Well that was all sorts of awesome!

Couldn't a really evil villain just set a nuke off on top of the Yellowstone caldera and then laugh maniacally as the earth's skies are darkened by ash for a decade, killing off perhaps 90% of all flora and fauna and driving humanity to the brink of extinction as mass starvation and disease run rampant?

On the bright side if the movie ever does get made my expectations will be so low that they'll have to work really hard to balls it up enough to disappoint me.

I would not like a tv series based off of the Constantine film. I would love a tv series based off of the Hellblazer comics, especially if they just copied some of the older stories. I can think of no better series finale than John Constantine tricking the devil (or one of them) and getting his soul back as a result.

I actually really like open worlds, especially if you add a decent set of AI to do some basic tasks there to add dashes of life to the affair. For example one of the best parts in Skyrim, imho, is the small area around Whiterun where you have farms and the mead place. Not because there was a lot to do there but…

That's definitely part of the joke, the other part relates to the Spoonyone, who has done some pretty funny reviews on the Final Fantasy games, whose name comes from an old DnD character he had called Tandem the Spoony who was a bard. The irony is that Spoony's bard was all kinds of awesome, at least judging by the…

As interesting as that would be, I doubt it will really happen. I say this primarily because suspension of disbelief can only go so far when you're dealing with a city "shocked" at the actions of a hooded vigilante, that doesn't once reference the couple of hundred other hooded, masked and just plain alien vigilantes…

I'm not actually all that bummed out with Sega buying Relic. After all Sega haven't done badly with the Creative Assembly, as far as I can tell. At the very least CA have been able to mostly do what they do best, make PC strategy games. If Sega can do the same with Relic (i.e. leave them alone) then all the better.

Very, very, true. Just having the little battle-markers showing where places like Sodden were really helps flesh out the world.

I've only read the books that have been translated into English thus far, alas my linguistic skills are not up to reading it in polish, but there wasn't a map. Presumably if the original editions had ever had one they'd have put it in the English editions from the word go simply because people like maps in their…

Ah, TF2 sniping was always fun. Back when I played TF2 a lot (which was years ago now) I essentially played nothing but Sniper and almost got to the point where I might be called average. =D The problem, now of course, is that whenever I load a game I get to see the huge bar showing hours played as a sniper compared…

It's possible it was updated when they released the enhanced edition. Though my own personal copy of this map comes from the collectors edition of the Xbox version of the game, which I bought purely for the goodies and because CDProjectRed deserved the cash for producing one of my favourite games of the last decade.

It certainly had the more kills, largely due to the fact, as Iain Delaney pointed out, that it went after the Bombers whilst the faster and more manoeuvrable Spitfires went after the German escorts. As a fighter, in the sense of getting into dogfights, though I'd put the Spitfire ahead.

Also, I really loved the map of the North that came with the Witcher 2, it's a really nice stylised map that conjures up a nice medieval aesthetic.

Oh Skies of Arcadia, how I do miss thee.

I only have anecdotal evidence, but around a third of my friends who regularly read sci-fi and fantasy have kindles or other e-readers and buy a majority of their books in that format because of that. If that's in any way indicative of the way the trend is going I'd imagine that in terms of units sold in total sales…

Well played sir, well played. :D

Grinding does not equate to any sort of challenge. Generally speaking grinding is killing untold thousands of relatively easy to kill enemies for the xp and loot. Most of the time grinding is actually done to reduce a challenge.

If I had to guess, I'd say that Valve have some very clever people working on an in-house linux version that will allow most, if not all, windows based games to function on it. Whilst at the same time banking on the likelihood that their market share will mean developers and publishers will ensure that future games…

Eventually, I lost most of the Asian provinces a few decades after my Alexander's death. But I managed to retain Syria and the Levant and also retake Egypt and then spread into Anatolia. I finished the game as Emperor of Byzantium, King of Jerusalem, Syria, North Africa and Egypt. Although when the game ended I was in…