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'Imperial Agent' class sneaks into Star Wars: The Old Republic {Joystiq}
Nov 6th 2009 10:55PM How about still making The Old Republic but not making it look like absolute junk. I know, I know, its a work in progress but that screenshot above looks HORRIBLE. Absolute garbage. Especially compared to current mmorpgs and newer multiplayer games/single player game experiences on mid-range PCs.
Its almost like they are targetting this game towards 8-13 year olds who love all things Jedi and don't care about graphics or gameplay cause I can use a lightsaber!! which so sooooooo coool!
Poll: Did you like the new show V? {Engadget HD}
Nov 5th 2009 5:22PM Yes, since they'll be re-running these 5 epsidoes before the new epsidoes in March, there's no real reason you need to watch them week by week right now as you'll probalby see them all day-after-day more than likely in March. Or not at all if the series is cancelled since the hype will be dead and since we have no reason to watch it now, ratings may become poor if people realize the series will only be partially-done/completed.
Nintendo might be considering hybrid HD/SD console {Joystiq}
Nov 5th 2009 5:13PM Sounds to me like they are aiming the bar to be just barely capable of HD graphics or capable of very component SD graphics. Aka, sometimes akin to almost an xbox 360s power and low-balling the performance specs in favour of a cheap introductory price.
It's pretty much what they did with the Nintendo Wii. Its like a regular xbox pretty much give or take 30%. I wouldn't be suprrised if they took the same tactic consider how much money they've made off the Wii. Releaseing Semi-outdated technology and charging high prices with low supply. I'm suspecting they'll try to make the Wii 2 or whatever they call it like 80-110% an xbox 360 but offer a relatively cheap price since the technology cost has gone down. I'm guessing like around $300.00 to $250.00. By that time in a year or two, the cost of the hardware should be down to around $150.00 and they'll make quite a bit off each console.
Meanwhile, the xbox and ps3 equivilents will be substantially faster with less profit or at a small loss. Casuals will choose the Wii and Wii will pretend to be hardcore. More serious gamers and hardcore gamers will choose the next xbox/ps3?
WoW 'rejected' in China, government at odds with itself over decision {Joystiq}
Nov 3rd 2009 2:03AM @ybfelix
That's the point Felix. If you've ever read some of the original writings on communism, particularly Marism communism, you'd know that you need a raging capitalist system to establish a true communist society.
The idea behind marxism is that basically, capitalism is a corrupt, vile, evil machine that eventually will destroy itself. When it does destroy itself, the CEOs, bosses, etc get overthrown and companies start being ran by company workers. With profits being shared equally, etc. Where people get paid for the work they actually do, etc etc.
Part of the idea is to let capitalism run wild. When an offical allows dangerous chemicals in milk and it kills a whole bunch of babies, well that's not communisms fault. That official got greedy, was bribed with money and we blame that on capitalism. Damn him for being a capitalist! Anytime anything goes wrong in China, its blamed on Capitalism.
Sooner or later, the theory is Capitalism will be destory via revolt and you'll get actual communism as workers take over their own companies, share profit equally, happily-ever-after. We'll see Carl Marx. We'll see.
WoW 'rejected' in China, government at odds with itself over decision {Joystiq}
Nov 3rd 2009 1:59AM Aye, you speak the truth. I was quite a wow addict for a while and was playing like six hours a day. I'd do a few assignments, little study and tons of wow.
Every evening I'd log in ...just for a few minutes...to ...you know, do the dailies.
3 hours later, on right, my homework. We'll, I'll wake up early tommorow morning to do it.
3 hour later, wow, I should be getting to bed. 2 hours later, sweet I got my last two slots of roic gear on my third lvl 80. 3am rolls around...right...so now to ...wake up early tomomrow and do my homework prior to school starting at 8am ... ummm....
Goes to bed, sleeps in till 8-10ish, doesn't finish homework and hands it in three day late losing him 30% off the mark he actually received. Repeat and rinse till I nearly failed my fourth semister of university. Luckily, I've learned and no longer subscribe to any mmorpgs during university classes. I do subscribe for 3 months during the summer though and go back to the crazy lifestyle of mmorpgs which I find easier to balance with 8am-5pm style jobs since there's never 'homework' or 'after-work' stuff to do.
