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• Jet Set Radio Review

• RexRunti 12/09/2012

  How does Yappie Feet/Many Styles go? JSR easily had one of the best sound tracks of all time (no sound at work).
  
  The Guitar Vader tracks are may favourite though.
  
  Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's a mag-i-cal gir-rl Reply 0

• A conversation with EA's Peter Moore on the thorny issues of DLC, Online Passes and all the rest of it

• RexRunti 23/08/2012

  The problem with DLC is that hats, maps and horse armour are trivial and a waste of money. The best DLC integrates fully into the game and story and feels like it is part of the game and story. In this case people start complaining that it was "cut" from the original game to make some extra money.
  
  The problem with proper single player games is that we live in an age where every major high street retailer, including super markets would prefer to sell you a game second hand over an original. From a publisher's point of view (who make no money what so ever from a second hand game sale) they want you to keep your game for as long as possible, and when you finish a single player game there is no reason to go back. Alternativly they may try and make some money out of you after you bought it second hand, hence online passes which again aren't usually required with single player games.
  
  Don't get me wrong there are things that publisher's really don't have an excuse for such as turning off servers. This should never prevent you from fully enjoying the game. I understand that paying for upkeep of a game that no one is playing looks like a waste of money but at the very least issue a patch which allows the multiplayer to be done directly through XBox Live/PSN first and if it prevents you from playing the single player then give everyone a full refund.
  
  Also DLC that's already on the disc? That really does make you look like a thief.
  
  TLDNR: Publisher's reaction to second hand sales is ruining gaming. Reply 0

• Valve opens Euro office, updates Steam terms

• RexRunti 01/08/2012

  Is it me or are Valve beginning to lose their "can do no wrong" image. Sure they're miles away from the likes of Bobby Kotick and Activision but they are certainly no longer being held up as the paragons of gaming any more. Reply +16

• Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 "a catastrophe"

• RexRunti 26/07/2012

  Just on the IE is the only browser on windows 8 crap people keep spouting.
  
  Windows 8 will fully support any browser.
  
  Windows RT will allow any browser - however due to security reasons non MS software won't have access to the core of the OS which means non OS browsers may be slower. This is exactly the same situation as IOS devices.
  
  Windows 8 will only be compatible with existing and new PCs and anything running x86/x64 chipset (i.e anything with an Intel or AMD processor). Windows RT is for ARM processor devices like most tablets and some hybrids (Microsoft Surface will run Windows RT, Microsoft Surface Pro will run Windows 8). Reply +6

• Mirror's Edge writer Rhianna Pratchett announced as Tomb Raider lead writer

• RexRunti 12/07/2012

  Rhianna Pratchet always seems to be brought in to add weight to the "we're taking the story really seriously" PR of game devs, despite the fact that she's never really written a great one, or to be perfectly honest anything better than distinctly average.
  
  With any luck she's been crippled by comittees or time schedules in the past but this actually has me slightly less interested in game I've been getting very excited about. Reply +4

• Metal Gear Solid 4 getting full install support

• RexRunti 12/07/2012

  Remembering a telephone conversation whilst playing this game,
  
  "Hey man how's it going?"
  "Cool, can I give you a call back I'm in the middle of a cutscene and I'm not sure how to pause it"
  "Sure"
  
  Over an hour later
  
  "Hey, you didn't ring back"
  "Sorry still in a cutscene"
  "Why didn't you call me after the last one?"
  "No it's still the same one" Reply +14

• What video game developers think of Surface

• RexRunti 22/06/2012

  @flaming.carrot
  
  I also design websites and the sites and forums I visit tend to have the opinion Opera > Chrome (which I hate, but mainly because of the way it secretly installs itself) > Firefox > IE (9) > Safari > everything else. But it's all subjective really. Reply -1

• RexRunti 22/06/2012

  @DrStrangeLove
  

  Another great problem is the announcement that for web browsing it will use IE exclusively. I see a lot of people having a problem with that. For me it'd be the killer reason not to buy one if I was looking for a new portable computer

  Actually it's not IE10 only, obviously the "Pro" version is just running Windows so any browser will run on it. As for the metro versions (ie the only ones available with WindowsRT and on the non-pro Surface) Microsoft have prevented third parties form having low level access to the operating system preventing some tricks browsers use to speed things up. This is actually not very different from the way IOS works (and Safari is generally considered to be worse than IE). Google, Mozilla et al have complained about it but have confirmed they will still be releasing their own metro browsers. Reply +9

• RexRunti 22/06/2012

  Apple have over 300 million devices all embracing the App Store environment

  What a lot of these developers seem to be forgetting is that because the Metro interface and Microsoft store is used on tablets, desktops, phones (with minor tweeks), laptops and hybrids that even if Surface does as badly as Zune, Windows Phone 8 dies on it's arse, OEMs don't bring out any even remotely successful tablets and Windows 8 is another Vista, Microsoft will have still probably overtaken this number by this time next year. Reply +17

• Nintendo "human resources" must approve your Miiverse posts

• RexRunti 07/06/2012

  First!!!!
  
