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Nothing. But the head of Bethesda literally said that about why they keep remaking Skyrim on different ports.

K.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Fortnite STW was literally the only game that was intended. It was in development for 6 years. It went from one of the 'top 10 most anticipated games of 2017' to a 6.5 review in october 17 by IGN. I'm certain I could find similar reviews from the time-frame for other sites.

BR was developed in the 63 days after STW's early access release (also, using early access as an out for a triple A title that was in development for 6 years is a joke) and it saved the franchise. This process was only accomplished by pulling resources from the unreal tournament team (which is smart because balanced FPS is their bread and butter going on 20+ years). My original comment merely states that I am glad that they were able to turn STW (garbage) into something that made them money. STW is still garbage btw. Minecraft without mining? Really? 3 material types? Can you even fish in that game?

K.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Fortnite STW was literally the only game that was intended. It was in development for 6 years. It went from one of the 'top 10 most anticipated games of 2017' to a 6.5 review in october 17 by IGN. I'm certain I could find similar reviews from the time-frame for other sites.

BR was developed in the 63 days after STW's early access release (also, using early access as an out for a triple A title that was in development for 6 years is a joke) and it saved the franchise. This process was only accomplished by pulling resources from the unreal tournament team (which is smart because balanced FPS is their bread and butter going on 20+ years). My original comment merely states that I am glad that they were able to turn STW (garbage) into something that made them money. STW is still garbage btw. Minecraft without mining? Really? 3 material types? Can you even fish in that game?

And the ability to make use of the console at all in areas where the best available Internet connection is slow and/or harshly capped

Pretty much. And to keep everything in context, that has been Microsoft's plan for the Xbox One since before its launch.

Many have forgotten, but the E3 prior to the consoles release, it was going to require "always on" internet connectivity to even launch a single player game, let alone actually need the network for anything.
They were also going to put unique keys in with discs for use in locking a game to your hardware and prevent reselling. A used game without an unused key would be useless, and require the purchase of a new key at full retail price (on top of whatever you paid for that used plastic disc)

https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4422014/xbox-360-is-offline-alternative-to-xbox-one

Xbox chief Don Mattrick offered up his own thoughts on the Xbox One online requirement ahead of Microsoft's E3 keynote,

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360," says Mattrick. "If you have zero access to the internet, that is an offline device." Mattrick's comments appear to ignore scenarios where internet connectivity can be unstable or unreliable.

They only back peddled quite some time after massive backlash from pretty much everyone.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/19/microsoft-reversing-xbox-one-internet-used-game-policies

Xbox One will also no longer restrict used games, and will instead allow discs to be exchanged in the same way they are on Xbox 360. There will be no additional restrictions for trade-ins or lending games to friends.
and
"Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback," Microsoft's Don Mattrick wrote. "I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world."

Those facts are not important to Microsoft, and they don't even claim so. They just want peoples money, and this back peddle was the best way to get more of that.

5 years ago for many people this day and age might as well have been over a lifetime ago.
Microsoft will continue to keep trying until raping their customers makes more money than giving them what they want.

Missiles should be able to navigate with a paper map.

They can!

Obligatory The Missile Knows Where It Is

Transcript (shamelessly copy/pasted from elsewhere):

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

I watch a fair amount of Netflix and have not seen these unskippable ads at all. Apparently that is a common misconception. A very small subset of users are being piloted personalized content and it is most definitely skippable.

I knew it would be a giant failure solely based on the fact that it was a console space sim.

No Man's Sky isn't a space sim. You spend most of your time on planetary surfaces, not in your ship cockpit. Not only that, but ship combat isn't common.

Space sim has evolved beyond the capacity of stagnant console controllers, and the whole fanbase is housed on the PC. Flight Stick + Keyboard is the way to go.

They have? I'm not so sure of that, considering that THIS is a PSone controller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The PS2 has these:
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ps...

