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  Linx? : deathofrats
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    http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/gdctv/ quick registration required. The first 1-10 minutes are dull but it rea... : Visceral Monkey
    • bugmenot takes care of the reg. : sharpie
    • Just give BS info. sdf, sldkfj, lisdjf@sdlkfj.com etc etc : Sgt_Boomstick
    • i'm interested from the get go. thanks for link : lacker
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      no sound for me. :( : lonestar3
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        me neither.. sigh : itsjames
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          it put mute on.. i hate flash players >:( : itsjames
          • otherwise my sound works. hmm.. whatever.. : lonestar3
• hrmm, where's the video at? : tsuba
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  Spore for Xbox 360 PS3 for the win! : Postal
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    games belong on PCs damnit : lord cecil
    • iawtp : InfoBiter
  • You'll note how he was demoing it on a laptop!!! : Rice-Rocketeer
  • A game of that great of ambition would only be a waste on a console. : Sgt_Boomstick
• god, flash movie players need to die. can't fucking do full screen. : vassili_zaitsev
• My excitement for this game just went through the roof : shredder133
• will wright is going to be a very richer man. : draconic
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  Yeah, it definitely looks awesome. How far can you evolve? : wykd
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    once you evolve into a shacker you win : spaceninja
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      Because that's where the genes stop getting passed on, the game ends. : darweidu
      • heh.. : skitzo
      • fucking ZING!!!]b]i : {Venger}
• That was one of the best things I've ever seen. Will Wright is amazing. Thanks so much for the link! : Athlon7
• Any way to save it? : airrob
• Wow. Just watched that whole thing. We need more people like Will Wright in the game industry. It looks... : zuga
• The respect I have for the programmers and team behind that game is endless. Wow. Just.... wow. Must b... : rhekua
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  He just kept zooming farther and farther out, holy shit. I haven't been this excited for a game since HL... : forgottenzero
  • just got there. damn. : lacker
  • meh, I rather play another ww2 fps with some wooden crates : shack_konto
• exciting so far : lacker
• Holy balls, it was incredible seeing the animations that were created on the fly for the procedural model... : darweidu
• Holy fuckcrap, did you guys see the part where Wright nukes the planet from the orbit? And he says "there... : xphil
• procedural mating... lol, that was cute. : lightly inclined
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  I learned a few things from this video. 1. Will Wright is not only an excellent and entertaining speak... : Bean
  • IAWTP. His little aside about care bears and care bear land and their cousins and all that crap was awes... : forgottenzero
  • I agree with both those things. He's an awesome public speaker, and obviously a really clever, inventive ... : darweidu
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    Heh, when he sold Maxis he became a multi zillionaire. He can do what he wants, anyway. EA tried to can... : GeorgeB3DR
    • EA is a fucking dungheap, and I hate them SO much. : Rice-Rocketeer
    • Seriously? They tried to cancel the best selling PC game of all time? That really shows how much the (res... : SilverSnake
    • Well, even more power to him then. I find it amusing that they'd try to cancel one of his projects, consi... : Bean
    • He should have pitched it as Madden NFL: EXTREME STREET ULTRA NIGHT! version, hired three guys to make up... : SpaecKow
• "ris-...civ" : feek
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  Life. It seems so simple... : Morgin
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    I wonder what sort of system he plans to put in to let people keep track of which planets they have colon... : Morgin
    • I am not sure if I saw it, but I think it puts a square around all of your stuff. So you can see it all t... : ovrlrd
• Another thing: HAHAHA can you imagine an entire planet of those big headed people. Christ, I see m... : Morgin
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  2 things: 1st: the lame statement "oh man this game isn't gonna be popular in the bible belt" 2nd: ... : Chunks
  • >>> 1st: the lame statement "oh man this game isn't gonna be popular in the bible belt" I'm sure that ... : SpaecKow
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    Re: 2nd part That's basically what he said in the video. It would pull content from some source (like... : armaduck
    • Use the Shacker database to create a universe of Shacker creatures eating eachother. Where do I sign u... : SilverSnake
