He said his sliding glass door was open in the story. They don't have external locks, they can only be unlocked from the inside. However, the locks on them are often easy defeated with force. This is why people often stick a wood or steel rod in the track, to physically prevent the door from being slid open.

To be a "Games For Windows" qualified game, it MUST support 360 gamepads.

Both of those things can be set to happen automatically.

The X games are strictly single player. However they're very MMO-ish in that you basically have a a big open, persistent universe to play in. There is an overarching storyline to follow, but if you want you can spend the whole game just trading, taking random jobs, etc.

Good editorial. I think the most important point is not how consumers see this, but how other publishers/developers see it. As you say there was a long period of time where one could forget that Steam was owned and run by a company that also made their own games. This week that was not the case.

I don't know, to me, looks like a bunch of people with white guilt forcibly applying a racial meaning to something that isn't there. I.e. pareidolia like I said.

Pareidolia.

Of course, but resonance462 put it, it also doesn't mean it didn't happen - which is why they should get their day(s) in court.

Regarding comments about other UE3 based games seemingly being completed without issue - note that most of the better looking, better working UE3 based games came out *after* Gears of War.

What do you mean, "what happens 50 years from now?" Does the world really need to preserve more than a few copies of some plastic casing with a label on it? You honestly think NES carts have so much historical importance we need thousands of copies of some game preserved? Should we scold people who destory their…

That's not accurate at all. There are many games that don't support triple monitor resolutions. 5 minutes of browsing the detailed reports over at WSGF will confirm that.

Let's talk about whether the blog view being broken for the last couple hours is intentional...

No well regarded game has ever met the expectations of someone who played it after the fact, unless they don't go into it specifically looking to disprove those expectations, and most people naturally don't approach it that way. You can replace a few nouns in your post and exchange it with similar posts for Bioshock,…

PC is the key to preserving old console games - but only so long as the publishers put some effort into the ports.

They're just PC ports - really bad ones at that - of the recent XBLA ports of those games.

If by "works like a charm" you mean distorted and stretched...then yes. The game does natively allow you to select widescreen resolutions, but they are not aspect correct, they're 4:3 stretched. Maybe if you never saw what the game is supposed to look like, it wouldn't be apparent that it's wrong. The fact that you…

Differences that *wouldn't* be marginal: proper widescreen and gamepad support - which would be huge.

Homeworld is easily in my personal 5 best games of all time list, because I can continually go back and replay it year after year and still have fun with and be impressed by it - which is a claim I can rarely make.

Hey it's that guy who's in like every english dubbed anime ever!

Since most people don't seem to have read the article - in addition to hacking Valve, it's stated that he also wrote and distributed malware to steal people's CD keys, which "grew quickly to one of the most prominent malwares at the time".