we'll "get to" or we'll "have to"? It's all a matter of perception.

And please, where do designers get the idea that rescue & escort missions are fun when you're in the middle of an FPS? These kind of things do nothing but bog down games that are otherwise exciting, especially when your friend is being shot at and your game ends if he dies. God, I always dread those sections of games.

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These cuts probably won't transfer into actual pricing...see yesterday's geek.com news.

"AMD's official price cuts - On Monday, AMD snuck some official price cuts up on their website. There wasn't a lot of press activity and I only noticed it because of an article from The Register today. In that article they mention that the cuts are up to 49% off of AMD's previous list prices. Of course, AMD's list prices are far higher than their real selling prices. Even now, if you check out PriceWatch you'll see that the current low prices on there are about 50-66% of the "new" AMD list prices. So, even though the new cuts appear to be a 49% cut, the actual prices have been at that level and then some for quite a while."

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What the heck is a "senior US source"? I guess it's the opposite of those slacker US sources that just want to hang around and spark a doob.

The only way Half-Life 2 will be out in six months is if they stopped working on TeamFortress2 a long, long time ago and shifted everyone over to that project, in which case I think we would've heard about it by now.

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I think he asks for capsules, though I'm not sure. Whatever he says, it's pretty clear he's asking for something illicit.

Overall, the new translation is pretty good, but the voice acting isn't so hot. Tetsuo and Kaneda are both okay, fortunately, but Kay sounds like she's on Prozac. Compound this with the fact that the new subtitles are the neon yellow ones that are really annoying to look at, and you've got problems on both sides of the ball...I've generally been putting up with the dubbing instead of having ugly subtitles. If they were grey instead of yellow, I'd probably use the subtitles...oh well.

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IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!!!!!

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TetsuooooOOOOOOOO!
KanedaaaaaAAAAAAAA!

Too bad this verbal exchange has been redubbed in the new release of the movie.

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What kind of business arrangement did this company have with publishers? You'd think they would have simply been paid by the publisher to port games; I wonder how they could have wound up owing publishers money? Did they buy rights to publish linux versions, and then not make that money back?

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Does this mean we'll never see a sequel to Stellar 7? It can't be!

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It was a good idea while it lasted. Too bad GodGames will wind up "just another publisher" after all the effort put into it. I wonder if they'll stick with the G.O.D. branding; it'll be weird since an assimilation into Take 2 GloboMegaCorp probably isn't what Mike Wilson had in mind for it when he started the company.

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Glad to know that work on the incredibly unwieldy Xbox controller is finalized.

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So, effectively, there's going to be more multiplayer and higher-res graphics. Whoop de shit! Hopefully they'll increase the framerate over the PS2 version; that was the only negative thought I had about it. Considering I haven't bought a new PC game in almost half a year, hopefully this will be worth a purchase.

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Well, insert sarcastic comment here. Maybe Old Man Murray will review it...

I can't say I disagree with the notion of free games, though. God knows enough gamers are taking the pro-active approach to this.

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I'm going to find these people and FUCK THEM UP.

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I think "massively multiplayer" is going to be the gaming world's "dot com" in a couple years.

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"You'll have to forgive me when I send you through firing squads and land mines. I wanna feed you bad things. Rigged elections and force feedings are too terrible to think of, but it still won't be enough for all of you who's ever hurt me..."

Why do I always think of this lyric when I think about politics?

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