• That was amazing. He stops after the first clip and goes back to talking about whatever and I was like "w... : Geoffrois
• OH my fucking god this is amazing. Sold. : TastyWheat
• Is this game procedural? : dante2010

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• Next Muse album. I heard one or two of the new songs they're working on at the concert, and they sounded ... : sgtsanity
• Shpongle - Nothing Lasts i've been waiting for this cd since i heard the first two. awesome music. : esmokah
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  Dream Theater's Octavarium! June 7th can't come soon enough! : Vantage
  • Yes. Yes. Yes! I nearly forgot about this. : deadbydawn
• well it was audioslave.... : monikerdaven
• New deftones, called Saturday Night Wrist, produced by Bob Ezrin in the style of White Pony. Coming out i... : kbanks
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  My first one to come out. Was waiting for new SoD and MSI...but thats it as of this month. : captain lostalot
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    wish Ill Nino would put something new out, too : captain lostalot
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      Mmmm..... Ill Nino. : ]aratex[
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        First time I heard them was in the first shakey-cam UT2003 movie. Was like 2 years before I finally figu... : omnova
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          do you know where I can get that video? : captain lostalot
          • I still have it...I'll upload it sometime (would take aeons with my internet here). Remind me if I don't... : omnova
• something so indie and cool that not even i've heard of it : systatic
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  I dunno, is Tool releasing anything any time soon? : tsuba
  • ask haiku : khaosman
• Billy Corgan's TheFutureEmbrace in June : moe6
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  Guns and Roses :'( : stump
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    it'll never happen :'}b{ : jessipoo
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      Don't say such hurtful things. :( : stump
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        But it really won't. Seriously, DNF will come out first. : Zero|DPX
        • Now that's just crazy talk. : stump
• the next tv on the radio and/or wrens. whichever one comes out first. : arizona bay
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  new portishead.. can't think of anything else for now : itsjames
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    man, i forgot about that! is there a release date yet? : anthonybean
    • not to the best of my knowledge : itsjames
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  Richard Andersson - The Ultimate Andersson Collection. A bunch of his best songs, re-performed and mixed... : Zero|DPX
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    At Vance's Chained is pretty good, especially the title track. You should check out the new Starbreake... : Vantage
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      Oh, and Kiuas' The Spirit of Ukko. Think Children of Bodom instrumentals, but with At Vance's clean voca... : Vantage
      • Yeah, that album was also already in my queue as well. It's just taking me several months to get through... : Zero|DPX
    • I've had one listen through Starbreaker, and Circus Maximus is on my queue for after I get done with the ... : Zero|DPX
• New Ra album in late June. The single's up at www.raband.net : tostador
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  Tie between Coldplay's new album and Foo Fighter's double disc. : uncle slappy
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    wa wa DOUBLE DISC? that's a lot of foo! how exciting. : ermac
    • Half rock, half acoustic. : uncle slappy
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    When is the new Coldplay dropping? I need to mark my calendar. : Bean
    • Coldplay's new album comes out June 7th. I've heard about 3 other songs aside from the Speed of Sound and... : Jonny Be Good
• The new DEVILDRIVER album. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10127896 : [7]kami
• THE ACCUSED - OH MARTHA www.splatterrock.com to watch new video follow obvious links. : romulan
• I want a new massive attack album so badly. And with that I mean no soundtrack but a real studio album. : JohnnyDanger
• New Portishead, hopefully new Sneaker Pimps, maybe some new Placebo, and in a week or two, Shpongle 3! : Vincent Grayson
• Man on Fire - Habitat (with Adrian Belew from King Crimson on guitar and the violinist from Kansas) : Ra5putin

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  but all people are going to do on it is play games. : orgcaptainnemo
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    not me! I'll play DVD & Blu-Ray movies on it : Postal
    • Your Blu-Ray DVDs will more than likely be collecting dust by your Laserdiscs : phobium
• Soooo...it's a living room super computer that plays games. : omnova
