Well I recently bought a new PSU and Video card, the first two steps toward a new rig. But in the meantime I crammed them into my old Dell with its Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, and choked through those demo's at 4-5 FPS :( Slight CPU bottleneck.

Really? So is it just ubisoft games that have been pushing the always on DRM? Do all Steam purchased games work offline? For single player content of course. Great news, I just built a gaming desktop, and I'd love to have a decent gaming laptop for my overseas trips.

I am just getting back to PC gaming after a fairly long hiatus (thanks SWTOR). One of the things that pushed me to the consoles was the ability to play offline. I spend about 6 of every 18 months overseas in one place or another and rarely have constant access to reliable internet. If Origin, or Steam, would let me…

another option if you aren't inclined to build a whole new system, go to a retail, like Best Buy or whatever, find a 2nd Gen Sandy Bridge core i3 or i5 PC with at least 4, preferably more GB of DDR3 RAM. Any Sandy Bridge i3 or i5 will run ther game ok. Dont worry about graphics cards yet. That system should cost…

I was under the impression that Dublin Dr Pepper was more than just Dr Pepper with cane sugar. They still used the original recipe from back in the day.

yeah, its really pretty simple to do the hardware part of it. Follow the link for a nice $600 list of parts, or just search the webs for any number of other premade shopping lists to fit many other pricepoints.

Building it yourself is actually pretty easy.

While I do think the article is full of crap, that day IS coming.

So even with a new GPS enable phones you have trouble finding the caller? Wow, thanks for the informative answer!

wow, you are so motherfucking smart. Snark FAIL.

true, but that wouldn't help Sprint and Verizon users, we don't have SIM cards.

I believe all cell phones, even old unactivated phones, must be allowed to dial 911.

I'm glad I decided not to buy a new laptop on the New Years sales. I had forgotten that CES was going to bring in the 2012 crop pf laptops. I don't actually NEED a new one until May, when I leave the country for 5 months, so I'll see where my $6-800 is best spent after all the CES unveils.

Hippos are monsters, people don't even understand how bad a Hippo will fuck your shit up.

I've been watching this for a good 3-4 minutes now, its great.

You are talking about the Evo 3D? 1 of your points is objectively wrong, 1 is subjectively wrong, and 1 is unlikely speculation.

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Nice article, good read. More like this Kotaku!

Best turtle beach accessory for Xbox users. Puts the mute button back where it belongs.

Yeah, the mic is real sensitive. I dont do a lot of talking though, so it hasn't been a big issue for me since i'm usually muted.