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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/20/world/americas/opinion-brazil-simoes Guys this is big news and worries me. One of the reasons being that Brazil is considered a paradigm of how emerging markets should grow there economies and how to address social issues like poverty and unemployment. In South Africa we are constantly told how we should be more like Brazil. But these intense riots actually highlight that there economic resurgence has major systemic problems. The riots were originally started by people unhappy with the bus fare increase that was implemented to help pay for the football World Cup next year. But then grew as people vociferously objected to other social issues like general corruption in the government, ineffective health-care and issues around education. One million people rioted in Rio De Janeiro today. Brazil faces some serious civil unrest Anyway the link gives the background to these riots so read that for video's and more detailed information

Man, that's one seriously ridiculous 'Murica **** Yeah Cannon. What I love about Saint's Row is that after the first one they realized that if they continued to try to straddle the line between comically over the top and gritty realism they would just be another GTA knockoff and nothing else. So they abandoned any semblance of relism and just went for ridiculous over the top madness. Each successive iteration has just gone ahead and pushed the absurdity envelope further. I pray they still have the female Russian accent voice option in this game. The part where the protagonist and Pierce are driving down the road in Steelport and singing Sublime ~ What I Got in SR3 is so hilariously awesome with the Russian accent. That's an accurate assessment of the Saints Row franchise . I don't think they are as good as GTA but still very entertaining

That's good to know, very big relief

Meh... the itnernet is geting over-sensitized. More and more forums seem like they are run by natzi's. It's liek people have nothing better to do with their life other than look for things to be offended about. I just recenetly got banned from BSN for posting a DA meme in hte DA meme thread. Because the meme contained hte word "F***". Becuase nudity, sex, violence and sacrificing children to demons is OK, but saying the forbidden word? OH MY GAAAAAAWD! You are out of control Trashman, completely OUT OF CONTROL !!!!

You missed your calling my friend, you should be a comedian And you have a way with words that I can only admire

An interesting read but I question its validity. End of the day, as AwseomeOcelot mentioned, those games are shooters and are about killing people. The gratuitous amount of killing may be something to look at but I don't think so. Those games would lose part of there appeal, and sales figures, if you couldn't kill large amounts of enemies. And then when he gives examples of games where you don't kill people he mentions Arkham. Well Batman doesn't really kill anyone ever so that's not applicable. Shooters are called shooters for a reason. You need to play an adventure game or an RPG if you object to the nature of a shooter

Having Liam Neeson in Fallout 3 didn't make it Schindler's List. Why was that comparison made around Fallout 3? I think the point is having recognized actors can only add value to the overall gaming experience but you right, Witcher 3 won't win an Oscar.

I want to share with you a guys a bizarre and funny dream I had last night. Remember that dreams are just your subconscious mind trying to rationalize the various thoughts you are having. So a dream doesn't have to make any sense or mean anything as you'll see in this case As I mentioned I go to Vegas every year for a Technical symposium. In this dream I was in Vegas but I was staying with Hurlshot and he was showing me around Vegas with his wife. But he looked like he did in his Avatar picture, not in real life. We were also life long friends. He took me to all these clubs and in this one club I met a school friend who I haven't seen for a while, a guy called Mike. Anyway Mike started talking to me about "what I was doing in Vegas" and then he came back to Hurlshots house and we all had a barbeque. I woke up and the first thing I thought was " surly Hurlshot doesn't know Mike". I then realized that I also have never met Hurlshot and the whole thing was just dream. But it felt so real

I hear you, that's probably what happened. I am hoping Steam support will just update my German version with an English one. I am not sure of the logistics but I can't imagine its that hard to do?

That is relevant technical information, thx

Oh okay So the chance of getting some cool stories is unlikely, I get it

Hi All I was given Bioshock as a gift on Steam. I downloaded it and noticed its in German I have logged call with Steam support on Tuesday and still had no response. This is longest time I have ever had to wait for them to get back to me. What else can I do to get an English version of Bioshock or should I just wait?

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You can get all of the benefits for $10 cheaper with some simple modding. Although I picked it up for $10 o Steam, but still haven't gotten around to playing it. Okay, thanks Good to know

I have never played BG1 and wanted to get BGEE, why do you think its a waste of money?

I like the idea, but I read no mention of the type of PC infrastructure they plan to have? How will we play our games and browse the Internet? Will we still have access to the Obsidian forums? I don't think they have properly thought things through

Good point. But realize that demos are very expensive to create. They consumea lot of dev time and are merely for marketing purposes. Since the game won't be going to market for a while... they saw no need to. And if the game isn't well received, that's just a lot of negative publicity. They'll keep it under wraps "until it's ready". By extending the development by a year, BioWare can avoid the whole issue of it being shamed by the The Witcher 3. They can be more reactive to how it's perceived and make some last minute changes do their game. I think the extension proves the reliability of that leak on reddit, where a BioWare employee (or was it an alpha tester?) confided that DA3 is nowhere near ready and an assured train wreck if it were to be launched this fall. Anubite despite your supportive posts I'm starting to really believe you don't think Bioware is a good development company or that they have a future. Maybe you should just be honest as this sycophantic view of them is a little unbelievable?

Let us know if you have to take any hot celebrities or porn stars around. We want details Calax, details

Awesome, this should give us plenty of time to discuss the implementation of Romance\Sex in PE

This is new ? This is exactly the type of debate I feel like now. I'll be heading to BSN now, thx NKKKK

and here's Deus Ex design doc by comparison: It never ceases to amaze me the information you guys are able to find on the Internet about the gaming industry

I find that hard to believe, in fact I would say thats highly unlikely. Bioware isn't going anywhere. They still have several million committed fans, like me , who believe in there products and enjoy the gaming experience they provide. These fans provide Bioware with a healthy revenue stream, so why would EA try to effect this in anyway?

Nobody takes that "version" of cricket serious anyway... it's only for the attention span challenged Whats the fun in a game that is over in a single day? One days are still about some skill and can be very entertaining, its the twenty 20 cricket that I don't have much time for Meh, it's the "5 a side soccer" version of Cricket Real men drink beer throughout all of 'best of 5' of the 5 day matches. I do love 5 days, but lets be honest who has time to watch for all 5 days?

Nobody takes that "version" of cricket serious anyway... it's only for the attention span challenged Whats the fun in a game that is over in a single day? One days are still about some skill and can be very entertaining, its the twenty 20 cricket that I don't have much time for