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Yeah, but it showed early. The Flyers played better all series. I don't know where they (Flyers) get that intensity from! Sometimes they remind me of the Red Army back in the eighties (obviously not as skilled), the way they keep coming and coming and coming, always having a guy with speed coming into the puck zone. It's pretty fun to watch, even though I am no big Philly fan.. to put it lightly.

+1 But it's more fun this way. The refs are a part of the game too! Sometimes you catch the breaks, sometimes you just want to kill them.

Yes, there is a huge gap in price between the outgoing models and the new arrivals. But when I rebuild a computer, I usually start with reading up on PSU's (since those will last over several computers). After that, I go for the motherboard. I try to look ahead as much as possible, to see what's coming up in the foreseeable future and choose my motherboard after that. For example, when I bought the Abit I am using now, it was one of the very first boards with an e-SATA connection (and only one IDE port..). I also made sure that the CPU socket was something that was in the long time road plans for Intel (which I decided to go with). Needless to say, it was cutting edge at the time and cost me almost $400.. But it's still usable and the only thing it can't handle is DDR3, so I think it was worth it. I will upgrade my computer one more time before switching motherboard (faster CPU, 4GB->8GB, faster GPU). If you're not interested in SLI/Crossfire (Don't laugh! The 48X0 series is on it's way, it might be good!), then I imagine the P35 is a good enough choice. Just make sure you get the features you think you'll need so you don't paint yourself into a corner. Asus has a few solid motherboards using the P35. This is the one I bought when I built my mom's computer last Christmas: ASUS P5K PRO No, I would say that was definitely not it. If the motherboard couldn't supply the GPU with what it needs, the computer would just crash and/or artefact your graphics. But I've read about certain Nvidia card manufacturers having heat problems because of using cheap memory modules. You don't happen to have an eVGA GPU by any chance..?

Check the manual. Fnar fnar.

Everything looks good, except I wouldn't buy that motherboard. It's based on the Intel P35 circuits, which is getting rather old. Also, I don't think it supports SLI or Crossfire (if you ever feel like upgrading again easily by just adding another GPU).

Go to a gym and pick up some light barbells. Position your underarms on a bench with your hands hanging out on one side (like, kneeling in front of the bench with your arms rested on top of the bench and hands hanging out on the other side). Gently roll the weights from the palm of your hands to your fingertips and then roll them back up again. Repeat ad nauseum. Then twist your arms so your palms face downwards and do the same rolling motion again. Repeat until you puke.

Any word on the Eidos/Gerstmann incident..?

Damn, out of edit time. But still.. Four Swedes, EIGHT goals for Detroit! That's pretty amazing!

Samuelsson, Holmstr

Great game by the Rangers and Lundkvist tonight! Why haven't they played with that stability the entire series? They smothered all that speedy intensity of the Penguins and capitalized on their own chances. Jagr may not be the Jagr of old, but damn is he still good! Oh, and it was fun to at one point in the game see both Crosby and Malkin in the penalty box at the same time :D

But will there be pixellated boobs?? Won't someone think of the boobs?!

Do they give you a graphics card with that? This is the one I am talking about: http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=85603 As you can see it costs 1499 SEK, which amounts to $249.941761 in today's exchange rates. Wow, rip-off Sweden

Yesterday I got up at 07.00 in the morning. I opened my first can of beer at 08.15. I fell asleep in the sun around 15.00 on a grass field somewhere, with my friends. Got woken up at around 16.00, went home and changed clothes and showered. Went to a grill party with my cousin at around 18.00. Started drinking vodka clean at around 22.00. Went to a house party at around 23.00. Went out to a club at around 02.00. Went to a fast-food joint at around 04.30. Came home to sleep at around 05.30. I can't even estimate how much I drank last night. But the hangover god missed Sweden and went straight to Finland because I'm not the least hungover! In fact, I am going out to run 6 miles right now.

A ruptured spleen is "deserved"? That's too ****ing low even for this thread. It's just a game, I hope he recovers. Someone should just teach him to keep his riling antics inside the sportsmanship boundaries. If Esa could do it, so can Avery (although Esa was ten times the player Avery will ever be). I'm very surprised by how well the Flyers are playing. The Penguins and Flyers are both very positive surprises this play-off season.

The Collector's Edition cost $250 in Sweden.. did you guys really pay that much for just one game?

Yeah, basically you just wasted lots and lots of skill points to be able to use those old toasters as "treasure chests". If you didn't have the skill, you'd get a bunch of broken toasters lying around being useless. With the skill, you'd (most often) get expensive ammunition and visa cards out of them (if I remember correctly). I only got that skill ONCE (to see what it did) out of all the times I played this game so my memory is a bit vague on that one.

