Famitsu gave Skyrim 40/40 in its review this week, making the Bethesda RPG the first western game to achieve the score. But what does the Japanese conversion sound like? Watch the video belowSkyrim in Japanese
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Famitsu gave Skyrim 40/40 in its review this week, making the Bethesda RPG the first western game to achieve the score. But what does the Japanese conversion sound like? Watch the video belowHalf-Life: Origins (Live Action)
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Half-Life Origins is an independent short by Infectious Designer.
Everyone remembers the first time they stepped onto the Black Mesa Transit System and into the shoes of the unexpected hero, Gordon Freeman. Half-Life Origins is a short film that takes you back to where it all began.
Director's Note: After 10+ years since it's release, if you ever go back and replay the original Half-Life, it doesn't look anything like you remember. The graphics are horrible compared to present day games, but years ago it blew my mind. This video plays with that contrast. I incorporated a fusion of live action and CG environments that give it a semi-realistic look, but also not realistic at the same time. Hope you enjoy it!
Everyone remembers the first time they stepped onto the Black Mesa Transit System and into the shoes of the unexpected hero, Gordon Freeman. Half-Life Origins is a short film that takes you back to where it all began. Director's Note: After 10+ years since it's release, if you ever go back and replay the original Half-Life, it doesn't look anything like you remember. The graphics are horrible compared to present day games, but years ago it blew my mind. This video plays with that contrast. I incorporated a fusion of live action and CG environments that give it a semi-realistic look, but also not realistic at the same time. Hope you enjoy it!
Gabe Newell talks about piracy
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Gabe Newell has always been one to think outside the box, and over the years he’s received both praise and criticism along with a devoted PC following. In a recent interview with Cambridge Student Online, Newell got to talking about PC piracy again, and explained his views that the problems with piracy are to do with the services being offered as opposed to the price.
It makes it fairly obvious that companies like Activision and EA tend not to agree with Gabe, with more and more titles receiving elaborate forms of DRM and region locks, it seems like Valve are currently the only ones looking at the problem from a different angle.“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”
“Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer’s use or by creating uncertainty… Our goal is to create greater service value than pirates, and this has been successful enough for us that piracy is basically a non-issue for our company.”
spawn unlimited dragons in Skyrim
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The magic of console commands lets you fight as many dragons as your PC can render without exploding.
Activate the console by pressing the ` or ¬ key in the top left corner of your keyboard and type in: player.placeatme 000FEA9BThen hit enter, exit the console and a dragon should appear. If you want more than one you can simply hit the up key in the console to copy the last command.
Be sure to run around a bit when you’re doing it though, summoning multiple dragons in exactly the same place tends to crash the gameHave fun.
Shoot stuff...in Space
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As a flight commander in the Alliance Navy, you will take on the challenge of leading a team of pilots through a series of missions spanning the vast region of space known as the Evochron quadrant. As the story unfolds, you will..... zZzFancy a break from skyrim ? here's a nice space demo to try
Microsoft is preparing to make an next-gen Xbox announcement
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According to French site Xboxygen, the platform holder won't make any significant announcements related to software or features, but will speak of the hardware and its specs.
Citing an anonymous source close to Microsoft, it says MS has two groups working on the console; a group called 'Infinity' working on the hardware, and another called 'Loop' in charge of software development.
It goes on to state the machine will contain a hex-core (six-core) CPU at its heart, strapped to an AMD graphics card and 2GB of DDR3 RAM.
CES takes place in Las Vegas in January.
Rumours surrounding Microsoft's next console have been rampant of late, with the latest reports claiming it will be slimmer and cheaper than the current console.
Skyrim pc: the way you want it
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This is why I play PC games: ini files. So the first thing I did in Skyrim was head to My Documents -> My Games -> Skyrim -> skyrim, to see what was in there.
Not a lot, as it turns out. The main tweak I was hunting, to change the FoV, has to be added rather than altered. But you can add “fdefaultfov=xx” without the quotes under the general section, replacing “xx” for your preferred FoV angle. 95 usually suffices for me, but you’ll obviously have your own preferences. Here’s the difference you can make.
EDIT: Apparently bringing the console down with the tilde key and typing “fov xx” works a bit better.
Before.
After.
I made that second 120 degrees to show how far you can take it. The next thing I did was head to the main Skyrim folder, nested within Steam > steamapps > common > skyrim. In the Data folder there’s a Video folder, and in there is the logo video that loads up when the game loads. I created a folder and dragged that into it to stop it loading every bloody time I start the game. Those seconds are precious to me, Bethesda.
Something you’ll also want to tweak if you have a reasonably meaty PC is self-shadowing, which means tall trees and the like cast shadows upon themselves – it adds rather a lot to outdoor scenes, making for a more integrated looking world. For this, you’ll want to edit SkyrimPrefs.ini: changing the 0s to 1s for Change bTreesReceiveShadows=0 and Change bDrawLandShadows=0.
If you’re experiencing mouse lag/over-smoothing, change the 1 to 0 for bMouseAcceleration=1 and add iPresentInterval=0 to the section marked [Display].
That’ll do me for now. But there are resources out there if you care about more general tweaks, or if you want to get a little more hardcore and want to enhance the graphics . I’d suggest you make back-ups of any file you alter, just in case.
Bloodline Champions now free on Steam
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Star Trek Online will make the switch to ftp in January
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Cryptic are planning to move Star Trek online over to a ftp model.The move to free to play will divide Star Trek Online’s player base into two tiers. There’s free players, who will have access to every level and zone, but don’t get the Foundry mission creation tools and gold members who’ll get extra inventory slots and ...Unlimited access to in-game chat and mail
Influence: A little gem to try
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Grow your flock of ids and guide them to victory in this casual real-time strategy game. Influence other ids by flocking with them and outnumbering them. Create dramatic soundscapes as each id you influence adds its voice to your song. Play against computer controlled opponents or online against other humans. The demo is right here.
Modern Warfare timeline video
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Major Nelson has posted a timeline video for Modern Warfare, Watch the video below. Game’s out in six days. Grand Theft Auto V Official Trailer and a few pretty snaps
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"I wanted to retire from what I was doing, you know, from that, that line of work, be a good guy for once, a family man. So I bought a big house, I came here, put my feet up and thought I'd be a dad like all the other dads. My kids, they'd be like the kids on TV, we'd play ball and sit in the sun, but, you know how it is."
Modern Warfare 3 modes and match customization
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Activision has release a behind-the-scenes look at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer modes and match customization. In the video posted below, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer previews two of these two new multiplayer modes: Kill Confirmed and Team Defender. The team also talks about how private matches have been “significantly enhanced” to allow players to create fully customizable game modes to share with friends and the community. Modern Warfare 3 is out next week on November 8 for PC, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.
