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If you have an ethernet cable to your Steam Machine I recon you can get good gaming out of it. And sure, many won't have that. But I'd say that getting an ethernet cable somewhere is a lot easier than getting HDMI. (HDMI cables tend to be more cumbersome and don't work as well over long...

When you consider a longer timespan (5+ years or so) I think it also becomes interesting to start considering what type of PCs we might have then. We are already getting to a point where most people don't need to upgrade their computers because there is only so much power you can use for mail...

Yeah, I think it's disingenuous to look at the Steam Machines as simply competitors to consoles or a normal PC. These are not only competing with hardware, they are also competing with software (ie Windows). The long term goal seems to be that games are released natively on SteamOS (ie Linux)...

Regarding Megaman and copyright. You have to protect Trademarks or lose them, you don't have to protect copyright. And unless they call it megaman it would probably be hard to argue trademark infringement. On the whole PA thing you seem to project a lot of motives on those guys. But I do agree...

I can see your point. But at the same time I do believe there is an immaturity prevalent in the video game business. It seems like games like Dragon's Crown have been designed the way they are almost by mistake. In that they are not really understanding what message they are portraying with the...

Nah... I think it's pretty much based on pretty much everything made by Nintendo. (At least since they released the Wii.) In general my experience with Japanese games is that they are a bit "off". Sometimes that's part of the charm though. And sometimes it's just that the games are made for an...

The thing about Fez is that you really need to play through it at least once (ie get 32 cubes) before you understand why people like it. It has some of the same ideas that Evoland has, where you "unlock" the game in pretty fundamental ways. And when you do this it makes it possible to...

I agree with you that it may not happen, but I disagree with you why. The reason I think it may not happen is because it may not make business sense to make it. At least not in the first few years of the Xbox One's life cycle. However I really don't think that you are correct on how custom the...

Engineered! (I hope that becomes a term like "lawyered" on How I Met Your Mother.) Although as an engineer I did think that the hyper visor thing was pretty much the only interesting thing from the Xbox One reveal. And I saw someone else mention that an interesting future prospect for this is...

BTW Wombat: You were talking about backend and frontend for XBLA. The terms are a bit vague but in general the frontend refers to the user facing part (ie the UI) and the backend is the "databases and servers" stuff. So in the case of XBLA I'd say the backend is running on Microsoft servers and...

Oh I must have missed that. Personally I've been playing around in Half-Life 2 with it this weekend and I have to say that I'm quite blown away by the experience. Unfortunately I'm getting a bit simulator sick by the HL2 implementation and I'm not sure why. The intense speed at which you move...

Now that the ramp up to next gen has started in earnest I was wondering if you guys have managed to get a session with the guys with the Oculus Rift for E3? I just got my dev kit this week and I really think you guys should try it out. So far it's only a first dev kit so it's rough around the...

I have a hole bunch of eggs (like 600+) I can trade. I have even prepared by making a big open field in my Springfield. I'm Hasuto in the game.

I've added a few people here from those who have posted recently. If anyone else want to friend me my name is "Hasuto". I tried to add you but couldn't find your name through the game.

On the "Far Cry 3 is racist" thing... I think the most notable thing about this discussion is that first and foremost Far Cry 3 is a videogame. And pretty much all videogames (particularly RPG and open world games) suffer from the "completely useless NPC syndrome". It doesn't matter if you're...