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iMac uses Iris Pro 5200 and has 8 GB of RAM, which means that it should be capable to run Wasteland 2, TTON and PoE. Although Intel's drivers for OS X don't have best performance, but still those game should run so that they are playable at least if you drop resolution bit down. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7399/215inch-imac-late-2013-review-iris-pro-driving-an-accurate-display/3

And will those people who see the beta experiences and like them have any way to buy into it themselves? Would be kind of a shame if they didn't. I they don't close backer portal then people will have way to purchase themselves in the beta.

No true geek would treat their comics like that. Oh noh, I am not true geek, as my comics more often than not just lay around my house, without any protection, which is why I have started to buy e-book versions instead of physical copies.

Was announced a long time ago, see Gamestop preorder bonus. Lolwut - So they really are pulling a Bethesda. Only if they will sell it with 5 dollars afterwards for those who didn't buy deluxe edition, but if you look prices for dlc gear in previous installments, then I would give it quite high probability that they will just do that.

If Ubisoft had said from start that there isn't female character option as you always play male protagonist, they would have gotten much less **** that they got now when they claimed first that they planed female option for protagonist but decided against it as it was too much work, and after that go with claim that their male protagonist which everybody plays even in coop is so integral part their story that they could not offer female protagonist option. I am not surprised that people find Ubisoft's claims to be bit hollow sounding. I don't know what they have planned story to be in ACU, but if it is any bit like what their stories have in previous installments, I would say that going with Mass Effect road where story is about protagonist whose gender don't play role in main story arc, would have been valid option, especially when you consider that fact that they change their protagonist time and time again references to previous protagonist are quite approximated, that it would actually matter in next game that was protagonist from last game male or female. So Assassin's Creed's aren't similar to Tomb Raiders, Witchers, Batmans etc. games where you always know who the main protagonist is from game to game, but instead they change protagonist to new one when they decide that story of one protagonist story has come to end. For example in Assassin's Creed main series three previous games AC:Revelations, AC3, AC4 and now AC:Unity all have different protagonist.

I know tons of girls that own both for gaming and some that are also professional gamers, but one should never assume that people they know are any accurate representation of any sort of big demographic. It is one major mistake that many engineers do when they design new devices and thing that people are warned time and time again in universities and other schools not to do. Only real number that I know is used publicly about gaming demographics is ESA yearly study, and their this years number tell us that their study shows that 48% (and that average gamer is 31 years old so we should use terms men and women instead of boys and girls when we speak about average gamers of franchise that consist mainly tittles with 18+ age limit) of all gamer are women. Addition to that Assassin Creed franchise has sold over 73 million copies, which goes for ACIII over 12 million copies, so I would say it is quite unlikely that there isn't at least three million women (which would justify using term millions of women) that have played at least one of the Assassins Creed games.

I think the point is that as the number of players/playable characters increases, the omission becomes more noticeable and jarring. In single-protagonist titles it's all rather arbitrary, but with four-player co-op such as in the new AC game, variety becomes more appreciated. By the time you get to larger scale multiplayer games like Unreal Tourney it's an expected feature, and attempting anything else in an MMO would be a ludicrous concept. Females make up 48% of the user base. Ubisoft continuing to unapologetically chase the old demographic is incredibly insulting. How much % of the market are: - Christian? - Any other religious following? - Asian? - Indian? - Communists? - Poor? - Slaves? Should they be less or more insulted by Ubisoft? Is Ubisoft morally obliged to cater any need of any insulted group, or do they have to rank them accordingly in a made up importancy-scale so that some are more equal than others? I wouldn't find this debacle irritating as much if it wasn't for this weak, not-really-angry-just-more-fake-dissapointed-attitude among these journalists. They do not really fight, they do not have their jobs and livelyhoods threathened because of what they do, they are not doing mass protests or boycotts, nothing is at stake. Just some mean and catty comments that they want something. It's this manifestation of weakness that i really find abhorrent. Ubisoft decision not carter big part of their customer base opens them up for critic from said part of their base and supporters. As customers have always right to ask that company also caters them and when we speak about big companies and customer base size of tens of millions, then it is quite natural that there is lots of critic when company decides not to cater people that consist about half of their customer base, especially if you are idiot in way you inform people about your decision not to cater them. We are not talking about the same thing here: I am talking about social justice journalists, you are talking about a potential customers for a product. Your point could be the same about customers being upset that there aren't Coca Cola-bewerages with a Pear taste because millions of potential customers might buy it because it might cater their needs since Pear eaters also like Coca-Cola. You do not happen to be a corporate lawyer, are you? I am not corporate or any kind ow lawyer. But if company don't cater millions of people in their customer base you can be quite sure that there will be journalist that cater them, because other company's angry customer are best kind customers for journalistic publications as they will read and share their articles much higher intensity than satisfied customers. And I don't speak potential customers, but actual Ubisoft's customers that have bought their previous games and have asked/hoped/etc. that Ubisoft would cater them better in next installment of the series they like/play/something. PS. And Coca-Cola tries to cater pear lovers with producing pear flavored beverages using their other franchises such Fanta.

