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^^ It says the PC would be 90% human ... I don't know what the proper ratio must be to qualify for cyborg-ness. The whole game concept sounds pretty solid, though, I like it. Well, except for the title. Who is Jason Schreier and how does he have access to design documents from inside Obsidian ...

I agree, this has turned into a top-shelf thread. Great to see interesting people behind the game I'm waiting desperately patiently for.

$17.49 on Amazon for the next three days, if you're a Yankee. I assume it's for a Steam download.

Just finished a novel by Alan Furst titled Dark Voyage ... historical fiction about a Dutch sailing captain in WW2. Well-written, but low on emotional payoff considering the setting and characters. Now I've gone back to the beginning of everything, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I'll never not enjoy getting to know Tas, and Raistlin, and everyone in the Dragonlance universe. I'm hoping Sony's teaser announcement today has something to do with Dragonlance, 'cause I am a well of enthusiasm for things that will never be:

There is no better title in the world than Nightmare Engineer.

I've always wanted to know how video game software uses the architecture of different hardware systems ... How Video Games Use Architecture

What the ... not in 600 hours have I seen that character. I just had to look her up on the wiki and now I'm gonna go find her in real life. Or, I mean, the game. How cool, thanks.

Indeed, now I feel encouraged to buy a 3DS XL.

^^ No, not a fact.

And paying the meter before getting to play anything. Evidently initial system startup requires a one-time credit card verification.

So I went to a home in Rancho Santa Fe, here in San Diego County, walked through the doorway, looked left and saw a gold flagpole trophy. Turns out, it belongs to a Giant named Aubrey Huff. I was suitably impressed to see it in person, as well as with Aubrey's personality--he gave me a fist-bump, and I'm a nobody.

Oh, yes, I see it now. I opted to add-on a black Obsidian T-shirt, instead of the expansion pack. Probably because I knew I could always download the latter, but may never get a chance to own the former. See ... forgetting things can be like a free bonus when you remember them!

^^ No, you didn't read what actually happened.

I second this request. Very well, thirded.

Not once in nine months have I heard mention that Project: Eternity could become a "long-running" franchise. Until now. Which is why I'm posting. Now.

It does seem like just another victory for pirate crackers against Durability Rights Management. I would have enjoyed the mechanic, but I won't complain about its absence, and I remain confident Obsidian would never cave on principle to appease a few.

Woot! At least the heat wave is gone, mostly. I didn't know this until he told me, but my history professor once said the U.S. was actually born when the first version of the Constitution was ratified, not on the day the colonies told the king to get stuffed.

I see few are reading the articles I quote. It won't be simple simultaneous read/write. It says the GPU will also be used as a resource for compute calculations, including ray tracing for audio, texture decompression, physics and particle simulation, collision detection, AI, and world simulation. Dismissing GDDR5 as EOL already is just silly.

Hokum. There is no chance that those events are true to the letter of the complaint.

No, I don't. I can only find generalized statements. Mark Cerny from Sony has said that "time to triangle," or the time it takes a developer to achieve a working engine, is down from 6-12 months on PS3, to only 1-2 months for PS4. Surely that implies minimal, if any, developer work differentiating CPU/GPU processes in hardware.

I know nothing about game software development, but I suspect they don't aim for the lowest minimum requirement across multiple platforms. Surely there must be a customization process. Skyrim was unplayable on PS3 for many, yet most Xbox 360 owners encountered a much smaller litany of quest-breaking bugs, corrupted/missing saves, etc.

I'm curious what you guys mean by spamming from Star Citizen. I'm not a backer for that project.

Least expensive and most powerful when adjusted for inflation and processing power compared with other platforms (or consoles, rather, in that Ars article). I'm starting to sound like a shill, perhaps, and using absolutes like "platform" and "ever" may be reaching, but the hardware specification list is turning my nerd crank and making my PC sit up and act like a jealous sibling ... and the PS4 baby hasn't even been delivered yet. I just think the potential for developers to really do something special is finally here, for the masses, at a price cheaper than a new mattress.

Thankfully, it is not average. The GPU of the PS4 will have access to the 8GB of system memory--the super-fast GDDR5 RAM--at the same time as the PS4's CPU, unlike the same components in a PC. The RAM in your PC is slower DDR3, unavailable to your GPU, which itself has only 2GB of VRAM. The potential for future-proofing the console's performance is very exciting. And it will be upgradeable, at least the hard drive, possibly with a sizzlingly-quick solid-state drive. From the article: I can't stress enough, the value for money the PS4 has suddenly come to offer. It is, simultaneously, the most powerful and least expensive gaming platform ever. Dammit I burned my burritos writing this post.

mmm ... nooks and crannies. Great update, thanks very much.