Allow me to correct you. Most Britons will complain about the National Health Service, but are also fiercely proud that it exists and what it accomplishes. There are very few people who openly disparage it, and most of them are wealthy enough to afford private health care. But even then I've known several people…

The show hasn't actually gotten round to giving the full exposition yet, but the MMO has all the backstory within it, and thus so does the wiki. In essence they aliens arrived in Orbit, surprised that they'd found an inhabited planet. They were initially allowed to settle small numbers in South America, but…

Is this presenting itself as actually being history? Or are they going down an almost acceptable route by saying that it's set in an alternate universe where technomancy is a thing and the renaissance saw the rediscovery of how to make clockwork fire birds?

It does have Reb Brown in it, which automatically makes it awesomely terrible!

Because despite the ending Battlestar was still better than 80% of what's on TV today. And is still better than 100% of what is on the Sy-Fy-An-Wrestlin' channel at the moment.

To be fair Napoleon was not terribly optimised from what I recall. Whilst Shogun 2 was actually rather well optimised all things considered. It certainly did better than either Empire of Napoleon when I cranked up the graphics and then used mods to up the unit sizes.

Sorry to hear that, I was just making a guess. Hopefully the workers will find something new, and better.

Fair enough, I was just making a guess after all. =] And if my ill-informed guess prompts someone to counter with a better idea or even a well founded observation, as you have, then all the better. After all that's how I, and everyone else, can learn new things.

It's a complicated question and I don't have an definitive answer to that. My initial response would be if the top of the economic food chain didn't take such a large portion of all profits for themselves it would create more excess money for everyone else. But at the same time that might trigger inflationary price…

I apologise if my tone was arrogant. I was, however, not advocating Disney's actions as a positive thing. Merely stating the reasons I think Disney have done this and the justifications therein. Personally I find the idea of profit maximisation to be short sighted and socially repugnant as it guts the building blocks…

Not going to disagree with you. In truth it's a symptom of a larger disease that's eating away at the heart of the more neo-liberal economies. Profits are increasingly pushed into excessive salaries for those at the top and shareholder payouts, whilst the majority of the workers make do with pay-rises that just barely…

My guess? Disney has decided that the risk v. reward on AAA budget games is too low when compared to F2P MMOs and browser games. And so has decided to refocus franchise games towards tablet, mobile and browser based platforms.

The Godfather II is proof positive that that supposition is wrong.

Sorry, but I had to vote with my gut. And my gut tells me that Buck Rogers was awesome tv when I was six and space fighters going woosh on tv made me fall in love with science fiction.

I'm almost looking forward to the game. Largely because the naval combat in AC3 was probably the largest redeeming feature of it. If they can make a likeable character and decent story, and cut down on the badly done and blatantly tacked on busywork that AC3 suffered from then it could be ok.

Nah, you wouldn't play archer. You'd play an intern who Archer ropes into doing his job for him because he's (delete as appropriate) drunk/hungover/with a lady of negotiable virtue/hiding from said ladies pimp/on a rampage.

Wow... I mean wow. American publishers really, really, suck. I mean outside of the odd Baen book sci-fi and even fantasy covers here in the uk have been pretty decent over the last decade. The cover for Saturn's Children was rather ok over here.

Saturn's Children had embarrassing cover art? Was the US cover particularly egregious?

Unionise. Seriously, the VFX community seems small and close knit enough that instituting collective bargaining to ensure they get a share of the films profits doesn't, to me anyway, seem that far fetched.

I'd be surprised if it's for the game. I'd not be surprised if it was for an AssCreed cartoon/comic released in advance of AssCreed IV as part of the promotional build-up.