  Or at least I was when I posted.
  
  In all seriousness though Nintendo just don't get online. Reply +6

• Mature Star Wars game 1313 announced

• RexRunti 01/06/2012

  I'm actually looking foward to this... for now but this classic CAD silly does descibe me.
  
  http://www.cad-comic.com/sillies/20080814 Reply 0

• Activision attempted to hack Zampella/West email - report

• RexRunti 17/05/2012

  You know on Tuesday I actually thought, "Hmm, shall I buy Diablo 3, it does involve giving money to Activision... Well I suppose they haven't actually been accused of being evil for a while so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt."
  
  I even bought a second copy for my flatmate's birthday, damn it. Reply +8

• Diablo 3: hardcore difficulty, replayability and post-launch plans

• RexRunti 15/05/2012

  ...somebody was asking, well, would we turn off the servers for Diablo 2? His answer was, as long as there are people playing, why would we ever do that?

  If only more companies had this attitude. Reply +6

• Microsoft cancels Inside Xbox in Europe

• RexRunti 09/05/2012

  https://www.change.org/petitions/microsoft-xbox-stop-the-discontinuation-of-inside-xbox
  
  A gaming petition I actuall caare enough about to sign. Reply +4

• Government snubs Crysis 2 at German Computergames Awards

• RexRunti 04/05/2012

  @lucky_jim
  So Kieth Vaz in the UK, Roland Naf in Switzland, Rod Blagojevich in the USA and Michael Atkinson in Australia are all right wing? No they represent left wing parties. There are anti-game idiots on both sides of the political divide, as well as pro game politicians. Don't pretend otherwise to push your own politcal agenda. Reply 0

• RexRunti 30/04/2012

  @Lucky_Jim

  Funny how wherever you go in the world, right-wingers are like this.

  Funny this sounds like a big/nanny state to me... a lefty ideal. Reply -3

• Raspberry Pi Review

• RexRunti 03/05/2012

  Hmmm, reminds me a bit of this comic
  http://xkcd.com/644/ Reply +1

• Ninja Gaiden 3 Review

• RexRunti 26/03/2012

  One of the things I loved about the original (well 3d original) was the fact that everything you did, you did in game without any silly cutscences or QTEs. You have to use an alley way to climb to an otherwise unreachable location by running along and jumping from one of it's walls to the other, you do it. You have to face several sentry guns in pillar boxes until they run out of ammo, you do it. You want to kill an enemy by jumping off his head throwing half a dozen shiruken at his torso before slicing him in half, you do it. You're placed in a fight with a two tanks or an apache helicopter with nothing but a bow and arrow to defet them, you do it. Reply +8

• Blizzard tempts WOW players back with Scroll of Resurrection

• RexRunti 07/03/2012

  So levels 1-79 are a big waste of time then? Reply +30

• Batman, Battlefield, Skyrim make BAFTA GAME Award shortlist

• RexRunti 09/02/2012

  I expect MW3 will get it's only award from here (though it may well pick up several nominations in areas like multiplayer and sound) after all it is a public vote and the public are twats.
  
  Arkham City will pick up best game (it's good and more importantly British). Skyrim, Minecraft and Portal 2 will probably pick up a lot of gongs though.
  
  LA Noire will win something if Rockstar actually bothered to get it nominated for something this year (though it will probably be best new technology or best open world game or something). Reply 0

• Quarrel XBLA exposes baffling Microsoft word filter

• RexRunti 30/01/2012

  I'm guessing they're using the filter from gamertags. You don't want someone using words like "help" or "train" in that.
  
  /wishes he had the gamertag "God" Reply +1

• Trends of 2012: The Rise of the Smart TV

• RexRunti 20/01/2012

  Just build an XBox into the TV and the TV is as smart as it ever needs to be especially with Kinect providing a user friendly control system for the masses. Of course if this was MS's plan we would have rumours of Kinect being integrated with TVs, rumours of having a hardcore and casual versions of the neXt-box, Microsoft would be converging their OS across mobile, XBox and PCs and we'd be seeing demos of live interaction between say a Sesame Street viewer and Grover using Kinect at CES. Reply 0

• Xbox Live fraud: Xbox.com security secretly tightened - report

• RexRunti 16/01/2012

  The problem with automatic lock outs is it creates an even easier way to screw with a service.
  
  Step 1) Get gamertag very easily
  Step 2) try to log in several times
  Step 3) Account is locked out
  Step 4) Repeat with new gamertag
  
  And before you know it no one can access XBox Live. Reply +3

• Govt to axe boring school ICT courses from September

• RexRunti 11/01/2012

  Great news for the industry and country... not quite as good news for me personally as they'll be a bunch of new up and comers who can do my job in 5-7 years time. Reply +8

• SWTOR: BioWare warns against creating characters on high population servers

• RexRunti 21/12/2011

  How about artificially tripling the queue time if you don't have a character on the server already? Or not letting people pick their server by default i.e. just ask where, what type and what language and the stick them on the lowest populated, only giving them a choice if they request it? Reply +2