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27 days 3 hours ago

Typical closet boy

Probably never played PS3.

Right now PS3 is the hottest console on the market. Roaring sales, new look and top games on the horizon.

Valve are full of themselves and love to come up with new excuses.

"It's too hard to code for PS3" "The community isn't there" Wah Wah Wah.

Just come clean, you aren't a big enough company to handle dev for another platform, you don't have the resources. View

35 days 15 hours ago

@ BaseballFan15

nailed it. Sounds like I was reading an article from 2007/8

Maybe gamingbolt just came out of cryo-stasis and forgot it was almost 2010. View

53 days 17 hours ago

Check out the game prices in the EU...........

....still alot cheaper to buy the UMD's. This is becoming another embarrassment for Sony. They finally get the PS3 in a strong position and decide to release more handicapped-at-launch hardware. I swear Sony must love the hardship of trying to get things back on track.

Given the no-UMD-trade-in, the new USB cables (that is disgusting), the new memory standard etc they should have added a 2nd analog stick and made this a new portable platform.

Sony call it the PlayStation family, but right now the UMD-PSP's and the GO are not even talking the same language. View

68 days 11 hours ago

Since when did an 8 become a bad score?

Well? Would an 8 make people not buy the game? If I did not know about Uncharted and saw an 8/10 it would get my attention not lose it.

And if general reviews are in the 9's then an 8 is not a crazy score it's on the money. A 5 or a 6 would be a different story.

If Uncharted 2's biggest failure was being no better than the first would it be a bad thing? View

109 days 1 hour ago

@ Deadlyspartan

The word lag is used because in all likelihood, PES10's online mode will be gimped out of the box just like 08 & 09 were.

PES08 was pretty much the worst current gen experience online and was NEVER fixed and PES09 was not much better.

In the meantime FIFA is managing to offer 10v10 online with minimal lag. Konami are playing catch up at this point sadly.

That being said nothing would make me happier that seeing PES return to glory. It's just unlikely to happen. View

141 days 11 hours ago

This game is 100% racist because.....

....it discriminates against Zombies. Valve should be ashamed, Zombies have feelings too y'know.

Well....ahem....turns out they don't. View

148 days 14 hours ago

Regarding the reasons

1. Netbooks aren't the world - Perhaps not but Apple with a far smaller marketshare in PC's still frequently upstage Microsoft in a number of areas. Even if Netbooks attained only a 10% Market share over time it would be worthy of Googles time. Then there are the dual booters on top of that.
2. Microsoft can shoot to kill - Absolutely not true. If it were MS would have shot Google way before they became the global search king. MS have strength and domination in the OS area but Google are no slouch.
3. Google Docs is the best they can do - Google Docs is very under valued as a service. I think PC World are adopting the attitude that "I if don't like it no-one else will". Let's not forget that Google own YouTube, Double-Click and a whole host of additional services. Whilst not all are "Cloud" full integration with an OS could be a big attraction.
4. Chrome isn't a real OS - This maybe true but how many people use 100% of a Windows OS. For sure alot of us at N4G may push Windows hard but what percentage are we of the whole Windows base 5%? Interesting to discuss this further.
5. Compatibility - This is a good area to look at. Windows 7 RC seems to have very intelligent compatibility across the board. It would be tough for Google to match this but if they could then they could have a serious competitor on their hands. View

148 days 15 hours ago

The real question is how....

..Xbox owners feel about their Live service and how PS3 owners feel about PSN. Comparing the two is rather fruitless. View

150 days 13 hours ago

Thanks. The mobile browser is very slick although the omission of flash etc is quite inexcusable.

The applications are the lifeblood of the iPhone now and I can't see anyone coming close to their inventory of choices anytime soon. View

153 days 13 hours ago

The worst thing was......

.....once they patched for trophies if you had earned $1m or $1bn you could not earn the trophies associated with this amount. Also Pandemic worked hard to cover this up by either deleted forum posts on their own forums or plain denying it happened. Very bad at community management. View

155 days 13 hours ago

AGREED

Some of that list made me wonder if the writer ever played games. Paperboy, GnG, Joust these were back in the day classics. As for E.T., (runs for cover) View

156 days 9 hours ago

@shocky16

Why have you got 40 disagrees for something that is a rhetorical question? Totally bizarre.

