Evening Reading: FPS Fever!

by Brian Leahy, Apr 14, 2010 5:00pm PDT

This morning, Take-Two announced that 2K Marin is developing an FPS game based upon X-COM. The outrage was palpable.

I'm willing to give 2K Marin a chance here. I'm sure this is a move meant to echo Bethesda's work with the Fallout franchise, which led to the creation of Fallout 3.

Personally, I'm a much bigger fan of Todd Howard and Bethesda's work than 2K Marin's, but we'll see what the studio can cook up.

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So why is Austin so different than the rest of Texas?

I've been to Dallas, Houston, Amarillo, and El Paso. I still need to visit Austin some time. I hear it's a fun city.

Apr 14, 2010 10:58pm PDT

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  Quality of life. It doesn't suck and the people are great. It's a city with a young attitude and it's pre... : Visceral Monkey
  - Oh yea, and it's actually green. All around, it's easily the best city in Texas, hands down. : Visceral Monkey
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  it's not. it is equivalent to the worst_parts_of_texas.times(INFINITY) : mwasher
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    This, if you're another jackass from California looking to move here. : Visceral Monkey
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      What about this east coast jackass right here? BTW 31 days until I invade your holy city.
      
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      What about this east coast jackass right here? BTW 31 days until I invade your holy city. : newek
  - Yeah, but only cause of the Bill Murrays. : mrwolf710
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  The people in austin are a lot more "diverse" ie less older white people and more of everything else. Al... : xylopagus
  - basically, blame the university. austin has been, and is still a college town, except people don't leave ... : RikiTiki2
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  http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/UT-Cheerleaders-2006-university-of-texas-726810_700_465.jpg... : EvilDolemite
  - that house is barely in austin :P : mwasher
  - Leslie!! WOOT! : Visceral Monkey
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  You have a mix of all things good about texas. Laid back hippies, college collaboration, awesome music, g... : anhero
  - "ramps onto I35 near town proper" You mean like the one right after sixth street onto 35? It's like ve... : Visceral Monkey
  - They shopping malls is cute : dognose
- My guess is the combo of: -nice countryside and lakes -a sizable (5%?) percentage students -money : batkiwi

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