There was concern that Dead Space 2 would ditch the horror of the first game and move to a more violent, action-oriented style. That worry will pass within the game's first hour, which presents scenes of dread and tension very effectively. If you're scared of not being scared, to put it one way, you have nothing to be afraid of.

Creston wrote on Jan 21, 2011, 10:46:
Argh! I saw "Syndicate", and I'm like "OMG NEW SYNDICATE DEMO!!!!"

Curse you, German developers, for your nefariously misleading game titles!

KHAAAAAAAAAAN!

Creston

spindoctor wrote on Jan 19, 2011, 15:00:
I'm pretty sure Blur was 40$ at release. Price history for the game seems to confirm that too...

http://www.steamgamesales.com/view-history.php?id=1913

How are you guys saying it was a 60$ game?

Dunkirk wrote on Jan 18, 2011, 10:19:
So am I going to be able to play co-op on my PC with a buddy on his Mac? If so, I'm probably going to be buying one of those Steam multi packs...

Tumbler wrote on Jan 12, 2011, 12:38:
Consoles kick ass for gaming despite so many people trashing them because of control issues.

Dragon Age Origins with all the DLC is awesome on the 360. I continue to be amazed at how much content they shoved into this game before the DLC. I just did the mages tower missions, that mission alone was filled with stuff to do and then there is this massive dream area inside that mission, so many companies would never spend all that time making all that extra stuff, it's crazy. It's like these guys got away with putting WAY WAY WAY more content in this game than a publisher would bother doing, awesome awesome awesome. And I can give this to a friend when I'm done and he can play through everything as well.

Verno wrote on Jan 12, 2011, 10:36:
I bought the PS3, it's mine. I'll access it whatever way I want and if you don't like that then you can start renting your hardware out instead of selling a consumer product to people.

Finally, SCEA will likely prevail on its claim under §1030(a)(7)(B), which prohibits“intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value” by threatening “to obtain information from a protected computer without authorization or in excess of authorization or to impair the confidentiality of information obtained from a protected computer without authorization or by exceeding authorized access.” Hotz violated this provision when, in the same post in which the published SCEA’s Keys, he attempted to obtain from SCEA “a thing of value” in the form of employment: “if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me.”

Ratty wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 14:47:
I have no problem with tiered services or data caps as long as they are completely data agnostic. The consumer pays for more bandwidth and faster speed - fine. Let the market decide how viable that turns out to be.

Ratty wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 14:47:
But when the content is used to determine network priority that's when I have a huge problem. We're potentially looking at content-based packages similar to the channel packages we all love soooo much from our cable companies. Pay a certain amount of money to access Google, Youtube, and Hulu at high speeds and high data caps. But not Netflix because Comcast owns NBC and Hulu and Netflix competes with its own Pay Per View service. Netflix would be part of a "premium" package because they refused to pay some exorbitant fee.

Because of all the weasel words and loopholes, I don't see anything in this legislation that would prevent that.

Beamer wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 12:59:
you cannot get top of the line picture quality without 3D. It does not exist.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 11:02:
FYI, www.woot.com has the 250gb HD for xbox for 49.99 with a transfer kit. Great steal if you have an older one like me.

El Pit wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 11:11:
3D tv is doomed, if Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc. can't make up their minds and find a single 3D standard for all tv sets. Plus: the current 3D tv technology is really, really underwhelming. 3D will be a blast as soon as no shutter eyes will be needed. Until then: niche market.

Beamer wrote on Dec 22, 2010, 10:41:

3D uptake is practically nonexistent right now and will be for the foreseeable future.

Sure, no one wants it, but it's in every TV released in the last 6 months. Want a medium to high end HDTV? Well, you're going to get 3D with it, like it or not. All the best 2D TVs have 3D built in.

Unless you're buying a cheap TV at Walmart (which a huge chunk of people do) you're getting 3D with it.

...

But that's because avoiding it isn't an option if you want a modern TV with youtube, netflix and great black levels.

Verno wrote on Dec 6, 2010, 11:48:
Unfortunately The Walking Dead is using the BBC episode format(6 per season) and is now on hiatus until next October. I can't imagine the viewership it picked up will necessarily stick around that long, I hope it doesn't end up getting Rubicon'd. I really enjoyed it although there are definitely some dialogue problems at times that are probably related to poor writing.

Haven't had a chance to check out Raising Hope yet. Boardwalk Empire has great production values but it seems to be all over the place and not really have an idea of where it wants to go. I don't really find many of the characters very compelling either.

PHJF wrote on Dec 3, 2010, 15:54:
Walking Dead had a good first episode (and I really dig the intro) but yeesh it's tanked. The writing is just terribad.

Verno wrote on Dec 1, 2010, 10:41:

Cram wrote on Dec 1, 2010, 07:12:
This entire console generation is dead to me at this point.

There were some great console games this generation, I have to disagree with you. I think there have been some huge disappointments as well, your list is pretty accurate there but that's nothing new in the industry. Uncharted 2 was great, Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake was highly underrated, Assassin's Creed 2 and so on. There were plenty of gems. I think it's more accurate to say that there were a bunch of turds that received way more financial success than they deserved.

As an aside though FFXIII was one of the worst games I have ever played. It is the highest production value piece of garbage ever produced.