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• Live Microsoft E3 Xbox conference

• HankScorpio 06/06/2011

  Modern Borefest. Reply 0

• HankScorpio 06/06/2011

  @craigy woohoo! Nicely done, silly me. Reply 0

• HankScorpio 06/06/2011

  Liveblog ain't working on iPad! Can't scroll, can only see last few updates :( Reply 0

• GDC: DRM a "waste of time" - 2D Boy

• HankScorpio 24/03/2009

  Wow, didn't think my honesty would stand out along side what I expected from other comments, but it seems I'm somehow in the simultaneously in the 90% majority, and the vocal minority. Firstly, I'm happy to see software companies engaging with the piracy issue in an intelligent manner. It's never really going to go away, and that's something Ron Carmel understands - he is obviously a very smart (as well as talented) man.
  
  UncleLou - you're right, the "pay what you think" might seem cheeky, but it's worked in other areas (music, theatre, clubbing, food, drink), and surely game developers should be looking at new ways of increasing/continuing their revenue in the current climate, without resorting to EA style "micro-transactions" at every turn. I paid £10 for my digital copy of In Rainbows, I regularly donate to Wikipedia's online raising, and just put my hand in my pocket last week to give some money to the publicly funded <a hef="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/">RadioLab</a>. What we think of as cheeky today might well be the norm in 10 years time ...
  
  One final question (and I appreciate the difference in company size and relative income here) but how many of the "non-piracy people" are running copies non-legit copies of Adobe Photoshop / Microsoft Office / ? And, irrelevant of company size, isn't this exactly the same issue? Reply 0

• HankScorpio 24/03/2009

  I am upset (but brave enough) to admit I was one of the 90% - it came out at a time where there were just so many games, and, as detailed above, it was so easy to get on the Mac. But after having so much fun with it, I'd be quite happy to pay something - maybe not $20, but when I saw it was less than a fiver on Steam if I would have had a PC I'd happily have bought it and never played it again.
  
  Maybe 2D Boy should set up a little "pay what you think we deserve" thing for the pirates to cough up a bit of cash, a little bit like Little Bay Restaurant in Farringdon. I'd have no problem with passing on a little bit of my paypal balance to them! Reply 0

• Noby Noby Boy's Keita Takahashi

• HankScorpio 18/02/2009

  " Does the game use some kind of cover system? if so is it gears of war style 3rd person or Killzone 2 style first person cover? "
  
  I'm in a conference call and this just made me laugh out loud, and people started asking what was up!
  
  This looks mental. He's obviously as mad as a box of frogs. Reply 0

• No LEGO Potter in '09, says source

• HankScorpio 05/01/2009

  Eurogamer in Y2K bug shocker! Reply 0

• Virtual Console: The Most Wanted

• HankScorpio 05/11/2008

  Starfox/Starwing over Stunt Race FX any day in my book ... Reply 0

• The Orange Box

• HankScorpio 10/10/2007

  Aaaaarrggghh so excited about this. Never got to play HL2, so can't wait to see what the fuss is all about! Reply 0

• Zelnick hints at BioShock sequel

• HankScorpio 11/09/2007

  I'm sorry, it seems everyone has missed out the most spectacular part of this story - "Kriss Akabusi and Cheryl Baker" ... I mean WTF?!? Did they arrive in a 1983 silver DeLorean? Reply 0

• BioShock

• HankScorpio 16/08/2007

  Well that just about settles it then ... I'm like a giddy schoolboy over this game, sitting here in my underpants all excited reading this review, booking next Friday off work and getting ready for a "gaming till sunrise" session that I haven't had since Halo ...
  
  Can. Not. Wait. Reply 0

• Rockstar quiet on GTA details

• HankScorpio 30/03/2007

  "I heard the Mega Drive version will be the one to own, thanks to the power of Blast Processing."
  
  Yeah whatever!! The Super FX chip will allow the Empire State to look more real than ever before, and with Mode 7 there will be a special "Drunken Fighter Mode" where everything will constantly spin around. Reply 0

• Virtua Fighter 5

• HankScorpio 20/03/2007

  JonFE - Yesterday http://gamernode.com/News/2320-DMC-4-No-... Reply 0

• Ikaruga on Live Arcade?

• HankScorpio 14/02/2007

  Oh my god that Youtube video just made me feel a little sick. Reply 0

• FIFA 06

• HankScorpio 16/07/2005

  I bet it STILL plays like a dog turd. Reply 0

• Jeff Minter on Xbox 360

• HankScorpio 07/07/2005

  Certainly, I can't imagine four people playing with this for longer than 10 minutes or so.
  
  I would have disagreed with this, but seeing as they're making magic mushrooms illegal next week I'll have to concur. Reply 0

• Half-Life 2

• HankScorpio 26/05/2005

  Can't wait!
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• Microsoft's J Allard on Xbox 360

• HankScorpio 20/05/2005

  nice article Reply 0

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfigher

• HankScorpio 13/05/2005

  /drools Reply 0

• SingStar's May return confirmed

• HankScorpio 15/03/2005

  Please let Simon and Mikita (sp?) be in there to give you sarcastic comments when you suck. Popworld is the shiz, perfect sunday morning hangover stuff. Reply 0

• Valve suspends 20,000 Steam accounts

• HankScorpio 24/11/2004

  I love that comeback in the forum link "Steam is the new google" ;) Reply 0

• Half-Life 2

• HankScorpio 18/11/2004

  cheers for the help, but is there any sort of stress test I could check that my gfx card could cope? It's pretty shit I'm sure its not meant for gaming ... Reply 0

• HankScorpio 18/11/2004

  So people talking about running it on a laptop - do you think my Vaio 2.8G Celeron with 564 RAM will run it? The problem is the gfx card is a Radeon IGP 345M, from what I recall its an onboard card, would that let me down? Even if I could play it on low settings I'd be quite happy ... Reply 0

• No online co-op for Halo 2

• HankScorpio 29/10/2004

  i was sure i saw a screen shot that had it on the menu? was that faked? Reply 0