Recent content by karmapolizei

What the hell is it they've done to Erin's nose? It's become insanely hideous!

I'm pretty okay with BF 3 maybe not supporting an OS that will be ten years old when the game comes out. I agree that it's not entirely the same thing as, say, supporting Windows 98 in a 2008 release, as it's merely about different DirectX versions, but from what I get, developing for DirectX 1x...

As far as I know, Activision is behind that ban, and it was already in place with MW2. It's a shame really, because they wouldn't have to do that - the international version of MW2 is not banned in Germany, so it's not even like activating it on Steam was somehow against the law. (In the case of...

So, according to Blizzard, irreversibly tying a copy of a game to a single person is "not DRM". Some publishers only seem to publish games these days because they can't market their semantics expertise. Yet.

I felt much the same as Jen with various CoD games. While the most powerful moment for me was the impression of being forced to kill and possibly die as a Russian soldier, watching soldier NPCs being shot by their own superiors at the beginning of the Russian Campaign in the first CoD, I found...

Precisely. I'm willing to bet a significant amount of money on the former, though, seeing as a) I'd never heard of InstantAction prior to this news article, b) Castle and his company have nothing to complain about since retailers are out of the equation for them, c) they thus have nothing to...

Well, it serves those Swiss right for the smugness they showed over German youth protection laws.. ha, take that! Kidding aside, let's not get worked up about this. Apart from what this guy said: On top of that, I don't think it's half bad. These two motions the parliament passed to the...

I see there's nothing to discuss really. Valve practically already has a monopoly, and we certainly don't want that to stick until the point where digital distribution becomes a real mass market. Then again, if I remember my economics classes correctly, a monopoly is in itself not a bad thing...

Not in my experience you don't. I guess you'll have to have been connected once per machine to retrieve your games and information for your local client to know you're entitled to play what's on your machine. But after that, whenever Steam fails to login it says "Try again or offline mode?", and...

The reason they're emphasizing on graphics and other non-gameplay stuff is that this is not to advertise the game to players, but its engine to potential licensees. That said, it does look pretty neat, and the lighting is awesome. It doesn't really show what was already a strong point of...

This is... interesting. I will definitely go see the movie anyway though. But, more importantly.. Seriouly, the "new" player is messed up. I get it guys. You want us to look at advertisments to make money of your video series. I respect that, and it's deserved. But could you make it in...

They've been around for some time, doing great things. I don't know nothing about the Brothers in Arms franchise they did, but these games seem very well received. For me, they're "the guys who did the Opposing Force expansion for Half-Life" back in 99.

GTA IV PC was a complete mess almost from A to Z. The activation process (which is a disgrace just for existing in the first place) is a pain in the ass to work through, they managed to exclude about half of their potential audience by having the game not work with ATI cards at all on release...

That's kind of the walled garden flaw - a problem a lot of platforms and applications share: Focusing on a consistent and highly integrated user experience with your product comes with a high adoption threshold for consumers and third parties alike. It can be observed in a lot of places, and...

I agree with you, Susan, as long as they make it work the way it seems now. I do have a few objections, though: 1. There seems to be a slight tendency to turn a game into a sales show. While ME2 was pretty laid back about it, that quest giver in Dragon Age is bad. As in "immersion-crushing...