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Readers pick best webcomic: Team Fortress 2 Babies {Joystiq}
Jul 11th 2009 1:49PM Entire team is babies!
Get yer Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1 demo all fast-like {Joystiq}
Jul 8th 2009 5:51PM *sigh*
I guess I'll have to boot to windows after all.
Why you make me do this!
Play World of Warcraft Peggle now for free {Joystiq}
Jul 8th 2009 12:39PM Without turning this into a PC x Mac debate, any modern Mac can run Windows and play PC games just fine, so we can play anything you can.
I just don't feel like rebooting to play Peggle, that's all!
Play World of Warcraft Peggle now for free {Joystiq}
Jul 8th 2009 10:41AM PC Only. Booooo.
Sharp's new AQUOS lineup eyes-on {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 7:35PM You'd be surprised.
There's a dramatic difference between the look of film at 24fps and most TV which is 60 fields-per-sec. Part of the appeal of cinema is the step away from reality and the feel film gives.
Looking more real =/= looking good
Sharp's new AQUOS lineup eyes-on {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 7:12PM Granted my experience with 120hz TVs are limited to one specific example in a store, but I really didn't like what I saw.
I believe the make was Samsung and it was playing a bluray of Pirated of the Caribbean. While the picture looked crisp and sharp, the motion looked awful. It was as if I was watching bog standard video footage rather than film (although I'm not aware if the movie was shot on film or digital) and the whole thing looked too "real". Almost as if I was watching interlaced footage on a tube TV.
I'm having trouble finding the words, but I know I didn't like what I saw.
Maybe the refresh rate of lesser LCDs add more motion blur, which adds to the film effect, or maybe this display TV had stupid settings like maxed sharpness in order to look 'better' to people who don't know what they're buying, or Pirates of the Caribbean was a bad example, I'm not sure.
I'm not shopping for any of these products so it doesn't really matter to be honest.
Rumor: Skate 3 in the works {Joystiq}
Jul 3rd 2009 2:15PM A sequel to an EA licensed game? Colour me surprised!
iPhone 3GS PlayStation, Game Boy Advance emulators demoed on video {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 1:23PM I don't see the problem with that virtual game pad at all.
Obviously you aren't meant to have your fingers over the shoulder buttons when you play, and you need to press them with your thumb.
Granted this means that many games won't be practical to play anyway, as you can only have 2 independent inputs, so any game where you need to press a direction and more than one other button won't work.
As for the issue of the buttons taking up half the screen, what other option is there? If you have the game playing horizontally, then the buttons would need to be invisible or tiny on the sides of the screen, and no one likes that.
As it is with the setup being vertical, extra screen height space for is useless, as it would mess up the video aspect ratio, so there's no reason NOT to have massive buttons.
Not all games will practically be playable with this setup, but for those it works with, it'll be fantastic to have.
LucasArts developers play Monkey Island on Justin.tv tomorrow, June 19, at 3PM {Joystiq}
Jun 19th 2009 1:06AM [Justin.tv]
GAME is doing well during hard times {Joystiq}
Jun 16th 2009 9:06PM GAME has owned Gamestation for a long time now. It's just the 'latest' acquisition still.
It pisses me off to no end that there is basically no competition where I live.
The only game stores are GAME and Gamestation. Now with Woolworths gone too, the only other places left to buy games are HMV and Forbidden Planet (who charge ridiculous prices for everything inside)
The UK is screwed for brick-and-mortar game stores