• LOL, I post this and then a second later it shows up on the main page. Oh well. : eldersveld
• PS3. Serious Business. For Serious People. : PenicillinX57
• Remember how PS2s could be used as weapon guidance systems? PS3s ARE the weapon. : Lunatic Angelic
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  HAHAHAHA - With the original PlayStation, our intentions were to bring SGI-quality graphics into househol : Shadowdane
  • That's what I thought as well. : slacko
• The more I see Sony talk the more I hate them >:( why can't they JUST STOP BULLSHITTING PLEASE I re... : abrasion
• THIS IS NOT A TOY, KIDDIES : cygnus
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  why the fuck is it called a 'PLAY'station then? : drucifer
  • Sounds better than SGI-Graphics-Station. : orgcaptainnemo
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    That's because YOU get played into buying one, then regret it because it can't shoot lasers or rockets. : AlexXdude
    • While it may not be able to shoot rockets on its own, if you happen to have a rocket laying around somewh... : reign27
• So, they want it to be SkyNet@home? : reign27
• TRANSLATION: "This is very expensive. It will be this or your soul." : byorn
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  "When asked about the difference in concept between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, Kutaragi : slacko
  • A quantum vortex perhaps? Ready the phase energon shields. : pigvomit
  • More like a rip in the space time continuum of home entertainment!!! : AlexXdude
  • Sony is totally smoking crack. : armaduck
  • this is absolutely hilarious sounding : kelerian
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    its a homeopathic computer that operates on the vibrations of human emotion : GloriousCow
    • wasn't MS saying something about human energy and the xbox these companies are freaking out : Mansmells
  • Unexplainable Shit! - coming to a PS3 near you! : omnova
  • A virtual reality synthesizer or a terrifying rip into another dimension devoid of human logic or reason?... : sgtsanity
  • sony smokes rocks. : Nighthavvk
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    Hahaha! What. He must have meant it too. It's not like "phenomenons" just rolls of the tongue. You : Rampancy
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      Well, maybe the japanese "uhh" is stuff like "multi-reality phenomenon". : sgtsanity
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        So... sorry I'm such a nervous public speaker, heh, but I just tore a hole in the spacetime continuum.. w... : darweidu
        • rotary association + sales have doubled = I didn't proofread my post : darweidu
        • LOL just spit coke on my monitor. haha : Scotty22
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    "...it won't change the types of entertainment" Yeah, because restricting the type of operations your : itsjames
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      um, yeah, it does actually. it makes it feasible to do things in realtime that a general purpose proce... : Toraz Chryx
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        no. It can do things at speeds which general purpose processors can't manage, but that says nothing about... : itsjames
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          here's a hint, with relation to a gaming platform, it's realtime or it ain't happening. ergo the gener... : Toraz Chryx
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            Please, reread my post, since this had pretty much nothing to do with what I said : itsjames
            • actually, it did. you can change a type of entertainment whilst keeping it fundamentally 'a game' : Toraz Chryx
  • This guy is a fucking idiot - seriously. : abrasion
  • That is such a great quote. :) : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Sony seems a little frantic with the BS for a market leader : Mansmells
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    People who don't know shit about computers (90% of the consumer public) will buy into this spew either wa... : Kiriakos
    • Spew....of home entertainment!!! I kid, I kid, we'll see when actual in-game footage starts coming out... : AlexXdude
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    Yeah this is beggining to get on my nerves - I don't want MS leading the race at all but Sony are like ju... : abrasion
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      yeah, that'd be terrible, MS being the market leader with a great piece of video game hardware that appea... : FrayLo
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        healthy competition > clear winner : Toraz Chryx
        • Exactly - we agree for a change - Fraylo is clearly wearing the blinders. I don't care for all the "M$... : abrasion
• blah blah blah... Nintendo is more likely to get my money. ;p : Magus
• hope n. korea doesn't buy a bunch and use it do take over the world. : vassili_zaitsev
• VIDEO GAMES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS : sexninja!!!!
