Games have never been strong on story and no so many companies rely on sequels. An ending would just be a waste of time because it can't ever be a true ending when the publisher has 5 sequels in the works already.
Gaming certainly hasn't evolved much in the past decade and in fact I'd almost say this generation was a step backwards.
Gaming is coming out of the hands of the Japanese and into the hands of westerners and it's becoming shit again. I do hope we see a repeat of Atari's history.
I've been a long time free dyndns user and I've upgraded to the paid version this year. It's not that much, imo and there free service was virtually flawless as far as I was concerned. Maybe I'm just lucky but I like them.
Clearly you're not a parent and don't understand. That's what they always say but if you don't understand kids before having kids should you really be trying to have kids when you're so clueless about kids?
The movie is no where near being old enough to have a reboot. The whole reboot idea for movies is a bit shit anyway in that all it's about is recycling old material while ignoring its fundamental concepts.
So that said unless Spiderman is going to shoot webbing out of his penis and swing around like that while taking up a life of sexual deviance, I don't want to hear about it.
Having to wait to save up cereal labels and then wait a month or two for an action figure in the mail was a complete pain in the ass. Where as now you can often sign up for something instantly and have your freebie in a fraction of the time.
I think the only reason my limited edition action figures are still sealed is because I couldn't be fucked to play with them when they came what felt like a year later.
I know enough about statistics to know statistically I know I'm safe from his threats. I suspect if I were a bag of Cheetos the odds were be against me but that's not the case.
You can vote with your wallet but when they're technically breaking a larger company's terms then you know full well who the courts will side with and they're you're left either with a normal PC with Linux/Windows or putting OSX on yourself.
While I agree with what they were doing I don't care enough about OSX to go through that.
I like what Psystar was doing but it was always a bad idea to buy from them.
Apple is pretty controlling, in my opinion, there's no way you can believe that they would have let Psystar do anything with Apple's software that they don't like.
Consider it a lesson learned and search for hackintosh and learn how to sort out Mac OS on the PC yourself or take the loss and buy a proper Mac or put Linux/Windows on the machine you have.
Yeah because I'm sure all those people with 200+ friends are really friends with 200+ people.
I'm sure I could sign up to MySpace and add 500 people as friends and get at least 100 of them to accept. That doesn't mean I actually have 100 friends.
To be fair people shared all sorts of aspects of their life. The only difference now is places like Facebook (not myspace) add some visually appealing consistency rather than people going nuts on some Tripod/GeoCities WYSIWYG editor to create something awful.
Those products are only a by-product of the attention seekers. If we could put an end to this idea that you can be famous just for being famous (big thanks to reality TV for that) then perhaps we'd have less people doing anything for attention.
Don't get me wrong. I do think anyone should be able to voice their opinion and post what they want rather than everything being filtered through corporations but I think people would be more reasonable if there wasn't a slight chance (and really it is only a slight chance) of fame for doing something retarded.
Mainly because I'm still using shared hosting so I'm stuck with what they have but I've found this host http://rimuhosting.com/ which I think I'll be going with in about 6 months. Then I'll use what I want.
That may be true but it's well known that a lot of companies operated in the EU through Ireland because Ireland has low tax rates. Of course this is probably why the recession hurt Ireland quite a bit.
MPC: So, you said Rage is a 60Hz game. Is it an OpenGL or DirectX game?
JC: It’s still OpenGL, although we obviously use a D3D-ish API [on the Xbox 360], and CG on the PS3. It’s interesting how little of the technology cares what API you’re using and what generation of the technology you’re on. You’ve got a small handful of files that care about what API they’re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that they’re on.
Sounds like it's not that much of an issue. As I recall the reason for using OGL 2 rather than 3 is card support not how much work it would make for him.
True DirectX offers a whole suite of tools but I suspect it's not best to use it for everything. Otherwise one of the biggest engines (Unreal) wouldn't be using OpenAL instead.
It's also dishonest for the various people posting to claim that games are primarily done in D3D. That is true for a lot of PC games and all 360 games but no one uses D3D for Playstation. So any major engine has to support both as you will find one of the most popular (if not most popular at the moment) engine does indeed still support OpenGL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_engine
Granted, at the moment most non-mobile games are on Windows and the 360. If the 360 loses popularity then OpenGL would probably make a comeback for making things easier to port from the PS to the PC.
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Games have never been strong on story and no so many companies rely on sequels. An ending would just be a waste of time because it can't ever be a true ending when the publisher has 5 sequels in the works already.
Gaming certainly hasn't evolved much in the past decade and in fact I'd almost say this generation was a step backwards.
Gaming is coming out of the hands of the Japanese and into the hands of westerners and it's becoming shit again. I do hope we see a repeat of Atari's history.
No one does that. It's easier to bitch after the fact.
