I mean Fraps is also supported by G-Series keyboards.

Yeah, which makes all the facial animations look stupidly weird and adds next to nothing to the actual gameplay, even for the total of about 40 minutes in the game that you're actually shooting.

The reason for this is obvious. TV companies make hundreds of millions selling shows to TV stations in other markets.

It just isn't worth it. The entire engine has to be re-engineered for essentially one scene or mission in the game. Ubisoft has a large team that just works on rendering crowds in AC. Unreal 3 famously couldn't have (in its default state) more than six proper characters onscreen at once.

I guess they must be happy with their existing sales then, because they're going to plummet if they go back to $399. Personally, I think we'll see a permanent cut of the base system to $299 this E3, and the Halo 5 Guardians Special Edition Console will launch at $399 with a 1TB drive and maybe Kinect included.

The banter in that game was just great. Nolan North and Kari Wahlgren were the perfect actors for those roles. In many ways it's one of the best love stories ever told in gaming, because they didn't force it and it wasn't super cheesy, Bioware-style romance.

Gawker has an interesting relationship with Reddit in that it constantly criticises it for being full of sexist, misogynist neckbeards, but also used it as the source for about 60% of its stories, including just about everything on Sploid and usually most of the Top 3 on the sidebar.

Metacritic is far from obsolete, in fact it's more important than ever. Think about it- how many people do you know who decide whether to watch movies or TV shows solely based on how many stars Empire or Variety or EW give it? Not many, in all likelihood. Movies that review badly, like Transformers, the Star Wars…

That just isn't true in the current climate though. Not only do many [most?] $60 games (AC: Unity, GTA:V, Dragon Age, Fifa etc..) have microtransactions, but they are filled with post launch patches and DLC to add extra stuff in as well. And things will *never* revert back to the old days, because the internet means…

Precisely. Unifying with East Germany destroyed the German economy for more than a decade, and East Germany was by far the richest and most prosperous of all the communist countries. North Korea is 1000x worse, and has double the population. There's no way the South can afford reunification, even if China allowed…

It's pretty hard to make a service that is 'impossible' to DDOS, iirc.

The point, though, is the same- they prevented innocent consumers from accessing the product they paid for, and the company was willing to provide, simply to prove some immature point.

This is like someone breaking into an art gallery and then, when ordinary people can't go to the gallery for 2 months because it's being repaired, claiming they just did it "to show that the owners should invest in some better security".

Exactly my point.

I confess I'm not familiar with the details but my impression is that this hack is far from undetectable, and would be obvious even if it wasn't announced.

If the NSA was hacking/breaking into TOR in order to uncover its users, they wouldn't need to create some elaborate false-flag ruse that involves hacking into the servers of Microsoft and Sony, not least because if that ever leaked they would get sued to shit.

On the one hand, I think it's clear that some famous directors, casting agents, producers etc.. no doubt demand sexual favours from potential cast members, including children. On the other, I think the idea of some colossal scandal that 'everyone' is involved in is a fantasy that imagines a world far more scandalous…

Yes, for a long time SOE had almost nothing to do with SCEA, despite both making video games in North America.

Crackle isn't fully developed yet, and probably doesn't have much capacity. PSN isn't available on PC or tablet, whereas Xbox Video is.

It looks alright. The reviews were average. It's nothing exceptional, but Neighbors and This Is The End were funny.