Wrath of Dagon

Kapryshyn to write a book about what happened to Revan: http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20110422 I guess that's what we get instead of KOTOR 3, thanks Bioware.

Quantum teleportation of light achieved: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2...anous-computing Not sure I believe this, does this mean they can transfer info faster than the speed of light?

No one cares, the publishers make their money in the West. The only way to make money elsewhere is to make the game there, and then you have to use different means to monetize it, like on-line microtransactions.

Little known fact: Old Xbox supported both 720P and 1080i. Of course there was only like one game in each resolution. As far as piracy, sure, it was always around, but with the internet it's a hell of a lot bigger problem. By the same token, piracy is a problem for consoles also, but only a small percentage of them are modded, thus console piracy is still a manageable problem. And may be there were "big" games in 2007 (that's 2 years after 360 came out), but they're all mainstream crap, only after 3 years or so is there enough diversity that I can actually find stuff I like.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that the new much more powerful game engines are only starting to come out now, Crytek, UE4, Id5, Frostbite. That should carry the current gen for another couple of years, and then they'll start talking about the wonders of the new generation.

Piracy is what killed AAA PC game development, not consoles. In any case, when the last generation of consoles was introduced, there were almost no good games for 3 years or so. Introduction of new consoles is very disruptive, I don't blame them for trying to drag it out for as long as possible. Tablet, phone games are fundamentally different short pick up and play time wasters, not real games.

New Xbox and PS not expected till 2014: http://kotaku.com/#!5794000/microsoft-...do-in-the-clear

The most common occupation for a terrorist is engineer. Just saying.

Yes. Because the best thing we could do is bomb the crap out of schoolchildren. ~~ My understanding is that this is about 24/7 indoctrination as Gorgon says. This kid is genuinely a victim of terror, at least in my eyes. Bombing is the only way to go after someone, that's for sure. I can see now how you guys got your empire.

Btw, the PC is limited too so long as so many people still run a 32 bit OS, limiting games to 2GB for years now.

Pretty sure it's BS, of course it depends whose lawyers are better. He was claiming the rights would revert to Interplay unless Bethesda lets them make the MMO.

Rage runs on consoles, so why wouldn't Doom with the same engine (and probably smaller areas)? PC only development isn't viable for most publishers.

The problem is the West is too weak minded to go after those schools, even when they're in the West.

I'd pay $20 for Portal, I think someone (Target?) was having it on sale for $30-$40 recently

I ordered a 4GB 360 on Amazon for $197, with which you get a $50 Amazon credit, then I ordered a 250GB disk for it for $52, free shipping on everything, pretty sweet deal!

If you said that to start with, instead of something like "the graphics are crap", I don't think anyone would've argued with you.

So you think your opinion is worth more because of your job? How conceited can one get? Please, tell us, how long have you worked in this field to gain this awesome knowledge that none of us plebeians can touch? Ten years? 20? I think you're a ****ing programmer with less than 5 years in the industry. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not interested in taking art advice from you. I value the opinion of a mechanic on cars more than someone who drives them. That sounds pretty reasonable. You would take the opinion of a mechanic over that of a race car driver?

There was a study a couple months ago saying drinkers live longer, even heavy drinkers. So I started drinking a glass of wine a day. Now this study comes out and says alcohol is a major cause of cancer, so I quit drinking again. Damn ****ing studies!

But, but, it's the greatest game evar!

There will be a whoosh bang like you've never seen before, just wait a little.

It's the bank that's taking the hit, actually to be more accurate the taxpayer.

Jeyne doesn't sound like Loghaine, Loghaine's main motivation was that he was a Fereldan patriot. The Legion sounds like the Templars. Liking what I'm seeing of the setting so far.

They do

That's similar to a skill check in other games, NV did that a lot.

Bioware is just a zombie now.