Morgoth

So now that Greg & Ray are fired gone, I guess EAs top management can finally ravage BioWare like vultures ravaging a cadaver without any opposition. Expect more people leaving.

Game developers have feelings too?

From what I understand, the main people who worked on Riddick left Starbreeze not too long after the release. Articles that state "from the makers of Riddick" are somewhat misleading. Some of the key people, yes. They formed Machine Games which was later acquired by Bethesda, so who knows what they're working on right now. But if they manage to re-capture the same beautiful charm of Darkness and Riddick, I'm game.

That's why everybody also wants to beat her up I suppose...

Thief 2 with the new v119 patch. Glorious.

Brothers: A Tale of two Sons announced; from Starbreeze

Command and Conquer 4. Not even half as bad as everybody said. Sure, it's very superficial on the strategy layer, but so was pretty much every CnC game before, only this times it plays a bit different and the mission objectives aren't always a straight "Destroy the Enemy!".

It's not about the sitting position you blockhead.

There are apparently close to ~4Gb *.bik movie files in the demo alone. Talk about a screwed up demo distribution. And I suppose if you want to feel comfy in your recliner while watching hours of movies, this game might be for you. But that's not XCOM to me.

I wouldn't be surprised if the XCOM FPS will be closer to the spirit of X-COM than this little pathetic remake from Firaxis.

It was never supposed to be like that. That's not what X-COM ought to be about. "Comfy" my ass.

X-BOX: Enemy Known.

That demo was pretty worthless. It's completely railroaded that you can finish in 10 minutes.

The XCOM demo has been released on Steam.

They're not lazy, they just want to do things right. And that takes time. Valve > Starbreeze.

Finally they put Battle Realms and it's expansion on GoG. It's one of the most unique and underrated RTS out there. Wish they'd kickstart a sequel finally.

Why do people assume if HL3 will be open world, it will turn automatically into an RPG? And Gordon remaining mute is as holy to the HL universe as romances in a Bioware game.

Heh, because Gordon talks so much.

But it won't matter to you anyways 'cause it's gonna use that horrible and intrusive Steam DRM, right? And no, I think Fallout 3 was not really much an RPG to begin with. An open world FPS mostly, with some more options.

America's system is rotten. Heck, every country's system is a bit rotten (though America's more deeply so than many Western countries). But collectively, they all move forwards given enough time. That's one of the good things about globalisation. I do believe that the Democrats are a right-wing, capitalism-centred party (fairly closely akin to the Conservative party in the UK). However, I disagree that they're outright owned and run by corporations, as the Republican party is. The Democrats also don't harbour the crazy religious wing of the Republicans, and thus can fairly freely propel forward social change, if not economic change. And this election, it will matter especially for the reason I stated above: the Democrats (the party with a fair bit of social freedom) will have control of ALL houses for at least 2 years (likely only 2 years, since voters are historically fickle). This is fairly rare in most political systems I know of. It happens, but because it means one party gets unchecked power until the next election, people don't tend to give it to a single party for very long. So I strongly disagree. It does matter. I guess I am assuming that with control of both houses and the executive, the Dems can pull off some decent policy. Well, if they can do anything about greenhouse gas emissions in the US combined with a continued push for wind+solar adoption (even if it's just a ****ing measly 5% to start with, like Australia's), then that's change I can believe in. For the record: Obama pushed hard on building loads and loads of new solar power stations towards the end of his 1st term. So there is history to back up my hope. That's really sweet and all, but right now Congress is infestated with thugs and old grumpy Vietnam "veterans" who don't understand the modern world paradigms anymore. Psychopatic misanthropist like Paul Ryan or even Mitt Romney who never interacted with ordinary people in his life (except from TV and briefing videos maybe) are being cherished for having a "hardliner" bigot-right wing agenda, and the numbers of their followers is quite a significant chunk of the US population. Now *this* is really what's worrying me, that they, the people and all the institutions and media allow these underachievers to even talk in such an arrogant way. Nobody keeps them in check, that certainly cannot be true democracy. Whether Obama or Romney gets elected will not change much, the agenda is already set. It's up to the Americans to wake up and claim their rights and freedom back from this feudalistic ****. And Europeans by the way don't just need to wake up, they need to get SHOCKED UP with a murderous defibrillator.

More Half-Life 3 rumors: HL3 becoming open world action game? If that's true they will **** Bethesda in the ass with that I asure you.

Exactly.

Why do people even care who gets elected? It's not changing anything, the whole system is rigged and rotten to the core.