I've been a long time free dyndns user and I've upgraded to the paid version this year. It's not that much, imo and there free service was virtually flawless as far as I was concerned. Maybe I'm just lucky but I like them.
We've seen an increase in children being over mothered and even the government becoming more of a nanny state while women have gained more power.
Coincidence? I think not.
He should consider himself lucky. McDonalds doesn't even put real saw dust in their saw dust McNuggets.
Clearly you're not a parent and don't understand. That's what they always say but if you don't understand kids before having kids should you really be trying to have kids when you're so clueless about kids?
The movie is no where near being old enough to have a reboot. The whole reboot idea for movies is a bit shit anyway in that all it's about is recycling old material while ignoring its fundamental concepts.
So that said unless Spiderman is going to shoot webbing out of his penis and swing around like that while taking up a life of sexual deviance, I don't want to hear about it.
The same applies to Android development. It's cheaper but you still have to pay to get your app on the market.
Having to wait to save up cereal labels and then wait a month or two for an action figure in the mail was a complete pain in the ass. Where as now you can often sign up for something instantly and have your freebie in a fraction of the time.
I think the only reason my limited edition action figures are still sealed is because I couldn't be fucked to play with them when they came what felt like a year later.
That's why I prefer contact via my mobile. I can ignore calls and then have a list of people to call back as and when I feel like it.
Excellent site. Thanks for creating it.
I know enough about statistics to know statistically I know I'm safe from his threats. I suspect if I were a bag of Cheetos the odds were be against me but that's not the case.
You can vote with your wallet but when they're technically breaking a larger company's terms then you know full well who the courts will side with and they're you're left either with a normal PC with Linux/Windows or putting OSX on yourself.
While I agree with what they were doing I don't care enough about OSX to go through that.
I like what Psystar was doing but it was always a bad idea to buy from them.
Apple is pretty controlling, in my opinion, there's no way you can believe that they would have let Psystar do anything with Apple's software that they don't like.
Consider it a lesson learned and search for hackintosh and learn how to sort out Mac OS on the PC yourself or take the loss and buy a proper Mac or put Linux/Windows on the machine you have.
There's USB and in the EU manufacturers have agreed to a universal charger: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jun/30/universal-mobile-phone-charger
We need to add the mod option "creepy".
Yeah because I'm sure all those people with 200+ friends are really friends with 200+ people.
I'm sure I could sign up to MySpace and add 500 people as friends and get at least 100 of them to accept. That doesn't mean I actually have 100 friends.
To be fair people shared all sorts of aspects of their life. The only difference now is places like Facebook (not myspace) add some visually appealing consistency rather than people going nuts on some Tripod/GeoCities WYSIWYG editor to create something awful.
Those products are only a by-product of the attention seekers. If we could put an end to this idea that you can be famous just for being famous (big thanks to reality TV for that) then perhaps we'd have less people doing anything for attention.
Don't get me wrong. I do think anyone should be able to voice their opinion and post what they want rather than everything being filtered through corporations but I think people would be more reasonable if there wasn't a slight chance (and really it is only a slight chance) of fame for doing something retarded.
Mainly because I'm still using shared hosting so I'm stuck with what they have but I've found this host http://rimuhosting.com/ which I think I'll be going with in about 6 months. Then I'll use what I want.
Good luck with stabbing a politican to get blood to put into a cup and having no one realise what happened when the blood shows up at a crime scene.
This guy speaks the truth. Please, no more stories about the cry baby.
I agree, In my opinion the guy is a jackass. I'm half tempted to quit using MySQL myself purely because it originated from him.
That may be true but it's well known that a lot of companies operated in the EU through Ireland because Ireland has low tax rates. Of course this is probably why the recession hurt Ireland quite a bit.
MPC: So, you said Rage is a 60Hz game. Is it an OpenGL or DirectX game?
JC: It’s still OpenGL, although we obviously use a D3D-ish API [on the Xbox 360], and CG on the PS3. It’s interesting how little of the technology cares what API you’re using and what generation of the technology you’re on. You’ve got a small handful of files that care about what API they’re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that they’re on.
Sounds like it's not that much of an issue. As I recall the reason for using OGL 2 rather than 3 is card support not how much work it would make for him.
True DirectX offers a whole suite of tools but I suspect it's not best to use it for everything. Otherwise one of the biggest engines (Unreal) wouldn't be using OpenAL instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL
It's also dishonest for the various people posting to claim that games are primarily done in D3D. That is true for a lot of PC games and all 360 games but no one uses D3D for Playstation. So any major engine has to support both as you will find one of the most popular (if not most popular at the moment) engine does indeed still support OpenGL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_engine
Granted, at the moment most non-mobile games are on Windows and the 360. If the 360 loses popularity then OpenGL would probably make a comeback for making things easier to port from the PS to the PC.