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Possibly, if I buy a pad. But not for a PC. I'm planning on buying Windows 7 for my next desktop.

A return to the Cold War for me please. I'd quite enjoy a good Star Wars game however. A new Battlefront or the like of.

Not really all that intrested in the hot air alone. I was just after the science mate, you know, the results of the study you were referring to. I think it's for the best that I take your long winded failure to know of any, as reinforcing evidence of it's imaginary nature.

Awesome game this one. A couple of things missing I'd like to see. One is triple screen/Eyefinity support. it's screwy. Disappearing stuff, I can't see what I am doing or where I am driving. Mountains/scenary/objects/buildings disappear and re-appear constantly and unplayably. Because of this I've been playing the game on a friends computer instead of any of my own. But it's not ideal living in his house. The other one I most missed wa sa programmable mouse button. Everytime I try and zoom in, in the heat of combat I instinctively right click as every other PC game with a zoom has conditioned my reflexs to do, and... the command map comes up. Frustrating. Long term I'd like to see some sort of a Co-opable game mode. This is a game I hope some of my friends will want to play with me.

They conducted a 90 year study! Wow. I didn't realise Monsanto had been around for that long. So what were the results please. What happened to the people who had eaten GM for their whole lives vs those who had eaten none?

Also age. Your first cancer doesn't kill you anymore. Oldies are riddled with cancers. My dad is onto his third. 20 years ago he wouldn't have survived the first.

I'm surprised to hear that Round Up can kill anything, it certainly doesn't kill my weeds. The days wyhen we could buy weed killer that actually killed anything are gone. This moronic politcal obsession with organic and GM has destroyed my ability to maintain my gardens. If I ever meet someone from the EU I will beat the living crap out of them. There are few things sadder to see in life than city idiot enviromentalists. Stick to what you know.

Get an IR laser illuminator mate. That will boost your range immensly.

As I understand it, they found paying work. So they did that instead. Sounds like they are between jobs again.

SC2 was an improved interface over SC1 but it had lost it's USP of scale and unit numbers. (Consolised). I'm not typically impressed by anything Kickstarter. There are a butt load of investors out there, obviously viable projects have no need of this sort of tool. I associate Kickstarter with aspiring mod teams or failed companies. Which is a shame as I could use a new RTS and these chaps know how to make them.

It's not useless and pointless. it's greedy and money grabbing. There are many games that I would pay for to play on my LAN. But I would not pay for them twice to play on my LAN. In the old days a company that was worried about piracy, say Red Storm/Ubisoft or Blizzard would restrict their games with a DRM so that you still needed a disc on the network/server to play. One disc between as many computers you own was all you needed. In this way they could DRM their games against Piracy whilst still allowing legitemate purchasers to use their games (uncracked) for their own purposes. But modern greedy games companies want a disc in every drive to play. And modern DRMs provide greedy companies with the means to do this. So a cheap game that plays co-op on my LAN would be worth my buying, but a cheap game that requires me to buy another 1-5 copies to play on co-op on my LAN is not a cheap game at all. It's prohibitively expensive. The death of LAN gaming. So pretty much any game that requires Steam is a rip off game. Not because Steam forces them to operate in this way, but because that is the rip off model Steam considers to be fair and normal for it's DRM. Because even if I crack a Steam game, I still can't play a LAN game with it, even if it is advertised as such I can't. And with LAN gaming as my primary intrest.... there is no more intrest. I simply have no reason to buy or even pirate such games. The harsh reality of life is this. My business isn't wanted any longer. I used to be the type of gamer companies wished to sell products too, and now I am not. Now I'm the spreadsheet error. The kind of gamer who if ignored, more sales can be made elsewhere. Either to those who will pay for multiple copies of the same game, or to would be pirates for whom a sucessful DRM is the reason they bought the game. So the more and more successful online gaming DRM's/distributors have become, the less and less intresting video gaming has become. To the point now where it is barely intresting to me at all. Where I am more likely to surf the net or watch a movie than I am to launch a game.

It's a future that is welcome to leave me behind. There are certian games that lend themselves well to online distribution. Those games that offer a service that cannot be provided by the player domestically. A Planetside or a World of Warcraft server for example. But if all your game is, is a copy of a console game, which needs a disc to run.... then a disc is the best format for it. Or if all the hardware resources it requires are resources I already own for myself... Mail order discs are fine with me. I have no desire to physically visit a shopping centre. (Although if I am in a shopping centre I do sometimes look out for an impulse buy). If I have to adopt Steam or buy a console to play that kind of game, if those are my only choices, then I am going to either buy a console or stop playing those types of game. As I get older the heady desire to "must have" the very latest PC title everytime is not what it was. Most games out there are not must buy titles for me but instead mediocre ums and arrs buys. They always have been in truth, but these days it seems even more so. If any of these games are Steam dependant, I typically don't buy it. Why would I? Experience already tells me that I don't use any of my existing Steam games because of Steam. So for my money Steam and Origin are the death of PC gaming. The point where it stopped being fun and started to become a hassle. Ultimately, the games just aren't that good and operating them that way makes them a worse experience than they could be.

With any luck this zombie stuff will get a melee option into ArmA. Gief bayonet.

