Meh, previously I might have agreed with you. Pad for my 360, mouse and keyboard for my PC (after flirtations years ago with shocking bad PC pads).
All changed when I got a £10 wireless adapter for my 360 pad and... oh... erm it's actually pretty damn good.
Battelfield still gets the mouse, but most other stuff that…

unless you've got a spare HDD lying around.
My personal preference was always Xbox over PS, but that did drive me to leave a load of perfectly functional HDDs in my "might be useful one day" drawer, whilst hunting around for a drive on ebay I could flash the firmware of to spoof an official xbox drive to replace the…

I think MS merely underestimated their audience's grap of logic, and somebody from PR demanding only positive messages probably didn't help.
1) You can put physical media in your machine and install & run without the disc. Yay.
2) You can re-sell the physical disc you bought. Yay.
3) Obviously there needs to be some…

Seems fair enough.
Kickstarter is mainly about wanting to make something happen - the backers of Ouya did just that.
More importantly, apart from a few small quibbles, they actually seem to have 'made a good, cheap, android console' - I'm still waiting for my Open Pandora I paid for up-front ooooh, must be getting on…

I'd have thought most of the time they're only too aware of their games shortcomings.
I mean surely the equivalent happens the other way - as a developer, how can you sleep at night, knowing that lovely preview section you demonstrated was built with scripted sequences, consumed half your graphics budget and will in no…

Putting aside all these wonderful points others have posted - could we just focus on the large plus of 'tax-free gaming'

Definitely not wanting to criticize anybody, but problem with companies that expand quickly is that they tend to start a time-bomb ticking.
We need 200 extra employees (or 5 companies) 'now'. So you go to the market.
You have a choice, you either mop up the ones that nobody else wants, or you offer significantly higher…

I reckon MS will ride in by supplying cable boxes.
They're already playing with leasing - $20 a month for a console and Xbox live on your cable bill?
The TV part runs as a separate VM - so can tweak this for different cable operators, whilst leaving the gaming side untouched.
They're playing with a "non-gaming" xbox -…

Carmack (as I've understood it) was always the geeky guy, who churned out the incredible engines. To this day, I don't think I've ever got quite as excited with any engines as I have with Commander Keen (it scrolls like a console - this doesn't sound quite as impressive today I realize) and the 3D(ish) engines for…

What I want is a way to jump mid-way into these old games.

I loved FFVII first time around, I was maybe 50-60 hours into it and was taking my sweet time, wandering, exploring, picking up the hidden side-quests etc. Then my poxy Datel 'compressed memory' card died (I have still never forgiven them) and my save was lost…

Hmm
Had a quick look on his site, and couldn't see any acknowledgement to Harry Beck (the guy who created the iconic London tube map, his re-design liberally borrows from)

Actually, I think you nailed it there.

Crackdown 2 just made me sad - Same city - just changed from Sega blue skies to shades of grey.
I even preferred the boss/enemy areas in the first game, to the second - wasn't a 'bad' game, just DLC expansion with ideas of grandure.

Well I loved Origins.
Well there's more to it than that, I think I picked it up based on the gameranking and discounted price, but once it was loaded..

*raises hand*

I give it 6 months

Looking at it the other way..
He clearly managed to get something in his contract that not only tied him to the game as the auteur, but also gave him the game if Ubisoft cancelled it.
Theoretically then, it's possible that by dragging his heals and just generally messing about, he could hold the game hostage - worst…

Crackdown (and crackdown 2) were excellent examples of this - should you be wanting to spend a day pootling around.

It's membrane - but actually a perfectly 'fine' keyboard.
We got several hundred of them appearing in my office during an upgrade in the early 00's. Still have my original mechanical one though (if you can remember back to when PCs only came in grey).

Sorry, you find it strange that a videogame doesn't explicitly provide the religious beliefs of the protagonist?