Which you can plug this Hori Flight Stick 2 into:

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

You might be thinking that it looks like a Saitek x45...that's because it IS a rebadged Saitek x45.

The PS3 has these USB ports:

https://assets.pcmag.com/media...

Which you can plug this into:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

or this for that matter:

http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod-...

And play this (disc only):

https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

https://store.playstation.com/...

You might be thinking that the latter reminds you of War Thunder...that's because it IS basically the test for War Thunder, and releasing it paid for War Thunder's development. So console owners were basically the Alpha Testers for War Thunder.

PS4's have these:

ps://media.psu.com/media/articles/image/ps4_usb_hard_drive.png

Which you can plug this into:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

And play:

Elite Dangerous
https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

Eve Valkyrie Warzone
https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

War Thunder
https://store.playstation.com/...

with the latter you could also plug in this:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

or this:

http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod-...

or any other HOTAS. Yes, there are PS4 owners playing War Thunder with Warthogs and Rhino's.

Seriously, by pointing out it can be used to get around the censors, it will be censored probably within a week until the games allowed are filtered based on what is allowed in China.

I hope. so. According to BattlEye, 95% of the cheaters playing PUBG are playing from China based IP addresses.

Source?

The claim is actually higher than 95% but I was going by memory. http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

Back in 1999, Quake 3 Arena came out with the ability to add maps, mods and skins to the game for free. If it were made ~5 years ago, the equivalent would be buying half of the same content as the base game, with the other half in DLC that has been further divided into 5 pieces for example, all of which were completed prior to launch. You are effectively buying an unlock code for content on your disc, with individual prices for each DLC piece or one season pass (Best value!) If it were made now, the modern equivalent would be the DLC shit above + in game virtual currency to buy in game content (skins etc), and that content used to be freely available to download, or make your own. Example: http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/n... Now consider how you would monetise skins if they are freely available on the internet. Answer: prevent 3rd party skins and mods, give some weak excuse tied to "game as a service" Example, overwatch: https://eu.battle.net/forums/e... TL;DR: Jim Sterling was right, "only cosmetics" are part of the problem.

...and "refocused"* the only story-based star wars game on console that people were going to care about, the one Amy Hennig of Uncharted 1-3 was working on

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

* read: more grinding, loot boxes, with the goal of having the player spend more time and money on the game rather than resell it even with less people doing that as more buy digital

For some reason I messed up the FFXI link in my post so here it is: http://ca.ign.com/articles/200...

They've been selling various versions of the Atari Flashback since 2004. There've been more than a dozen different versions of it and they've been releasing like clockwork before the holidays every year. We already know the Atari Flashback 8 Gold is out in September. I seriously doubt they have 2 retro consoles coming simultaneously. I also doubt they have a "mysterious" marketing campaign going for a console that's already been announced.

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

probably someone that actually understands resolution better than you.

I understand that Sony releasing their console to play games at 1080p gave them a leg up on MS.

1080p and 60fps is great, but sacrificing one or the other in certain scenarios is fine.

That wasn't the point. MS didn't release their next gen console to do 1080p as the minimum. The fact that it didn't do 60fps all the time was just another negative. Some titles don't even do 900p.

both Sony and MS do this regularly and for the most part a user won't even notice if it is done right.

No Sony does not. 1080p is the pretty much the standard resolution for PS4.Only 1 title for Sony is not at 1080p and Star Wars:Battlefront is still in beta. Sometimes the framerate is 60fps. Sometimes it is 30fps. The Xbox One resolution can be as low as 720p and as high as 1080p with the framerate varying between 30fps and 60fpgs.

In related news, this photo of Intel's marketing team was just leaked. (SFW)

They tried this already too. Guess what? It backfired horribly.

Don't think so? Any system that enables VGaaS is going to be one of two designs:

1. Games run locally, system enforces "rental". Bad design. DRM is defeated the second the system is hacked. Rental games are kept indefinitely as a result, frustrating publishers and killing the service. (XBone original proposal.)

