
  10. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Op Ed

NowGamer - The Games Industry Hates Gamers And It Needs To Change.
With rumours flying of Xbox 720 and PS4 blocking out second-hand games entirely (no more lending FIFA to your mates) or requiring a constant net connection (sorry, non-fibreoptic users – upgrade your modems already), it seems the games industry is perfectly placed for this same struggle between what publishers want and what gamers – the games buyers – are prepared to accept. We spoke to Sony’s Fergal Gara, who seemed to suggest Sony might well do it.

Even this week, EA revealed it plans to introduce more micro-transactions because gamers ‘enjoy and demand’ them.

We don’t.

Sunday Previews

Game Reviews

Hardware Reviews

  • Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Case on Hardware Secrets.
  • Intel Core i5-3470, Core i3-3240 und AMD A10-5700 on Technic3D. In German.
  • Toshiba STOR.E SLIM 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive on Nikk Tech.

Out of the Blue

I had an unfortunate case of bad judgment come back to haunt me after overestimating the capabilities of our plumbing. As I've mentioned before, part of the dogs' diet here in the BlueTower are raw chicken wings, as they are quite capable of safely chewing through wing bones as long as they aren't cooked (which makes them quite brittle, and quite hazardous to eat). Faced with the unusual circumstance of a couple of uneaten wings, I absent-mindedly decided flushing them would be preferable to putting them in the garbage where they would putrefy. There's probably no need to explain further that this ended up resulting in a flood... made all the more dramatic by the several hours that passed between the wing disposal and the follow-up disaster flush. I managed to mop things up and clear the clog without the assistance of a plumber, so it could have been worse, but I think I have safely learned a lesson against doing something that I'm guessing most people would have been smarter about avoiding in the first place.

Flooded Links: Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play: Pour the Fish Level Pack.
Links: The 6 Most Absurd Product Placements in Video Game History.
Stories: The CW is Reviving Whose Line is it Anyway?
Science: How we could stop a meteor hitting Earth. Thanks Slashdot.
Media: Designated Driver's Revenge. Wait for it.
Massive Snowmobile Jump HD.
A handy guide to pickpocketing.
Project Snooker- Real Game Detection - Testing.
The Funnies: EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - You lied to me!
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