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Thursday Reading - No PC version of GoW 2 - briefly
(hx) 09:53 PM CEST - Oct,02 2008 - Post a comment / read (7)

The Sims 2: Apartment Life Patch - The first patch for The Sims 2: Apartment Life updates the eighth expansion for the lifestyle simulation sequel to version 1.16.0.187
Warhammer Online Patched - The first major update (v1.01) for the game includes fixes from previous smaller patches, and adds a few new features like auto-looting, pathing improvements, more reliable tab-targeting, and more.
Silent Hill: Homecoming PC Delay - Valve's Mike Dunkle confirmed that Silent Hill Homecoming for PC will not become available until later this month.
Empire: Total War Movie - A new trailer from Empire: Total War shows off land battles in Creative Assembly's next installment in their epic historical real-time strategy series that's due in February, 2009.
Free Sacred Gold - GameTap announces the latest addition to their roster of free games is Sacred Gold, ASCARON Entertainment's action/RPG.
EndWar confirmed for November 7 in Europe - Ubisoft has just confirmed to VG247 that voice-controlled RTS EndWar will release on November 7 in Europe. The game's being shown off in London today in its Theater of War meta-mode, and is looking in very good shape.
RF Online Closing - Codemasters says their efforts at negotiating an extension of their license for the game have been unsuccessful, and the game's last full day of service will be November 9, and they will be taking the North American and European servers offline on the morning (UK time) of November 10.
No PC version of Gears of War 2 planned - Epic's Cliff Bleszinski revealed piracy concerns factored into their decision to not create a PC edition of Gears of War 2
PES 09 demo now on Live - According to the Major Nelson site, the PES 09 demo is now up on XBLM
Help Destructoid man debase himself and raise money for children - Destructoid's Jim Sterling's trying to raise $5,000 to help Texan children with cancer. Worthy. If he manages it, he's promised to play SingStar for 24 hours, live.
Can Games Help Older Drivers? - The AP is running a pilot program in Pennsylvania where they want 100,000 older drivers to play the brain training game InSight to see if it helps make them safer on the road. If successful, this could lead to a program that offers discounts on auto insurance for players of such games.

last 10 comments:

Stumpus	(04:35 PM CEST - Oct,03 2008 )
Oh i'm crying tears of...joy! No GoW2 for PC? why of course it's microshaft supporting the PC as best they do always. Erm, sorry. They mean support their thinly disguised PC -most commonly called the Deadbox 360....... :roll:

strangestsensation

(03:40 AM CEST - Oct,04 2008 )

I'm not going to criticize m$ here, but isn't this old news? I've known this for some time. I didn't really get into GOW so no GOW2 for PC doesn't bother me.

I have Xbox 360 Stumpus and it's fantastic. Compared to PC I'd have to say it's superior in lots of ways. I don't understand what you mean by Deadbox. Xbox 360 is more than worth it's value compared to Playstation and easily holds the majority of games. I also have a Wii and enjoy it thoroughly.

Stumpus

(03:00 PM CEST - Oct,04 2008 )

strangestsensation> I'm not going to criticize m$ here, but isn't this old news? I've known this for some time. I didn't really get into GOW so no GOW2 for PC doesn't bother me.

I have Xbox 360 Stumpus and it's fantastic. Compared to PC I'd have to say it's superior in lots of ways. I don't understand what you mean by Deadbox. Xbox 360 is more than worth it's value compared to Playstation and easily holds the majority of games. I also have a Wii and enjoy it thoroughly.

Deadbox, meaning the RRoD :lol:
Come on, it only really holds on because -again- M$ buy-out all the DLC so that there is no competition. Without that it becomes....well nothing much really doesn't it? High Def films are no longer + of course you had to buy the external HD player for them (£150 in the UK), which took the retail price way past the the PS3 Not of course the price it is now -since it's defunct.
I have a PS3 but that is primarily for Blu-Ray movies, since we are a member of an online rental club, so that means we can watch as many blu-ray films and play PS3,Xbox,Wii etc games for a small fee per month. Rather than spend a stupid amount per game/film as you would retail.
Enjoy = buy and resume game from rental game-save.
Rubbish = about £2.50 loss :wink:

strangestsensation

(05:03 PM CEST - Oct,04 2008 )

Stumpus> strangestsensation> I'm not going to criticize m$ here, but isn't this old news? I've known this for some time. I didn't really get into GOW so no GOW2 for PC doesn't bother me.

I have Xbox 360 Stumpus and it's fantastic. Compared to PC I'd have to say it's superior in lots of ways. I don't understand what you mean by Deadbox. Xbox 360 is more than worth it's value compared to Playstation and easily holds the majority of games. I also have a Wii and enjoy it thoroughly.

