RAM memory!
ATM machine!
VIN number!
...couldn't resist.
Back on topic, the difficulties on the PS3 are numerous. Programming with parallel processing in mind is very different than the sort of programming that's been used for the last... three decades. So the Cell itself provides new challenges (with benefits, of course, but at the cost of learning something very new after a career of working a different way).
Memory is a bit of a problem, s...
Really? Must have missed it, thanks.
As a side note, does it bother anyone else that the bugs can attack your freakin' towers in this TD game when they can simply go around them? I don't think I've ever played a TD game where the creeps go straight for your towers, and it bugs the crap out of me.
It's a really good tower defense game that allows for some fun strategery. The CCTV sections at the beginning of each level bother me (it was cool during the tutorial, but after I figured out what was going on, it became a redundant cutscene with no way to skip).
Awesome game for $10.
If it's anything like Warhawk launching (and I can safely assume it is), quitting the game brings you back to Home, right where you left. I'm not quite sure if you avatar stays in Home while you play (letting people join up through Home while you're in-game).
As for pushing game launching, Killzone 2 will have Home launching (or am I wrong? I thought I read that somewhere...) and since SF4 is getting a patch to include it, perhaps R2 will get it, too. I can dream, at least.
You can plug in a two-button mouse and use the right click. Wrong answer.
The correct answer? A tie between price and software -- Windows is still the primary development platform for business software, as well as games. Apple's starting to shove their way in, but until OSX is more widely supported, people would rather have a Windows machine than a OSX/Windows machine.
If this were a real advertisement, someone would have lost their job over that line. The rest were passable, but after reading that, I assumed it was fake.
I've gotten a few games together in Home... you have to advertise a bit, which is a pain, but some of the most fun games I've played recently have been through Home. Coincidence? Yes, but launching games from Home really is a good way to get a game started without having to wait for it to fill up with randoms.
I wish more people would also get games started in Home... I seem to be the only one doing it.
I appreciate the history lesson, but it doesn't add up.
No part of R:FoM took place in Iceland, so talking about his near death there could only have taken place after he joined up with the Sentinels (it's a little vague, true, but I suspect he's referring to Hale's transformation after killing Daedalus at Holar).
Also, level 7 inhibitors are likely to be the highest level they have successfully tested (the intel mentions Zeta inhibitors, probably experimental). The ...
There's also one of the co-op intel reports that states how Hale was being treated, *after nearly dying* in Iceland, by Malikov using some inhibitor that was designed to reverse his transformation.
It's possible he'll be the protagonist minus the super powers because Malikov was successful with the treatments.
PS3 hitting profitability by around March '10? A little later than they'd like, I'm sure, but since the gaming division is still posting profits, I suppose they could be "on target."
As for those Home numbers, that seems really... low, even considering that a good portion of PS3 users don't go online with the machine. Once some of these developer spaces launch, they need to start publicizing it a bit more to get some further interest.
That and ADD A FREAKI...
At least you *can* miss it. I can't miss something I've never experienced...
Same. Dropped IE years ago, but as soon as I installed Chrome, I haven't looked back. I miss some of the awesome add-ons Firefox has, but I prefer the look and feel. And the speed. And the tabs. And the built-in Gears support, native Javascript console... yeah, it's a good browser.
As a web developer, I REALLY hope IE's gradual loss of support kickstarts Microsoft into following some of the W3C standards a bit better. I'm sick of having to hack my sites to display properly for IE...
Hey now, I didn't say *I* was a bad troop. I'm a badass troop :P There's a reason I always play Support in Bad Company, so I can jump up and C4 your vehicled arse.
That's always been my favorite part of games like Warhawk and Battlefield, the layer effect that appears when you have players on the ground as troops, in ground vehicles, and in air vehicles. It allows players to specialize in something they're good at (face it, some of us just aren't that great at being ground troops) without forcing anything.
In CoD4, you were forced into being a good ground trooper; your only options were your weapon loadout. I was hoping that Treyarch would ...
It's hard to tell who's driving the interest: 360 owners who are excited at the prospect of a Blu-ray add-on, PS3 owners who are excited to see the 360 come over to their side, or independent gamers who just like poking at bee hives.
It's a side-effect of every PS3 having a hard-drive, and should MS jump on the bandwagon next generation, there's no doubt in my mind that you'll see it there, too. That is, unless they mandate against it.
I'm definitely regretting my purchase of the 20gig model... gonna have to get a new HD soon, and it's gonna be a very large one.
He did say he wanted to try something very different from MGS, so moving to first-person seems like a believable change.
Maybe he'll figure out how to keep cutscenes in-game and interactive... sure, that's a very Western way of handling storytelling, but he's got the plot chops to pull off the storytelling so it's time he presents it in a more digestible manner.
... and I thought my rollercoaster was crazy.
It does sound like the one persistent 'file' as we would recognize it would be the memory mirror copied to the hard-drive by the OS. Might sound like a daunting thing to work with, but the developer would never deal with that. It would get read during the boot sequence, but that would simply copy it back into your system's memory for use.
I think the real problem is the memory footprint of this OS, from the sound of it. The OS itself might not be all that big, but if everything i...