If you're talking about price, the GPU is enough.
Everyone needs a PC for work, the only thing you need to turn that into a PC for play is the GPU.
Infinity Ward went south with Modern Warfare 2, it's a shame that critics have only just caught up.
Despite Edge's generally harsh scoring, they had continued on 9/10s for Modern Warfare.
It's Treyarch who are the premier COD studio now, and the have been since the first Black Ops, time to recognise that now.
It looks quite good, and I could see it sitting under a TV.
But these pictures are of an extremely limited set of test devices, I'm wary that the third party models won't look anywhere near as polished.
Read the article.
The buttons are one the back, and the trackpads allow for digital touch controls too.
If you're unhappy with the launch lineup - don't buy at launch.
You know, like the vast majority of gamers.
Bit of a misleading image, EA's games haven't been appearing on Steam for a while now while they keep on pushing Origin.
EA's new CEO was previously the head of Origin, so they'll probably ignore Steam going forward.
It's annoying, because I have games split across the services. I have Mass Effect 1 & 2, and Crysis 1 & 2 on Steam. Yet the third games in both those series are Origin only.
I don't mind multiple...
Is it £60 just to milk the early adopters? Is it to force users onto cheaper digital distribution options?
I can't see this being a viable long term pricing strategy.
What really annoys me is how game companies never know when to end things - everything has to be a franchise and universes get bloated, contradictory and irrelevant.
Gears of War has run its course. Halo has run its course too, but they're ploughing on regardless.
A console launch is a big deal, and Sony is carefully stage managing it.
If you don't trust that the handpicked publications invited to the special review event are impartial, wait a few weeks for wider opinions to form.
Onlive is fantastic for demos. It's usually instant access to 30 minutes of gameplay with no need for any download. It's very effective for games that don't require precision, such as Civilization, but twitch games prove frustrating due to the latency.
Their problem is that while I may demo the game on onlive, I then buy it from Steam. I wish them luck though, I think streaming can be a real winner, but it's difficult to trust your games with a company that...
Pfft. Endless runner, as if we need more of those.
I clicked on it thinking they'd ported the original to mobile.
The PS Vita is getting really interesting now with their indies. But Sony completely messed up their marketing.
They went all on technical specifications, which most people don't care about - and there was no way the console style lifecycle could compete longterm on specs vs the mobile industry.
I really wish Sony would put out another Xperia Play, and then keep updating that every year. The Xperia Play went with touchpads over thumbsticks, maybe the fi...
I have no idea why console gamers have embraced pay-for-online.
Even all the Sony fans complaining about it originally have done a 180.
If you want to play a similar experience, but not deal with David Cage's writing, try Telltale games.
They really should work together. Get Quantic to provide the technology and motion capture, heck get Cage to direct - just keep him well away from the writing.
The amount of certainty you place on Microsoft's cross platform plans is weird.
Microsoft are putting Office on iPad. Smartglass is available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. They understand the monopoly is over, their new "devices and services" reorganisation recognises this.
I don't think that will be the case. He brings up Shadowrun, but they're ditching Games For Windows live.
Even if it is the case, it would bring Xbox cross platform up to parity with PlayStation cross platform.
Unless you're going to champion PS4-WiiU compatibility that is.
Final Fantasy XI was meh, worse than other MMOs and had a subscription fee.
It is the most profitable Final Fantasy of all time.
Some people will only play an MMO if it has chocobos in.
Xbox has been very hostile to cross platform previously. But that was partly because Xbox Live was the only online service you had to pay for.
If a game had cross platform multiplayer, gamers could choose rival platforms and still have access to the large Xbox Live playerbase, killing their sales.
Now that Sony (and their fervent supporters) have decided that pay-for-online is awesome, there's more parity across the platforms and Microsoft may be open to...
This project has been a complete joke.
Had they released this as Early Access, it would have allowed the team to carry on with bugfixing while fostering a community.
By claiming that the game is "done", when it clearly isn't, it gets sent out to all the review outlets, gets completely panned, and has no chance of building a community at all.
What PR bullshit.
This has sold less than GTA V and Black Ops 2 did. But we'll throw out a big number to confuse you into thinking it did better.
Having $1B of inventory sitting on shop shelves is not impressive.