Everyone in his right mind should be arguing against scientific research of that nature. Hands up who thinks that's a smart thing for them to be researching? So either that research is going to be a total waste of money, or it's not. Either way the researchers and the persons who commisioned the research need to be punished.

LMAO Linux plus Steam! Together. Could computers actually become any less user friendly? It's hard to imagine how.

They are going to place a microchip in my face to monitor if I am smiling.

LMAO @ Valve. It's not going to get them the hacker purchase though, now is it? Sour grapes. MS is doing a Mac Shop on it's handhelds. Who cares? From a consumer point of view, Mac Shop, MS shop or STEAM, it all equals the same suck.

This. My goal is not to convince other people I own my games. The goal of the a game seller is to convince me that if I buy it I will own it and be able to use it in anyway I please. I much prefer console gaming to the Steam service. I just can't think of agame I'm mad enough about playing to put it with it for.

This, when the guns start aiming at you, everything goes slo mo like in Max Payne or FEAR or a car crash.

No one cares what's on Valves EULA. Since it has no legal basis whatsoever, it's irrelevant. Any lisence I have with Valve is in the minds of Valve employee's alone. The key problem with Steam here is when it goes wrong. When you try and sell your game on/give it away, or get a refund on a dysfuctional purchase. Not all credit card companies will deal directly with Steam. They have a very bad reputation in this department. @Bloodtank, you have entered the realms of complete nonsense when you start crapping on about your registry entries not being removed. Delete your Steam folder. And the games are uninstalled. No one cares about your registry entries, not even you. You are just being angry. Better still, swallow a chill pill and continue to use Steam for the games you own. In future, factor their behaviour into the decision to buy further games from them or the price you will be willing to pay for those games if you do. Just because people at Steam are a bunch of selfsih dicks trying to rip everybody off, doesn't mean you have to shoot yourself in the foot to show the world how much you dislike them. I usually give my old unwanted games away when I am done with them. I can't access half of Steam games anyway because I have long since lost the passwords/accountnames etc. So for Steam games I typically create a new steam account with every purchase since I can never remember the previous ones, making giving them away no problem other than the people I give them away to also lose the accountnames and passwords etc. and so never play them either. Any purchase with Steam on the packaging was always going to be a massive waste of my money anyway. Too much anger involved. Bargain bin material only. Of course they can't change the contract of sale after the point of purchase mate. In order to be legal it has to be mutually agreed by both parties in advance of any financial transaction. Otherwise my garage could ring me up and say they had changed their prices for the repairs they made to my car 5 years ago and that I now owe them more money for that job or that they have reduced the length of my warranty from 5 years to 3 years etc. No contract may legally be re-written after the point of agreement. That would utterly defeat the purpose of having a contract in the first place. That Steam uses duress to make you "sign" a new contract, ie you can't play your games unless you do, also invalidates it, and as indeed this would any contract, in law. It's the same in the US. The recent EU decision to formerly recognise the first sale doctrine with regards to EULA agreements is one that the US has had for many years. Usually our digital rights laws here in the EU are word for word rewrites of US laws. The key to this one is that we are discussing products of too low a value to be worth the price of a lawyer. You really need to rely on other methods of consumer protection. Ombudsmen and credit card insurance etc. Purchasing from a reputable shop is my strongest advice. Someone you already trust to refund you without fuss if necessary. The correct principle is to ignore EULA's entirely since they are not legally binding and their core purpose for being is to scare/con little children from reasonably acting on their consumer rights in the event of any dispute.

Emagin make alpha wave scanners for your head too I think. Mind control sets. My current Vuzvix VR glasses are 640x 480. (Not widescreen). This is ultimately too low res. Having two screens makes for good 3D in games or movies. Mine has some magentic head tracking device. Which is nothing like as accurate as track IR, but on the otherhand is nothing like as restrictive either. I use this set almost exclusively for turret gunning in IL2 sturmovik. So when I look around, I swivel my whole chair around as opposed to track IR where I have to keep my head in the same rigid spot the whole time. There was a nice article on Eurogamer about Doom 3 having been completely rewritten for VR glasses. The Doom guy said he had a lot of support from Sony and Nintendo etc. I think it's always in the ideas room each time they make a new gen of console. No headphones sounds lame to me. An extra set of wires and fiddling around. Driver compatability is an issue. Games are made for Nvidia and not for VR sets. The company supports as many as it wants to, but ultuimately if it's a small company that will not be very many. My VR set is has ultimately remained a one game intsrument. Not that i ever use it anymore. Or indeed much beyond the first couple of times. I spent £229 on my VR headset about 5-10 years ago. This stuff will only ever get cheap if it gets mass market release and that means.. consoles.

I'll have a £50 job with Android on it myself. So I can play Angry Birds etc.

Drive it yourself. Tank commander is an exercise in frustration only.

The convoy AI had a massive upgrade in ArmA 1. A noticeable improvement. It wasn't so good in OpF. In ArmA 1 the convoy AI was markedly superior to that found in any other game in my opinion. AI man should be patting himself on the back for that one.

£10 is my usual limit for a Steam required game. I usually still spend some time feeling aggravated by it even at £10. Long story short, if it needs Steam, I invariably don't launch it more than once or twice. So it's got to be a cheap buy.