Morgoth

The end-user may not notice a difference, but it makes a difference for the developer. After all, many tools (XNA, Visual.Net) come from microsoft, and require DX to be used. It makes the lifes of developers easier to use a well known standard. Only Blizzard and Id are serious about making Mac games.

How does a nation, or region, known for it's excellent education system, result into self-loathing and knife fights?

Why should they use OpenGL when DirectX is the standard these days? You don't need two API's.

Well is it just me but JA2 looked already outdated when it came out. Currently playing Warcraft 2. Funny game.

Say Shadowrun to any mainstream gamer and they will think "What game?" is more likely. I'm pretty sure a re-boot could be succesful with a dedicated developer and some decent marketing.

They ran that trademark so deep into the ground with a single game that I doubt that any publisher would want to touch that in the next ~10 years. That's not really a fair point. MS never really turned Shadowrun into a well-known franchise. That this Shadowrun UT clone bombed doesn't matter, the game never really got any momentum for the masses, so any other publisher could risk a new start.

Well to be honest, I'm not very keen on a new Mechwarrior game. Back in the days, action/sims were quite common, but I don't see myself having fun trampling with a mech through some places...too unsophisticated. They better should contract Obsidian to make a Shadowrun game.

I never really got what is suppose to be fun by shooting holes into walls and stuff. Volition once made good games (Freespace, Summoner), but now they're totally mediocre and forgetable.

TFU was a silly button-masher with a lame story. Truly a Lucas title.

I'm replaying the Brood War campaign. I also intend to get Warcraft 2 at some point. Never got the chance to play it...

The Metroid games are pretty good though.

I agree, I wonder why they even make a multiplayer component. It's a total waste of money and time.

2K Marin is working on it. They consist of Jordan Thomas (creative lead, leveldesign god) and a bunch of other devs from the boston studio. Arkane studios are also working on it.

The xbox kidz will like it, but I don't care about multiplayer. Bioshock is about the singleplayer experience, first and foremost.

Diablo 2 Tribes L4D

PS3, since it's affordable now, and has the better exclusives.

Heavy Rain will be based on the Fahrenheit formula, but vastly improved. And I don't get what people mean about "Heavy Rain is about QTE only". That's like saying Half Life is about pressing the left mouse button only. Seriously, have you people watched the videos with Scott Shelby (the three outcomes). I know I liked what I saw.

The 3 factions have been reveiled: Templar, Illuminati, Dragons If you can't decide whom you want to lend your service, just take this test and win possibly a beta access for the future!

I think I once had an experience with a haunted ghost. I was 11 years old, and at home with my sister. Nobody else was at home. Anyways, I was playing outside when suddenly, for a moment, everything became silenced and isolated, and then I heard someone knocking on the window and then a girl yelling "Hello, Hello" at my grandma's house upstairs (closely neighboring our house). After this brief encounter, everything, the surroundings, birds etc. were at normal again. First I thought my sister was playing a prank on me, but soon after the spook she started playing piano from our house, so she couldn't be up there in my grandma's house. Hell, I couldn't explain it.... But my grandma's house is very old, and allegedly a girl once died in it some 60 years ago.

"Chaining". You let it sound like he hates working on TSW, which in fact he doesn't.

Sounds like an UFO spy thingy. They got marked. Now it's only about time when they'll get abducted!

Can't say, we don't know nothing about the game yet, but I sure as hell like the premise. Maybe it's a MMO I care to play longer than a week for a change.

So then, it's official: Obsidian is working on a Dark Sun game!

Yo people a new trailer has emerged. Click The Secret World will be present at the PAX 2009, which means from tomorrow onwards we should get new infos.