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It is weird that it takes a magazine to take up the banner, but they did good!

Free to play, skill based shooter, in an MMO like setting. Sounds great! Supposedly the BETA went live, so if you have not yet go sign up on their page: www.firefallthegame.com

Hopefully this link works for you guys.  Received it in my email.

Rift Birthday Special Link

Good until Sept 2nd!

As the release date for both creeps closer, i have to wonder. which one should i get?
Should i get the anticipated Diablo 3 with its $59.99 price tag, always online drm, auction house, no modding support, or lan?

Or should i get the anticipated Torchlight 2 with its $20 price tag, offline mode, modding support, lan, multilayer, but not as good graphics than Diablo 3?

By this time, a lot of people have already played human revolution (as its the one of the few major games to come out over the past few weeks). Now lets look at this new documentary which explores the real life augmentations in our world and how they are closer to the world of deus ex.

New Paradox Interactive turn based strategy game Warlock has a narrator that sounds like Sean Connery, is it?

On a side note, cannot believe this is being done by a small indie team

During PAX prime, Gearbox revealed that a new patch that adds steamworks will be hitting the PC version of Borderlands on September 9. The patch will also introduce cloud saving, and will help test technology (like the one from mass effect 2) that send back data to help their future releases, mainly borderlands 2. The kind of data being sent back are details ike what guns are being used or what areas aren’t seeing any foot traffic.

So the video that ChangWizzle posted last week of Dirt 3 convinced me to buy the game which lead me to make my own video.  I didn’t use the in game Youtube because it’s slow and pauses the game.  I used FRAPS instead.  Dirt 3 is by far better then the second one.

I guess one reason why I started to play more Indie games is not just the fact that they are quite fun, but it also feels like you are “in touch” with a fellow gamer. With someone that creates a labor of love and not just someone that looks at the bottom line. These fellow gamers, or entusiasts of great game ideas need our support! So don’t be too much on the fence when it comes down to supporting these! Don’t buy Torchlight two on sale, but spend the whole (gasp) $20. Even if you don’t plan on playing the heck out of Red Orchestra 2, consider helping them with $35 so they can make another game that supports dedicated servers, server admin tools, sdk to mod the heck out of their game. Buy SPAZ just and get a second copy free for a friend.

Realize that your money will make a difference! Help yourself 3-5 years down the road when that small dev house makes something that hits your play style even more because they could feed their families!

What made me think of this is kind of the unrelated article on PCGAMER. Talking with Riot games they tickled this little nugget out and I wished that some big companies would listen. You wouldn’t need some crazy DRM, lock me in some software that wants to scan my entire hard drive and be big brother or make sure I have my internet always on because you want a real money auction house. They way you think of your user base makes a difference! To Riot, I am a gamer! To Cliff Harris I am a fan and it shows how he deals with people that want to talk to him.

We had a chance to catch up with Riot Games this year at Gamescom for a chat about the future of League of Legends, and Riot Games’ attitude to players who pick up League of Legends, play it every day, but never buy any items.

“We actually don’t say ‘How can we monetize our users?’ or anything crazy like that,” says Lead Champion Designer Ryan Scott. “We just go ‘How can we make players super happy”’ and then players will buy what they want and then all of our free players are also super valuable because they’re in there, engaged with the game, and in the community. We’re totally fine with that, we love that.”

“We renamed our customer support group “Player Support Group” because we didn’t want to ever give the impression that we only cared about people who paid in the game,” adds Lead Producer Travis George. “People were like “Why did you do that?” and we’re well, it’s because we want that subtle mentality shift to be part of everything we do.”

So it is a new gaming PC. Different from what the prototype looked like, but for the better it seems. I want one!

I don’t know how you could not own Borderlands by now, but maybe you have a friend who doesn’t, a little brother maybe?! Well, you would be silly not to buy this much fun (Borderlands and all expansions) for $7.49. the price of a value meal… wow!

This is going to be an expensive Fall!

Thanks L3G10N

GameStop…. tsk tsk tsk…. Leave the frakking packaging alone.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/24/gamestop-removing-onlive-coupons-pc-deus-ex/

If you don’t watch the whole thing watch at least the part about PC gaming and servers at min 18:00.

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Good times, turn up the volume and wave at Kommie.

Howdy Folks – we haven’t decided yet if were going to keep bringing more out, but if we do it’ll be less frequently and they’ll be raw and uncut (so you may hear some language or Kommie’isms that you haven’t heard before.) But this was super fun and good times to be talking gaming again with the crowd from PCPC Games. We covered a ton of topics here and we bounced around quite a bit but in the end it all makes sense.

There were some feedback issues from a few folk, so you’ll probably here a few mic scratches here and there and some open mic feedback, but nothing too bad, just wanted to give you a heads-up.

Enjoy. -Fascinator

In the past couple weeks when we talked about Origin vs STEAM and the pros (?) and cons of Battlefield3 on everything but STEAM. I made one very clear point again and again. I trust Valve and I trust STEAM. They have a proven track record on doing “the right thing” for gamers / their customers, added value to my hobby. I said in  discussions that I don’t trust EA as far as I can trow a rock.

This is not helping me trust them more and another reason for me not to buy Battlefield 3.

Via Bluesnews:

A post on The Escapist Forums notes that the end-user license agreement for EA’s Origin service does not allow users to opt out of having data from their systems collected, and to avoid having your data mined, you must avoid using the service (thanks Joao). Here’s the clause in question:

2. Consent to Collection and Use of Data.

You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE APPLICATION.

This and all other data provided to EA and/or collected by EA in connection with your installation and use of this Application is collected, used, stored and transmitted in accordance with EA’s Privacy Policy located at www.ea.com. To the extent that anything in this section conflicts with the terms of EA’s Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control.