Morning Discussion: New Year's Eve
by Garnett Lee, Dec 31, 2010 5:00am PSTGood morning and welcome to this last day of 2010. Today also closes out our Best of 2010 Awards with the naming of the Game of the Year. It won't be much of a revelation to those who've been following along this week, but that's sort of the nature of these things. The game that takes home the top prize usually also takes the awards for any categories in which it's nominated.
That situation led to what's turned out to be a controversial decision with our awards. To open up the fields and better recognize the breadth of great games this year, I suggested we separate the console platforms. In this generation, "exclusives" are thought of in terms of whether they are on PS3 or 360, and multiplatform developed for both. So that's how the awards are broken up. As part of that, Mass Effect 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction received consideration as 360 "exclusive" games though they also appear on PC.
Some have inferred from this that PC isn't being taken seriously. This is not the case. The method of dividing up the titles merely reflects the competitive landscape of the video game industry. However, to be completely up front, it was an oversight not to include Mass Effect 2 in the PC category nominations. We have a lot of exciting games to look forward to in 2011 and regardless of what you play them on--PC, 360, PS3, Wii, DS, 3DS, PSP, iPhone, Android, or whatever--Shacknews will be in the thick of them, playing everything we can get our hands on and telling you about them.
Wargame: Airland Battle trailer details dynamic campaign
Halo 'Bootcamp' confirmed by Microsoft
Weekend PC download deals: Tomb Raider for $14
Game Dev Tycoon studio outlines future plans
Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced already has 350,000 words of new content



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I just maxed Archeology to 525. Heh.
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AMD Sempron 2600+ 1.6Ghz
1.5Mb RAM with Win XP
Raedon 9600XT 128Mb
I am trying to set this machine up to keep my young daughters off my main gaming PC. This is for their little games and those dumb facebook games. The problem is, this PC is having a hard time with the facebook flash games which are running very slow. I updated the drivers with only slight improvement. Is this old video card just not up to the task? It does everything fine except the flash games.
sigh......Perhaps I can buy a used faster AGP 8x card of ebay? Any suggestions?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZE8XCNC0tw&feature=feedu
It's my roommates 5-year old son playing Minecraft.
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huge basement for $600, all utilities + internet + directTV, month to month, fireplace, huge storage, washer+dryer. sharing the house with a 42 year old single mom, gorgeous... she has a son.
#1 school district in Colorado, 10/10 elementary school... very very nice neighborhood!
we move in on Sunday!
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It has been awhile since one of these was posted, so lets you get up to speed.
A devblog was posted detailing another new feature inked for the final piece that makes up the incursion launch patch. Contracts will be getting a revamp. All querying that was handled on the local node will be moved to some dedicated nodes giving more cpu for pew pewing. As well as the change in the underlying code and the change to a dedicated cpu for the task, the ui has been revamped to give more details than ever. This includes ships sold to show whether the modules sold along side are truely mounted or not.
Details here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=833
The character creator has been coming along nicely. I'm not sure on the source, but figured the shack might enjoy it: http://i.imgur.com/ldom8.jpg
For drama, Pandemic Legion just lost all their titans last night in a scuffle with the NC. Goons also got a chance to make a run to see if their new maelstrom alpha fits worked or not. Apparently, it did as PL's ahac team got chopped to bits thanks to lag making alpha more effective than dps.
Report here: http://scrapheap-challenge.com/viewtopic.php?p=1478630#1478630
The start in this thread of the scuffle: http://scrapheap-challenge.com/viewtopic.php?p=1478510#1478510
There are images shown as well. PL also lost atleast 1 supercarrier.
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Darksiders is awesome, you people should play it, I just finished it. The ending is good and the gameplay is fun, I had twice as much fun as GOW3, they aren't the same kind of game but I think most people would like Darksiders. Like most criminally under rated games, the opening hour is ho hum, it gets better after that. Play it.
xoxo
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I just want the cornhole money.
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i don't get all the negative press. so far it's just more bioshock. more awesome atmosphere; more great audio logs; more secret areas loaded with goodies; more creepy and appropriate music.
i had forgotten how much i loved creeping around rapture. what an excellent setting. so this is just another eight to ten hours of bioshock? sounds good to me!
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I did the whole recyclebank trick to get the EA $10 off coupon.
I have BFBC2 on Steam with no Vietnam downloaded.
If I buy Vietnam from the EA store, can I plug the key in to Steam somewhere and let it download? Or, do I have to input it in to the BFBC2 client and it's automagically tied to my copy of BFBC2 (via my login details in the client) no matter if I uninstall it and reinstall at a later date?
I am confused and frightened. Also, that Recyclebank trick still works. I'm working on a post that I'll pop up in ER so you monkeys can get you some $10 off an EA store purchase.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixx_shack/5309588211/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixx_shack/5309588267/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixx_shack/5309588311/lightbox/
Zero post-processing, except for resize. I'm sure they could be improved.
It was cold out there. :( That river in the first one is where I've taken a lot of sunrise pictures, usually I'm down at the water instead up on the hill though.
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Make it a good one!
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Since getting a player for my birthday I've noticed a slight vertical flicker, not unlike what you'll see with projected film, and the player appears to produce this effect even when discs are paused. The tv is a Samsung LCD. I'm guessing it might have something to do with hertz but am really not sure. Anyone know what's up?
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the red is for socialist
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http://youtu.be/d5exATIaQiI
I'd recommend action footage at
0:45-3:10 or so
5:45-7:00
His other videos are just mildly disturbing.
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http://www.mondotees.com/view_category.asp?cat=12
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I did beat it on xbox, but would be fun on pc
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Also, holy shit @ the small team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Unit
...and I never knew about this before: http://www.rawthrills.com/h2overdrive
probably because arcades are dead :(
To give to a man, you read
I lay on the line
Ten dollars of mine
A gift from Steam for free
I give you the source
You finish of course
The answer I find deemed
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Girl at bar, alone she sits
Man buys beer, leaves a tip
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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Winter Classic officially moved to 8 PM EST tomorrow.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=547980
great decision IMHO
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Believe the ShackHype. This game is good fun. Played all day at work and home yesterday. MooCow Studios is riding high on it's line of Taylor Swift games. Also, even though the PC gaming share eventually drops to 1%, I still tried to make at least 1 PC game per year. PC Gaming, never forget. :(
Anyway, questions:
- is there any reason why I'd want to change seating arrangements?
- what exactly is a hacker in this game?
- what's the best way to attract a hardware engineer? I hired a "hacker" who had hardware engineer under their qualifications, but no hardware could be made.
I wish there was an iPad and PC version of the game that'd take advantage of the larger screen. The 14 character limit for naming things sucks.
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