Well, the price of retail games has stayed the same for 10 years despite rising development costs. $40 for the base game seems pretty reasonable, all things considered.

There used to be an old Gaming PC building maxim that you should look to spend 40-50% of your total budget on your GPU. If the rig is being purpose built for gaming, you only need so much CPU power (as compared to graphical horsepower). If you’ve already bought a ‘decent cpu’, you should be looking to spend $250-500…

Sure! White-Ra uses two offensive units in this game. The round flying Mothership Core hero unit can shoot ground units and can use the Photon Overcharge spell to make pylons shoot stuff for 11 seconds. He also uses a ground unit called the Adept which is kind of like a ranged Zealot. Adepts can also send out a green…

This was more of a fluke. If the opponent had scouted and saw that White-Ra didn’t expand, he would have known to expect some kind of immediate attack. Not having to spend money on expanding means Ra would have a more powerful push in the short term, but a terrible economy should his attack be repelled. White-Ra…

White-Ra builds 3 pylons which he cancels building almost immediately. His opponent had his own Mothership Core which used it’s own photon overcharge to defend, so White-Ra canceled his first 3 pylons and remade them, further back out of range. White-Ra then brings in 2 Adept units (basically ranged zealots than can…

I’m confused. First they add in Photon Overcharge on Sept 3rd. Then they nerf it on Sept 17th taking the duration from 21 seconds to 11. It was then that pylon rushing lost its efficacy. And yet, this video was uploaded yesterday on the most recent patch.

The over the top action choreography reminds me of “Haloid” by the late, great Monty Oum. Maybe it’s a subtle nod?

I’d argue that while Anub’arak IS technically a warrior, he’s not really a tank. As far as I’m aware, he has the lowest health pool of any warrior (heck, even Azmodan has more). He gets sustainability points from his beetle/ult life-steal and engagement points from his CC and evasion. As far as damage is concerned, he…

Man, that game was great! I buddy of mine just started playing the copy I lent him (though i doubt he got farther than I did. Some parts were tough) For the time, the voice acting was incredible. It really drew you in.

This is an interesting conversation to be having especially because AMD is trying to do the same thing. In this instance, however, Nvidia has simply been more successful. AMD has a similar initiative called Mantle which would give developers special tools to optimize specifically for AMD products.

According to AMD,…

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That's cheating.

The linked article says he's put in about 180 hours. You're right, that's really not very much over 3 years.

If I were a betting man, and I am, I would wager that this year at LEAST one of the finalists will be a south of the border flavored chip. There's just too many suggestions for commercially safe flavors like Pico de Gallo, Burrito, or Spicy Jalapeno for this to be completely avoided. The 3 flavors from last year…

You'd see more return from a better video card (or, dumping another gtx460 in for SLI. they're pretty affordable right now). Unless you're running the whole of Adobe suite at the same time along with heavy games, I doubt you'd need 16 gigs of ram let alone 24. Monitor your ram usage and see how close to full usage…