Dirk Anger

No. Chronicles of Riddick is clearly the Pitch Black of video games. Conversely, Chronicles of Riddick is the Wheelman of movies.

You know, there's this thing. It's called "PC"?

This is so fucking beautiful. Remember people: Right now, all we've got is the Pale Blue Dot.

So... Mario now has a Catsuit. The Internet is gonna EXPLODE.

Also, I just found out this: And yes, PS4 is region free — Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) https://twitter.com/yosp/status/344357778288152576 Holy shit, this is huge. Especially here in censorship-ridden Germany (although it remains to be seen how much online functionality will remain available for nasty games). I'm just astonished by how many things Sony is doing right. Seriously, where's the catch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kWSIFh8ICaA In summary: Just let it happen, Microsoft. It'll be over soon.

I always considered this to be a genuinely funny rape joke:

Heeello. Sorry for going off-topic, but this post is so chock-full of bullshit, I just have to interfere. 1) Basic consumer rights do not equal the absence of business freedom. There are simply stricter rules on what constitutes some forms of legally binding contracts in the EU in order to give the consumers some sort of protection. It is, in fact, perfectly legal for a company to license out software instead of selling it - it just has to tell its' customers beforehand, so to speak (it involves a lot of legalese, of course, but IANAL, so yeah). 2) The EU is most definitely not in a large depression because it "doesn't believe in Laissez-faire". That point is bullshit anyway - the EU is, generally, not in any meaningful way less "Laissez-faire" than the US. Ironically, the current crisis has made EU economic policy a great deal more "laissez-faire", mostly due to the boneheaded clinging to austerity spearheaded by Germany. The reasons for the current depression are a combination of fucked-up monetary policies (basically, the Euro making it impossible for weaker countries to devalue their own currencies) and a credit bubble which itself was mostly caused by the US depression (which is also still going on to some extent). At any rate, the "EU=Socialism, therefore depression!"-argument is not only stupid, but just so fucking lazy.

I second all of those calls for a PC version (which has been confirmed, but anyway). The game looks interesting - but the prospect of Mods? Holy shit! Zombies aside, I've been waiting for an open-world-rpg/social-simulation/shooter hybrid for... a very long time. Come to think of it, I might have had visions about a game like this in 1994. Fortunately, XCom came out shortly after.

OK, I knew that. I guess my English back in 1999 was better than I thought (Still, it was really damn irritating that the original HL and all of its' addons did not have fucking subtitles.)

So I understand that Awesomenauts is pretty much Lords for Babies, but damn, I'm having some fun. Unexpectedly, it's the game I played most from the recent Humble Bundle yet. I've never played any Lords Management before (aside from some LAN rounds of DOTA like 10 years ago, when I had absolutely no fucking clue what was going on), but to my great surprise, I'm not sucking that hard. I've even won more than one round in a row! Well, more realistically my teammates did, but yeah.

http://undeadlabs.com/about-state-of-decay/: That seems pretty damn official to me.

Uuhm... what does this cleverness entail, exactly? That both names are physics-related? (I'm not a native speaker, so please forgive my linguistic thickness )

ZOMG NEW SINGLE BY NIN!!!1!11eleventy http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TgwrxcO48N8& New album is called "Hesitation Marks" and will be out in a mere three months. Three months! I'm kinda excited, if you couldn't tell.

Sepatrons (the tiny solid rocket motors) also work wonders for that problem. Just angle them away from your main rocket and put them on the appropriate stage. As an added bonus, they make stage separations look extra cool!

Yeah. http://kerbalspaceport.com/0-18-4-zeus-space-telescope/ It's basically just a drone body with an infini-zoom camera inside it.

Say hello to the Anthropic Prinicple. The strong Anthropic Principle. You see, all of this is pretty much speculation. But from what we know, life is rare. I mean, really fucking rare. And I'm not even talking about the kind of life that we so assuredly call "complex". You know, Insects, Fungi, and all the rest. We just (or rather: not just) happen to life on a Planet that has the odds stacked immensly in it's favor. There's the Moon, there's Jupiter - both conveniently positioned to keep a maximum of foreign bodies from Earth's orbit around the sun. Also, we're right in the Butter Zone of solar irradiation. And let's not get into all the billions of lucky accidents our Planet has(n't) endured. What I'm trying to say: The Universe does, theoretically, allow for live. The circumstances for it to happen are insanely specific - but when it comes to insanity, sheer size beats anything else by some orders of magnitude. So, there's bound to be life at least on some worlds. And we're on one - or perhaps even the only - world where intelligent life has developed. To us, that might seem like "design". Maybe. But I'm pretty sure, that same feeling is shared by rain water, wondering how perfectly it was formed for the puddle it's resting in, right in the middle of a hot, dry desert.

Ladies and Gentlenauts, if you just need those photons to blow away your eyeballs, there's but one solution: The orbital TELE-SCOOP! Because when those photons are hot, the only way is to scoop 'em: (Seriously, though: All pictures taken from a 200km Kerban Orbit. Even after more than a year, I sometimes still can't comprehend just how fucking beautiful this game is. Sorry for the bad graphics though, my KSP's been crashing on me lately, lest I turn those textures down.)

​(I apologize.)

Relevant to this discussion: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/7124-Shock-Treatment I think Chipman has a point. All the high-concept stuff? Diversion!

As in real life, you can reach other planets directly from Kerbal via a Hohman Transfer Orbit, without the need of entering an orbit around the Sun first. However, for that you need to know each planet's phase angle, and wait for the appropriate launch window.

I'm not sure about "deep analysis", but the plot in Bioshock Infinite is pretty damn consistent, whatever else one might think about it. There are clues right from the start about what's going on. One of the first objects the player encounters in the game is a bowl of water with an attached sign that reads "Wash away your sins", after all.

Well, atmospheric flight is far from perfect, mostly because the aerodynamic modelling is very rudimentary. There is a mod for that, however: http://kerbalspaceport.com/ferram-aerospace-research/ As for the piloting IN SPACE!!11!1... well, that's quite literally as "right" as it's ever gonna get. When there's no atmosphere to drag your wings around in, it's all just Newtonian physics. A simple question of thrusting in the right direction, for the right amount of time.

Likewise, at some point at the beginning, a cop laments how (I'm paraphrasing) "negroes, micks and misogynysts" are poisoning their precious Columbia. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? This aspect doesn't make sense (why would an otherwise fundamentalist society tone down that particular aspect of their ideology?), and it's portrayed very inconsistently throughout the game. There are the female cops and Rosalind Lutece, but on the other hand, many tidbits in the voxphones or uttered by civillians clearly portray Columbia as a patriarchal society common to its' time. Maybe it's meant to represent Comstock's... dificult relationship to the women in his life. More probably though, those bits were just inserted so you could should some chicks in the face once in a while. Or am I missing something here?

I disagree. At least Far Cry (untill the Mutant Thingies showed up) and the first Crysis (untill the Aliens showed up) were fairly interesting to play - you had huge, sprawling levels full of (at the time) realistic vegetation, and the ability to freely choose how to engage each combat situation, wether by stealth, brute force or use of the environment. In 2004, that was a fairly new and yes, very interesting experience. Of course, the only reason Far Cry had those huge, tropical levels in the first place was that Crytek wanted to show of their new and shiny engine. So you're right, in a way - Crytek's games are made by their graphics.