2. Games run remotely, system is a dumb terminal. Good design. DRM is enforced by the account on the remote server. Hacking the console gains nothing. Design is unworkable however due to multiple factors. (ISP bandwidth / GB limits, input lag, cost of maintaining availability in large scale markets, media industry in general wanting to limit broadband development and deployment over piracy, etc. This has also been tried before and failed for the above reasons. However these reasons are potentially fixable.)

If anything the latter is what the VG industry wants. (Constant payment or you loose everything to the gatekeepers.) They will keep pushing it, the real question is whether or not people want to keep ANY of the games they purchase enough to fight it. (Because once it's successful for one of them, they will all mandate it.)

I know what the cheat code is: Show me the money.

Yup, it's all the women's fault.

Of course not. It is an object lesson in making all problems the fault of the males though. A good example is what happened in primary and secondary schools. Finding a male teacher outside of say a football coach is getting very difficult. But even back in my high school days I heard that male teachers are very suspicious - why would a man who in't a pedophile be interested in teaching? And now, males are becoming extinct in teaching http://professionallyspeaking....

So the crime of teachers engaging in sex with underage students has gone completely away - we totally fixed the problem.

Then again, perhaps I am assuming the gender of these teachers who like to fuck children:

http://www.zimbio.com/The+50+Most+Infamous+Female+Teacher+Sex+Scandals . Fortunately, the female teacher's are once again, the victims. http://www.ign.com/boards/thre... Males - is there anything they do that isn't wrong? Child male rapists, wearing down the defenses of the selfless adult women that the child then proceeds to rape. A 34 year old woman who is defenseless against a child male, merely points out the insidious level of the patriarchy. Lest you think this is an isolated case there is more teacher rape by male rapist children: http://rare.us/rare-news/whats...

http://www.seattletimes.com/li... It isn't abuse - it's a relationship.

Console games are $60 (at least in the US). It's also easy to get them for less than that, as an Amazon Prime or Best Buy subscriber you can get them for $48 on release day. I'm also not sure where your $40 figure comes from, everything I can find points to the prices being considerably higher. For example, this article looks at game pricing over history and concludes they're cheaper now than ever (adjusting for inflation).

You are right about phones, but I'd say that the specs of the top end phones have also gone up way faster than "inflation" (whatever that means in these terms) - so comparing "top of the line" then with now is not necessarily fair.

Don't worry people, keep purchasing those New 3DSes. Nintendo will support them long after the Switch is released.

Just like the DS didn't replace the GBA. :P

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

http://www.ign.com/wikis/best-... says their game of the year is Witcher 3

http://www.gamespot.com/articl... also says Witcher 3 and shows an image with a woman wearing clothing that is selectively revealing.
So what is this game you are talking about again?

Not to mention the Zelda CDI games... which were all kinds of terrible. Here's some description and video for those mario games released on other platforms.

More and (arguably) better exclusives. Check out this list: http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-... It seems even at first, until you scroll down more and realize the Xbox One list doesn't even make it halfway. (29 for XBone, 70 for PS4)

We just went through this a week and a half ago with the fan Metroid 2 remake AM2R. Nintendo shut that down in 2 days.
http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

It is a brilliant remake, which was desperately needed because Nintendo seems to constantly ignore Metroid. If Nintendo shuts down something like this, Pokemon doesn't have a prayer.

It's been pretty obvious to me that Nintendo's value is in it's IP, not it's hardware. Games on other systems, movies, tv etc. are where the growth is.

It has been suggested before:
25 Jan 2007: http://www.cnet.com/forums/dis...
28 April 2012: http://www.slashgear.com/why-n...
20 Aug 2013: http://www.ign.com/boards/thre...
2 years ago: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards...
7 Oct 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
21 Nov 2014: http://www.polygon.com/2014/11...

http://www.thetoptens.com/reas...

