That sounds like a load of bullshit. NO ONE decides to add PhysX support less than a month from release.

Well, the way Shacknews reported it it sounded more like they merely announced PhysX support together with the delay. They did not say that the delay happened BECAUSE of PhysX. I wasn't able to find the actual press release online, so who knows...

Also, according to Shacknews, the demo is not delayed and will be available tomorrow.

I'd much rather they worked on a sequel to Rune... now that was a great game, especially for multiplayer.

I second that. Gimme some lizards and a big hammer ;).

I hope they don't mess with the TIE Fighter gameplay too much. It takes some courage nowadays to release a game with some really long and tough missions.

But they definitely need to capture that TIE Fighter atmosphere. It was great to move up through the imperial ranks!

Oh man. That is sad news. I have very fond memories of the old school Ascaron games. I must have played The Patrician for hundreds of hours back in the early nineties.

Sad to see them go.

What the...? Blue is right: this is as vague as possible. There is nothing in that trailer except for some sound bites, floating text and quick cuts.

Reminds me of that Crysis trailer a while back. A bit better production values, but also no content whatsoever.

Calm down. The reason for this is probably that there is not much of a market for SEs on the PC.

Half the PC sales are digital downloads. So any special edition would have to be digital too, otherwise the market is already halved from the get go.

The other brand I've had trouble with was HP, but I know people who swear by the most recent models.

I also used an HP and a Canon. The HP was nothing but trouble. None of the components worked well and the drivers were horrible. Plus the ink had a tendency to clog up, even with regular use (and yes, official super-expensive HP ink).

I am much more happy with the Canon now. A much better machine: good printer, good scanner/fax, good copier and ink is quite cheap.

But then again, I've only had it for half a year, so maybe the bad stuff is still coming.

All I can say is that getting a separate printer and fax is probably redundant. While the printer is simpler, the fax still also contains a scanner and a printer, even if these components have lower quality. I don't think you'll reduce the likelihood of something going wrong - you will probably still end up with just as many problems, only localized to a single function.

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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says

.. and it took them only about a decade to realize it. It is strange how a bad idea that did not have even one logical argument in favor of it can survive this long.

Some high profile musician should sue his record label and the RIAA for gross negligence because their stupidity reduced sales of his music for a lot of years. Now that they admit it he might even have a case.

pre-purchasing either the Aion Standard Edition or the Aion Standard Edition

What, BOTH the standard edition AND the standard edition? :-D

If you played it before, why would you want to play it again?

Are you kidding? I have played through the first two Monkey Islands four or five times back in the day. And I can probably still (badly) whistle the whole soundtrack from memory.

You are right. It is like watching your favorite movie multiple times. Never done that?

That is an unbelievable price for the upgrade they did to that game.

I agree that it was probably a lot of work, but somehow I don't like the "upgrade". Probably for the same reason that I didn't like the graphics of Monkey Island 3.

1+2 had a pretty "normal" laid back style. Everything that came after that seemed too over the top. Monkey Island used to be really funny and those slapstick "look, this is funny" graphics just seem wrong. It is the difference between a really funny movie and some comedy tv show with a laughter track so that viewers know what is supposed to be funny.

I am not that excited about this. But if there is a demo I might check it out.

I submitted a storyline for Doom3 where the player learns that the BFG is really his family bound by body parts, that are wired to the gun with barbed wireb and that shooting the gun tightened the wires and caused pain to the dislocated body parts of his own family. They didn't buy the story;

It is good that you are not at all angry about that. You seem to have taken that rejection like a man!

They used the original code and only replaced the graphics with recreated high res versions. The reason why it looks a little dated is because all the animations still have the original frame rate.

But I don't care. Monkey Island is not about the graphics. And I think it has been long enough that I don't remember all the jokes anymore (I played through the original a multiple times back in the day).

So I'll definitely get this one. Just give me some cup-dissolving grog and a rubber chicken and I'll be happy :-D

This is fantastic news. Take-Two owns the rights to the series and can give it to a developer who will actually finish it now.

They should give it to Raven software. Then we'll have a good-but-not-great game that sells huge numbers in 16 months and we can all be done with it.

Its developers are too often arrogant and despise gamers

Really? Almost all the linux developers I know ARE gamers.

But Linux was never intended to be a gaming OS. That doesn't make it a bad OS. There are tons of things that Linux is good at - anyone who has ever run a server can attest to that.

Einstein was really on par with all of those others at the time, and in my opinion not as smart as some of the others. Most of his work consisted of putting together other peoples work.

And what do you think scientists do? All great discoveries depend heavily on the work done before them. Newton summed it up pretty well:

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The genius of the "great" scientists in history was recognizing both similarities and inconsistencies in previous work and being able to come up with a solution of how everything might fit together.

Windows 7 BETA vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD Performance Compared on TweakTown.

Argh. What a horrible page design. I hope I don't get eye cancer from this...

I heard the control is clunky and there's also the bad camera problem.

Yeah. That's why it is called Tomb Raider ;). Every single TR had these problems.

or

Tie Fighter....:)))

Yeah! I second that one with all the "begging points" I have left ;).

If it's still earning a profit, and will for the forseeable future, then keep it going.

In a company of this size there is a certain ROI level that is expected. If you are below that then the simple truth is that there are better ways for the company to invest the money and resources.

As an example: if most of your projects have a profit margin of 40% then you don't keep pumping money into a project that makes only 5%. You shut it down and try to replace it with a different project that meets these expectations. I.e. you take the losses in order to be able to make a larger profit in the future.

For a small company this is different, of course. There is just not enough capital to take the losses. You have no choice but to continue and be content with the lower profit margin.