The biggest change other than graphics that you will notice is the Hex tiles + one military and one civilian/support unit per tile. I love this as it adds a lot more to the strategic part of the game over previous Civ's "Massive stack units and roll everything" mentality.

Vancouver? Winter?

X-Wing vs. TIE, X-Wing Alliance.

I was recommended Tropico 4 just yesterday when I was talking about whether to buy simcity depending on what games were offered free with it. I'm told it is on sale on steam at the moment.

Every time someone mentions Deus Ex...

that much power on the thin little tires of a golf? Has to be AWD or all you are doing is adding weight and torque steer... even then it's a bit excessive.

If you are on the PS3: Get MLB:The Show

I am torn about buying SC.

Most cars are these days. The BRZ/FR-S/GT86 is really an exception to the rule. Even the much loved small-car Miata is packing a bit of a beer belly recently.

Grand Cherokee takes a minor scratch that will buff out.

This happens where I live all the time.

They can't even get server-side saving and authentication right at the moment. I think the promised server-side rendering and streaming is a bit far off for AAA games yet.

A completely helpful guide: What are continents?

That's upsetting...

Anno 2070 had server side save games. It was cracked by putting all the reverse engineered server side code in a .dll file. 2070 was cracked within a week of release.

I know a few people who had their Star Trek Online steam copies refunded shortly after release. It was done because of server issues at launch...

Gotta say that I have to respect that. I tried starting in Brittany once... it ended poorly as everyone (EVERYONE) wanted my kingdom and after losing wars to vastly larger armies of England, France, Norway, and France again I was too frustrated to continue.

The amazing thing about this is that CK2 has no actual narrative but an Irish Queen who completed her father's work by uniting Ireland despite vicious opposition from both those she conquered as well as internal foes either plotting against her or outright rebelling. That is, to me, a far more compelling story than…

Not for a long time but it was pretty funny back in the day when window's would allow you to delete critical files without more than an "are you sure? Y/N" popup