JonCole

If you're planning on streaming most of your games, your computer could essentially be as barebones as possible. I feel like you should at least build a low-mid gaming PC while you're at it, because natively run games will undoubtedly run better. Pentium G3430/Athlon X4 750K + mobo + Radeon 7770 + 4 GB + 500W PSU should be pretty rock solid for native 720p/1080p medium quality gaming for the near future.

$12,109pledged of $12,000 goal Haven't seen razor thin margins like that before.

I can see them giving away copies of Half-Life 3, or whatever killer app they choose, along with the purchase of a Steam Box. Just using filters and whatnot, there are exactly 150 games on Steam that are both Linux compatible and full/partial controller supported. Among that list are some pretty solid titles like Fez, Mark of the Ninja, Amnesia: Machine for Pigs, Hotline Miami, and more. If I had to guess, I'd say there there will be two Steamboxes - one at a very low price point, specifically designed for streaming and media consumption. Another would be more or less a small-form factor computer at a console-level price point, meant for natively running Linux games. The main reason I believe this is because streaming seems to be a very modest goal for Valve. I have to imagine that their long-term goal is converting Windows developers into Windows/Linux developers so they can be completely free from having their customers depend on Windows.

I'm really sad that I didn't get more into those games, but BW2 just wasn't my cup of tea at the time (I feel like I need to be in a particular mood for a 100+ hour Pokemon deep dive). I theoretically have respect for the design of Black and White presenting all of the new Pokemon up front and opening up the National Dex post-game, but that team you had was bonkers. Arcanine is easily my favorite Pokemon and I haven't been able to use him very often in recent generations. I'm glad to hear that X/Y seem to be taking a mixed approach by going as far as offering past starters.

I've been playing the post-game Black content myself, really jonesing. I can't believe how bad the team was that I beat this game with, I must have just squeaked by.

Cons: Light bloom Pros: 1080p resolution, HD textures, particle effects, new skyboxes, better shadows, better water effects

Saw Jake tweeting about this and it's hilarious: https://twitter.com/Linkstagram

Do you have to pay again over the average? Like, if you paid $1 the first time can you pay the current average minus the $1 you originally paid, or what? There are reasons the Humble Bundle works beyond the simple publicity and exposure. I mean, all of these games are not new by any stretch. And every one of them has already been heavily discounted in Steam sales in the past, so I doubt the developers are sweating the fact that they're only getting pennies from each purchase rather than dollars. With currently $3,144,248.75 in purchases taking the standard split into account (65% of sales go to developers, even 10-way split between developers resulting in 6.5% to each developer), each developer stands to make over $200,000 on their sales after Humble Bundle takes their cut. For any of the developers involved (except maybe the slightly bigger ones like Double Fine and Supergiant), that is undoubtedly a fair amount of money. It's certainly more than anyone could expect to get selling their game long after initial release. Beyond that, I believe each of these further cements Humble Bundle Inc. as a big player in the PC/Mac/Linux DD space. With Humble Store continually becoming a sales platform for new games (recently saw it powering sales on Papers Please's website), people will begin to recognize it and value buying games from that platform much like some people want Steam codes just because they want all of their library in one place. I personally like that I can go to my Humble Library and individually download all of this stuff at any time:

This looks like a pretty big graphic upgrade, side-by-side: Not to mention the Wii U controller pad and soundtrack upgrades look/sound pretty slick.

I like Auroros. I generally tend to end up with a nice balance of cool and badass looking dudes in my team by the end. Auroros gives me a real Lapras/Meganium vibe, which I can get behind. Though, 4x weaknesses to Fighting and Steel is the pits.

Half-Life 2: Episode Three? Counterstrike 3 (CS/CS:S -> CS GO (2) -> CS3)?

To some extent, native 720p/1080p over 480p is enough to make me interested in most Xbox/PS2/GC -> current/next-gen ports. I'm not snatching every single one of them up, but if a game is good enough for me to want to play again I'd rather do it at the resolution my television natively displays.

I've got a copy of Fruit Ninja Kinect for anyone who wants it.

There's something completely awful to me about having a mic like that. I used to have one of these guys and I thought it was pretty solid quality compared to most USB mics, but having that second audio cord was horrendous. It's the same problem I have with most fancy headsets for video game consoles - WAY, WAY too many wires. Having a free-standing mic or a USB headset are both way more preferable to me than any solution like that, despite how snazzy it looks and how it allows you to use a good set of cans (used that Zalman clip mic with a set of Sennheiser 555's).

Half Life 3DS, the perfect way to play Half Life in your living room.

I think DLC is never included, I don't know what you're talking about. The specific case I can think of here in the US is that they gave out Battlefield 3 with absolutely no DLC (after it had all the DLC released), then a couple months later they had the Premium Pass and various DLC Plus-exclusive discounted as a "free" bait and switch.

I'm surprised there's no associated Universe Expanding Steam Sale.

Also also, almost all of the IGC choices are deliberate and targeted:

It's getting people used to paying for Plus, which Sony stands to make something like $1.2 billion on annually (don't ask where I got that number, just remember reading it at some point) once the PS4 is in full swing. Also, the good will it generates is outstanding and undoubtedly gets Plus member to spend more money (gross, that is; aka, money they wouldn't have spent otherwise) by having Plus-exclusive discounts. The prevailing logic is undoubtedly "if I'm saving so much money on IGC games, why not spend some of that 'saved' money on heavily discounted Plus-exclusive sale games?"

Chris then impromptu sings a song about knowing butt.

You play as Punished Snake, voiced by Kiefer who is actually a clone of Big Boss (looks like Big Boss, sounds like Jack Bauer). David Hayter plays Solid Snake/Old Snake/David, but also Big Boss and another character named David Hayter who is another clone of Big Boss (sounds like Big Boss, looks like a beardy nerd voice actor guy).

https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/8874-walking-dead-mark-of-the-ninja-vets-form-campo-santo/

Chris talks about how Spelunky is the only game in existence. Jake says baboo. Then they take a break.

I feel like it also introduced a psychological effect much like f2p games where your achievement could feel cheapened when someone else can just buy the sweet loot you worked so hard to procure on your own.

I haven't heard anything distinctly negative about Wonderful 101, but it definitely had an element of high expectations in that it could potentially be The Game to Buy This Holiday Season for the Wii U that made the Good/7 reviews seem more negative than a review with that kind of score should seem. I have to say, Wind Waker HD is really making me want a Wii U. I was very content to not be interested in it at all, but then I made the mistake of reading a few reviews that were more or less like "this is definitive version of Wind Waker" or "Wind Waker just needed a little push to get it to perfect, and guess what it happened in HD". I'm not going to be able to afford one any time soon, but it moved ahead of the XB1 in terms of next console I want to own which is an achievement in itself.