@Shijirou: nope, FAT volumes (as in, a disk drive) can be between 512mib and 8tib. files on that drive cannot exceed 4gib in size, thoes are the limitations of FAT32 itselfe, not windows.

that does look amazing, me wants. any game with explosions that big and sparkly, can't be bad

@Ad-hominem: i personaly think that full of win is inface made of win

@karateka: whats got your nickers in a twist? i assure you i have gotten off my arse and gone to a game store to buy a game, but here were talking about a download only game, that has extra content on the pc. so i want it on a virtual store i can trust. and no, its not the end of the world if its not on steam. i shall…

@cubed2D: yes, monopolies can be bad, but steam is not a monopoly. there aer other services competing against it, the only problem is that they are no competition to it. so, you may say im limiting my chocie of game, i think not. ill wait. it will probably be comming to steam soon, if not ill get it on live arcade.

@MrBionic: yea, method is important. i have a big collection of games on steam. its a platform i know and trust, and happen to like alot. whenever i get a new pc, its the first thing i install after [drivers.one] thing i dont want it to haev to install steam, impulse (that stardock one) and however many other game…

meh, no steam, no online purchace for me im afraid. ill be waiting

@phisheep: possibly, but its a useful feature to be able to limit the range of a agents movements.

@SpishackCola: so what happens if you were so excited about the DS that you imported one from america, then got really bored with it and traded it in just before you found out how awsum advance wars was? death penalty?

well, thats all well and good, but wheres my live arcade version?

Thats great! i read in an interview that the realy focused on rapid prototypes for spore, trying every idea out, seing how it worked before they intergrate it in to the game.

yeah, good comparisoin there, can tell you know your stuff! compairing that 3d graphics lib to the whole of direct x.. oh wait. open gl only does graphics, so it equates to direct 3d, thats where you need the extra 3rd party updates.

earth defence force was one of my best purchices ever.

Marketing departments take note! This is how you present a new game. Not just a cinematic trailer, not a short video of some disconnected in game clips, with that Hollywood trailer voice thrown on top. One mood setting cinematic trailer, coupled with one long ingame clip, showing whats similar to the old games, what's…

@Nubius: Just one guy, working part time initialy. after he won the publishing contract, he quit his job and is now working full time on it.

@suya123: Id imagine any choice to monitise games would be left up to the devloper. microsoft have allways siad they are still considering leting devs charge for games and how such a system would be implemented. so for the moment we still have to presume that all xna community games are free of charge, with the slight…

you can say XNA games sould be cheaper than arcade games if there produced on a shoestring budget, and im hopeing us xna devs will be able to charge for games on the community games service. If a game is worth full price though, i see no reson why it shouldent be full price. im hoping microsoft will work with some of…

want pc vs 360 multiplay the whole point of this game?

cool and all, but didnt a A Tale in the Desert have a player elected government, who could pass laws and hold referendums that the players could vote on?

the a.i is quite good!