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  PLAY station? : NukeDukem
  • yeah, first thing that came to mind :D : d fluke
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  Ken Kutagari is a bitch. This is the same guy who said consumers were stupid because they complained abo... : arizona bay
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    Trip Hawkins 2.0 : das_runt
    • lol i love trip hawkins. i have this old game informer from like 1993 with trip hawkins talking about ho... : arizona bay
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    Yeah srsly - he's getting on my nerves and making Sony look like arrogant tools The PS2 might be a m... : abrasion
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      he's already been demoted once (he supposedly stepped down, but really stepping down is a courtesy in the... : moe6
      • Heh, no one fires those kind of people in the corporate world. You just get moved to increasingly irrelev... : SpiderMonkey
• Apart from gaming whats it going to influence? it's not going to replace my DVD or sound system (especial... : fen boi
• http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-05-23&res=l : yakz
• That's about the biggest pile of PR-crap i have ever seen in my life. : [7]kami
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  wait, i thought they made it cos some guy at nintendo wanted to make a cdrom addon for the SNES and ninte... : CoRDS
  • Concerning PS1, that is correct. : dewdman

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• no u : PenicillinX57
• .....waiting. : godhatingatheist
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  Rebutal before I read - maybe ill look like an ass but lets try 1) The acting is on par for the rest o... : rosewood
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    I agree with 4). : omnova
    • That is the only one I agree with. : TheTick
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    what the fuck is a han solo? : burning eye
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      http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/downloads/han_solo.jpg : rosewood
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        what the fuck is a Harrison Ford? : burning eye
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          It's what they made after the Model T. : sgtsanity
          • haha i laughed : moe6
  • My man has had his thread hijacked before he even had a chance. Get your "in reply" ready before you pos... : godhatingatheist
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    Yeah Yoda was the ultra supreme baddass in this movie. I think they made him too much of a badass, like a... : ventro
    • True, but his "retreat" made no sense. His big fight felt *very* unfinished, IMHO. And I still think ... : genom
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    rosewood, you're going to hate me now: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10125119 : godhatingatheist
    • LOL! Awesome review. : das_runt
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    ep4 was sloppy. dice in the millenium falcon? mark hamill calling leia "carrie" AND THEY KEPT THE SHOT? i... : mallrice
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      I can't help but laugh at the lightsabre "duel" at the end of Episode 4. More like two old men tryin to ... : omnova
      • I know, it's like jack lemmon and walter matthau got dressed up or something : mallrice
      • They didn't computer animated stunt doubles back then. And they were two old men (well, one old man and ... : RatBastard
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      where does he call her carrie? : AllYourBase
      • As he exits the X-Wing post the death star thing. He might say Carrie, he might not, either way, it is fa... : j33uk
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    haha i forgot that a parsec was a measure of length instead of time. : MurrayTheSkull
    • I thought the point in Han's story is that they went closer to something like a blackhole than was consid... : maddy
    • Not only is it a measure of length, but specifically a measure of length relative to the mean distance of... : s2jason
  • What a dumb movie. My review in case anyone is masochistic enough to read it: www.crispychickeninsight.... : Sexpansion Pack
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  The film still contained embarrasingly bad dialogue, but perhaps such language is expected in these films... : galvatron
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    The viceroys were funny as hell with their chinese/french accents. : godhatingatheist
    • Ha Ha....I liked the one from Episode I who had an East Indian accent - sheer class, that. : galvatron
  • ^^ Possible spoilers for those who care. : omnova
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    My biggest issue with these newer movies is that there's rarely a complete coherant scene. Shit goes bac... : omnova
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      I didn't have any problem relating to the characters, maybe I'm just more intelligent. lol : Scotty22
      • Doubtful. : omnova
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    doesn't it make sense that Vader would walk awkwardly after getting fitted with artificial limbs? I don't... : edgewise
    • That whole scene was cool to me. However it might have been even cooler if he had just very smoothly step... : Silent Wolf
    • I think it would have worked if they had really given the impression of him as a broken man. Rather than... : maddy
  • That Vader/Frankenstein thing had to be on purpose. It was almost exactly like the scene from the origin... : aethyr
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    I agree with the whole decision to embrace the Dark Side being too easy. You want a real tragedy? Have : Ajax
