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  • Live Nintendo E3 press conference

  • sneetch 07/06/2011

    I haven't seen the new one yet but I loved Luigi's Mansion! Reply 0

  • Acti: New COD has "unprecedented online"

  • sneetch 11/05/2011

    That's a whole lotta hyperbola there. Surely someone should have told Hirshberg that gamers tend to be incredibly cynical when they see marketese like that. Reply 0

  • Alan Wake 2 shows up on CV

  • sneetch 09/05/2011

    "All we've heard specifically about Alan Wake 2 is that if the project goes ahead, and Remedy would love that to be the case, the game would be exclusive to PC and Xbox 360."

    Damn fine work there Rob, you just misquoted an article on your own website:

    [link url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-09-remedy-has-great-ideas-for-alan-wake-2
    ]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-0...[/link]

    "With Microsoft Game Studios it's Xbox exclusive, or it's Xbox and PC," franchise development head Oskari Häkkinen told Eurogamer in an exclusive interview.

    "Please don't put that Alan Wake 2 is going to come out on PC, because that might not be true! Either is a possibility."     Reply 0

  • PSN users' personal details compromised

  • sneetch 27/04/2011

    The only "good" thing in all this is that they stole so many accounts that most of us should be able to safely change our details and cancel our cards even now. Long afterwards. Reply +1

  • More Dawn of War II DLC announced

  • sneetch 01/04/2011

    Firann is right. I don't see any problems with this either, I love the Dark Angels, when I played 40k Rogue Trader back in the day Dark Angels were my favourite chapter, I'm tempted to get this - purely cosmetic and entirely optional - DLC for nostalgia alone. Reply 0

  • Fable III PC system requirements

  • sneetch 31/03/2011

    @jag10

    Windows 98 never really worked, don't see it would start now ;-)     Reply +1

  • Tech Comparison: Crysis 2 PC

  • sneetch 28/03/2011

    @Philip46
    My point is, at $60, the pc version just is not worth it, considering it's not taking full advantage of any modern day GPU, save for the fact of playing in 1080p(over 720p..upconverted to 1080p on the consoles) with some shaper/higher res. textures, and and a higher playable frame rate, of course.

    Wait, so although the PC version is graphically better than the XBox version (and that's apparently the criteria you decided on) the PC version isn't worth it at $60 but the XBox version is worth $60? That doesn't really make sense.

    Good luck selling the GTX590's for $500+.

    Oh they will sell, they'll sell a whole lot more in about 6 months when they're about $200 though and even more in about a year when the price drops further.     Reply 0

  • Speedball 2: Evolution release date

  • sneetch 17/02/2011

    @kiroquai

    It's coming.

    "Tower Studios and Vivid Games, in association with The Bitmap Brothers, are proud to announce the imminent release of Speedball 2 Evolution for iPhone, iPhone4, iPad, Sony Minis, Android and Samsung Bada."

    http://wireless.ign.com/articles/112/112...     Reply +3

  • Valve announces more Left 4 Dead 2 DLC

  • sneetch 17/02/2011

    @richyroo
    @rocka_

    Free for PC, 560 MS Points for XBox.

    I make this complete assumption based on past experience.

    560 MS points for 4 campaigns and (possibly) more? I doubt it. :)
     Reply 0

  • Steam owns half PC download market

  • sneetch 14/02/2011

    @Scopeh
    @Toothball

    There are, look up Impulse, Onlive, Games for Windows, the problem these programs have is that Developers will go to the market leader first and Valve insist on adding Steamworks to the software which basically gives it exclusive online distribution. Valve are unwilling to give the Steamworks codes to Impulse or Microsoft's Game for Window's, so a monopoly is born.

    Valve don't insist on adding Steamworks. Most of the games they sell on Steam don't have Steamworks. The developers and publishers decide to use Steamworks for their own reasons (multiplayer matchmaking being one of them: its the largest playerbase on PC and you're more likely to sell a copy of a game to someone if he sees 10 of his friends playing it).

    As for Valve being unwilling to give Steamworks codes to others that's not true, they are quite willing to, the problem Impulse and others have is that Steamworks games using those features require Steam to be installed (hardly surprising) and Steam has a store front so they're unwilling to sell the Steam games because that advertises their competitors product.     Reply 0

  • Enslaved sales fail to break 500,000

  • sneetch 03/02/2011

    Thank god the king of the pretentious alpha geeks has arrived to show us how to do it right then. :P Reply +2

  • sneetch 03/02/2011

    Well I bought it. It's a shame it didn't do better.

    I wonder how many of those sneering at it or dismissing it now will be praising it in 10 years when there's rumours of remakes ā la Beyond Good and Evil.

