[quote who="Campaigner" reply="34" id="3328977"] How can you have poweroutages? I mean, the US is a 1st world country and shouldn't have poweroutages. Call the landlord or an electrician WiFi problems? New computer or repair it. Yeah I know I sound like Captain Obvious but I really am surprised over the crappy internet you have in the states and the power outages. So please explain. I'm interested in hearing how it can be
[quote who="LightStar" reply="15" id="3308032"] It's only touch screen because of its screen size and it has to be to operate efficiently, but with a desktop PC or a laptop I would rather have a keyboard and mouse, touch screen is not needed at all for me.[/quote] You're right, but for the wrong reasons LightStar. Touch screens work well on phones/tablets not because of their size, but because they are used as a (held flat) horizontal control surface. The o
[quote who="kona0197" reply="342" id="3302826"] You just don't get it. Let's say Windows 9 comes out and the OS is Metro only - no desktop. Simple. You go to that app store, install Photoshop. It occupies a tile on the Metro UI. You click on it, it opens, you use it. After you are done it goes back to the Metro UI. No desktop. Metro replaces the desktop. The resources and code the Photoshop needs are still there for Photoshop to run only you can't see them or tweak them.<b
[quote who="the_Monk" reply="190" id="3290045"] Anything that helps the consumer save time and effort in the long run is not bad and Windows 8 along with Windows Phone 8 do exactly that. [/quote] After Windows 8, consumers will have plenty of extra time on their hands - to visit the Apple store! [e digicons];)[/e]
[quote who="Alstein" reply="1" id="3120534"]One question request in regards to GalCiv2. GalCiv II Ultimate Edition is avaliable, but the individual games aren't. One thing I'd like to see, if that folks who have GC2+ both expansions should get the ability to DL Ultimate edition. [/quote] I'm in the same situation Alstein. I own GC2 (retail), GC2+Dark Avatar (retail), and the Twilight Of The Arnor expansion on CD-ROM (from St
[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="95" id="3087727"] I haven't yet decided what action to take as a result of this news, but at the least Rebellion will be the last Stardock game I preorder. If I do buy any others that are only on steam I will certainly wait until they're in the $10-$15 range instead of full price as I've gladly done until now. [/quote] The golden rule to buying anything on Steam, is to just wait it out until the price crashes to dirt cheap. There'
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="2915538"]This is definitely very very good news for PC gamers. I don't know what some folks are thinking but I can't think of a piece of better news for PC gamers than for the world's largest gaming retailer to heavily invest in digitally distributing PC games worldwide. [/quote] I hope this is all an April fool's day joke. If so, you got me. I'll bite. Digital ditribution is a vendor/customer relat
[quote who="SivCorp" reply="36" id="2815884"]I agree that they are simply fishing to see how many people are interested. Unfortunately, I'm not so sure there are enough for it. I voted yes, But perhaps an optimization/modding patch, and then move on to Sins 2. I think that would have a larger draw. [/quote] I voted yes (#10 in poll). As much as I'd enjoy to see another Sins expansion, I don't believe for a heartbeat there remains enough pla
[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="188" id="2604260"]Libraries will never be shut down or branded a form of Piracy. That's trying to control knowledge, and it's illegal to such a great extent. Writers KNOW that any books they publish will end up in a library, that's a fact. They also know that their target audience will likely buy their books assuming the were written well enough. -Twilight Storm [/quote] Do a Google search for "The Anti-Co
[quote who="Aractain" reply="80" id="2556832"]If thats true (I don't see why it wouldn't be - however much ubisoft wants to delude themselves as they chug back thier silly wine) thats utterly halrious. I mean how much do you think they spent setting up this DRM scheme? (Possibly not much by the sounds of how crap it is). [/quote] Oh, it's true alright. So true infact, a cracked v1.1 update was also released. (Google it - but don't mention it here) I'll&nb
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="49" id="2543872"]So I think I can be forgiven me I don't see the issue of including our next game with a budget many times that of Galactic Civilizations II as being worthy of being listed with Civilization V and World of Warcraft. Ultimately, we'll see if Elemental lives up to its promise. [/quote] Forgiven?? For what? For not following the crap-fest the rest of the industry is digging for themselves? Elemental is the only PC
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="26" id="2540339"]By enabling Mouse and Keyboard support for games on consoles, they'll literally open up entirely new levels of success for their strategy games. [/quote] Game consoles have been (deliberately) crippled for years by manufacturer(s) for marketing purposes. Console hardware is sold at a loss, and depends on software sales (a secret "attach rate") to make the platform profitable. Add a keyboard & mouse to a console, users might
Federated ID's sound like the ultimate tracking tool for hackers, goverment and corporations alike. I think I'll pass on this future trend until it becomes clear who will profit most by it.
[quote who="SnallTrippin" reply="4" id="2175256"]Server side games? I would NEVER play a game like that. (Except on a console maybe) The security issues are HUGE. I don't trust anyone with that kind of access.[/quote] I'd never purchase/play a server side game (PC platform) for serurity/privacy issues as well. It would also raise many of the same concerns now coming to light with cloud computing. You're wise user for not trusting others with that level of access
Toshiba M100 Satellite 2006: Old laptop with an Intel T2300 running at 1.66Ghz. CPU score: 890.9 Toshiba NB100 2009: New netbook with an Intel Atom N270 running at 1.60Ghz. CPU score: 320.0 Acer Aspire One 2009: New netbook with an Intel Atom N270 running at 1.60Ghz. CPU score: 318.4 Results of the two netbooks were overall nearly identical across all benchmarks. I was a little shocked to see how they comp
[quote who="Solam" reply="17" id="2124420"]I'm in Quebec Canada and here my service provider is Videotron and since they've had Braodband they've had caps. I pay 30$ a month for 20 gig. I can get unlimited but it's like 60$ a month. So no big surprise for me I'm already used to it. one good point though to this system is that my quality of my internet connection is garanteed. My connection is A1 all the time. <br
[quote who="Zyxpsilon" reply="4" id="2118472"]Two questions suddenly pop in my mind; Is it really worth the extra money? Can you find something like a community recycling business downtown (most of these do it for charity organizations) which would gladly sell you another tip-top shape PC less than three years old for that same 120$? Save for the Monitor, printer & extra stuff you already have... all you may need is a new tower that might have a Pci slot &
[quote who="arstal" reply="9" id="2118073"]Some games really have long-term legs though- think games such as TF2, Civ, maybe GalCiv. For them a 5 yr no-DRM patch isn't as practical as it is for FPS games. [/quote] Blizzard Entertainment, in June 2008 released a "zip" patch (1.12a) for Diablo 2/LOD which removed the safedisc DRM/Copy Protection check. That's seven years after LOD's release. Given Diablo 2 Battlechest retail sets were still selling at Xmas 2008 (lon
