fawker wrote on Oct 31, 2012, 15:06:
Lucas just had a great idea and sold it well. He can't direct, he has a horrible touch on the franchise. By far the best film was Empire Strikes Back, which benefited from a "real" director.

Disney couldn't do any worse.

LittleMe wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 14:56:
Yeah get them conditioned early for a slave life of being tracked & monitored. They forgot to call any students 'potential terrorists' for not wearing their RFID.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 14:40:
The true winner of this suit:

"As part of the consent decree, Netflix will pay $755,000 to plaintiffs' lawyers who prosecuted the lawsuit"

SpectralMeat wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 11:22:

Beamer wrote on Oct 10, 2012, 11:11:
If you just want to put footage on YouTube and give tips, collecting money from YouTube's ads, then you can do that.

First sentence in that article:

Microsoft is tired of people earning money on YouTube clips of its games, so the company has decided to change the rules a bit

It is not very clear what do they consider videos that earns you money.

SpectralMeat wrote on Oct 9, 2012, 10:40:

nin wrote on Oct 9, 2012, 10:30:

I should just wait and grab Dishonored later

No! Grab it now!!!

The problem is if I buy too many games at the same time I feel pressured to play them, due to lack of free time to play games I become stressed, and I try to crunch as much gaming into the short amount of time as possible so I tend to rush through a game. From what I am hearing XCOM is not one of those games you want to rush at all.

As much as I'd love to take advantage of the 25% off GMG code and the $10 credit I got from them for XCOM I think I will lay low for a bit and grab Dishonored on the Christmas sale or something. I really want to play through Borderlands 2 also, it is such an awesome game.

Beamer wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 14:51:

Panickd wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 14:49:

Beamer wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 13:48:

Prez wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 12:37:
I absolutely loathe EA, so I am by no means defending them, but I would really view this as unethical only if there was a FIFA 12 on Wii and it was the same.

That's what happened, right?

It would be ok if it was released as a $20 roster update and not sold as a full game. For $50 it's questionable. For $50 and no notice on the box that it's just new rosters (and shoes) it's unbelievable.

Lets get real here: This is what EA does to all it's sports games late in a console's life. Sure they may mildly tweak a few features and change out the intro screens and annoying music to hide that fact, but essentially you're paying for last years game with an updated roster. The only thing they've done here is dropped the facade. None of the real changes are going to happen until the next gen releases because most of the development teams and money has already moved there.

Disagree - the usually at least add some new mechanics of some form. Or so I've been told, I haven't purchased an EA Sports game since NHL 2002.
I'd place this solely on them not valuing the Wii at all. I think this has nearly happened with them in the past.


edit - I stand corrected, NHL98 was the last EA Sports game I purchased. NHL 2002 came free in a box of Cheerios (no lie.) And the console interface made me go back and play NHL95.

Beamer wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 13:48:

Prez wrote on Oct 5, 2012, 12:37:
I absolutely loathe EA, so I am by no means defending them, but I would really view this as unethical only if there was a FIFA 12 on Wii and it was the same.

That's what happened, right?

It would be ok if it was released as a $20 roster update and not sold as a full game. For $50 it's questionable. For $50 and no notice on the box that it's just new rosters (and shoes) it's unbelievable.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 16:23:
Well, it doesnt seem he has the rights to Wing Commander or Privateer, so this will be no game in Wing Commander universe. So I am not that excited yet, because Freelancer was only meh.

SirKnight wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 18:54:
It's actually nip it in the BUD.

Nip it!

coldcut wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 16:59:

Panickd wrote on Oct 2, 2012, 15:53:
lol. GameMaker: Studio has Steam Achievements! WTF?

That's not so uncommon for developer apps There are achievement plugins / extensions for Visual Studio and Eclipse (that I know of). We developers want to have some fun during coding too

DeadlyAccurate wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 11:14:

Beamer wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 10:51:
I'm playing with a buddy and we've given up on loot sharing. It's too time consuming to stop and see if the new shotgun he found is better than the one I'm using. It may be, but even if so it's marginal enough that it doesn't warrant stopping and calculating.

One thing that helps us is for each person to choose a primary weapon they always get first dibs on.

NewMaxx wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 13:26:

deqer wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 10:42:
He already said he has NO INTEREST in selling the company.

No, what he said was, he would let the company die before being sold to "some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate." That is carefully worded to allow for many things, such as mergers on his terms. It's an important distinction to be made, although I still do an "lolwut" in reaction to this particular news tidbit.

Omni wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 08:56:
I still dont get what people see in this game and with ubisoft behind it.
I guess its a casual/dumb down version of Demon's Souls/Dark Souls

finga wrote on Sep 20, 2012, 05:56:

deqer wrote on Sep 20, 2012, 02:23:
Why not release mod tools and let us make our own DLC?

Because many companies believe that if you release it, you HAVE to support it, and few companies want to *support* mod tools. Many devs' mod tools are in an unfinished, broken state.

Plus, no one makes Gearbox stuff like Gearbox. This isn't Skyrim.