In this case, one of Fallout 4’s rare “talking your way out of it” options broke down because the player tried going through the entire game in a peaceful manner.

JayDeath wrote on Dec 11, 2015, 13:21:
CS was so great during the beta years. What the hell happened?

ByteCrawler wrote on Dec 4, 2015, 10:36:
They needed to make a sequel of this game. Instead they piss away resources on a remaster. What a bust.

Bradley wrote on May 18, 2015, 10:50:

nin wrote on May 18, 2015, 08:52:
Anyhow, I fail to understand how new set of drivers could have anything to do with "marketing", please enlighten me.

Presumably they could be releasing a new driver that is unchanged from the previous driver to make it look like they are responsive to new games and are actively working on providing great support. The placebo effect and relative difficulty in actually quantifying graphical improvements will make people think that Nvidia is "The Bomb" or whatever you young people are saying these days.

The first lesson is: Nearly every game ships broken. We're talking major AAA titles from vendors who are everyday names in the industry. In some cases, we're talking about blatant violations of API rules - one D3D9 game never even called BeginFrame/EndFrame. Some are mistakes or oversights - one shipped bad shaders that heavily impacted performance on NV drivers. These things were day to day occurrences that went into a bug tracker. Then somebody would go in, find out what the game screwed up, and patch the driver to deal with it. There are lots of optional patches already in the driver that are simply toggled on or off as per-game settings, and then hacks that are more specific to games - up to and including total replacement of the shipping shaders with custom versions by the driver team. Ever wondered why nearly every major game release is accompanied by a matching driver release from AMD and/or NVIDIA? There you go.

Suppa7 wrote on Jan 30, 2015, 11:00:

BitWraith wrote on Jan 30, 2015, 10:31:
What's wrong with Hearthstone?

Be prepared when all these online only games go offline permanently. i.e. there's going to be a giant gaming whole in history because of kids feeding this online/f2p/mmo bullshit where companies own the fucking game. You won't be able to go back and play old games when you got the itch. The below is just one example.

F2P game Driftopia goes offline

Cutter wrote on Jan 12, 2015, 10:09:
That conflicting link doesn't work, Blue - session expired. But yeah that's weird. My guess is Blizzard will probably just throw money at them and buy it out.

Dmitri_M wrote on Jan 8, 2015, 18:31:
The Steam Machine reminds me of some obscure Taiwanese tech manufacturer releasing a ready made gaming pc. It shows up at some random tech conference. Gets a few fluff pieces previewing it by tech journalists who only use macs. Perhaps a booth babe leans on it and pouts. They sell 200 units. The rest are bargain binned or end up in some Chinese village being melted down for iron. The success of steam as a digital in home Atm has led to some misguided hubris in the valve office. Now they're trying to install a physical atm too. Steam is nice. Steam Machine is pointless.

LittleMe wrote on Jan 6, 2015, 14:12:

D_K_night wrote on Jan 6, 2015, 12:23:
A dedicated LoL line? What does this mean for Net Neutrality?

Very likely prohibited under Net Neutrality since it would give special, preferential treatment, to the game's traffic flow.

Net Neutrality is more about 'fairness' than innovation.