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DMC: Devil May Cry I was kind of annoyed at having the angels in the strip club at the beginning. It felt like it was there to pander to 13 year olds playing an M rated game. Plus I couldn't look past the sex negative view of putting of putting the main character in a strip club to show that...

I'm a software engineer a few years into my career. I don't work in the games industry because the conditions are generally horrible; the pay is worse, the hours are worse, and they are generally behind in terms of good development practices. If you want to take your computer science degree...

Dance Dance Revolution has the most ridiculous jump in difficulty when you switch from any home version to the same game's arcade version. After playing the home version for a while I was able to beat 8 footers, but when I went to the arcade I had to drop to 5-6.

It's for me. My roommate too. We both own powerful gaming PCs. We both have hundreds, probably thousands, of dollars invested in our Steam libraries. We also have some console games, but we're PC gamers primarily. When we want to play local multiplayer games we plug a my laptop into the...

A shy guy that isn't confident may very well be an awesome guy once you get through his shell, but a confident guy is already awesome without the coaxing. There's no benefit to being a shy guy; it's a character flaw any shy person should look to improve upon. Furthermore, I'd contend that a...

If you calmly pass a slower traffic on the left and provide safe distance you rarely run into issues. If there's not room to pass then don't pass. A bike is a vehicle, just pass it like you would any other vehicle and you're fine. A huge of driving any vehicle safely is maintaining...

If you examine the logic behind it, it's somewhat ridiculous to save gifts for Christmas day, especially when you prepare them far in advance. Why would you hide something away in a closet to gain pleasure after one arbitrary day instead of being ready to give it to them when they ask for it...

Rocksmith for PC I was already an intermediate bassist, but the game has helped me quite a bit more than I expected. It encouraged me to play songs I thought were to hard for me, and taught me a new method for breaking things down to learn them. It also got me into playing with picks for...

This sounds like something that would get thrown out in trial. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure Microsoft will make deals with any companies (i.e. MLG) that could conceivably take them to court.

It's a damn shame that even though I'd pay this much for Spec Ops: The Line alone, I dread dealing with Securom and GFWL enough that this is actually a tough choice for me.

When data is on a server and users are only supposed to access it through a client it's a lot less vulnerable than it is if it's installed on their machine. Because of the Real Money Auction house, Blizzard has substantial interest in protecting their software not only piracy, but any form of...

I'm browsing the escapist right now because the Diablo server's are down again and I can't play. Usually online only is enough to make me not even consider a game, as the potential benefit is pretty small in comparison to the potential detriments. However, a while ago I Steam got me to...

Does the kinect provide some amazing functionality to make voice recognition less complex to implement? Microphones have been standard for years, but voice commands never gained popularlity because they, historically speaking, suck massively. I find it disappointing and bizarre that voice...

I haven't played the game yet (no interest in installing Origin and I'm offended by the dlc scheme), so I can't be quite sure I'm accurate: Mass Effect 2 was all about building your team up for suicide mission to fend off inevitable doom. Where as most stories cower before the end, Mass...

City of Heroes locks the invention system and market for free players, which is a serious case of play to win. SO'd and HO'd builds are miles behind IO'd builds. If you're not big on min maxing it's easy to dismiss the lack of IOs as a small thing since most of the difficulty curve isn't built...