5-25


$13.60

5 Heroes to expect.  they also list 5 that it will take a miracle to show up, and of those 5 4 seem pretty much like wishful thinking and 1, Black Panther, I think has a better shot of showing up than the first 3 'heroes to expect'.

script re-write is under way to make things fit better with the current MCU.

 

Don't think i will be gaming this weekend,Star Trek and Arrested Development(Sunday) for me

Yeah, Arrested Development on Sunday! I gotta re-activate my Netflix this weekend for it. 

oh yeah, that's Sunday ain't it....

I guess I'd probably have to say something like Football or TRON: Flying Discs were my first video game purchases, for my Intellivision II, somewhere around 1982. 
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/hardware/intelli2_tech.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Deadly_Discs

wow, I remember that game.   I wanted it but we never got the Intellivision console to play it on.  we were an Atari 2600 family.  One friend had an Intellivision and another a Colecovision, so I'd occasionally get to check out the games on those consoles.

oh, and the Defiance free weekend is live.

5-24


$3.74

I heard to play used games you need to sacrifice a Mexican...

aye carumba!

Is...is that a lightsaber on the Gorn's belt?

hopefully that and not some alien pleasure device....

been thinking about it, and I think the first game I ever bought with my own money was for the C-64:

they're advertising a marathon for this on Monday; the first 6 episodes starting at 4pm est.

supposedly it is also going to be free to play this weekend, but they haven't posted anything about it yet. 

More rumours about the used game thing,they sound ridiculous
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-24-this-is-how-xbox-one-game-trade-ins-will-work-apparently

If you want to trade in an Xbox One game you will need to find a shop that has agreed to Microsoft's terms and is therefore connected to the Xbox One cloud.

The game will be registered as traded in and will be wiped from your Xbox Live account. The shop can resell it for whatever price it likes but the game's publisher now takes a cut and so does Microsoft, a source-based MCV report revealed.

Anyone buying that second-hand game will need to pay an activation fee of £35, a separate unconfirmed report on ConsoleDeals.co.uk claimed.

as said New Games cost £39.99

The same report [did not say a shop's cut from that second-hand sale could be as low as 10 per cent -Bertie] said shops could be forced to sell second-hand games at a maximum discount of 10 per cent.

Combine that measly 10 per cent discount and the £35 activation fee and you have figures that add up to not much sense at all for the shopper.

Yesterday on Major Nelson's site,someone said new retail games would be $79.99,not sure where he has heard that from,but i hope its bollocks...or perhaps he meant Australian Dollars(which i think is what they are priced at anyway)

they updated that article:

Update: You, the shopper, won't have to pay the activation fee for a used Xbox One game - the shop will. Therefore, the price you see on a second-hand Xbox One game in a shop is the price you'll pay to be able to play it.

That's what a high-ranking UK industry source explained to me this afternoon.

The reason there's all this confusion is because Microsoft hasn't decided what the activation fee will be yet. The £35 figure reported in the story below sounds too high - perhaps it includes the shop's sale price as well.

My source confirmed that part of that activation fee will go to a publisher and part to Microsoft.

What this means for second-hand games is that Microsoft effectively controls how much they cost, because it controls the activation fee. Whether that fee will move up or down or diminish over time isn't clear. But it does mean second-hand games will probably be more expensive than they are now.

My source didn't know what Sony was up to but doubts the PlayStation maker will do the same thing, not because it's angelic but because it lacks the kind of pricey infrastructure something like this requires.

I never owned one, but heard the playstation and ps2 were good consoles.  I loved the Ps3.

I am ordering as soon as pre orders are available.  I am confident Sony will deliver an excellent console.  I also like Sony peripherals. 

There controller charger and headset were pretty nice and worked well.

I wonder how they are going to make them not work with the PS4 so I have to buy new stuff, heh.   
(Which is fine with me, I like new stuff, as long as it is better then my old stuff.)

MORGUL LIVES!!!  you never call, you never write... it's like we mean nothing to you!!!

The thing I remember most about the animated Star Trek series was that they carried an inflatable Enterprise around with them for some reason. 



I kid you not.

OMG, I think I remember seeing bit of an episode with that....

Quicklsilver doing double duty? or maybe no Avengers duty?

We don't have that many Legos with us.  We could give you 2 million now, plus 15 million once we get it to Times Square.

win.

For my Apple IIc:

not my first, but it was the first and only time I accidentally grabbed the wrong version of a game.  Meant to grab the C64 version but grabbed the Apple one.  Busted my ass to get back to the store before it closed, got lucky and got in 5 minutes after closing since Sears apparently didn't lock up their doors right away.  found out they didn't have an C64 copies, so I got a refund and ended up having to find another computer game store that took about 45 minutes to bike to in order to find a copy.  ah, the good old days of having 3-4 versions of software all jumbled together on the shelf.

Cloud DRM? Explain how what their (assumed) DRM strategy has anything to do with cloud computing, or how you feel their DRM differs from today's XBLA and full download titles.

maybe they've decided they own cloud.

I heard to play used games you need to sacrifice a Mexican...

did some more looking up at the animated series and wait.. where's Chekov?  did the cat girl and dog boy eat him?



oh, this explains it:

Yet the studio couldn't afford the entire cast, so Chekov (William Koenig) was replaced by a three-armed, three-legged alien named Lt. Arex. Sadly, Koenig didn't find out about the snub until he heard the announcement with everyone else at a convention. Yet Koenig was able to participate. He wrote an episode for the show called "The Infinite Vulcan," becoming the first (but not last) Star Trek actor to write for Trek.

ouch.

LOL..



(yes yes, 'orrible spelling!)

Oh,i did a search on Netflix for Star Trek The Animated Series and they have it,so will fit them in with all these series

wasn't that one supposed to be horrible?

oooo... will have to check this out.  thanks!

I used to love Wilma Deering as well

she was hawt.

and it had another funny monster(I wont be laughing when its depleteing my Salt!!)

aren't they all funny though?

Nah, some of us just wait for the GOTY year version to hit $20.  The real thing is that if you want to play online with all your friends, you're heavily incentivized to get it on Day 1

or wait for the 'Premium' deal to come out..

I still have my GTA4 lockbox, key chain and duffel bag.

I found the duffel bag, the rest is MIA.

if you were watching The Americans then you probably remember odd commercials for a show called The Bridge, which is FX's latest cop drama.  now if this was another network, I'd roll my eyes at the idea of another cop drama, but FX has rarely had a miss.  granted, this is adapted from some other foreign TV show, but if they didn't want us to steal it then they shouldn't have made it in the first place.  'MURICA!


what's it about?

Set on the border between El Paso and Juarez, The Bridge centers on two detectives, one from the United States and one from Mexico, who must work together to hunt down a serial killer operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.

of course this being FX I doubt things will be that simple, and even if the character descriptions sound typical for this type of show I'm willing to give them the chance to show where the story will go.

they should have called it Far Cry One.

Fails to pull it off. The dog is too tall.

and it should be a Fox...

okay,okay,i'm getting my coat 

yeah, you're on shaky ground.

The biggest hurdle they may have to deal with is pissing off Chris Taylor and/or whoever owns the TA IP.  The demo video is basically TA on a larger scale.

just saw that Atari still owns the IP, and it's up for sale at a low cost of $250,000.  I wonder if they have any money to spare.

they updated the main site.  it's NFS Rivals, play as a cop or a racer.

yep, it's real.