    • That's one of the multitude of ways the story would have been more impactful/interesting. Totally agreed : brickmatt
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  Episode III tiny problem (spolered just in case): When did anakin get a blue lightsaber? Didn't he have : ofcedeot
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    Anakin has always had a blue lightsaber. In Attack of the Clones after being capture, when the Jedi arriv... : K1Bond007
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      oh damn i never even caught that when obi wan takes his lightsaber : DeathBlossom
      • Yeah I'm glad they didn't make that such a big deal.. Edit on my previous post by the way: The blue An... : K1Bond007
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      yup, and the fact that he lost his blue lightsaber symbolically means he's completed his embracing of the... : kramweil
      • It was actually a running gag/theme? throughout AOTC. Obi-Wan lost his during his fight with Jango, Anaki... : K1Bond007
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  I just saw it a couple hours ago. Dialogue: Bad, but not god-awful. And there were a couple decent lin : Squirrely
  • And Hayden did a decent job with his lines this time around I thought. : Squirrely

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  I hope so. If that is a starting price, that is not really that bad. IF (big if) developers take on this ... : ghost hacker
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    the only way it's going to work is if they sell out to a company that will intergrate is as one chip onto... : crazywigga
    • I agree with integrating with video cards. They should work out a deal with Nvidia and ATI. They could re... : ovrlrd
    • Baby steps crazywigga, baby steps. : ghost hacker
  • fuck that.. now I gotta upgrade my video card ($250 - $400) & some physics card ($150 - $250).. no than... : Shadowdane
• Not with the new consoles having multiple cores, it'll just frighten developers over to them. : abrasion
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  Dead in the water at that price. http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30171&highlight= Some... : Thresher
  • i wonder what the game is in the second link. (dnf lol? maybe george is waiting for these cards to be pop... : SolveChrist
• The games have to be specifically written and optimized for this right? I was hoping it would be more al... : atom519
• I heard a rumor this was going to be in the xbox 360, i take it that wasnt true? : nukewinter
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  well no, not until something uses it! : Luminair
  • shhhhhhh georgeb3dr might be looking : cap n KRUNCH
• This will _so_ flop - 30$ yes, 300$ no. : abrasion
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  If they start mass producing the cards the price will go down. But even if it gave better physics in game... : armaduck
  • better yet.. if it doesn't sell.. we'll always be able to pick it for cheap on overstock.com or woot.com ... : laidback
• I would pay $150.00 for "free" physics, and fluid dynamics in games. Not $300.00. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
• I'd buy it in a second if it does what it promises. It will take things to a whole new level, I don't re... : killboy
• Are physics co-processors really the solution to current bottlenecks though? : Lunatic Angelic
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  Eh, whether PPUs are worthwhile or not (and they may yet be) remains to be seen. I just don't see a need... : omnova
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    Not to worry, I say if everything goes right, we won't see these cards in PCs (and have games take advant... : ghost hacker
    • I for one would welcome the return of 2D sprites. : omnova
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  Great guess DNF will be delayed another few years while they intergrate this tech. heh : smdever
  • roofles!!!! : ghost hacker
• I think the killer app for a PPU will be fluid simulation. A game where you could throw shit in water and... : GloriousCow
• How come no one is citing this fact: Its interesting to notice that many of the AGEIA executives comes : smacknca
• I'll buy it, for sure. That's cheap. Newer video cards cost like $500 when they first debut :( : mystikal
• It will flop big time. : Fred Garvin
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  It just needs a killer app. I spent that much to buy a Voodoo1 for one game: GLQuake. In fact, inflatio... : Zero|DPX
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    The big difference is that software and Voodoo 1 were like night and day. The difference in physics won't... : Fred Garvin
    • That's why I said "killer app". If the difference isn't big it's hardly a killer app, now is it? By def... : Zero|DPX
• its things like this that make me both love PC gaming, but make me end up liking console gaming more as w... : moe6
• nope : NukeDukem
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  Am I the only one who thinks this is a stupid stupid idea? Yeah, it's probably an order of magnitude fast... : tostador
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    I can see this sort of tech being integrated into GPUs fairly rapidly... : Toraz Chryx
    • Yeah, i wouldn't be surprised if this was really more of a tech demo than a real product, with the intent... : tostador
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      ^ Perhaps.. Maybe "gaming cards" will become the norm, with graphics, physics, and advanced sound all o... : NukeDukem
      • 0_o that would be awesome... especially fanboyism over whether the Nvidia/Nforce/Havock gaming card is be : ColoradoCNC
• Bah.. just drop the hardware in a console and be done with it. : walker270