@Kleppy: Depends what you mean by "benchmark", but you were wrong on the liquid cooling angle. It turns out that big, quiet fans work every bit as reliably (and incredibly more cheaply) as exotic chilled liquids. CPUs are perfectly happy to run around 50C under load for large percentages of their lives, and I can't…

For once, though, this isn't style over substance. Keeping the coolant at 0C is no mean feat, and the 4.6 overclock isn't be sniffed at either. Shame they couldn't find anything more demanding to throw at it than Black Ops, though. Metro 2033 would've been more like it.

@MagicShroom: To be honest, I'd be surprised if it did. There is no way to over-state the mind-bendingly complexity of the structures involved here. It's complexity on an order that we struggle to conceptualise in the first place.

@DefineStatutory: Exactly. He bought it because he had the money to burn. And if he didn't have the money to burn, he's merely an idiot.

@Dogen: The whole of Europe should do the same and boycott Valve. Anyone who buys a game from Steam in the Eurozone is saying to Valve "It's OK to ream us. Keep at it.".

@Vedli: You were merely re-iterating an argument I see getting trotted out all the time in defense of Steam - i.e. you make it sound like retail stores are absolutely the only place you can buy games. They're not, and it's nonsensical. And I can pretty much guarantee you that Amazon will undercut any of Steam's…

@Bwehngamun: This constant insistence that physical shops are the only other place to buy games is incredible. Have you ever heard of Amazon.com ?

@lordofsword: ++

@rustyshackleford: I've no idea if Epic uses the Unreal Engine on the DS or PSP. I don't care either, frankly.

@rustyshackleford: "You must be one of those dbags that carry's a smartphone and a dedicated handheld gaming device, probably the underpowered DS? amirite?"

@spiderweb1986: Pricing absolutely is the problem. If you're in Europe, Steam's prices are routinely 300% higher than many on-line retailers' prices.

@reluttr: Check out European pricing on their titles. Steam *is* the greedy one here.

@marcisliepa: I don't think the markup on Steam games is "wee". It's anywhere from 30-50%. Or, for every 3 titles you buy from Amazon, you could buy a 4th with what you'd save over buying from Steam. e.g. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is currently about €16 from Amazon.co.uk. On Steam ? €49.99. That's a near 300%…

@Mark Dygert: If you have a disk, why would you need to go back to the retailer ? This is also notwithstanding that a disk-install is hugely quicker than re-downloading gigs of content.

@LooneyDude6: Absolutely. Steam survives only because they don't gouge their US customers. Everyone else gets completely shafted. I'm in Ireland, less than 100 miles from the UK, and Eurozone prices for Steam titles are absolutely abysmal. Even the UK, a 45 minute flight away, gets cheaper games on Steam.

@Vedli: Have you heard of Amazon, by any chance ? I mean, you know there's this thing called "online shopping", which doesn't require you to actually go to a brick 'n' mortar shop these days ?

@wrackune: Yes, some boxed titles require Steam integration. And the reason you'd buy a boxed title is that e.g. you don't need to go farther than the nearest PC to buy it from an on-line retailer who will post it directly to you without you having to "go" anywhere. And often, the box is considerably cheaper.

"But there's a reason Steam is so dominant: it's the only service that's doing things right." - Possibly, if by "right" you mean "gouging the customer.".

Can;'t you just "socialise" Chrome by....opening Facebook in a tab ?

@thinkthis: iOS "gaming" fits a very new, very particular niche - mobile, easily portable gaming on largely mobile phone-sized hardware. There are only two players here (iOS and Android; Win7 Mobile is too new), and I strongly doubt people are basing their mobile device-buying decisions on the ready availability of…