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• Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PlayStation 4

• FogHeart 19/06/2013

  @wayn3h To say that knowing how to develop for PC automatically makes you an expert at developing for PS4 is a bit naive, like saying if you can drive a car you can drive a lorry straight away. The principles of driving are there but it still takes time to learn and do it well. Reply +5

• FogHeart 19/06/2013

  I can't begin to imagine the pressure in demonstrating these games at E3. The platform holders want you to show something that will sell the system, while in other years you just need to sell your game. So you have to produce something that looks as good as possible for screenshots and youtube - connoisseurs like us who want 60fps don't get what we want, at least not yet. In chasing the visual wow stability and optimisation has taken a back seat, the demonstrators just stand there praying it doesn't stutter or crash to the point of embarrassment. So no optimisation means sub-60 framerate.
  
  Sony absolutely couldn't fake it by using PCs to demo the games at higher framerates, the scale of the scandal would put the XBox one in the shade. Who knows where these sub-60 framerate games will be come release date. Reply +8

• Gunpoint cost $30 to develop, then made enough that its creator can quit "jobs, as a concept"

• FogHeart 18/06/2013

  For better comic effect, imagine those graphs were swapped around. Reply +5

• GAME opening Xbox-only store in London

• FogHeart 18/06/2013

  Makes perfect sense. The last thing they want is to show the new console in the same place as a PS4, otherwise they won't sell many of them. Reply +18

• Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Xbox One

• FogHeart 17/06/2013

  It's a wonderful launch lineup, and I'm sure that we'll continue to get many and varied console exclusives for the XBone throughout its lifetime, just as we did for the 360!
  
  Oh, wait... Reply +5

• R-Type Final retrospective

• FogHeart 16/06/2013

  I liked using a ship called the 'Dinner Bell'. It made me think of Pavlov's dogs, and then I got hungry, which ironically kind of proves his point.
  
  Excuse me, I must have breakfast. Reply +4

• EA makes a scrabbled egg of the official Scrabble app

• FogHeart 14/06/2013

  Suddenly, everyone put down four letter words. Reply +38

• Poland and Portugal not supported at Xbox One launch, importing near ruled out

• FogHeart 13/06/2013

  Phil answered: "They would want to wait until the console is available in their region."

  Now there is a word chosen very, very carefully, but is utterly, utterly transparent. Reply +71

• New Xbox One Achievements are split into achievements and challenges

• FogHeart 13/06/2013

  @Alcifer it's alwys been a problem, and it may be holding some people back from playing video games at all. Recently there have been attempts to address the problem - the mario game that will do a difficult bit for you, and on the Ps4 you can ask someone to remotely take over your game. It's better than a God mode, particularly if you are stumped by just one particular part of the game. Reply +1

• FogHeart 13/06/2013

  As long as earning the achievement unlocks cosmetic content only. It's not really fair to hold playable content back from someone if they aren't good enough. I'm sure many of us have half-finished games in their library where you just can't get past a bit (mine being Dark Souls). That's content you have paid for but can't experience. Imagine watching a film but you aren't allowed to see a particular scene unless you pass a quiz. Reply 0

• Open-world Mirror's Edge isn't a shooter, but it's "very different" compared to the original, EA says

• FogHeart 12/06/2013

  Executing parkour moves and still staying at top speed is the drug you keep trying to take in the game. When you do combat you stop. So once you've disarmed an enemy you have to get up to top speed and get back into the flow again. You don't improve the game by giving new combat moves to Faith, you improve it by giving her better ways to avoid combat altogether. Reply +8

• A list of every confirmed PlayStation 4 game

• FogHeart 12/06/2013

  Erm.....DayZ? Reply -1

• Miyamoto blames Wii U launch software delays on Nintendo's leap to next-gen

• FogHeart 12/06/2013

  It could be worse for them, they aren't trying to program a giant cat-bird to go through narrow doorways. Reply +1

• Vorsprung durch Forza

• FogHeart 12/06/2013

  Once again I have to ask; what happens to the game when its publishers decide they no longer want to pay for the cloud servers it uses? Will multiplayer and single player stop working? Reply +14

• The big interview: Sony's Jim Ryan on PS4, DRM and the next-gen console war

• FogHeart 12/06/2013

  I reckoned that MS's DRM scheme was driven by its belief that it was the only way to remain profitable in an industry that seems to haemorrhage money - to ensure that every time a game is sold money is fed back to the system which created that game. Sony's philosophy, according to Mr Ryan here, is that if there are enough games and systems out there, a critical mass is reached and enough games circulate to make the process self-sustaining.
  
  I hope they meet and exceed this critical mass with their console - certainly their investment in gamers and developers deserves to bring forth some reward. But they may need a bigger slice of the market. With such a contrasting philosophy to their competitor, one that consumers are far happier with, they'll probably get there. Reply +45

• War never changes

• FogHeart 11/06/2013

  How dare you say there'll be no innovation on the MS platform in the coming generation! When I earn an achievement by proudly holding aloft a bottle of Mountain Dew for the camera to see, you shall surely eat your words! Reply +31

• Live: Ubisoft E3 2013 Conference

• FogHeart 11/06/2013

  Today Ubisoft was brought to you by the words Black (List), Dark (Winter) and Shadow (Organisations). But Rayman and Just Dance are colourful. Reply 0

• FogHeart 11/06/2013

  Was that AC, or Wish You Were Here? Reply 0

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  Sadly still waiting for Just Dance titles more to my style, like Just Nod, Just Tap or Just Hum gently To Yourself. Reply 0

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  At this point, I'm thinking video of actual gameplay from Ubi is more elusive than Sam Fisher. Reply 0

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  OK, genuine laugh (at last) and it's Cartman that delivers it. I never thought that'd happen again. Reply 0

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  I love violent redheads... Reply 0

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  Because every military game these days needs to use the word 'Black', 'Ghost' or 'Colin' in the title... Reply 0

• Quantum Break's trippy sci-fi multimedia premise revealed

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  Why would anyone stop for a conversation next to an explosion frozen in time that could restart at any time? Reply +1

• Insomniac announces open world shooter Sunset Overdrive for Xbox One

• FogHeart 10/06/2013

  Possibly Insomniac redesigned Fuse because MS wanted their exclusive to be the exclusively cartoonish funny game from the developer? Reply +2