Who's to say the capability of the hardware doing 1080P didn't have headroom to do more

Though PlayStation 4 has 1080p on a lot of games where Xbox One needs to upscale, several PlayStation 4 games still end up running at 900p on PS4, such as Battlefield 4 . But what you say about headroom is likely for any game that's 1080p on both consoles.

19-year old girl find dead body while playing Pokemon Go! Buy on Nintendo! Buy buy buy!

Also Mexican kids are dying while playing the game. Shares up 9%! Buy buy buy!

I often hear from you techno weenies that iPhone users are morons, yet studies (ok study) tend to show the opposite.
Are their any studies that show the opposite?

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

Has Xbox won a generation yet? The PlayStation 2 soundly beat the original Xbox, and the underpowered Wii beat the more powerful Xbox 360 in all regions. Early Xbox One sales were marred by loss of goodwill from #dealwithit, and the PlayStation 4 is reportedly beating its competition nearly two to "One" after two years.

http://m.ign.com/wikis/playsta...

no seriously, do you not remember this?

The costs of the consoles have been increasing since the days of the NES. I remember when I first got the Nintendo when it was about $100 brand new. I remember getting the N64 when it was about $140. Now we have consoles costing $300+. Even adjusting for inflation the prices have gone up.

You Fail at math. The earliest release model of the NES included ROB and launched at $249. The control deck+ Mario release which came later was $199. The NES only became $100 late in it's life, AFTER the SNES was out. The N64 also launched at $199.

The NES would cost around $450 if rleased now.

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

http://kotaku.com/36-years-of-...

The "backwards compatibility" is nothing but a big steaming pile of marketing.. Xbox One isn't even in the slightest backwards compatible with 360 games.

Instead, what they are doing is slowly porting 360 games to the Xbox One, one by one. If you happen to have a 360 game on their list of ported games, you put the CD in the Xbox, just to prove you actually own it. Then the Xbox One will download the entire ported game from their servers to its hard-drive, and allow you to play it.

Don't go buying an Xbox One thinking you can use any old Xbox 360 game you might own. 3 moths ago we did that, and found a whopping 0 of our old 360 games had been ported.

Someone remind me what the word is when you purposely inaccurately describe something, because it will make your product sound more appealing than the accurate description will? I forget these days.

wrong. They are not ports. They are using a virtualised emulator. The hardware and software though is so significantly different that each game has to have specific configuration within the emulator and a lot of work to make each game work.

The "backwards compatibility" is nothing but a big steaming pile of marketing.. Xbox One isn't even in the slightest backwards compatible with 360 games.

Instead, what they are doing is slowly porting 360 games to the Xbox One, one by one. If you happen to have a 360 game on their list of ported games, you put the CD in the Xbox, just to prove you actually own it. Then the Xbox One will download the entire ported game from their servers to its hard-drive, and allow you to play it.

Don't go buying an Xbox One thinking you can use any old Xbox 360 game you might own. 3 moths ago we did that, and found a whopping 0 of our old 360 games had been ported.

Someone remind me what the word is when you purposely inaccurately describe something, because it will make your product sound more appealing than the accurate description will? I forget these days.

I'm an independent videogame developer. Unfortunately, I'm still at least a year from finishing up my title, but thanks for the sentiment. To be honest, I was inspired by Brad Wardell, president and CEO of StarDock, who espoused a similar view years ago:

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

I'm hoping someday I can also prove the naysayers wrong by offering fun, affordable, DRM-free titles and making a good living doing it. The way I figure it, the industry isn't going to change itself.

The PS4 is 4K ready...for videos (note the last edit date on article). The 4.5 is supposed to enable the support for games as well. I have to wonder though; did it really require new hardware, or could Sony have unlocked the 4K Gaming capability through a firmware patch? Knowing Sony's track record, I seriously think they're going with the hardware fix only because it will drive more sales of the unit...where a simple OTA update probably would have sufficed. This question probably won't be answered without seeing the proposed hardware differences.

