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Even this week's 8-4 podcast had a mention of "Crazy Buttocks said it, I assume it is true". I can't quite decipher that Sony line though. It seems like "No paywall for online play, but not confirmed", but could also be "Despite rumors, no solid information either way". Note: I coulda...

NM, the conversation should have been in the book thread.

Err, what in God's name are you talking about? Aside from the much shorter call-in, MS' policies are those of Steam or better. About the only point you can complain about, vs. Steam, is the difficulty for indie games to show up on the platform. Let's be clear here: Steam gets away with a lot...

Err, yes, the widely reported rumors were that Versus was turned into FF15, a PS4 exclusive. (Like, Sony staff pitched in to work on the thing.) I'm not sure how what we've seen of Versus really works with what we've seen of Agni's though.

The military. To a lesser extent, people off at vacation homes, depending on how cell phone tethering works. (I imagine there are some people that can't afford internet yet somehow have the console (given the system as a gift, or severe drop in income in the interim (unemployment, or off to...

Because personally he's a massive twat, and professionally he's now middle of the road, at best? (Admittedly, all he's had going for him is good RBs.)

To be perfectly honest, I'd much rather have the ability for all 14 guildies that are currently on to be in one raid than to have Tempest Keep turn into a 25-man current difficulty raid (and knowing Blizz, killing my ability to solo the old TK for Ashes). I just don't know if I would be...

You can't possibly be claiming that all of us are overly emotional about it, and that said emotion is the only issue. I'll put it in the least emotional terms possible: All I gain out of these policies is the ability to download a disc-based game I've bought even if I've lost the disc, and...

The Xbox Defense Force answer would be that Steam's restrictions are just as bad, if not worse, on many of these points. I'd point out that Steam's minimum heartbeat goes for a hell of a lot longer and assume the game prices still drop much faster on Steam.

I can see it being used; but other than 11+ member family guilds that somehow haven't already fallen apart, I can't see anyone being excited about this. And yeah, a mentally challenged 25 man LFR, an easier than current normal flexraid, and a challenging heroic flexraid does seem to be what...

Just so we're clear, downclocks happen all the time to fix yield issues; as systems have become multicore, assuming not all the cores work has become common as well (the PS3 only assumes 8 out of 9 Cells work, and even the PS4 I believe assumes only 18 out of 20 compute units work). The issue...

I thought the CG additions didn't mesh very well. Felt like they stole Archer's Season 3 vehicle modeler. I also thought it was weird that they apparently slightly rejiggered the timeline of the season, moving the Halloween episode into the commercial break. Nothing between episode 1 and...

In some ways, that's abadthing. Every team that's working on Last of Us, or Puppeteer, or Beyond, or GT6... isn't working on PS4 games. It's a lesser case of why the WiiU has struggled - they had too many teams working on stuff for other systems for far too long. Hell, if we want to get into...

Err, I am fuzzy myself. I thought it was: Book Version- She's drinking something that she thought helps fertility, but in reality keeps her sterile (I believe Tywin is behind the plot). The description of "her" given in a later book has wider hips than before, leading many to think she...

Again, it doesn't matter if the file is on a disc or on your hard drive. Original Xbox to 360 was x86 to PowerPC. To get BC, they had to basically recompile them on a game by game basis, it worked for crap, and they only got through a couple dozen before they gave up. 360 to Xbone is...

Honest question, what do you guys think the odds are of Rivers being in the league a year from now? I think it's likely the Chargers go with a new QB next Fall, so what are the odds Marmalad gets a backup job somewhere else? I just don't see it. Edit: As to the article itself, I think it...

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...l-for-season-2 Not too much of a surprise it gets another season somewhere, as the US rights are so cheap there was chatter they could move it to Syfy, but a bit of a surprise NBC kept it. (As it is, NBC has a couple shows that don't even have homes on...

Err, the ancient timeline isn't true. I'm not talking about that. Semi-recently (last couple years) Blizz said that they were aiming for 100 as the end point; Blizz has all but announced Burning Legion is 6.0 (the 5.3 legendary quest line flat out says "You're fighting the Burning Legion...

