It was a 200$ disparity if you wanted a larger hard drive or no hard drive at all.

It was the exact same 100$ if you wanted the same amount of storage space as the competitor.

Xbox 360 Pro 20GB HD - 399$ Retail at launch.
Playstation 3 20GB HD - 499$ Retail at launch.

I'm not going to argue that there isn't an existing…

It's more of a matter of perception. No, 400$ isn't chump change. But when the competition is basically offering the same thing for 1/4 more it starts looking much better in terms of value.

It's the same thing that happened this gen with the PS3 and 360 releases.

5$ for unlimited play for an hour? That sounds like pretty good deal to me. considering at an Arcade in the US you can end up spending well over 5$ in a matter of minutes in arcade.

One thing I love about Halo, COLORS!! Effing COLORS! More games, especially shooters needs to follow the example. Stop with the limited color pallets, enough browns and grey. We have more than 8 bit color now.

You pick race(there are 3 total) gender and class. I'm assuming there's going to some character creation/customization.

It's instanced but with public areas.

Basically you play either by yourself or maybe 3 of your friends in your own instance for most of the areas. But you can encounter public areas. The game has background matchmaking, when you enter these public areas it automatically performs matchmaking and pairs you up with other…

It's built in house, using Umbra 3 for Occlusion Culling. For the hardware they've been demoing on PS4 Dev kits.

Sega Genesis
PC (First one was an IBM Aptiva when I was about 5 to be specific, Dune 2 and Warcraft : Orcs and Humans, DOS!)
Gameboy Pocket
Nintendo Sixty FOOOOOOOUUUUUUUURRRR
Playstation
Playstation 2 (Had two, original phat model died and bought a slim the day after)
Gameboy Advanced
Gamecube
Xbox (Went through two of these…

Bungie has been pretty good with AI in Halo. The units do flank and attempt to out maneuver you on Legendary.

If it's one Developer to produce good shooter AI I'd say it's Bungie.

It's all a matter of opinion. The two games aren't following the same game play focus. One is strictly about combat with Mechs and Infantry. The other is more about character development and exploration.

Sure there both shooters set at some point in the future but that's where the similarities end. If your looking for…

Titanfall looked nice and all. But really this is a bit much. The game wasn't THAT impressive or original. At least not to the point that it should be awarded in 6 categories. : / Then again I had the same issue when every one was gushing over Watch Dogs. It looks nice but it seems highly overrated by the amount of…

He was charged in the US. Not in China.

3DS is easily becoming my favorite system right now. Fire Emblem is to my surprise, my favorite game of the year so far.

It's true that you're more than likely not going to see a substantial benefit to such an approach.

You could have complex or rudimentary calculations (Dynamic spawn generation for example) that don't need to be updated every frame taking place through web service calls hosted on Azure or a similar platform. This would…

My point is though that the hardware manufacturer doesn't need to provide such a service. The only advantage here is that Microsoft can dictate the terms and pricing of a license for Azure. So they could be providing a discount to developers developing games of X1. Azure isn't for Microsoft tech only. Sure developing…

Azure or any other cloud based service is not platform specific. Processing done on a cloud or any other web based service is hardware neutral.

Internet should honestly be regulated as a utility now. Just like phone lines or elictricity. But ISP continue lobbying against it and continue to hold monopolies in their local markets.

I've allways had some form of gaming PC.

I really enjoyed that. As some one who's currently works in Software development and has also done some work in electronic engineering. His presentation hit a lot of good notes, really interesting stuff.

Halo 4, I know it came out last year. But I didn't get it until this year so..

I didn't really play anything else new on my 360 this year.