There is exactly 0 chance this won't require a massive hardware upgrade if they are going to do 4K gaming. Unlike previous generations, this console is x86 (OK x64 but you get the point) based and we know what the APU they used is capable of, or at least we have a very good idea of it's possible range. We also know from PC gaming what it takes to do 4K gaming and the gap between those two bits of knowledge is not insignificant. So unless they plan for a 10-15fps 4K experience (and I'm probably being generous there) it's going to require new hardware. Even then, unless AMD has made some recent breakthrough or has gone into the charity business, I can't see them doing 4K gaming and keeping their current price point. Yes, discounts for volume and all that, but chips powerful enough to do what they want are not free to manufacture, and they are only one component in the overall cost of the unit. Sony would need to take a massive hit, selling the PS4.5 well below their costs to keep it at $400.

Also keep in mind Sony probably wants to do 4K UHD blu-ray playback, since it's Sony and they own a chunk of the BD spec. That will probably take new hardware as well for the drive and HDMI port (although it's possible they could flash the port, they did some crazy flash only upgrades on the PS3 due to their use of programmable hardware where most devices use dedicated chips).

The PS4 is 4K ready...for videos (note the last edit date on article). The 4.5 is supposed to enable the support for games as well. I have to wonder though; did it really require new hardware, or could Sony have unlocked the 4K Gaming capability through a firmware patch? Knowing Sony's track record, I seriously think they're going with the hardware fix only because it will drive more sales of the unit...where a simple OTA update probably would have sufficed. This question probably won't be answered without seeing the proposed hardware differences.

Why a new Lunar Lander when we have http://my.ign.com/atari/lunar-... ?

You missed something ...
Netflix uses product placement.
sources

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
http://nypost.com/2015/03/02/h...

Also, a more valid reason why Netflix does not report numbers..
valuation of the show, better numbers always equal more revenue but don't equal more profits,
profits get eaten up by writers and actors at the negotiation tables . Notice that many writers and actors are forming production companies and or are becoming executive producers...

Product placement people are already following the street gossip, checking with Nealson for crappy Netflix data, and pricing out the idea.
netflix already knows its numbers, get's data from Nealson via third parties to check what the industry is guessing and then maximizes revenue

follow the money ...

Me niether. http://uk.ign.com/wikis/xbox-o...

> When people pay for something, they expect it to do what they paid for.

And thanks to Sony winning the class-action lawsuit over the post-facto removal of OtherOS from PS3 they should know better than to expect anything after they've paid for it.

It always cracks me up how every time a AAA title comes out, every mainstream game "journalist" is either calling it the GREATEST THING EVAR! or not saying anything at all. Only when a game is so obviously broken that players are in active revolt do they say anything negative at all. And even then, they just bump their normal 10/10 or 9/10 down to an 8/10.

IGN PC review of Batman Arkham Knight. Not so much as a mention of any problems in the initial review.

9.2/10 AMAZING!!!

Didn't I just read that game consoles are going to be eclipsed by tablets in the next couple of years, in terms of horsepower? Aren't those people just playing games on their PC or on a tablet?

A tablet's input device is a flat sheet of glass. It's fine for games that would have otherwise used a mouse, such as a space shooter like AirAttack HD. It's also good for what are essentially racing games that use only one button, like Rayman Jungle Run. But for games originally designed for a gamepad, there's no way to tell where your thumbs are relative to the on-screen controls at the side while you are looking at the action in the center. It's even worse than the widely panned Turbo Touch 360, which at least has a recessed touchpad with ridges and physical A and B trigger buttons. When I tried the free subset of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my Nexus 7, I kept "whiffing", or pressing outside the active areas of the on-screen gamepad, and missing jumps. This continued until I paired a Bluetooth keyboard, after which the game worked fine.

Or are people actually buying external gamepads like MOGA for use with their tablets and phones? The last time I checked, I couldn't find any sales numbers for these external gamepads, which disappoints me because there's no other way to assure game developers that there's a market for games supporting them.

