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So it can run on 10 year old computers.

Lol, I remember the roughly four accounts I had to create for SWTOR. One for Origin. One for SWTOR. Then another one again for SWTOR when they tried to migrate it to an EA account but it got fucked up. Then another when tech support was useless and just ended up merging all the accounts into a...

Lol, I remember when Cryptic was going to release Neverwinter around two years ago before being bought out by Perfect World. And then PW decided that it was in their best interest to make the game a "proper mmo" and give it some more development time. Fast forward to the current beta and you...

Rich people don't get and stay rich by spending their own money on risky business ventures if they can help it. Why would he spend even a dime of his own money in capital when he can leverage the cult of personality and his past successes to fund his new venture?

What a sad situation all around. I've been playing SimCity since SC2000 and have been eagerly anticipating a new game for years. But as the info rolled out my enthusiasm just deflated into nothing. Even without all this broken always-online DRM stuff; the game just didn't evolve and modernize...

I had a brief conversation in early beta with the developer who wrote most of the 'Dynamic Server' technology. He left (was possibly forced out) right before launch. He was so disappointed in how the technology was underutilized. According to him, Trion's dynamic server technology is capable...

Good points. Developers have a complete and utter lack of imagination, talent, and willpower when it comes to adding any social gameplay elements to their MMO's. There is a focus on bland and uninspired combat as the core gameplay mechanic and anything else is crumbs. This is despite the...

I've played the same DIKU-EQ/WOW/Insert-clone-here game for well over a decade now. A new mmo comes out like Rift (which I thought was well made and run), and well, it's the same damn game I've been playing for over a decade now. How is a new MMO supposed to hold my interest when its not...

R.A. Salvatore reminisces Everquest; talks MMO design and the future of the MMO industry: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...game-industry/

I think the game will be fairly solid by today's MMO standards. It might even be fun here and there (here's hoping). But no question the potential of the Elder Scrolls IP (with its budget) has been massively squandered. This is the real shame, IMO.

The game was very profitable for EA. It was only Curt banking on the game to outperform Skyrim to save his company that required those kinds of numbers.

There's definitely interest in Amalur from several parties, and there is value in the IP. The problem however is Rhode Island thinks that they are going to get WAY more for it than its actually worth, which is not a lot... and that value keeps going down the longer they sit on it.

In one of their Q&A's after the initial reveal/shitstorm, they specifically said they went with a cartoon / non-realistic artstyle in order for the graphics to be playable on old computers. In their words "sacrifices and tradeoffs had to be made". Of course, I'd take this with a grain of salt...

I'll tell you what totally blows already about TESO's PvE content. 2/3rds of it is permanently locked off to you the player behind lame faction walls. To see all the PvE content you will have to roll a different toon for each faction.

Welcome. I'm mostly optimistic about this game as well. However, my expectations for the mmorpg genre are so low thats not saying much. The feature I'm not liking the most so far is the three hard factions. That's kinda a big fail IMO.

Dude, you forgot McFarlane... Not cool!

Also, the rumor that Intel is going to kill off the cpu socket was debunked (at least for the foreseeable future): http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...ed_sockets2012 Intel and AMD will continue to diversify their product range and markets though. And that includes APU's and moving a...

Well I imagine with the next-gen consoles being the new lowest common denominator, and 8-core CPU's being the norm, developers will finally be forced to learn how to properly code (yes it is hard) multi-threaded applications instead of relying on high IPC. The PS4 (and most likely also the...

From an outside perspective it looked like they didn't really know how to build and run a development studio, much less a gaming studio. First off they had overpaid worthless execs; and the ones that did know what they were doing were forced out or saw the writing on the wall such as Brett...

What's funny is as far as I can recall, in games with heavy voice acting, all the shit quests are voiced right? But NPC's like vendors, etc? Given one repetitive line, if any at all. I'd much rather have a lot of "generalized" voice-acting.. salutations, conversational basics, ambient...