    (No, I don't think it's as good as Beyond Good and Evil but it stands out in a market dominated by FPS games).     Reply 0

  • Carmack: id graphics next-gen ready

  • sneetch 01/02/2011

    @Bleemo

    Sheesh, he has Asperger's he's not a malfunctioning android.     Reply 0

  • Abe's Oddysee HD remake confirmed

  • sneetch 31/01/2011

    @Tricky_Rich
    Maybe Just Add Water are not hitting the quality bar that Microsoft expects for XBLA releases. I recently bought their PC port of Stranger's Wrath on Steam and it is truly awful!

    Yeah, it was released in a shameful state and it took them a month to get the first patch out. Shockingly poor showing there.

    It's a hell of a lot better now but I think I'll wait until the next patch before playing any further (I have an ATI card so the transparent textures and water are showing up as a series of lines for me, apparently it's not JAWs fault, but then they would be inclined to shift it to ATI's door if they can).

    Fantastic game though.     Reply +2

  • Blizzard targets Warcraft gold sellers

  • sneetch 31/01/2011

    @Spekingur
    My battle.net account got "hacked" by a goldseller that enabled my 10 day trial for WoW. Well, I say hacked but here is the best part. My computer was not infected by any keyloggers, viruses or other such things that might have grabbed my login. I have never given out my user and pass. So, somehow they got the account access and as far as I know it wasn't from me.

    That happened to a friend of mine too, he hadn't logged on in about three months and hadn't entered his Battle.net account and password in that time and suddenly his character was running about Stormpeaks, farming gold. I put an authenticator on my account that day.     Reply 0

  • Minecraft fan creates Halo re-make

  • sneetch 28/01/2011

    @Butr0sButr0s
    You know its a good remake when you can identify the map within 10 seconds of starting the video. Lockout was one of my favorites in Halo2.

    Ah, I on the other hand was wondering how it was Halo related at all until the other player came close enough to see the spartan textures.     Reply +1

  • Nintendo's fab Donkey Kong Country sales

  • sneetch 28/01/2011

    @wizlon
    I would have enjoyed DK: Returns more if they took out the shake to roll gesture, give me a button for that sort of thing.

    I agree, I just wanted to be able to use my classic controller.

    Similarly I much preferred Mario Kart on Wii using the Cube controller.     Reply +2

  • Source: NGP battery life is 4-5 hours

  • sneetch 27/01/2011

    "Eurogamer has been told by a source"? Really? Am I the only one reading this as "a man said the NGP battery life is 4-5 hours"?

    What was your source's source?     Reply +1

  • Kojima shows Metal Gear Solid 4 on NGP

  • sneetch 27/01/2011

    I'm disgusted with the declining quality of comments on this site: 11 comments and no-one's said the battery life isn't long enough for the cut-scenes in MGS4?

    You're slipping lads! ;)     Reply +3

  • Next Generation Portable: features

  • sneetch 27/01/2011

    @Climhazzard

    Fanboys are amazing. Kinda like how the PS3 was just a PS2 "with a few more features and probably just a more powerful system" or the 3DS is just a DS "with a few more features and probably just a more powerful system"?
     Reply +1

  • Sony shows PSP2 NGP concept footage

  • sneetch 27/01/2011

    Sponsored by Skittles?

    I remember when people would show products... not wanky LSD based "concept" footage... ah the good old days.     Reply 0

  • Blizzard announces StarCraft II mods beta

  • sneetch 26/01/2011

    No, Blizzard own the World of StarCraft name, they have no problem with the mod, they do with the name. Reply +6

  • Nintendo justifies Zelda-free 3DS launch

  • sneetch 26/01/2011

    @YenRug
    What they've done now is, apparently, add the 3D periscope section where you spin around (with the system held to your face) to aim.

    Are you serious? I hope there's a normal controls option otherwise that rules out playing on buses/planes/tube where-ever else you can't just swivel freely like a gobshite.

    I went on an island hopping holiday last year and I bought Zelda Spirit Tracks to play on the planes/ferries/whatever and it was unplayable a lot of the time, the background noise of whatever mode of transports engine completely overwhelmed the microphone meaning anything that used the microphone was just an exercise in frustration.

    The ability to just use the stylus/buttons would have been brilliant!     Reply 0

  • Dragon Age 2 has 103 mins of cutscenes

  • sneetch 25/01/2011

    That's 103 mins of cutscenes split over, what, somewhere between 30 and 100 hours of gameplay? Many of those will be cutscenes will presumably be mirrored between good and bad versions.

    I don't think that'll be all that difficult to endure, we're not talking about FF XIII levels of "walk down the corridor, encounter a cutscene, kill the monster in the cutscene, walk down the corridor, encounter a cutscene" here. Now that was tedious.

    In contrast the original Dragon Age Origins had 61 minutes of cutscenes. They can if not overdone help set the tone.     Reply +4

  • Dare to be Digital open for entries

  • sneetch 24/01/2011

    [link url=http://www.daretobedigital.com/applications/terms.php
    ]http://www.daretobedigital.com/applicati...[/link]

    "Those teams applying from the island of Ireland MUST have a mix of team members from universities in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with at least 2 team members from each region."

    Jesus, talk about Political Correctness gone mad.     Reply +2