As for PC, some people choose consoles because they're easier so long as one is happy with vanilla versions of games from major labels.

When Windows auto-updates go horribly wrong, almost all users blame the h/w vendor, not Microsoft. So Lenovo uses this BIOS trick to protect their reputation. Why is this being depicted as malicious behaviour?

Do you work for Lenovo or are you just stoned?

This has nothing to do with protecting their reputation. This is a "We are installing really nasty spyware on your computer that you don't want and if you try and do a clean install we're going to install it again anyway".
http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

I will never buy a Lenovo product, nor recommend one to any of my clients.

If you have a PS4 you can live without Windows games too.

When any console supports KB/M for FPS, we can talk about not using a Windows system for gaming. Until that time, I'll be on my PC.

Any console? Guess you'll be giving money to "M$" when you get an Xbox One .
Now before you pick up that goalpost to start moving it, how about a PlayStation 4?

Nintendo instead announced less and released less, they even announced years ahead http://www.ign.com/blogs/bprec...

They also ignore the dedicated sound cards, video-decoders and other chips to offload the CPU's

If you buy a dedicated sound card these days, you're retarded. All you need is a motherboard, cpu, ram, and a modern GPU. That's it. Even the lowest end GPUs nowadays include a full suite of HDMI audio support (by full, I mean it can bitstream any format, as well as LPCM, which is best for games.) If you're a headphone kind of person, most of the good ones are USB driven.

HDMI audio, seriously? PC monitor speakers are a joke at best. the Realtek ALC887 chipset on most of these motherboards doesn't have the power to drive even a decent set of speakers or headphones. USB headphones are popular because they sidestep the issue of under-powered on-board audio but few of them can even get close to the quality of a discreet sound card paired with a good set of headphones.

the standardized hardware and low level API's allow for performance optimizations

You mean like these kinds of "optimizations"?

http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-...

That's NOT a good thing.

I said it was possible, it is still very much up to the skills and resources available to the developers to implement them, besides resolution is not the HOLY GRAIL of visual performance.

They also ignore the dedicated sound cards, video-decoders and other chips to offload the CPU's

If you buy a dedicated sound card these days, you're retarded. All you need is a motherboard, cpu, ram, and a modern GPU. That's it. Even the lowest end GPUs nowadays include a full suite of HDMI audio support (by full, I mean it can bitstream any format, as well as LPCM, which is best for games.) If you're a headphone kind of person, most of the good ones are USB driven.

the standardized hardware and low level API's allow for performance optimizations

You mean like these kinds of "optimizations"?

http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-...

That's NOT a good thing.

AR-15s are discriminate. They only shoot where you point it (it's illegal to set one up to shoot automatically, without your finger on the trigger). They won't blow up the kid next door when he's stealing the pie from your window. You have to do it. Claymores are indiscriminate. You set them, then leave.

Miniguns are too expensive for the typical person to own/shoot and they are poor home defense weapons because when you're slinging 2,000 rounds at a bad guy, you're likely to miss him with 1,900 rounds, which are likely headed through your walls and towards the neighbor's house.

You'll change your tune when Mecha-Hitler steals a pie from your window.

PIE, Allied schweinhund!

There is offline single player. I am a bit miffed on the space battles thing. However, the space-based combat in BF2 was hardly the end-all-be-all of Star Wars dogfighting. X Vs Tie or Rogue Squadron it was not. As for the Prequel era stuff, They more or less said it will be DLC While I hate EA's DLC practices and it is pretty shitty they can't include them what is a $70 game, if they can bring back Gungan genocide mode, playable Palpatine, and the Naboo and Mustafar maps, I might consider buying them.

Either way, Battlefront 2 is still on steam and still works very well on Windows 7 (and Wine for the Mac / linux gamers) in 1920x1080.

Halo was going to be a Windows and Mac release: http://www.ign.com/articles/19...

Of course it would have been a different game anyway...