I wonder what, if anything, this does to WoW. They seemed to have a nice timeline set up with Burning Legion at 95 and the Old Gods / Titans to wrap everything up at an even 100; who knows if/what they pad in between/after.

1) Yeah, Garnett, Chris Kohler over at Wired, and even Marcus seem like they've all lost weight / put on muscle over the last few years. Not sure if this is a sign that even the games media is turning into photogenic people only. (Long live the fat bastards at Giantbomb.com!) 2) Yeah, that's...

Technically speaking, PCs with more, lower speed cores are what the industry will move to, just from cooling and power consumption standpoints; better integrated video will eat into the low end graphics card sales. That those statements apply to the traditional gaming market that buys "real...

Like TCFB said, the legal precedents (in Europe, anyway), suggest that MS' scheme won't be legal there in the long run. Still doesn't mean MS won't implement it for the multiple years until a clear legal ruling is issued.

MS' current scheme is that you sell it to Gamestop, etc., and they pay the used fee, rather than the original theoretical of you give the disc to your buddy and he pays it. Either way, there's a fee, it's just whether it is baked into the resell price.

According toPolygon, the plan,today anyway, is that someone sells the game (to an authorized reseller only) for X, the reseller then sells it for (X+Y), with MS (and then the publisher?) getting a fixed dollar value of that Y. Of course, as said, MS wants full retail for Y for new games, so...

Am I crazy, or A) Hasn't Windows Media Center existed for years, including all the fantasy football integration? Hell, that version even functions as a DVR. B) X1 runs windows apps; all MS really did was port (part of) it to the X1 app OS and add Kinect commands. C) Why was MS' big focus of...

GIF. I don't care what the inventor says. The acronym is going off of graphics, not joint.

Yeah, the current / next gen split will be weird to see. MS has pretty much cleared out the current gen; about all I can think of that they are publishing is LocoCycle (for XBLA). Furthermore, almost all of their teams have been working on X1 games since Nov 11 (or earlier). Add in any timed...

Back in February, I thought the PS4 system announcement was blindingly mediocre. Now it's the high point of the decade (or whenever the 4DS comes out). Christ.

Other shoe drop #4: No self-publishing / indie games.

Mark Cerny is completely fluent in Japanese. Dude is awesome. Edit: You do remember that his game, Knack, is made byJapanStudio, right? I don't believe they have any staff outside of Japan.

Well, PS4 gamescanlook better - or the devs will just program for the lower spec and call it a day. Many Xbox 1 games looked better than PS2, but not all of them.

Because Lenas' argument is that the X1 does everything the PS4 does and then some. Except that we saw no signs of the sharing/broadcasting systems PS4 has (not that I would ever touch it), and (from the rumors that yet to be disputed), virtually every component in the system is worse than the...

Other shoe drop #3: MS UK claiming that Kinect does indeed need to be running for the X1. Unknown yet if that's the same space requirements as the original Kinect (if so, cue uproarious laughter here), or if it just needs to be plugged in for the microphone (a bit of clutter, but not a big...

That's what I was talking about.

What an enormous waste of time. "Yeah, we've carved out CPU and memory time for apps!" Okay, and your specs are higher enough that the game space alone matches a PS4? Wait, there were no specs given? Oh. Honestly, was there anything else?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I died and my soul is in some marketing double-speak limbo atm.

It may not be always on, but it does appear to always authenticate. (How exactly does that work anyway? If my system isn't online, does the disc still work the first time? The Nth time? Can I rent/buy a used game if I just don't have the system online while I'm doing that? Do they retroactively...

I can't imagine EA killed online passes just because the X1 has it built-in; it has to be both systems. And really, this system is less heinous than I figured. I can play it on multiple X1s I own (or if I upgrade/replace systems); I can even bring it over to a friends house to show him the...

Other shoe drop #2: No backwards compatability. (No real surprise.)

Other shoe drop #1: extra fee to play used games confirmed. I can't believe anyone thought EA "stopped" the online passes out of generosity.