The important thing to remember here is Sony sort of slipped under the radar with a tiny detail about used game DRM on the PS4: Their first party games would not have any sort of DRM if they are used or new, HOWEVER all third party games would have a form of DRM pending a decision from the publisher.

Sony has been saying they're "working on improving their network" this past week. I wouldn't be surprised if part of that relies on network security and infrastructure and not just "MORE SERVERS". The PSN hack was a fluke incident and was really a surprise because someone, again, decided to raise some hell in the…

It's sort of half full vs. half empty here. The real issues with the XBOne is that Microsoft is tied to the PRISM project at the NSA and we do not know for sure that little all-seeing eye is really sending messages back to the government just because they feel like watching every citizen because some naughty people…

Better to say nothing than to say something garbled up by PR censoring the truth before the real reveals and then you create a proverbial shitstorm before people know the actual truth and then it turns out it's better than we all thought. Until you know the real truth, as in written policy on paper from the primary…

I'm gonna let you finish, but the Aston Martin V-12 Zagato sounded better.

It looks like the front half of a Bugatti Type 37 mated to the ass-end of a Citroen 2CV, but in the classiest way possible. Me likey.

Technically, the U.S. is already building "the next Veyron". Sure, it's not as precisely engineered and doesn't look as classy, but it's a hair faster and just as ludicrous as the Bugatti is.

I knew the console had local storage, I was just using the implication of cloud-based games being used in today's infrastructure and the problems of failure mid-game.

Things change, but this still is one of those things that shouldn't need to change. Always-on connection requirements are a problem because the internet, even in this day and age, still isn't perfect. I have fiberoptic internet, but every once in a while it will fail and cut out because something happened on my…

There is no way this is going to happen. Back when the PS3 and 360 launch came out, they had the exact same rumor. If you have to connect to the internet to even play a game, this console is DOA. Sure a large audience does have a mostly stable internet connection, but the problem is some of us don't even have the…

I didn't say they were abandoning the traditional controller. More than anything, the mandatory Kinect sensor would be baked into games but not a requirement for control. If anything, it's prolly going to be an optical receiver for the controller and support Six-Axis like movements (i.e tilting, shaking, gestures,…

I think the "mandatory" Kinect could be a case of "Looks terrible on paper, but executed better." I think the issue is we just don't know what the "mandatory" parts of the Kinect will be. I seriously doubt Microsoft is totally abandoning the traditional controller this fast. It could be the Kinect acts as the…

The parallel universe idea would be interesting, though it'd have to take place before the ending. Going back to Rapture....eh, no. Leave that universe in its own dimension.

Dishonored was a spiritual successor to Thief , as a lot of Arkane Studios were former member of Looking Glass Studios who developed the first 2 Thief games.

There's a trick I've heard about that involves using two instances of the same sound in an audio program to cancel it out through...I wanna say resonance? So what they could have done is use the raw footage above of the animals clashing with the fence, then put them back in their homes, and then record someone just…

"It is accelerating. Apple, if it chooses to do so, will simply kill Playstation, Wii U and Xbox by introducing an open 30%-cut app/game ecosystem for Apple-TV."

I'm a little surprised, but I'm also not entirely surprised either. If Impossible wasn't working on something worthwhile for Epic, they were turning into a money sink. And going by this report, their project really wasn't working out. Still, unfortunate for the Studio Known Formerly As Big-Huge.

There's a difference between the newest Call of Duty and Final Fantasy games - Call of Duty, while being a rehash of last year with a thin coat of paint trying to make it look pretty, is FUN. FFXIII and its sequel were both incredibly linear and devoid of any entertaining value, with the exception of Sazh (and what…

I prefer Les Claypool's cover of the song. You gotta commend he can do the same riff on a 4-string bass that anyone else does on a guitar. Listen for the Jerry Was A Racecar Driver tease.

I'd say yes. Art can be games, or art can be a game (?). I've seen this experiment mostly succeed during Baltimore's ArtScape for the past two years, where they host an electronic and games section at the Maryland Institute College of Art campus. It's almost a paradigm you'd have to see for yourself. Some pieces…