Doctor Destiny

You morons. This is not a US government job. Why everyone assumes that is beyond me, but I guess everyone always wants to believe that America is nothing but evil. The two guys who are actually connected to the bombings are Russian via Chechnya. And they're hardcore Islamists. So... not exactly a PMC group here. Idiots. [EDIT] Think about this: if a PMC group was actually hired, why the **** would they wear IDENTIFYING MARKS? AZ-Stalker, Plokite_Wolf, stop being idiots. If it's the US government who did it, provide some real evidence instead of unfounded conjecture.

If this happened on the 15th, it's Tax Day and Patriot's Day. There's a political connection to that date and the couple of days following. Though, most of this is just random events.

If anything goes under [uISettings], it goes in uimd.ini, not rulesmd.ini.

Why waste that power on fidelity that won't be noticed on anything but high end gaming rigs?

Read the Ares manual. It tells you exactly what to do.

Just a few?

There's nothing definitive yet, but I don't think it was foreign. This looks more like a domestic job.

There is a misnomer here. You can play the 720 while offline. However, when you are online, it will be sending data back consistently. That's all it is. The dude trying to say that persistent connection on Twitter... he got fired from Microsoft not too long ago.

Version 20? I'm on 17.0.5. ESR is awesome.

No but there sure were a lot of butthurt anti-EA people voting. How they can beat BoA is beyond me.

This doesn't mean Star Wars gaming is dead by any means. Just means it's taking a break. Kinda sucks, but eh... that's the business world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRsNZarFGxA

Bioshock Infinite. I'm blown away.

Since you have PCI-e 2.0, you'll be fine with a GTX650 then. If you don't want to spend a lot, a GTX550 will probably work if you don't game much but if you do that, get a 560.

Your limiting factor will actually be your motherboard. If your mobo only supports PCI-e 1.0, you will see no difference at all since the data transfer capacity will cap out at 250 MB/sec per lane but if you have PCI Express 2.0, you will gain performance. If you have a 1.0 board, don't bother with a GTX650. You'd be wasting your money. At that point, I'd get something in the GTX200 series... or a GTS450. Something cheaper that won't be wasted on a bottleneck.

HAHA STARGATE

Ten - Red [spellbound]

The Steambox will fail and I kinda hope it does. It doesn't address any problems. Rather, it exacerbates them tenfold. Also, Windows 8 is not a catastrophe for gaming. I know several people who use that OS and it works as you would expect. Anyone telling you that Windows 8 is bad is telling you a bold faced lie.

Kind of a shame really. Riccitello may not have been perfect but under his watch, we had Alice make a return and we saw Mirror's Edge and Brutal Legend get released. I mean, with someone else who doesn't understand the industry he's working in, would we really have had any risks taken? Bash EA and the guy all you want, but you're fools if you think this is will be a good thing.

There's a reason why there are franchises that come out year after year. They're a guaranteed to earn a large profit. Call of Duty, Halo and any annual or nearly annual franchise you can list is guaranteed to turn a profit and if you look at the numbers they post, there's no reason why companies should stop producing them. It's all about profits and revenue streams and the more alternatives a company has, the more it can use that money for other things like keeping studios open and producing even better experiences. Yes, they will continue to produce the same titles, which is not always a bad thing either. The games are usually fun even if you want to continually bitch about them. Anyhow, microtransaction markets don't actually feed on people. They offer a different take on a payment system, which is good for them and good for us. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying people should stop bitching about having microtransaction markets existing and bitching about them doing this thing called "making money." Every business is out to make money and if there are more ways for a company to make money, that's a good thing. This is a positive sign showing that the market is shifting with technology instead of stubbornly standing in the way. There will always be games that are better as retail experiences that don't include a market but there are games that are coming out like World of Tanks then soon World of Warplanes and World of Battleships that are perfect for a microtransaction market based game. Blizzard's Diablo 3 Real Money Marketplace is attempting the same thing in a different way. These are methods that show the game industry is evolving with the times. If you want better, more meaningful games, start supporting the companies that make them with your money. That's the only way the medium will evolve. You might be content with calling games a toy but I'm not. They're so much more than that and we need to take advantage of any opportunity to improve the medium.

Nah. This is still cheaper than the guy who spent $105,000 on a ****ing Camarossa.

No, it opens avenues for everyone. Consumers, developers, publishers, investors, et al. When you provide consistent revenue versus one time revenue, the model works better for all. If you refuse to play games solely because they might have a microtransaction market, you're doing two things: you're holding back the gaming industry from being more than just a plaything and you're arbitrarily stopping yourself from playing some great games. Refusing to move forward and allow things like microtransaction markets to flourish to provide new and better avenues for profit, you're stagnating the industry so we get stuck with Call of Duty year after year. You guys bitch about getting the same **** year after year but when given a chance to change things, you bitch about that too. Do you want games to be a better overall experience full of immersion and something thought provoking or do you want nothing but the same thing year after year? Seriously, that's what fighting change is doing to an industry that we're supposed to enjoy.

Resize the SHP. All you can do. To be honest though, I don't mind the size. It's not broken so there's nothing to fix. It's a matter of aesthetics here. Personal choice and all that...

Enjoyed the **** out of what I played so far. Feels like the first part but that's not a bad thing. [EDIT] And it was only $43, which is less than I paid for Yuri's Revenge when that was released.

I don't think you even have an argument. You just want to blindly be against it because you don't see the power it has for us as consumers and the gaming industry as a whole. Not every game should be a $60 up front purchase and this is where a microtrans market provides a new avenue for everyone.