For some reason, genesis sound table makes everything way more listenable.

The Wii, Wii U, and GCN are in fact the same base platforms. What differentiates them is the infrastructure around which they're based — The Wii has an entire OS and associated frameworks for its games and channels, and if they changed any of that on the Wii U then pretty much everything would break. It seems more…

WAVY's 10 On Your Side consumer advocacy program contacted Walmart for comment, but has yet to hear back. Not sure what the retailer could do at this point. A new 3DS would be nice, but the psychological damage is already done.

I got burned by this a few years back. Bought a new sound blaster audigy 2 ZS card from walmart, only to get it home and find that it was a different model sound blaster card that didn't even work. unfortunately, I forgot to pick up the receipt from the self-checkout, so i was screwed.

I've had one of these (not the big one; one like 5-6 inches tall) that I made in like 2006. Fun that someone made a giant version, though I get the feeling that the additional depth would destroy the illusion even more in person.

I was raised in northern KY (Mount Olivet, in the least-populated second-smallest county in the state, actually), went to college in Lexington, and now live in southern KY as a programmer. So, pretty accurate in my case. lol

for the curious (I don't really say stuff like "y'all", but these are the answers I gave for the local dialect where I live — note that the test randomizes which questions it gives you, and taking the test twice will give some different questions):

yuuup. nailed it for Kentucky.

i agree that in certain types of games (FPS in particular) keyb/mouse outclass other input systems dramatically. It's why I hate playing console FPS games. All that said, some games have managed to design the control scheme such that a mouse doesn't give any real advantage — be it because aim speed is limited or…

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Are you trolling? I kinda hope so. Assuming you are not:

nice clickbait there.

Yes, higher donation amounts do get in-game goodies. I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is the way they handle alpha/beta access as part of that; primarily the ridiculously high amounts required for them.

"if" because I didn't know what the circumstances behind the KS project were (it wasn't particularly relevant). Having looked at the KS since then, I've confirmed that they're just as insane as I thought, with the rewards being priced the same as the current packages.

That screams flawed KS handling to me. Either people who donate more than the cost of the game ought to be rewarded with more than just access to the game, or they need to be told straight and upfront that donating more than the cost of the game earns them nothing extra.

Okay, nevermind, totally not willing to pay over $300 just for alpha access. That's not how that shit works. Pre-release is supposed to cost *less*, because y'know, buggy/incomplete product and whatnot.

what the fuck is this and why is it not already installed on my PC???? horyshet.jpeg

wat. She looks nothing like shana.

I expect we'll see a variety of configurations, from totally bog-standard PC bits you can buy separately from newegg to integrated HTPC/AiO/laptop-style setups that integrate everything. The thing about the Steam Machine concept is that it's a specification rather than a specific product — we'll likely end up seeing a…

There isn't really a fine line between PC and console. There are a number of factors that determine the "PC-ness" of a device. This includes the functionality and flexibility of the OS/platform (i.e. can you install applications that let you perform the same wide range of activities that you can on a typical PC?), the…