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This is not entirely true: items have required stats and a number of things scale with stats other than hp and stamina (weapon damage, spell damage, equipment load, spell slots, casting speed...). Because of diminishing returns, it's less true by the end of the game, but early and mid game, you...

- The UK is without a doubt a massive gaming market and it has been for a while. During the PS2 era the video game market in the UK was something like 3/4 of the Japanese market with half the population (most of these PS2 were Fifa / Sing Star machines though). - I am not seeing the #2 market...

I think some of you do not realize how big 15 is as a number. I can't think of a boss that killed me more than 5 times and even with the backtracking I doubt I killed more than a handful of non-farming enemy more than 10 times (the skeletons that guard the aqueduct, the ones under the fire...

Considering Canada has less than half the population of the UK, it's pretty safe to say the UK was the 2nd market for Xbox 360.

By Hitoshi Yoneda (mostly known around here for his work on Phantasy Star). I like this painting because of its original composition (the character walking toward us, the scarf responding to the tree) and its non-heroic nature. Actually have a poster of this piece by Kazuhiro Otomo...

It's seems not that many return matches in the Champions League will be suspenseful... Galatasaray vs Chelsea should be fun though and Atl?tico vs Milan too.

The meaning of a text does not solely resides in its words. Part of it also comes from its layout, so they need some trick to convey things like paragraphs and chapters... but I find it pretty interesting. I can see it becoming an option on kindle-like devices (provided the display speed and...

Switzerland was in the same group as Faroe Islands a few years back and for some reason it has a ridiculous number of football fields and football players compared to their population (wikipedia tells me they have a championship with 10 teams, which is pretty crazy when you consider there are...

Oxygen Destroyer.

Stephen Elop is also the guy who was CEO of Nokia when it went down in flames... We are in a 'this could turn it around for Xbox One' scenario here.

I just read the Kotaku review and this is about the only positive thing Kirk Hamilton had to say:

Who qualifies again? Best two team + some of the best 3rd teams?

Just a brief update on this strange part of the year (between the AO and the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells and Miami) that is a mix of indoor in Europe, clay in South America and a little outdoor hard in Duba?. The two surprisingly hot players are Cilic (won in Zagreb beating Haas in the final...

We still don't have early numbers for the Japanese launch of the PS4?

I did it as a cleric so I suspect I used a Hollow Soldier Shield.

Decent as in 100% physical and high enough stability to withstand the short combos of the black knight. As for damage I don't remember being as bad as 10 damage a hit, but it certainly took several minutes of slow dancing and chipping away to kill him.

You can kill him early even without 'advanced' strategies like backstab or parry, you just need a decent shield, manage your stamina and be patient. Three things that save you from a lot of deaths if you get them sooner rather than later!

It occurs to me that a challenge Nintendo faces is that they can no longer be the go-to console for children. Why? Because there are now too many parents who are gamers, so they buy a console for themselves and then buy games for children on it instead of buying a console for their children. The...

A good thing no one is planning to smelt their medal then!

I would only be mildly interested if they use the light beaming technology instead of the already outdated 'lcd screen in front of your eyes' technology. Anyway, unless it's the pet project of some executive at Sony, I don't see them adventuring in the head mounted display territory for more...

The voice acting is super lame though. Having 98% of all sentences end by 'hehehe' and include three times 'hollow' did not help one bit, but still.

Narrative closure (sorta...) and being able to use him for the final fight. Anyway, the most silly thing about that Solaire quest is that you need to be of a covenant that is not his to save him and that you can screw it all up just by going past some geographical point that is unrelated to his...

Alexandre Desplat for the music! I am curious to hear what his take on Ifukube's classic score will be.

Is Wonder Woman supposed to be 7 feet tall?

A Coelacanth to watch the other dinosaurs go extinct!

I would not read too much into a match where Durant shot that poorly (and he was not made to shoot poorly because of some great defense: the guy missed a number of open shots of his choosing) and where the Thunder turned the ball over that much (probably because of Westbrook's return). I suspect...

To make a sequel there might be some rights issues as a famous french Sci-Fi author (Alain Damasio) was hired to create the plot, but I believe he left before the game was completed.

I tried to limit the spoilers when I played, but I was not interested in going through the game 20 times and to complete the side stories you have to use spoilers (especially for the Solaire quest considering you have to pull so good old EQ 'spoilts to even be able able to complete it on the...

"Aspiring rapper" sounds like a passive-aggressive racial slur.

I understand that, with the current rules, a foul as last defender (or one before last if you include the keeper) results in a red card and a free kick (or penalty kick if it happened in the box). I feel it is often a double penalty that is disproportionate with the nature of the foul. I mean if...

Playing Dark Souls I think I got invaded 6 or 7 times and won just the once. I also never invaded anyone. I absolutely love the mechanic. Why? Because it's a "Oh shit!" moment. The game is one of careful planning and execution. You will have "Oh shit!" moments when first discovering an area, but...

Photochop time: do you prefer the upper or lower part? EDIT: I had to host the image on imgur because rerolled recompressed it.

What's the logic behind giving a yellow to Boateng but a red to the keeper? We had a good match on our hands and after that we got 45min of handball. Lame. Bayern's 2nd goal was brilliant though with Robben dragging a defender with him to open the space for Mueller.

No matter the hardware, you have a texture budget that must be balanced between resolution and diversity. Konami for MGS made the unusual choice to go for a great diversity of very low resolution textures (a swan song for pixel art really). EDIT: Just to be clear, the texture were very low...

I am not sure you need to break the bank to hire Jessica Biel... I would have picked Adrianne Palicki (5'11") myself (who was the casting choice for the Wonder Woman TV serie too - though the low production value made her look a bit silly in the part). How old is Wonder Woman supposed to be...

While there is a clear technological winner, I am not so sure I prefer the PS4 images. They are so crisp they look artificial, a bit like pictures of a diorama. The 2nd PS3 vs PS4 shot for instance with the rain and the mud works for me a lot better with the slight blur and lesser details of...

Some gameplay footage... there is something odd with the zooming, the size of the rooms and the art style: everything feels cramped.

In the UK Carsh Bandicoot could be considered of "massive significance". I mean at some point they tried to make Crash the mascot of the PlayStation (at least in Euope), the answer to Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic... That did not work so well, probably because the PlayStation already had a...

Who gives a shit about Crash Bandicoot? I know I don't. It's shelved next to Pandemonium in the mediocre platformer category. If they want to revive a mid '90s platformer I would be more excited about a new Jumping Flash (at least it was strange!) or, better, a new Klonoa!

Rest assured that we will know more in the coming days/weeks. For know it looks strange at best.