Next gen you probably won't even need to worried about games going out of stock, with digital and hard copies being available simultaneously. You're not thinking about the future. Those games you're worried about playing later will indeed by available online - just look at the PC game market. Most of the good games…

That's BS. Wrapping a metal band around an LCD screen does not mean you're copying the iPhone. The PSP's done it. The GP line of portables have had several such designs. Even the GBA Micro has a a similar design, just with plastic. It's a solid, compact formfactor, so can't we just leave it at that and enjoy the games?

The way you brought it up makes it seem like Valve is doing something new, but this has been standard practice since 2003. By all means, wait for a price drop - Steam does that well, too.

"Does it just work with Steam Achievements and Friends and all that good stuff, or is this one of those bullshit one-key-one-account situations that Valve's been pulling?"

The game was a 360 exclusive. If the developer doesn't publish, or doesn't have a 3rd party publisher, that makes Microsoft the de facto publisher/distributor. Remedy is a private company and is not owned by Microsoft.

That's one case, and debatable, given the fill rates needed to support those textures at a good framerate. Skyrim's also still a 32-bit executable, so you'd have to tweak it to accept more than 2GB of RAM. The cards available are already slowish, and putting an extra GB or 3 of VRAM on the card would just unbalance it…

Can't be bothered to build your own PC to save money (or shop around for a cheaper builder), AND don't like Windows? Why even bother with PC gaming then? Talk about clinging to old ways...

The GPU doesn't need that much RAM. It wouldn't be utilized unless you turned up the resolution past 1080p (and past 1920x1200, for that matter) which, if hooked to a HDTV, wouldn't be an option. But neither of the GPUs offered are even clocked high enough or have the number of shader pipelines available to really…

I'm having a hard time taking that question seriously because the answer is so obvious. The purpose of having USB and Bluetooth connectivity on a tablet is choice and versatility, just like on any other tablet. It's already been done, so why would it not be the case here? Having the wireless connectivity is what lets…

I'm sure they'd have bluetooth and/or usb slots for keyboard and mouse. It doesn't seem like you even read the article because the concept is for exactly the opposite of the "casual gaming" you're talking about. It's like you read "tablet" and stopped there. A handful of companies have released add-ons for Android/iOS…

That video you're talking about is not new tech. It's old tech that people are trying again and will not get working, at least not in the way and the means they claim. Carmack commented on it, but also Notch (Minecraft, another voxel game) commented on it too. There were no animations beside a moving camera, all…

"If he wanted to be relevant again, work for something that is truly going to change gaming, such as a new way to render graphics not just a new engine."

THQ bundles games with newer ones on Steam. For example, Darksiders was included as a pre-order bonus for WH40K: Space Marine. It's also been on sale for $5 at least once, and is part of the THQ Pack which also has been on sale numerous times.

You don't have to pay for XBL to be connected to XBL. It's called a Silver membership, and it'll still track achievements and stuff for you. That said, at least half of 360 owners ARE on XBL (and probably more now since I'm referencing a stat at least a couple years old), so the metric makes plenty of sense as it…

What you propose doesn't make any sense, because if you could buy a game without DRM at the same place you could buy it with DRM, of course you'd buy it without. It's not even a choice. The only way you'd buy it with DRM is if its presence was obscured in some way, or the option to buy without was likewise obscured.…

CD Projekt gave us that choice already. At launch you could buy retail or non-Steam which had SecuROM (patched out now), Steam (always DRM, but one of the best), or GOG (no DRM). Any game sold on both Steam and GOG is giving you that choice, also. I would add a third note to your conclusions, and that is that if the…

There's no rush to change that password or email because that's not the account that was hacked directly, and it's also protected by two factor authentication. You'd get an email if anybody tried to modify your account.

It's either high traffic or they disabled it until the initial panic from the news dies down. I'm not worried though. Steam Guard protects your account anyway by requiring an email code any time you modify your account or access it from a different browser or computer.

There's no way they would've been able to decrypt your CC info in that window, let alone use it and get your account flagged. Most likely a coincidence.

Actually, Valve added Steam Guard (i.e. upgraded to two factor authentication) a full month before Sony got hacked. So Valve has been ahead of Sony this entire time. It's also one of the reasons that I'm not worried at all about changing my Steam account password. The hackers would have to access my email to change…