Windows 8 has some nice improvements under the hood, including an updated scheduler that specifically takes advantage of AMD's new bulldozer/jaguar cores for example. But Windows 8 is still a bloated OS, especially for a console, even if it will be heavily modified for Durango. My response...

Except for Durango/720. I'd expect to see quite a bit of OS bloat on Microsoft's new system. An OS based off Windows8 and a heavy emphasis on being a multitasking multimedia hub will require resources. Rumors are its always online with Kinect being mandatory and always running also. Sure...

Or the part where the whole architecture of the system- lame marketing term notwithstanding- is a "supercharged pc".

So do most of us; however MS, Sony and their investors all want to sell their boxes to non-gamers as well. Thus the positioning of the device as a multimedia, socially-connected, entertainment and app hub as well as a gaming machine. Especially in this shit economy, they want to broaden the...

I agree; the problem though isn't that every shit errand is fully voiced. The problem is that there are shit errands to begin with. And you're somehow the unique little snowflake that is the hero of the world. Your special delivery of bear asses to the incompetent outpost guard is just the...

The "supercharged PC architecture" is one of the things Sony did right. The 8Gig of GDDR5 RAM is also going to be the #1 thing to allow developers the flexibility and creativity to make new gameplay experiences. They really did listen to the developers this time and created compelling...

The engadget article specifically says though "The company admitted last night that PS3 games wouldn't be compatible with the latest console, but has added that it will try to make titles playable "in some form." If Sony said that all purchases won't be transferable, I missed it. What about...

The only backwards compatibility I really care about is if I had bought something like say Limbo, on PSN. Then, if it shows up on the PS4 Store, I'd want my account flagged as owning it and able to d/l it. So, direct ports of the same game to ps4? Yes. All the other stuff? Their future...

I think another interesting thing to come out tonight was Sony's flexibility towards publishers allowing them their choice of business models (f2p, microtransactions, subscriptions, etc) and even the easy ability for independent developers to self-publish on the platform. Will probably see...

I'm most impressed with the 8Gig of GDDR5 RAM. That and the mostly PC-derived hardware. The next five years of of game development will have a good deal of flexibility if this is the lowest common denominator.

Moorgard moved to unannounced project? SoE buying Copernicus! On a serious note though, I really hope EQN is going to deliver on the promises. Do not want more of the same.

Don't forget about those gameplay videos that were leaked also. Truly uninspiring stuff. While I thought the art of the game was great, the actual gameplay looked bad. The very first thing you see is a static NPC with a huge <del>yellow</del> purple exclamation over its head. Then later...

Yeah, the Rhode Island deal was unsustainable to begin with. Turns out more capitol was always going to be needed. And the terms of the loan never made any financial sense whatsoever. This is one of the primary allegations in the lawsuit against Curt & Co. The fact that 38 wasn't able to...

Smed also said that SoE's new mantra going forward is "players ARE the content". Sounds like heavily focused pvp to me. Although I could be lacking in imagination.

Looks like its been pulled from Steam already. I knew Valve would do the right thing, its just a shame it slipped by in the first place.

This is a pretty big black mark on Valve. I'm a Steam fan, but events like this show the platform and business to have some pretty big cracks. Valve really need to get more serious about customer service and their QA and submission teams.

Always wanted to see a Shadowrun movie at some point. My version would be dark and gritty and roughly 70% softcore porn.

I read somewhere they used the Hero Engine in the early days to whiteboard and prototype while they developed their own client/server in-house. AFAIK Hero engine is no longer part of the equation.

The game did well. It sold something like 1.3 across the board, and EA specifically credited it as the main reason they were profitable in that quarter. The reason why it helped tank 38 Studios is because of the shitty publishing deal Curt & Co. signed with EA. I would have to look up the...

EQNext will feature an innovative Free To Play system wherein you can only purchase The Winged Mount of Epic Flying only after you've killed the Raid boss that drop the token that unlocks it in the store. For $19.95.