Valve makes games ?

 

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/25/4553536/is-company-of-heroes-2-anti-russian

 

Some Russians are not pleased about CoH 2's handling of history.

Heh, well, there are people in Russia who still think Stalin was a nice pal, even though in some regards he was worse than the big H.

 

I wonder what they teach about the history of Soviet Union in Russian schools these days.

 

 

Of course Obama is way worse than Hitler. I wonder how Stalin and Obama compare. I bet they both killed the same amount of hundreds of millions of people and Hitler was a joke compared to them.

Valve makes games ?

They just released some obscure title called Doda or Tota or something.  Apparently it's some niche type of game that very few people play.

I guess it needed more emoticons.

 

 

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/25/4553536/is-company-of-heroes-2-anti-russian

 

Some Russians are not pleased about CoH 2's handling of history.

Heh, well, there are people in Russia who still think Stalin was a nice pal, even though in some regards he was worse than the big H.

 

I wonder what they teach about the history of Soviet Union in Russian schools these days.

 

 

Of course Obama is way worse than Hitler. I wonder how Stalin and Obama compare. I bet they both killed the same amount of hundreds of millions of people and Hitler was a joke compared to them.

 

 

Eeeh.. what?

http://www.no****shurlock.com/half-life-3-coming-late-2014-to-pc-and-console/

Not sure if serious.

Crappy linkbait. They talked to one designer that said they expect to have a trailer or something to show at the next E3. That's all he said.

 

This does not translate to "release 2014" unless we're talking about running it through babelfish into japanese, german, french, then back into english.

Seems a strange place to first hear official word on HL3 and a new engine, also that they're so close to release without there being leaks or any talk beforehand.

We've had official word that they're working on Half-Life 3 for years now. They've essentially said they never stopped working on it.

I'm convinced HL3 will release with the launch of the SteamBox, whenever that is.  Nothing but GabeN himself saying otherwise will convince me of anything else.

We haven't, there's been no official word on Half-Life 3 at all. They were working on Episode 3 with interviews and concept art, but that clearly got cancelled.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-system-software-memory

TL;DR

PS4 uses up 3.5GB RAM for OS, 4.5GB available for developers.

What a joke.

That's more than PC isn't it...

WoW Down to 7.7 Million Subscribers, Activision Blizzard Purchases Vivendi's Shares.

WoW's declining steadily, not entirely a surprise after all these years.

 

 

http://www.statista.com/statistics/208146/number-of-subscribers-of-world-of-warcraft/

 

I guess Cataclysm was the start where things started going down ? (Q4 2010)

It's an old game, even the most hardcore players are going to be tired of it at this point. I don't see what the fuss is.

 

I find the Vivendi business a lot more interesting.

It's kinda scary to think that they're probably going to drop to half their peak number, in that that number would still be, in terms of revenue, orders of magnitude larger than any other game out there.

 

But yeah, Cataclysm is the common marker for the start of the descent, and that holds personally true for me as well, I vastly scaled back my responsibilities at that point, entering a semi-retired state for my final year of playing.

 

 

 

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/25/4553536/is-company-of-heroes-2-anti-russian

 

Some Russians are not pleased about CoH 2's handling of history.

Heh, well, there are people in Russia who still think Stalin was a nice pal, even though in some regards he was worse than the big H.

 

I wonder what they teach about the history of Soviet Union in Russian schools these days.

 

 

Of course Obama is way worse than Hitler. I wonder how Stalin and Obama compare. I bet they both killed the same amount of hundreds of millions of people and Hitler was a joke compared to them.

 

 

Eeeh.. what?

 

 

Uh what? I just thought we were gonna throw in names and say that those people are worse than Hitler. Ok sorry, nevermind.

 

Now on to real news. Ouya, being a product of scamstarter, is a complete failure: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/26/ouya-ceo-27-percent-of-ouya-owners-have-bought-a-game/

That buyout is wholly unsurprising haha.

I don't believe Sony are so stupid to add an extra 4GB of GDDR5 and use 3.5GB of it for the OS and a bunch of other stuff that clearly wouldn't need the extra bandwidth. It would be way more cost effective to have 6GB or 8GB of DDR3 plus 2GB of GDDR5.

Uh what? I just thought we were gonna throw in names and say that those people are worse than Hitler. Ok sorry, nevermind.

I'm still unsure where are you coming from, defending Stalin or refusing to believe anyone can be worse than Hitler, or what   

 

They both were monsters causing horrifying amounts of misery and death. If you disagree with me on something please do say so, I do welcome different points of view. Via PM if you dont want to discuss about it here.

 

 

I don't believe Sony are so stupid to add an extra 4GB of GDDR5 and use 3.5GB of it for the OS and a bunch of other stuff that clearly wouldn't need the extra bandwidth. It would be way more cost effective to have 6GB or 8GB of DDR3 plus 2GB of GDDR5.

 

Unless there is cost-savings in the simplicity of supporting only the single architecture (of which I am wholly incapable of actually answering).

Edited July 26, 201312 yr by alanschu

 

Now on to real news. Ouya, being a product of scamstarter, is a complete failure: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/26/ouya-ceo-27-percent-of-ouya-owners-have-bought-a-game/

Doesn't help that until Shadowrun Returns launches for android, Ouya has no games worth buying.

http://www.p4rgaming.com/tim-schafer-claims-he-just-lost-2-5-million-dollars-from-broken-age-kickstarter/

Doesn't help that until Shadowrun Returns launches for android, Ouya has no games worth buying.

Ouya has one exclusive worth playing, Towerfall, it's a bit expensive. Hidden In Plain Sight, BombSquad, Puddle, and Nimble Quest are worth playing. Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars and Aquaria (supports gamepad) android versions work well if you side load, really good games. Delver's Drop is coming. Shadowrun Returns would need more than a straight port to work on a TV with the gamepad, it's not as simple as just using the Android version that's designed for tablets and similar to the PC version.

 

 

 

I don't believe Sony are so stupid to add an extra 4GB of GDDR5 and use 3.5GB of it for the OS and a bunch of other stuff that clearly wouldn't need the extra bandwidth. It would be way more cost effective to have 6GB or 8GB of DDR3 plus 2GB of GDDR5.

Unless there is cost-savings in the simplicity of supporting only the single architecture (of which I am wholly incapable of actually answering).

 

Yes because they'd have to stick it on a separate bus, but not anywhere near making up the difference. It's possible they have knowledge of DDR3 prices going up and GDDR5 prices going down. They designed the OS for 4GB, it wasn't using 3.5GB before they decided to double it, this clearly wasn't part of the plans even up until relatively recently.

Edited July 26, 201312 yr by AwesomeOcelot

http://www.p4rgaming.com/tim-schafer-claims-he-just-lost-2-5-million-dollars-from-broken-age-kickstarter/

I'm not sure jokes count as news.

 

It might confuse people.