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Atari famously buried most of their inventory of infamous E.T. video game, often called the worst video game ever made, in a New Mexico landfill some thirty-plus years ago. Well, those games have been found.

Would be happy with an almost complete rewrite of SWTOR...

Not really advice, but brings back memories of the hyped Quake-killers of the late 90s. I think the big ones were meant to be Unreal, SiN, Prey, Half-Line and Daikatana. Unreal and Half-Life obviously did pretty well, SiN somewhat less so, and Prey had an almost Duke Nukemish development cycle and released in 2006. Daikatana is just a punchline. But yeah, I'm not much use since the last FPS I can honestly say I genuinely enjoyed was NOLF2. EDIT: And some old news headlines from 1998 verify my recollection: http://www.bluesnews.com/archives/jan98-3.html Some familiar names on the page there, heh.

The switches themselves are made by Cherry, not SteelSeries, and are commonly available - the vast majority of mechanical keyboards will have Cherry switches in them (some no-brand boards will have knock-off switches of the same design). The advantage of this is that you can therefore replace both the switches and the caps (since they're generic) individually. A place like WASD Keyboards sell individual switches and caps which you might want to look into (I've used them personally with no issue shipping to Australia). If your switch is damaged and not just the cap, then it's a bit more of a tricky fix which might need additional hardware (potentially messing with solder), but it's still within reason as long as the electronics of the keyboard aren't shot.

My experience with IWD2 was that I started with only two characters, and got to up around the ice palace-type level (no memory of what that place actually is), at whiich point it got a bit too hard for my tastes and I added two more to finish the game with.

Shouldn't the game be named Lost Beta then? I'll get my coat.

I have never heard of an Atom car. Based on the name I was hoping for something like the Peel P50, but alas.

But is it an lgbt-all-in-one table so everyone can romance it, or just an ordinary table that by being such promotes bigotry and exclusion of the minorities? If you implement romanceable tables, you'd need to implement romanceable desks, benches and kitchen counters, yes.

It'll be the biggest event in South African cinema since The Gods Must Be Crazy. Indeed it could be titled The Gods Must Be Crazy in Thedas.

A Let's Play video series of DA3 by Bruce would have to be classified as a romantic comedy.

I don't know Origin's policy on VPN, but the game is cheaper on Origin's Mexican storefront, yeah, for those who want to use a VPN. Amazon, on the other hand, perform no geo-location, they take your billing address country and nothing else.

It's taken me four pages of discussion to notice the typo in the thread title, I'm slipping.

Don't know anything about the game, but upcoming Red Orchestra 2 giveaway. One day only, starting sometime tomorrow.

I'd look towards the 'boutique' home media releasing companies - even if not to purchase, the range of titles they release will give you some very good ideas. In the US, most releases in the Criterion Collection or Cohen Media. For EU releases, there's Eureka's Masters of Cinema collection, Artificial Eye, the British Film Institute, or StudioCanal collection (which is discontinued but still available, classic titles are now folded into the StudioCanal classics line).

Titanfall is $37 on Amazon, I'm told it's a one-day only deal. Probably the cheapest available outside of messing with VPNs, though as usual you'll need a US billing address - just use the address of some random hotel if need be.

If you left out certain things, map markers for example, without changing anything else, the game would almost certainly be broken...because the designers assumed you would be using those "features" and didn't provide any other way of figuring out where your objective is without using them, (that's why, without completely revising journal entries to provide more hints, you can't just plain disable map markers in the last two Elder Scrolls games - you'd have no idea what you were supposed to be doing just from what NPCs say alone, and the vanilla journal entries are just as useless, if not worse). Too hard? Yes, because the game wasn't designed (sensibly) for it...which is what his complaint is derived from, if I'm not mistaken. Also because the exterior architecture in the game is utterly nonsensical. Take New Vegas' mystifying interior corridors and random right turns, and apply them to city streets. Madness. I mean, two of the major thoroughfares in the game that you'll pass repeatedly because they're the fastest ways between point A and point B are a completely straight crawl tunnel that goes underneath an apartment building for no reason, and the interior of a multi-storey brothel.