I bought Crysis, but I spend a LOT of money on my PC yearly. Noone else in my entire circle of friends has a computer even capable of running Crysis (except my mom, who I built a computer for this Christmas). I think the performance rumours swirling around Crysis hurt sales much more than piracy ever did.

Yes, that matters if you're gay. Which you're not.

Nice try. http://kotaku.com/383724/that-release-gta-...er-its-not-real No, we still know how you got it, Kaftan.

For everyone who's jealous of Kaftan paying GTA4 early: it's been out on torrent sites for a week or so. All you have to do is to stoop to Kaftan's level and get it yourself and you have no more need to be jealous.

It sure is. But where does all the money go? That's weird. I've talked to a lot of game developers too. Do you know how many of them could imagine themselves sitting in a cubicle, drive a Toyota Corolla to work and eat lunch in the personnel room from a lunch box? None. You are comparing them to writers.. Remember, these guys are not the types who'll sit in anguish in their little hotel rooms with their type writers and drink absinthe. No, these are people who want to drive sports cars, sit in marble offices overlooking Central Park and eat.. OK, they might still enjoy eating fast food. It's horribly frustrating trying to interview a producer of the latest annual crapfest from EA and hear them whine about piracy killing the business. Because that's all it is now, business. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing is business was, in fact, killed. Maybe I wouldn't have to be interviewing another overpaid piece-of-****-in-a-suit and instead could talk to people who are passionate about making games, who have a story to tell or something other than money that drives them. It would sure be a nice change of pace. Are you sure? I don't believe this anymore. It used to be possible to make a game and make a living even if it didn't sell 1 million+ copies. Why isn't it anymore? Yes, I know there are more polygons in games nowadays. I also know games last around 8-10 hours nowadays. The tools are better now. There are more middle-ware to buy. Games have practically been so standardized by now that most every game out there could just change the title and the colour of the locust models and you'd have your new game already. Yet, it's supposed to be so much more difficult to make games now that everyone from the EA janitor to their grandmother must demand six figure salaries.. even if they make **** games. As a (rather mean) example: Try asking J.E. Sawyer what kind of car he drives. Ask him how many motorcycles he owns. Ask him to post pictures of their new offices (where they won't have to put up with the common folk in their restroom). Then ask him how many blockbusters he has on his resume. Something doesn't add up. But it's easy to blame it on piracy.. They are, after all, breaking the laws, right?

Not really. If you, for example, take a game like Wasteland you'd probably find an AK-47 and perhaps an AK-74 (I don't remember). They'd both be using standard 7,62 mm ammo and behave much like their real life counterparts. If you were to introduce an AK-97 in that world (complete with 8,0x60 ammo, 30 round magazine), it would still work. Fictional weapons mix well with real life weapons if you contain them within the same sphere of believability AND assuming your game universe allows it (it might not fit so well in Alpha Protocol since that game may be based in 1997 for all we know). The weapons that won't work for the NRA target group are the ones with .75 calibre and 50 round magazines. Or silenced sniper rifles loaded with calibre 10 shotgun ammo. As long as it's still believable (within the context of the game world) it'll work. Oh, and I was never particularly fond of the .223 pistol. There's a very real reason why most hand guns use bigger calibres than most guns (which I am sure you're aware of) and that logical hurdle was too big for my mind to overcome.

Disgusting GTA4 review, but: Finally a reason to cheer for the poor PS3 owners, huh? Anyhow, the game got 10/10 on IGN and OXM (whatever that is). Since both those reviews are both out before the embargo drops (Sunday this week), I'm guessing the game didn't get those scores entirely on its own merit.. especially since hearing about the Gamespot fiasco. For the whole seven page review (and video): http://ps3.ign.com/articles/869/869541p1.html I'm looking forward to this.. on the PC. Edit: Forgot to mention which game I'm referring to!

I think the problem arises when you need to do more than just game with your computer. I have several screens of different shapes and resolutions connected to the same card. Nvidia just couldn't handle that properly, especially since I wanted to record video with it too. Every time I wanted to have a movie evening in my house with the Nvidia card, it was a nightmare. The card couldn't handle scaling well, it couldn't detect the correct settings for the different screens, it couldn't remember the settings I had chosen previously and it required a restart of the computer every time I had to change anything! How do I do it on my ATI card? I press the button (in the driver settings) called "Cinema Mode" and start the movie. That's it! The card handles everything else. But yeah, people claim to have more problems with ATI than with Nvidia, but I've never really heard any examples except for Crossfire problems.