Hmm, I find the wording and timing interesting. As the article points out, the same guy a few days ago said it wouldn't be remote-play capable, but now he says it will. "As long as PS4 supports it..." I wonder if Sony got intervened to make this happen, because it sounds like they either didn't want to do it on Vita or didn't know how remote play was going to work and now find its built in.
Not sure, but glad either way. Diablo 3 seemed like a great ...
Personally, I thought they even outdid Rocksteady in a few areas. The story and boss battles are superb (so far anyway, only about halfway through).
I already checked with customer service. Unless I got an inexperienced tech, they said it only applied to certain games, and those games were the ones listed in the link off of the email. Basically it only applies to the AAA launch PS4 games, minus Assassin's Creed IV; I think that last omission is just Amazon spiting them for creating this situation in the first place, lol.
Amusingly, I think Amazon is kind of using this to get back at Ubisoft for making them deal with this. Assassin's Creed IV isn't eligible for the credit; I checked with customer service even. I was planning on picking ACIV as my alternative to Watch Dogs, but thanks to this, probably not, lol.
It's for launch games, as a sort of apology to those that had intended for Watch Dogs to be their first big PS4 game. Infamous isn't launching until next summer, so it doesn't really fit in the same category.
Good question. I think this is meant to be installed on a living room PC, something you hook up to the TV and control with a controller rather than mouse and keyboard. Some people build these themselves, but since Valve mentioned licensing in this announcement, they might be announcing official "SteamBoxes" later this week from select manufacturers. You'll still need a gaming PC with Windows to run/stream most games for the time being, though that might change in the future. ...
I'm pretty sure this OS isn't meant for desktop use. They're designing it with TV in mind and streaming capabilities, so I think the plan is to hook a PC up to the TV, install SteamOS on that, and then stream from desktop or play Linux games on the TV. Basically this is an OS for anyone who wants to make their own SteamBox, not a replacement desktop solution.
@thisisjuju
"You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!"
Its under the streaming bullet point in the article. PC games are still built with an operating system in mind, that's why they needed to be ported to work on Linux. SteamOS should run anything t...
Lol, thematically appropriate.
As to the EA quote, this is the thing that irks me the most about them. They have some of the most talented and technically advanced developers under their umbrella, and they can't stop chasing someone else's success. It's this mentality that there is only so much cake in the world, and the only way to get any is to steal it from someone else. "Call of Duty is the top shooter, Battlefield will succeed if it outsells that!&quo...
How is their response to it messed up? "We made a joke, we don't find it offensive but you do, and we find that silly on your part." Its tongue in cheek, sure, but all they did was minimize the controversy surrounding their comic, not the issue of rape itself.
Furthermore, how has anything they've ever posted portrayed rape in a positive light? Taking the joke as literally as possible, the defenseless NPC is getting raped each night, and that makes the pl...
Hehe, thanks for that.
Glad I'm not the only one who loved that game!
Microsoft hasn't announced any kind of subsidization deals. Maybe one day, but I don't think they'd have held that back at E3 when they announced the price if it was going to be something available by launch. It would create a fiasco of cancelled preorders, tension with retailers, and more confusion if they announced it anytime between now and November.
As it stands, Microsoft's message is "You can buy the device for $500, pay $60 per year for Gold, and...
Nintendo cancelled their E3 keynote though. There'll be a Nintendo Direct around that time probably, but they're not taking the stage at E3.
@grailly, I honestly can't speak to TOR outside of what others who are fans of the genre have told me, that it was a retread in terms of gameplay and poorly handled in shifting to FTP. Story sounded good, I personally can't stand MMO's so didn't get more than a few hours in.
@jolly, perhaps, but I think that has more to do with that title's visibility really. They marketed and hyped it for months, it has a stronger console presence than Dragon Age ever d...
So we're just pretending that whole Dragon Age 2 and Old Republic thing never happened, right? This is ALL about the ending, huh?
This is kind of an unfair review. I don't think Cities in Motion ever tried to sell itself as a SimCity alternative, but the reviewer is docking it points for not letting you build an entire city like SimCity. I understand not liking a game for its premise, disliking its gameplay, or running into bugs, but there's no reason to start the review by insulting it with a crack at how its worse than a different type of game.
"SimCity is basically a crap version of Ci...
Regardless of console preference, the issues being discussed regarding always-online do and will affect all gamers. If Microsoft goes forward with this, Sony and Nintendo could easily follow suit, regardless of whether its good for consumers or not. Its in all gamers' interest to make opinions known about this, regardless of what camp you stand in. We're all consumers, and we should be talking about this issue as consumers rather than as fanboys.
Console manufacturers have come and gone before though. Once upon a time, I'll bet people thought Atari and Sega were smart enough to stay in the game, but they each banked on losing horses in the console races and were sunk. Big companies make mistakes all the time, and some of those mistakes are severe enough as to ruin them. I'm not saying an always-online Xbox is just such a mistake, but I wouldn't assume they've thought of every contingency either. It'll probably ...
To be fair, this is one case where the developer specifically said they WEREN'T doing remote play. The article links to it, but Berger basically said three days ago they weren't doing it, at least not any time soon. This is a complete about face from the looks of it on Blizzard's part.