Unless they go back to large 90s style boxes, it's just going to look like a dude and a black stormcloud or other generic black blob. Heck, I thought they were bats on first glance. I guess that makes it versatile art, you could replace the text with any other fantasy game past or future and it wouldn't look out of place. Still, I won't complain that they got rid of the flowing blood motif of the previous games.

Not really experienced much in the way of movies so far this year, but I figured the long weekend was a good opportunity to fix that. Watched Milos Forman's Taking Off, a movie I had never heard of but purchased on the strength of one review. Forman's first American movie before he moved on to weightier topics, it's a wonderful comedy directed with a light touch, but beyond that notable for an almost everpresent folk soundtrack and low-key performance roles by Carly Simon, Kathy Bates, and also a performance by Ike and Tina Turner. What I noticed perhaps most of all, though, were the faces. A range of interesting, diverse and sometimes astonishing faces that the camera is all too happy to linger on. I get the feeling a fair number of the cast both central and peripheral were hired solely on the strength of their faces.

If you sold it by the litre the list price would go down.

A case where the TES policy of keeping entertaining bugs in (like Giant physics in Skyrim) might not be for the best. Frankly I'm amazed they launched with something as fundamental as the random disappearing horses bug unresolved. And stand-in voice actors for last minute plot overhauls? Wow. But yeah, manual account bans are probably the way to go. It's not like it's a competitive multiplayer game where ensuring 100% is critical. Account bans will probably be somewhat less effective once the game goes F2P though.

I think it's a bit optimistic in two regards - one that game devs will actually put in the effort to use the virtual cores, which considering how long it took them to support even four cores is questionable, and that the game needs to load the cores in such a way that there's capacity to spare so that they can hand off to the virtual cores in the first place. The way things have developed in the past, the limit in the number of cores a game can utilise appears to often be hard-coded to whatever the average hardware at the time can boast, few seem to have the ability or even desire to support a dynamic number of cores. And make no mistake, quad-core is still Intel's game for the next couple generations at least - I'm still wholly satisfied by my five-year-old, 2009-vintage i5, after all, so I have no confidence in Intel trying to push the envelope in the next five years. I'm not fully up to date with the current state of play, but I imagine some benchmarks comparing a 4770 to a 4670K at say 4.4GHz might be instructive. Simplistically, it's probably going to be a matter of choosing between the moderate but everpresent boost, versus the situational but potentially larger one. In the end, it's a gamble, but a pretty low-stakes one. The 1230 conveniently rules out the 4770 non-K, so it's a straight up duel with the cheaper 4670K. If I call the probability of HT being useful as even odds (though in reality I'm a bit more pessimistic about the competence of game devs), I'd go with the price advantage. But it's not really a bet you can really lose out on (especially given you claw a little of the money back from the cheaper H series board). One thing to note is that not all motherboards support the Xeon, so check the compatibility lists closely.

I have never heard of an egg battle and am disappointed to find that it's not a game of people pelting eggs at each other. Haven't done anything special for easter myself probably since the days of primary school, probably the egg painting and maybe hunting (can't really remember doing it, but I assume it did happen). In the middle years it was more a case of easter meaning extra work, a busy time for the family business. Nowadays I don't live near any family so I don't really do anything but catch up on housework over the long weekend - vacuuming the carpets, weed the garden, clean the bathrooms, etc. Exciting stuff, I know.

I was obviously a bit sceptical too, but the producer of the graph has owned up to doing so deliberately on Twitter, even if the defense is rather weak. (A personal preference to draw charts that way? Really?)

If you consider overclocking as not a big deal, then hyperthreading would be a fraction of not-a-big-deal. Sure as demonstrated in those charts, it's not such a big gain in GPU-bound games, but in other games you do get the full benefit. In contrast, just about nothing will show tangible improvement from HT. Either you care about CPU performance or you don't, and therefore you get a 4670K if you do, or a 4440 if you don't. I'd only consider the 1230 if it's meaningfully cheaper than the 4670K (over here it's about $30 more, at price at which I don't think would warrant consideration).

Loved Dishonored architecturally, bored by it narratively. They should farm out the world to a dev with better writers like Obsidian and something great might come out of it.