Deadbox, meaning the RRoD :lol:
Come on, it only really holds on because -again- M$ buy-out all the DLC so that there is no competition. Without that it becomes....well nothing much really doesn't it? High Def films are no longer + of course you had to buy the external HD player for them (£150 in the UK), which took the retail price way past the the PS3 Not of course the price it is now -since it's defunct.
I have a PS3 but that is primarily for Blu-Ray movies, since we are a member of an online rental club, so that means we can watch as many blu-ray films and play PS3,Xbox,Wii etc games for a small fee per month. Rather than spend a stupid amount per game/film as you would retail.
Enjoy = buy and resume game from rental game-save.
Rubbish = about £2.50 loss :wink:

I don't care if they bought out all the rights or whatever, who cares really about all that? The fact to me is that it has great games, I enjoy it and it's brought me countless hours of hassle free entertainment. Some weeks I don't even touch my PC.

No, for me I avoided the jump on Bluray because I've already known for some time that Bluray is dead and I don't sit around all day watching movies anyway. Yes, I've seen bluray movies and decided it wasn't anything fantastic. So if I'm not interested in movies and I have a PS3, what the heck am I gonna do with it??

I already have an excellent theater system with a upconverting dvd player. So PS3 just simply makes no sense to me. Oh and cost wise, games are ~ $50 bucks here, same goes for PC. Royalty fees or not, again, couldn't care less. The industry does what it wants.

Hope that clarifies my stance.

Stumpus

(09:09 PM CEST - Oct,04 2008 )

strangestsensation>
No, for me I avoided the jump on Bluray because I've already known for some time that Bluray is dead and I don't sit around all day watching movies anyway. Yes, I've seen bluray movies and decided it wasn't anything fantastic. So if I'm not interested in movies and I have a PS3, what the heck am I gonna do with it??

I already have an excellent theater system with a upconverting dvd player. So PS3 just simply makes no sense to me. Oh and cost wise, games are ~ $50 bucks here, same goes for PC. Royalty fees or not, again, couldn't care less. The industry does what it wants.

Hope that clarifies my stance.

Erm, your confusing me? HD is dead and blu-Ray is actualy alive and in all video shops. It was Toshiba that nailed HD's coffin shut and blu-ray became the defacto standard as of today.
Sure it may be superceded in 4years or so, but so does everything.

I'm afraid you are getting more and more confused here; first you state quote:
I avoided the jump on Bluray because I've already known for some time that Bluray is dead and I don't sit around all day watching movies anyway. Yes, I've seen bluray movies and decided it wasn't anything fantastic. So if I'm not interested in movies and I have a PS3, what the heck am I gonna do with it??

Play games??? most obvious choice. Then why buy a PS3??????

quote:
I already have an excellent theater system with a upconverting dvd player.
You must have a terrible TV? HD/Blu-Ray films are 4 times the detail of standard DVD/TV. If you can't tell the difference between the uncompressed audio (for starters) and the clarity of these films...well sorry but i find that quite amazing!

I have both pioneer and Sony dedicated upscaler DVD/HD recorders 1080p (300bucks each bought before i got a PS3, used for mainly burning home movies and for viewing my couple of hundred DVD films) they output through HDMI and they are in the same league as the 'poor mans' jump from RGB to a slightly better pic -if you could call it that.
Playing standard DVDs upscaled to 1080 is nice, but delusional compared to blu-ray or HD.
The jump from RGB/composite/upscaled to TRUE HDMI is chalk and cheese!!

Sorry, i'm not intentional ripping the Xbox up as a games machine, rather i hate M$ for what they have done to Gaming in general for every format.
Enjoy all games on all formats and console owners should have the same rights to games as the PC has had for decades, instead we have Gates' monopolising everything....how sad

strangestsensation

(04:11 AM CEST - Oct,06 2008 )

Easy buddy you'll blow a gasket.

You whine about m$ gouging people but Sony is not much better.

Royalty amounts collected.

Blu-Ray Drive : $30
Blu-Ray Player and Console : $60~70
HD-DVD Drive : $7 net royalty($5 DVD royalty is included in $12 combined royalty)

Yes, Bluray is dead and many prominent people in the industry do believe it is alreayd dead. Flash memory will soon replace it. DVD and the media itself will soon be dead in a few years. It will die off like the floppy. I barely need to even rent movies these days. I can get them off the internet for free or I can get them instantly through my cable box in HD.

I didn't buy a PS3 because I don't care about Bluray and PS3 has no games worth my time. Xbox has been flawless for me and so has my Wii. The kids love it and the kids also don't care for a PS3.

Well I'm done on this topic Stumpus hope this is clear enough because, lol, I will likely forget this topic this week. I have busy work week.

ciao

Stumpus

(04:03 PM CEST - Oct,07 2008 )

strangestsensation> So if I'm not interested in movies and I have a PS3, what the heck am I gonna do with it??

Hope that clarifies my stance.

Nope it doesn't and here was me thinking we were having a bit of constructive critique....

Your latest post says:
quote:
I didn't buy a PS3 because I don't care about Bluray and PS3 has no games worth my time
Make your mind up, you own a PS3 then you don't.

So you clearly just spout off without actualy knowing what you're talking about....oh great :roll:
There's no games for the PS3 because i don't own one to actualy know that. Don't you realise how stupid that makes you look?

Yeah, the conversation is over because it didn't even get out of neutral.

Back to work indeed!

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