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It has 16 buttons. Plus however many buttons you can cram on the touchscreen.

The ideal solution for FPS would be an accelerometer like the 3DS, Vita, and phones have, only if it was more sensitive and precise. The accelerometer aiming scheme in Resident Evil: Revelations on 3DS is by far the most natural and intuitive aiming scheme I have used on any device ever for FPS. It's essentially like pointing a camera and taking a picture, but it only works well if you don't have to turn very far, which is great for a corridor type game like Revelations, but sucks when you're out in a big open battlefield. Edit: Now that I think about it, that might not work so well if the screen is separate from the controller.

It does sound rather functional. Of course, I'd have to hold one in my hands and use it to know for sure. I'm not sure those trackpads are big enough to do precision aiming in FPS games. You'd either have a degree of turning or it would have to be overly sensitive and twitchy to allow you to turn far.

The third announcement is indeed a controller: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamController/ That thing is fugly!

I would argue that amnesia is a worse narrative device. And this is coming from someone who loves both Amnesia: The Dark Descent (haven't played the new one yet) and The Witcher series.

One does not simply walk into Mordor. One rides a train into Mordor. One of these days I'm going to either pick this up or Euro Truck Simulator. I need a nice chill game to take a break from the endless treadmill of constantly murdering in video games.

20 hours 34 minutes (and counting)? Oops, my bad.

Trading and mining trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJOYeJfD9c It's like they made the trailer specifically for me. Trading is my jam in space sims. On behalf of Chairman Ceo, the Teladi company wish you great profit and welcome you onboard. The level of detail on the capital ships and stations is staggering. Too bad my lappy won't be able to handle this at maximum eye orgasm. Hopefully I can push mid-level eye orgasm until I build a new rig some 9 or 10 months from now.

A 3 week long countdown?

Yes. I would even back a pony hair brushing simulator in Obsidian kickstarted one of those (I would ESPECIALLY back a pony hair brushing simulator ). I would MUCH rather have hard sci-fi than space opera, though. Better yet, a modern espionage RPG. One that does not in any way shape or form resemble a modern espionage RPG published by SEGA that had the best conversation system ever put in a RPG. It would star Rikel Norton and they could call it Epsilon Covenant.

Playing as Risky Boots will be pretty sweet. I really want to play the game as Rotty Tops, but Hero Mode is looking really doubtful.

Update 45: New Release Date tl;dr - They are stuffing more goodness into the game, therefore the release date has been pushed back to Feb 28th 2014. And when it does come out

No problem. Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky have both been freeware for about a decade. They're the 2 freebie games you could always play on SCUMMVM without having to purchase anything, hence they were always available right on the SCUMMVM website. Of the two, Beneath a Steel Sky is much better (it's a classic), but they're both worth playing if you're into pnc adventures.

Flight of the Amazon Queen has been free on GOG since it released about a week ago, and it will stay that way. It's been free outside of GOG since 2004. You've been able to download it for free right off the SCUMMVM website for almost 10 years. It's a decent game, nothing special, but not bad. It's pretty much the definition of average. Happy birthday, GOG!

I'll be curious to see how much success, if any, nVidia will have in pushing Tegra onto SteamOS and make it the dominant hardware solution on that platform. I mean, that's the move for them, right? nVidia has no presence in x86 and never will, they've firmly thrown their hat in with ARM. Both AMD and Intel have all-in-one solutions combining x86 CPUs with GPUs. Iris Pro 5200 essentially makes entry-level, and even some mid-level discrete GPUs obsolete. I'm assuming Kaveri will do the same for AMD. With Tegra4 running at the ridiculously low power envelopes in the 1-10W range, they could conceivably slap like 4 or even 8 of these together to make a monster running on like 16 or 32 cores. Who knows what Tegra5 will be bringing in terms of raw horsepower? I mean, nVidia has to go there, otherwise they will be left out in the cold in the desktop/home market as discrete GPUs are a dying breed in my opinion.

The biggest problem I see with Mantle is that it's hardware specific. For consoles this makes sense, since AMD hardware is present in both XBOne and PS4, presumably both GCN architecture GPUs (I have no clue what's in the WiiU). For PCs, if you use Mantle, you're targeting less than 25% of the market. Meanwhile nVidia has been working with Valve to optimize Linux OpenGL drivers. They can never get the same level of performance that Mantle potentially could because OpenGL is a high-level API while Mantle is low level, but I'm sure nVidia will be looking for any tricks that could give them and edge in OpenGL performance. It will be interesting to see how Mantle does. Glide was fairly short-lived, and this is basically Glide all over again. I wonder if they two-pronged attack of nVidia and Valve with OpenGL and AMD with Mantle could kill off DirectX? Probably not, but they could definitely wound it. As Humanoid wrote, AMD is well known for stumbling over their own feet, so while this does sound like a good move, they have to actually execute it well. I would much rather AMD would jump on board with nVidia and Valve, and push OpenGL. I'd rather they moved more toward an open API than throwing yet another proprietary hat into the race.

The original game or the Wiiware port? Because you should have the Grail, either way. The Wiiware/etc. version pretty much flat out tells you where to get it. It's the new PC version, essentially the Wii version. No I don't have the grail yet. Edit: Okay, I got the grail. Time to get my ass to the Mauseleum.

Sawx holding a 10-4 lead in the 5th. With Oakland having already lost, the Sawx could more or less wrap up the #1 seed if they hold on to the lead and win. They would be 2 ahead with 3 left to play. I think they hold the tie-breaker, though I'm not 100% sure on that, so that would essentially bring their magic # to 1.

La Mulana. I'm still super early in the game. I figured out how to get the ankh gem, then I had the long journey back to try to get to a save location with almost zero health. There were some super hairy moments where I was down to 1 life. Timing the two red skeletons to jump over 1 and run past the other than up a ladder without getting killed was super tense, but I made it. Now I have it saved with 1 life near the entrance, no problem either grinding out health or going back to the village to the hot spring from there. I'm far from done in the Temple of the Sun, but I needed to get out of there to regain my health. Trying to grind for health in the Temple of the Sun in my present state would be super difficult.

The "I am the one who knocks" speech is one of the more iconic scenes in the series. Gus killing Victor is still my favorite scene. Warning: Very brutal and graphic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1L6jQ0Pfrw Gus was so awesome.

GabeN can read your mind and he can sense your desperate desire to learn Spanish. He's also planning to partner with Rosetta Stone, so it's a win-win.

You mean something like: "True to it's name, the Steam Machine also steams milk. Combine it with your already existing coffee maker, or add the $20 coffee maker attachment for an all-in-one cappucino maker/gaming machine ready to tackle an all-night gaming session."

So the second announcement is indeed the SteamBox, or rather Steam Machine, though there will be multiple Steam Machinescoming 2014. For the time being there is a hardware beta you can sign up for: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

So Breaking Bad guessing game: Who is the ricin for? * Walt himself * Todd * Lydia (we secretly switched Lydia's Stevia with Ricin, let's see if she notices) * Jack * Elliot * Gretchen * Skyler * Walt Jr. * Baby Holly (she had it coming) * Brock (finish him off) * Jesse * Principal Molina * Marie I still think Walt takes it himself, but Elliot and/or Gretchen Schwartz is a definite possibility.

Well yeah, that's like saying the moon orbits the Earth, both true facts. That's what THEY want you to think.