Cage explains why PS3 is 'the best platform' for Heavy Rain {Joystiq}
Nov 2nd 2009 7:50PM I don't think its comparing apples and oranges.
I think its like comparing oranges grown in California to Mandarin Oranges. Either way, the taste is pretty similar and if you don't have a lot of experience eating either type or orange, you might not notice the difference.
However, if you've only eaten Mandarin Oranges your whole life, Californian oranges might taste special if you give it a try.
Contrarily, if your afraid to try the new taste, your missing out.
Anyways, yeah xbox 360s almost consistently run faster than PS3 games in most cross platform titles. When titles are developed for PS3 first then ported to xbox 360, they seem to often end up running equal speed.
Honestly, it makes me a bit curious why exactly people feel abitrarily attached to the rumors the PS3 has a powerful beast under the hood we have yet to see unleashed! People really also seem to jump on that only-possible-on-the-ps3 rumor. You know, anything that runs on a ps3/xbox 360 can be easily and superiorly done on a PC. If you wanted top notch visual quality, heavy rain should be being powered by 2x5870x2s or maybe 2 Fermis whenever it gets released.
Even Notty Dog? I think that's the developers name stated themselves that Uncharted 2 maxed out the PS3. Sooo yeah, there's no more hidden power left as far as they are concerned. Uncharted 2 doesn't look that-amazing that there aren't comparable titles on the xbox 360 for visual quality. Seriously, its about time to admit the systems are pretty much about equal.
Even the guy above who stated 'DVD'. Damn that's an old argument that's been countered OHH, OHH, OHHHHH so many many times. Blu-ray discs read about the slower than the dvd rom drive in the xbox 360. As a result, a lot of blu-ray games have the data doubled or tripled to lower seek times and allow more reading per pass. Then if you add that + uncompressed textures, it removes the advantage. Most xbox 360 games look almost identical texture wise to ps3 games when you compare titles available on both systems. If anything, the textures on the dvd-version using compressed textures can sometimes look better. Not always, but sometimes.
I do admit though, I think the next-next generation of video consoles that uses a new more powerful video card that can actually render in true 1080p should really come with a high definition storage medium so games can be around 40GB /w compressed textures to allow nice, long, great looking titles. Versus great looking but rediculously short titles (Read: 6 hours of Heavenly Sword, ...WTH? That was it? is how I felt when I passed that game).
Infinity Ward pulls 'Fight Against Grenade Spam' ad in light of backlash {Joystiq}
Nov 1st 2009 6:07PM Lol, I didn't realize it spelt f.a.g.s at first.
I just read fight against grenade spam and though lol, yeah. My friends tend to do that a lot in Halo or any fps. I'm about to die! I can't aim worth ** **! GRENADE SPAM SO I CAN TAKE HIM WITH MEEEEE. Then I saw the photo and though, that might actually be a pretty funny commercial.
At first, when reading through the article, I thought the backlash was going to be from serious COD players who felt grenade spamming was a legitimate technique/skill and that grenades can be used effectively to pop around corners, etc. I didn't realize the blacklash was going to be from homosexual gamers as I wasn't even really thinking about possible acryonms. I could see Infinity ward missing that, but, think it was possibly on purpose.
Paradigm ships its Special Edition speakers {Engadget HD}
Nov 1st 2009 2:01AM Beautiful looking for sure. They have a really nice look to them. They seem both glassy/sophisticated even if they are mid-level home theatre speakers, they seem like better quality and more expensive.
Race changes now allowed in World of Warcraft, cost a pretty penny {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 6:07PM Its probably that World of Warcraft accepts nearly every currency out there from Euros to Yen to AUD.
With the way the america dollar has been lately, you might want to keep some of those Euros in Euros...just in case. I mean, Goldman-Sachs-ica of America hasn't been the most stable financially of late.
GTA's 'Next Stop' teased in Liberty City Episodes manual {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 6:03PM March 2010, 2011 or 2012 I wonder?