Now I'm going to say regarding the top the 90 minutes of cut scenes is one minute longer than 89 and one minute less than 91.

Everyone disagree with me. View

156 days 9 hours ago

Glad some reviewers are actually trying out the MP, it's a gem and one of the best non-FPS MP's around. View

157 days 20 hours ago

IGN's review was somewhat harsh whilst the above tells a more accurate story.

Play the single player for what it is , an ok campaign but play the multiplayer for real fun.

Multiplayer is a fantastic experience in this game. View

160 days 17 hours ago

Dear God Please Stop...

..with these endless "Is XXX losing/dying/winning" stories. You would think that after a couple of years into this gen that these "Journalists" would have some new material to write about. View

164 days 16 hours ago

PC Gaming is like Fox Hunting

Only a small minority play it compared to more mainstream pursuits.

To keep up to date with the latest games in PCland you would probably have spent something similar to buying all 3 home consoles and a bundle of games & peripherals.

Exclusively on 360 and that other platform that is unregulated, rife with piracy and insanely expensive to maintain. View

164 days 17 hours ago

It's...urrrr.....like.....urrr.....in....urrr.the.....urrr....trailer

Nice to see valve employ people who are capable of dynamic responses. That person was probably smoking something when they made that response.

"Check the trailer, man."

Genius. Given that the Orange Box was ported by EA it is not inconceivable that L4D2 would be also. Alot of "exclusives" often end up on the other side of the fence, FF13, MGS, Ninja Gaiden, Bioshock etc etc.

It's a business after all not a kindergarten.

"This is my milk. You can't have any" View

165 days 15 hours ago

Is GT5 really scheduled for NOV? I wasn't aware of that. Given that no real substance as shown at E3 they are either really keeping things under wraps or behind schedule.

Either way the PSP>PS3 integration on GT sounds great and I only wish the dev's could use this cross platform feature more. Perhaps the rumoured PSPgo AppStore will open this ability up? View

175 days 12 hours ago

@ TheRealSpy02

Breathe sunshine, breathe and repeat after me "it's only a game", "it's only a game".

But seriously shelling out full price for a game just to get a beta, you are a sucker. That's buying a car to get the free air freshner inside it.

As for putting Killzone in the same list as Haze & Lair, that's like putting Halo next to Vampire Rain. Perhaps it time to try playing games with the joypad switched on. Makes one helluva difference.

Infamous does have it's fair share of bugs but certainly not enough to ruin the experience. The character models are fairly overused but so what? Everyone is KillZone 2 looks the same but it doesn't stop it being great, In Halo the same monsters appear over and over but it's fun.

I'll be very surprise if Infamous does not enjoy good sales and critical success of the next few weeks.

If you want really buggy play Gears Of War online or Pro Evolution Soccer online. They both have more bugs that a Mafioso meeting. View

177 days 16 hours ago

A very subjective opinion

Valve are just lazy. PC gives them no barriers and porting to Xbox is easy given the cross-compatibilities. There are far too many games (including exclusives) coming out for PS3 for this "complexity" to be an issue. It's like learning a new language, of course there is a learning curve but if you put the time in, it comes naturally afterwards.

As for Valve's resume of games it's good but not the best.

Team Fortress 2 = Good but most certainly not the best ever. Try Halo online, KillZone 2, COD4 Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 etc etc.

Left4Dead = A good game but hardly original.

Portal = Innovative but come on will anything ever beat Tetris as a puzzle game? Try PixelJunk Monsters also.

Half Life 1 & 2 = Very good games no doubt. Half-Life 1&2 are crown jewels for Valve.

Counter-Strike Source = A good MP game due to alot of community support but hardly something that makes Valve stand-out.

Valve are good developers but not great. Whilst HL1&2 stand-out the rest of the collection are highly subjective experiences. View