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Lately, I've been listening to Grinderman's Grinderman 2 (spotify link). Good stuff. IPfuiT5XstU

I guess this game is for the holidays then..

What worried me about the video was that everybody except for your companion still wanted to kill you eventually and doing so turned somewhat non-human. I wonder whether you can ever walk into the bar or to the town square and interact with people normally or whether that is completely impossible because you are a Mexican or whatever.

He seems at peace. That gameplay video looks pretty neat but I can imagine my playthrough differing quite a lot from that. For one, I would be looking at the wrong direction all the time. Also, dying. Looking forward to the gameplay video where an actual person is playing the game.

Oh wow. All this for a Facebook integration. (and some other stuff.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nostalgia_of_the_Infinite

The shutter-glass models may well cost over 3000 euros. The ones that don't need them seem even more dubious to me actually. Does anyone know what are the suitable viewing angles for those things, for instance?

So, are the ones that don't require glasses even commercially available yet?

No, they still require shutter glasses. Majority of them, at least.

I think some of the older games, such as Wipeout HD and Super Stardust HD, were supposed to get 3D support patched in as well. Haven't seen a complete list of games that support 3D, though, which is indeed stupid and strange. The whole 3D thing is really confusing at the moment, not just games-wise. For instance, does anyone know if there is or will be a way to turn your regular 100 or 200 Hz HDTV into a 3D TV (without red-blue glasses that is)? Will PS3s 3D only work on new Sony 3D TVs? Etc.

I'm so glad you can shoot people in this game.

Just finished Stanislaw Lem's Solaris. A truly haunting book which I can heartily recommend to everyone who has not yet read it. What I find the most fascinating about this kind of sci-fi is how it often investigates humans and the humankind much the same way neuroscience often investigates the brain and nervous system: take something away, be it the link between certain parts of the brain, ones individuality or the communication, or stimulate something and observe how the system reacts. I started reading Moby-Dick some years ago but I found it quite tedious and couldn't go on. I finally finished it in an audiobook form about a month ago. It was an interesting book but the long passages about whales and actual whaling where still a bit too much for me. I listened through Herman Melville's Typee as well. It too was interesting but I would much have preferred an account of Melville's actual captivity on Nuku Hiva instead of a novel based on that. And since everybody seems to be reading Russian books nowadays, I can confess that I'm almost done listening to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. Also, I appreciate the fact that the dictionary tries to substitute 'neuroscience' with 'pseudoscience'.

European version on all regions confirmed.

Yes, lets laugh at Danish people. 9_gTAmzDlOc

Yes! Finally, I can see why I never bought PS2 even though I really wanted to play these games. Especially Shadow of the Colossus; I played some Ico with my friend back in the day and Yorda started getting on my nerves. Also, Ico box art is a thing of beauty. It makes pretty much all other video game covers look incredibly bad in comparison.

Crap, I might have to buy this game now because of that walkthrough video. Finally the military approach looks like a viable way to play the game. The combat seems really interesting and fun actually. It has been by far my biggest complaint about the earlier Civilizations (I think I only played one campaign in CIV IV, for instance, because I got so fed up with Montezuma).

For some reason, I absolutely love the art style in this game. It reminds me of those architect pictures that depict how the building and its surroundings will look like when the work is complete. I think that this kind of completely artificial look might fit this sort of game really well.

I actually thought you were going to post a picture of you sitting in your underwear in front of the TV with a sad expression on your face. This is probably for the better. What a great way to end the cast, though!

The first one has more of the elements you have come to expect from RPGs, most of which actually make the game worse than the sequel gameplaywise. The dice-roll shooting is frustrating and stupid; the equipment management is horrible and you will soon drown in useless weapons and power-ups; there are too many things to upgrade on level-ups, etc.

How good are the underlining, bookmarking, notetaking, etc. features in Kindle? Without those, I couldn't imagine using one for study purposes.

Have a lot of SCVs collecting the mineral and the other thing, barricade the two entrances with bunkers (and man them, and have some SCVs ready to fix or rebuild them), build tanks and put them in siege mode somewhere where they are safe (behind the bunkers and on the hill for instance), get some heavy units like thors and battlecruisers to defend both entrances, apply weapon and armor upgrades when you have spare cash (which you should have most of the time) and destroy the worms with battlecruisers as fast as possible because they vomit out zerg constantly (I think the artifact blast kills at least some of the worms too). I didn't use infantry much in this missions apart from the ones that were on the bunkers but focused more on battlecruisers and thors. I don't know if that is the best tactic but that's how I beat the mission. The only time I had to micro was with the worms. Not sure if you already know this, but you can assign a hotkey to your structures just like your units, so you can add more units to the queue just by pressing, say, '5' and selecting the units. Just constantly build units until you max out and move them to protect one of the entrances when you have time. I agree that the difficulty level in Starcraft II is weird and inconsistent. I find it really interesting, however, that there is no single mission everyone is struggling with but that one man's easy is other man's insane. Some of the missions I have had troubles with are described by others as being ridiculously easy and the other way around.

Which mission did you choose before that one? I got and the final mission was almost too easy after that. I haven't tried playing the other version of the mission but I'd imagine it could be a lot harder.

I think the American football field boss battle that you can see on the Gametrailers' gameplay videos was on some previous trailer and/or leaked footage as well. I guess that doesn't mean anything yet, though.