WET (about million) should compared to other Bethesda's tittles like, Call of Cthulhu (best I can find is about 10k).

Uncharted is Sony's franchise only that is only sold for their platform and they market it lot with their platforms and they bundle it heavily to their services so it difficult to say how well it would excel in more typical gaming market, but with Sony's marketing strategy series three first installments are sold about 18 million copies, which about six million by Uncharted 3, which is quite well for one platform, but series is critically heavily praised, but Last of Us from same studio and similarly Sony platform only tittle, but being new franchise with female co-lead is already sold over 6 million copies.

I would bet that it would not have similar success if they had made new male protagonist in new franchise, as SE don't have similar ability market their games as Ubisoft can, and their existing customer base is smaller in over all than what Ubisoft has. But I seems that newest Thief has not sold very well considering that it cost SE about same as Tomb Raider and Deus Ex Human Revolution has sold under 3 million copies (although it had smaller budget than Thief and Tomb Raider), also Sleeping Dogs has sold less than newest Tomb Raider. So with these numbers I would predict that Tomb Raider clone, with male protagonist which was published by SE would sell than what Tomb Raider has sold.

Although even worst games in Tomb Raider franchise are sold over million copies and newest one is currently becoming best selling game in franchise. And even though it took bit longer than what SE hoped, even newest Tomb Raider become profitable after eight months. Although these figures don't tell you whom where those people that bought all those copies of Tomb Raider.

And we go back to the same question of who Ubisoft's demographic is? Not their target audience but the people actually buying their games and it they are mostly male. Is like the saying two birds on the hand or one on the bush, when you're making a multimilion dollar production you tend to try to minimize the risk by doing your best to ensure a return. Spending that risk on the hope that women will buy your game (a demographic that while it has grown it still is a minority on AAA) the question was always, "how to get women into AAA games?"Besides from the risk that would making a women's only game, there is the fact that we have no idea of what that would be or whether it would be well received. Feminists seem to think that they deserve a 100 million dollar shot in the dark because equal representation is a right (not really, but we've ran out of things to champion) Where you found any information about what is composition of Ubisoft's demographic? Is this poor reasoning or knowledge based on common beliefs as opposed to actual knowledge fact or do you actually have some sort actual numbers, because only gaming demographic numbers with any significant meaning that what I have seen comes from ESA (Entertainment Software association )

I think the point is that as the number of players/playable characters increases, the omission becomes more noticeable and jarring. In single-protagonist titles it's all rather arbitrary, but with four-player co-op such as in the new AC game, variety becomes more appreciated. By the time you get to larger scale multiplayer games like Unreal Tourney it's an expected feature, and attempting anything else in an MMO would be a ludicrous concept. Females make up 48% of the user base. Ubisoft continuing to unapologetically chase the old demographic is incredibly insulting. How much % of the market are: - Christian? - Any other religious following? - Asian? - Indian? - Communists? - Poor? - Slaves? Should they be less or more insulted by Ubisoft? Is Ubisoft morally obliged to cater any need of any insulted group, or do they have to rank them accordingly in a made up importancy-scale so that some are more equal than others? I wouldn't find this debacle irritating as much if it wasn't for this weak, not-really-angry-just-more-fake-dissapointed-attitude among these journalists. They do not really fight, they do not have their jobs and livelyhoods threathened because of what they do, they are not doing mass protests or boycotts, nothing is at stake. Just some mean and catty comments that they want something. It's this manifestation of weakness that i really find abhorrent. Ubisoft decision not carter big part of their customer base opens them up for critic from said part of their base and supporters. As customers have always right to ask that company also caters them and when we speak about big companies and customer base size of tens of millions, then it is quite natural that there is lots of critic when company decides not to cater people that consist about half of their customer base, especially if you are idiot in way you inform people about your decision not to cater them.

