Recent content by brewbeard

This from a company that sells a 120 GB hard drive for $83.00 and had to be fanspammed into unlocking USB memory sticks.

This is how our money is being spent?

I've thought about trying APB, but now I won't bother. It's not that a 30 second ad every three hours or log in period or whatever bothers me, it's that it sets a precedent, and once the precedent is set it will snowball over time. I already don't watch television because commercials are detract...

Trailer pirate police! Woo! Yeah! Can't have that free publicity doggin' on our publicity stunt, can we?

I have difficulty understanding why Apple's under trust investigation for not supporting Adobe products, but Adobe isn't under trust investigation for being Adobe. Same with Autodesk. The only real difference is scale.

Though what would be cool is if it were like science camp, teaching kids basic programming fundamentals, how to make basic mods, that kind of thing. Mix things up with some physical games based on video games and the arcade stuff they've already got and you've got a wholesome, educational...

That's assuming there's only one way to accomplish everything. This was somewhat addressed in Mass Effect, where: Given a wide variety of species and an equally wide number of possible solutions to space travel and other technological hurdles, one could draw the conclusion that each...

I miss the good old days of 90's games that came in big pretty boxes with hundred+ page user manuals that had concept art, in-depth exploration of game mechanics and stories set in the universe of the game. Some of them even came with sound-tracks. I mean sure, it was wasteful in a way, but I...

I'm pretty sure there was a time when photography -- and by extension, film -- was not considered art simply because it was not an already existing artform.

Do you need a KSSN to play Starcraft/II in Korea? If not, this might be their way of enforcing that new no-night-play-for-minors legislation.

5% would be unacceptable. 42% is stupid high. Where was their quality control team? What the hell happened?

Great! Now I don't have to shell out for their ludicrously priced HDD.

Normally I'd agree, but this is MARATHON we're talking about here. Rampant AIs running amok in planet cracking space-ships named BOOMER!

This is the short film that appears to have inspired the style Borderlands ended up using: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmeP1YkaeTo&feature=player_embedded

If OnLive fails as a distribution platform, the first thing that will happen is it being snatched up by a major publisher and used as a DRM method.