This would be the most powerful Steam Box configuration, acording to Valve. Gabe has said that the "normal" Steam Box would be around 300/400 dollars and would be able to play all Steam games. A 1000 dollars Steam Box should be able to play all games at maximum capacity.

The first day after launch was a breeze: I was able to play for hours without problems. After that it was much more chaotic, with server locks and hiccups everywhere. Some servers are better than other, if you consider prime time.

I don't like always on DRM, but here in Brazil the Sim City launch was fine. I downloaded the game and was able to play it right away. That in a country with ridiculously slow broadband... So perhaps the problems are location based?

Since it takes place in England, I suppose it is about the Great Plague Of London, that happened in 1665. It killed 20% of the population of the city, mainly in suburbs.

The best setting possible is the French Revolution. Paris was a big city already, densely packed, there is a lot of background history, plots, twists and fights everywhere, and hundreds of characters that could be either friends or targets. Really, Ubisoft being french, I cannot understand how they did not think of…

McDonald's service here in Brazil is pretty similar with the one in the photos, except it usually takes waaaay more than 60 seconds (more like 5 minutes).

LG has a couple of low-end IPS Full HD monitors that can be found for $150. It's not as good as a Dell, but I have one and it's pretty decent: i use it mainly for gaming and webdesign.

Overall, Brazil is another market with the same problems and the same limitations. Games are really expensive in normal shops here, and that gives pirates a reason to exist. Also, because piracy is so strong, the same shops only sell old games. But here we have two extra limitations: consoles are also expensive and…

Actually, if I remeber correctly, it wasn't the NSF who blew the Statue's head in Deus Ex. It was blown years before the plot starts, by another terrorist group - Sillhouette, maybe or someone I don't remeber. The NSF attack was not a bomb threat, it had something to do with the UNATCO base in the Statue.

Brazilian TV made a remake of this show some years ago. It was called Som & Fúria (Sound & Fury) and it was probably the last good show I watched on brazilian TV that was actually made in Brazil. It had a few production quirks (brazilian shows do look a bit like soap operas, mainly because brazilian audience loves…