I have seen quite lot critic towards how Watch_Dogs portray women, but I must say that Unity deserves more hoopla, because they tried to actually lied to make themselves look better, although I think Watch_Dogs should get much more hoopla from that fact that their last year's E3 show was pure lie to make game look graphically much better than what final version actually is, which I have seen criticized, but not nearly enough as such lying in my opinion is much worse than what ACU's PR team did, but sadly mostly what I see in net is that "true" gamer give excuses for this like they do for ACU and have done so many other games. That said I must repeat that I am very clad that Ubisoft gets tons of **** for their newest lying escapade, especially when you take consideration little they got from lying how Watch_Dogs, will look like. PS. Lying to your customers to make yourself look better than what you actually are should always be looked as very bad thing.

Except that the reason it's a controversy is only becasue the guys said "we didn't have time to animate a female character" and everyone blew up saying that "Well you had time to animate a MALE character! Rabble rabble rabble!". If they'd said nothing you'd probably be looking at everyone going "Wow, that thar assassins creed game looks mighty fine!" That's a completely ignorant way of looking at the situation. I'm sorry. It may be, but my point is that you don't have the same level of outrage when a GTA game has the only female characters be entirely twofaced and/or brutally murdered (GTA V... well the other option is bat**** crazy), Or when Watch_dogs has the female characters be without agency of their own (instead having "big brother" save them... hell one is even put in the refrigerator and nobody blinked), Or just get totally left out of the game (Battlefield:Hardline). So where's the social justice warriors for those games? And why does assassins creed earn the ire of the internet? I can only assume because it was directly pointed out in an interview that "We tried but ran out of time" rather than just flat out ignoring the issue. Those games got lot of critic about how they handled women, but their developers didn't mistake trying to first give bull**** excuse to sound that they are more inclusive than what they are, but told truth,that they did want make games that only have male protagonist from beginning. And as I said they deserve every bit bad press what they get from trying such idiotic stunt, especially when their "they correct statement" is full cross against first statement, as in sense that first statement that they had plans from female option for protagonist until quite recently, can't be true at all if second, that they didn't add female option because player always plays their male protagonist, is true. So I would say that people should give Ubisoft hard time regardless of what they think about inclusion of women protagonist or do Assassin Creed interest them even first place, because bull****ing their customers is thing that should always be looked down, because it is just bad habit which adoption by companies people should try their hardest to prevent.

I have to say this is a very unexpected, but pleasing, result Result is otherwise very good but if it didn't also mean that my bet failed miserably

I am okay with fact that companies get bad press, when their PR department tries to give drivel to their fans and press.

Incorrect. Discrimination certainly existed, as did the underpinnings of modern racism however modern institutionalised racism defined by distinct racial categories, a pseudo-scientific racial hierarchy and so on wouldn't properly come about until much later. Discrimination against race is racism and it was very institutionalized even early parts of middle ages, even though "scientific" racial division started in 17th century, with incremental colonialism, but this didn't actually add discrimination in society as much was "enlightened" way to try justified it which was meant to replace previous religious justifications, as popularity of religions as justification withing so called intellectuals was in decline at the time. And of course increased interaction with Chinese, Indians, Native Americans and Africans were rapidly widening Europeans perspective what kinds of people there are in world, which of course added number of people that they saw to be lesser than them, and as there was so many that it started to be hard to keep count, without some kind of book keeping, which was probably another reason why our "enlightened" race researcher did their hard work to determine every race in earth that are lesser than them.

Racism as we understand was as much as thing in medieval period as it is now. Romani people, Jewish people, Sami people, Arabs (plus north African people), Native Americans, red haired people, for example were along people that suffered mostly during middle ages in Europe or areas that Europe pursued to control. They were discriminated against, they suffered violence that was aimed towards them just because of 'race' they belonged and sometimes they were even executed because of it.

You just keep telling yourself that. Nothing wrong with wearing a dress, of course. They're quite comfy, especially in the summer. First picture that you get when you google robe is

Yeah and there was plans to do it cross platform multiplayer so that Playstation 3 and PC gamers could play with each other. Although Microïds announced lots of things considering Syberia 3 that were anything but true. Syberia 3 To Be Cross-Platform Playable Between PC/PS3

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, will have two male leads addition to Lara in its four player coop (forth character is female) . And they were planning male avatars in Syberia 3's multi player before they put production of the game on hold. EDIT: Did you know that you can play as male in newest Tomb Raider's multi player and if I remember correctly there is more male avatar options than there is female avatar options.

In my understanding racism and other from discriminations are more tide to which culture character comes than what their selected race is, so for example people from Aedyr empire can look people from Eír Glanfath to be uncivilized savages. Although it is told in updates that every other culture than Eír Glanfath looks down orlans as they are small and aren't native race in any other culture, still they have migrated nearly every where in Eora.

Redbull has been quite long time in esports which is probably lead that their general interest towards games has grown.