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Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-24-2011

Direct 2 Drive is starting a rental service. 5 dollars for 5 hours of gameplay. It's only available on 3 games right now, so it ain't nothin' spectacular, but it's interesting to see the digital market picking up more on renting. Onlive is already getting loads of money from it. Will Steam follow?

http://blog.direct2drive.com/2011/01/d2ds-rentals/


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - KorJax - 01-27-2011

OnLive is getting loads of money from it? Where did you hear this?

I still have to try that service.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-27-2011

(01-27-2011, 12:12 AM)KorJax link Wrote: OnLive is getting loads of money from it? Where did you hear this?

I still have to try that service.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/04/online-game-service-onlives-latest-filing-points-to-1-1-billion-valuation/

One can also assume that from a lot of major hardware manufacturers like Vizio stating they will build the service into their television, the above estimation of the company's worth, and their well financed plans to spread swiftly out of America to Europe that Onlive is doing something right. I have no idea why every single gamer in the world thinks they are dying or something.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - HeK - 01-27-2011

Kinda news, more like a history lesson: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/01/history-of-graphic-adventures.ars


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-30-2011

Bulletstorm requires a constant online connection to play.

Edit: Developers at People Can Fly have stated that this is super duper not true. Happy times.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-31-2011

New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Edit: And better voice.

- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - HeK - 01-31-2011

(01-31-2011, 06:42 PM)Spore link Wrote: - Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz

But how is the latency?


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - backfire - 01-31-2011

(01-31-2011, 06:42 PM)Spore link Wrote: New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-31-2011

(01-31-2011, 10:28 PM)backfire link Wrote: [quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?
[/quote]

I hear it's 1GB. Not bad for free storage of screenshots.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - backfire - 01-31-2011

(01-31-2011, 10:46 PM)Spore link Wrote: [quote author=backfire link=topic=4314.msg194652#msg194652 date=1296530888]
[quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?
[/quote]

I hear it's 1GB. Not bad for free storage of screenshots.
[/quote]

Jeeze, I was thinking like... a couple megabytes. First saw a screenshot from someone and steam just compresses it down to 800x600, then I saw someone hotlink the full sized version at 1920×1080. This is awesome. Big Grin


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - beep beep diglett - 01-31-2011

yeah but it also crashes p much every 10 mins


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 01-31-2011

(01-31-2011, 11:32 PM)diglett link Wrote: yeah but it also crashes p much every 10 mins

That was a memory leak with some systems. It seems to be fixed now.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Versus - 02-01-2011

mine was crashing every 30 seconds


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Kirby - 02-02-2011

(01-31-2011, 07:17 PM)HeK link Wrote: [quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz

But how is the latency?
[/quote]


Knowing valve, they added additional payload without taking steps to compensate for latency, so it's probably worse....






Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 02-02-2011

A revolution in military shooters is here.

Duty Calls- the most epically epic game of all time

Nobody really knows what it is. Some marketing thing for Bulletstorm or something, looking at the video description.
Download here: www.thedutycalls.com[url=http://]

Edit: Yeah, it's actually pretty funny.


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Versus - 02-02-2011

lol

downloading


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 02-02-2011

RANK UP! SO REALISTIC!

Edit: Jesus, I just read the feature list for this.

1. Duty Vision™ slows down the action so you can unload a storm of bullets
2. Immersive dialogue from the front lines
3. Cold, calculated realism
4. Killing animations motion captured from real actors
5. True-life reloading system allows for mistakes in putting the cartridge in the gun
6. Iconic sound effects
7. Thwart an enemy threat that could topple the country and possibly the world
8. Significant and historically accurate props

First letters read...


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 02-03-2011

A durpload of Deus Ex news.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420706


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Versus - 02-04-2011

http://kotaku.com/5751373/your-first-brief-look-at-battlefield-3


Re: Insert PC Game News Here - Spore - 02-06-2011

The difficulty options in the new Deus Ex are:

Casual
Normal
Deus Ex