Recent content by Unusual_Bulge

I disagree with what he said, and the way he chose to say it. However, I think the amount of people here dismissing his comments simply because Epic are a 'big' company, or because they haven't put out a game you like for a while is ridiculous. Epic have no parent company (if I remember...

You all make such excellent points; "here here"! *shudder*

I didn't expect it would be a major issue, but as I said I'm a bit paranoid, and I thought it would be a little unfair to recommend something without making sure I made clear what could be seen as potential drawbacks.

You could try Opera and enable 'Opera Turbo' mode. It routes all of your browsing via Opera's servers where they compress the pages before sending them on to you. It might make browsing a little snappier - it works wonders on mobile phones. Personally I'm a bit wary about sending log-in and...

Probably a good move for GAME considering their slogan for used games is 'The Only Difference is The Price'. Of course if they put up signs saying there can be differences, they may well need to rethink that particular slogan.

The Unreal Tournament series is made by Epic Games, the same folks who make the Gears of War series. They also make the Unreal Engine, which many games are built on, and what I guess is really meant by the 'Unreal Technology' you mention.

Not a recent annual report, but quarterly data for Activision Blizzard is at http://investor.activision.com/reports.cfm Just taking a quick look at the most recent quarter, probably the sort of stuff you're after is on page 5. Quarterly revenue from subscriptions (which WoW is likely a...

Just release Populous and Populous 2 as they were, but fully compatible with modern OSs and I'm there. Populous is the reason I'm a gamer.

Although it is really quite easy to build a computer yourself, I can understand why you might not want to. If you have a friend who has done it successfully before you could ask for their help in building your own, and you really do want to 'build your own' in some sense or another because...

I seem to recall the world of Nosgoth (Legacy of Kain series) receiving an awful lot of praise at the time for its architecture. It's probably a little unknown to appear on a list like this though.

I know, I was only messing about with my comment. I went and had a look at the criteria for movies, and it seems that indeed a big part of the criteria is simply being made in the UK by people from the UK, which should be a good thing for all of the UK's game studios.

With his taste for God games and how Godlike we British are, I dare say you're right.

A Call of Duty 2 story of my own. One of the desert maps. I find myself alone and under sniper fire. I duck around a corner, safe from the scopes, but am confronted by the sight of three enemy troops holding automatic weapons no more than 20 feet away. With my bolt-action rifle, I don't...

I don't know if someone already suggested this, but if you wait a little while (I think from the start of July onwards) you should be able to buy a Vista laptop (maybe even XP instead) with free upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released. I think official details are a bit low on the ground at...

The first few ideas remind me of similar things that were implemented in the Unreal Tournament 2004 mod 'Jailbreak' (I believe there are other versions of Jailbreak mods for other games, but this is the one I'm familiar with). The basic idea of the game is you've got two teams, and when you...