Eh, I've decided to take a long term wait-and-see approach to AoW3, ever since the initial release disappointed me. It's nice that they're adding new victory conditions, but to really grab me they'll have to flesh out the empire-building and diplomacy sides of the game. I've heard they plan to do that though, so looking forward to where they take it.
[quote]Those who smoke weed and I speak from personal experience have a way of concentrating on the project at hand.[/quote] Having worked in science for over 2 decades, I can say that the number of brilliant scientists (and also the not-so-brilliant ones) who light up regularly is... large...
[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="10" id="3466916"]Hoping its not too steep $.[/quote] Pre-order price on Steam and promotional price upon release at Matrix's website is $50 for the digital version, $60 for digital + box copy. After the promotional period it will go to its regular price of $60/$70. If they buy through the Matrix store, owners of the original game(s) get $10 off per previous game/expansion they own, which brings the price down to $10/$20 if
Knowing cats, it probably intended to eat the child later itself, and it was merely annoyed that the dog tried to steal its food source. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
One of my favourite games in many, many years. I hope a lot more people will check it out now!
I love seeing smart people using technology to genuinely make the world a better place!
Awesome video, Jafo.
That's one of the million (billion? trillion?) dollar questions in biology. How many ways are there for life to function? Other life (at least as we define it) will almost certainly be carbon-based, but will it also be based on nucleic and amino acids? There's evidence that amino acids form very readily in abiotic environments, so there's a good chance that while maybe not all life in the universe is based on them, that a lot wil
I can't say enough good things about CK2. When it first came out it blew my mind as to what was possible in a computer game. If someone had presented it to me as a proposal for a game, I would have laughed and said there was no way it would be possible to make the mechanics work and make them fun. But they did it. Boy did they do it. It's also a rabbit-hole of a game. As it progresses you'll uncover all sorts of additional mechanics that come
Yes, one of the fundamental mechanisms of life on our planet is that each generation throws some variability into the mix. What's a "disease" in one setting may be the savior of the species in another. Every generation throws a set of darts at a dartboard. Most of the darts land safely somewhere on the board, but some unfortunate darts end up as outliers. However, the dartboard is always moving, usually slowly but sometimes quickly. Occasionally what would have been an outlier bef
This isn't a new revelation. MS actually makes about $2 billion per year from Android royalties.
The steampunk aspects seem limited to the Dreadnought class. I'm sure you can configure your opponents in the game setup, so you can probably just make sure none of them are Dreadnoughts.
We do a massive amount of GPU computing at our company (we have an entire GPU cluster). The problem for NVidia is that we, and everyone else, have discovered that we can get as good performance with the consumer level cards as we can with the high-end professional ones. They've recently modified their driver EULA to try to prevent this, but it doesn't surprise me that they're also addressing it by simply increasing prices and/or rebranding. That being said, the
Count me in as one of those "ignorant" people who are looking forward to this. 4 more days!
CK2 and EU4 were pretty good in terms of release quality, unlike earlier Paradox games. Edit: From what I've been able to tell by reading the Paradox forums over the past few years, it interestingly traces back to Magicka. That game (which Paradox distributed) was a sleeper hit for them, generating far more revenue than anticipated. That bought them some financial wiggle room to only release CK2 once it was very polished. CK2 then got a great reception and
They're definitely playing it safe, I can't argue there.
New video up showing the Theocrat and a city siege battle. www.youtube.com/embed/Z4Su5M7FKNE
You people are still on about this? Don't you have more constructive things to do? ;)
Let's see, the US federal government under both parties has been infested with ex-financial industry people (Goldman-Sachs in particular is very well represented). Should we be surprised that US policy not only facilitates but encourages large corporations avoiding taxes? Here's a fun story: I'm a Canadian citizen who currently lives in the US and pays US taxes, as is my oldest brother. Over Christmas my parents had severe health issues. Despite the fact
I'm not sure tasers themselves have been a beneficial technological advance in the first place. Before their deployment, with only lethal force as the alternative, officers had to approach situations with a modicum of reason and caution. Now, the default response just seems to be "taser everyone involved, and sort it out later." Old lady jaywalking and didn't hear you tell her to stop? TASER THE B!^CH!
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I'd offer to temp for her for a few minutes, and collect her salary during that time, but I'm not sure it'd be worth it for having to deal with her...
Distant Worlds Civilization (I) Master of Magic Master of Orion (I) Civilization IV
Results of a survey at the Game Developers Conference:
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