Pay to win.  $200 to avoid sloppy coding.  Huge queues in an instanced game, inexcusable when these guys are supposed to know how to code MMOs and what to expect at launch.

This...   I tried logging in last night around 9 pm - 9K queue on each shard.  Tried this morning befoire work at 4:30 am 3500 queue.

Fuck it..   will try later

The Open Beta becomes available to everyone today, 8 hours from the time of writing. I'm looking forward to impressions from the non-Founder crowd.

Just so this is clear, there will be no more character wipes. So even though this is called a beta, it's actually just a soft launch for the game.

thanks for the heads up.  Will download today.   Heard the developer last game was f2p and was basically p2w, but I'll give this a try anyway since you're all fans

Kotaku  I was just coming here to post this.  Looks like MS is dipping thier toes back into the exclusive market

nada

Congrats to your cousin, but I hope he has thick skin and doesn't read the news.  That pick is getting skewered in the media.

It was a over-reach, imo.  I expected 2nd round.  What's done is done.  Now is time to show and prove. 

Borderlands 2 has it's hooks into me again.  Will probably work on Zer0 and Gaige in TVHM

Ravens pick up Matt Elam which I'm happy about that,  Also, my cousin was picked up by the Bills at 16.  Did not see that coming.  My family was lighting up the FB when EJ was selected.  I really expected him to go in the second round.


Btw, if people don't believe the league is changing to a passing league need to look all the OL and DE/DT picked in the first round.  Only one QB selected and no RBs.


wow

My prediction is that the Ravens will be dropping out of the first round.  It's just Ozzie style to grab more draft picks

A new vision = how we try to keep justifying you pay us for Xbox live Gold.

Yep. 3.00 a month for the best MP service in the world is tough to swallow. 

Oh, has there already been a review of the MP services for PS4 and the new Xbox? Link!

Bam,aaaaaannnnd we're off!! 

My thoughts exactly 

Well, depending on where most of you end up is the system I will be getting


Looking forward to the reveal

He should apologize for Pearl Harbor.

This..


Btw, Armageddon was a hell alot better than Deep Impact  Morgan Freeman couldn't save that crappy ass movie

I like Armageddon  

So much I brought the Criteron DVD when it was first released

The last game to scare me was F.E.A.R 1.  Alma was one scary little brat, but the ultimate scare was System Shock as the game used ambient sounds extremely well

Looking like they were both Chechen.  Muslims everywhere, sadly, will be blamed again.

I whitelisted the site awhile ago, but I would support crowdfunding too.

Heroes is dead, after they ran it into the ground it would be better if they just started an entirely new series without that baggage.

this... They killed this series when they allowed Sylar to live and making Peter too powerful

Is on the TiVo.. probably will watch tonight

Played Rise of the Hutt Cartel Expansion ..  Played some with my Shadow and Juggernaunt.  lvl raised to 55 and trade skill to 450.  More of the same, but I do enjoy the SWTOR universe and if this expansion plays out like I think the next major expansopn will have the Republic on the defensive

I never pirated a game and used to be heavy into pirated music, but this was for artist that had hard to find obscure songs (looking at you Prince).  I haven't done it in about 5 years or so.  I no longer trust torrent and I am so anal about my internet security so I just don't anymore

Nada

Swtor - picked up the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion pack, so I will be playing that Sunday.  

Maybe some FM 2013 - Just received a offer to take over Bayern in the Bundesliga, but I currently manage Tottenham and I have my team in the top three.   

Remember that one guy?  Well he's not with MS anymore:

http://kotaku.com/microsofts-adam-orth-the-always-on-tweeter-no-long-472244698

Sorry dude resign/lost his job but he had to know this wouldn't end well.


Saying that what MO posted is appearing on other sites and I wouldn't be surprised if MS is seeding these stories due to the negative press

Read it here  and the scene in question NSFW

I wonder if it was two women if Apple would have done this.  

Here's the first video of the game in motion.  There's no actual gameplay, but you get to see the characters move around an animated version of the first screenshot they released.

Watched the video this morning, but I was disappointed that the PC runs around holding the weapon.  Was hoping for sheathing and unsheathing

With the way the press conference seems to keep getting pushed back, I'm starting to think Microsoft is doing some serious backpedaling to change some of these things before they go public. Waiting this long to announce anything at all while letting rumors grow and spread about what may or may not be false information in the end, shows to me that there's probably some hold in what we're hearing and that Microsoft is now analyzing their strategy very thoroughly.

I've deliberately avoided looking into rumours - they are just that.

Fair enough, but you're dismissing the fact that these rumors are popping up from an awful lot of different sources recently, and none of them have differed even slightly in the details they've described (though some have said more than others, none have contradicted each other). You also need to consider that the vast majority of the rumors about the PS4 turned out to be true, or weren't addressed at all (which means they might still be true until we hear more about the areas of the console they were about).

Dismissing rumors is quite okay. Not listening to them even in the slightest is naive. Not saying you're wrong, just that so far it's not looking good.

I have to agree with Tilt.  These rumors are now coming from some of the bigger news organization and I am sure MS has to be rethinking this always connected to the MS server functionality.  Shit happens and losing your internet connection is one of them and not being able to play a game due to no offline capability is a deal killer for alot of people

Pushing bacck this reveal is pretty telling in my opinion

nada - might pick up Defiance on Steam.

Probably SWTOR...   

Maybe the Bioshock 1

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If you didn’t like the mini series then you probably won’t enjoy the series.  I will say I wasn’t a fan of Starbuck, being made into a woman, but it grew on me as the series went along.   

I really like the show, but grew weary towards the end especially when it went all

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meta-physical and quasi-religious

towards the end

I'd say you can consider always on a pretty much guaranteed feature:

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-creative-director-doesnt-get-the-drama-aro-470793216

Geez, I see a retraction coming from this, dude.  I can imagine that MS probably not to happy about this.  While I understand dude opinion. I rarely turn off my PC. Tablet, Laptop when connected to my network, but this feature will screw people who just don't want internet or those that just want to unplug

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Watching this series for the first time.  First season and a half are just brilliant.

Hitting a low point at the moment with the whole

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Buster loses a hand (mostly hilarious), GOB being married/not, GOB being the father of Steve Holt...etc. George still being in the attic.

Seems to be losing its way a bit.


Overall though, the characters are great, the interactions are great, the writing is sharp, the references to earlier events in the show are almost always subtly hilarious.

Don't know how I miss this show the first time around, but I've been watching on Netflix and damn this show is hilarious.

Consultant in the Data Warehousing / ETL space, currently working for the DoD helping modernize their Tricare processing.

Good luck with that... There is alot of bloat in Tricare

Regulatory Claims Analyst - primarly work with Medicare and Medicaid Recovery Audits by our dear government

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So I have more questions…

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How come Comstock is so old if he’s a version of Booker in 1912?  Shouldn’t he have been 38 too?  Was he aged due to the portals?

Scope: Bacon

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finished the game and I enjoyed it, but I have two questions

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1. How did Anna get her power?
2. Where did the bird creature come from?

Bioshock: Infinity

Might do some Dailies in SWTOR

just heard that this has been renewed 

great news

[Salt seems to drain almost instantly]

I'm not trying to troll but I'm not blown away by the 360 graphics. coming from Tomb Raider type visuals this one seems a little flat.

I feel the same way on the PS3.  Tomb Raider was way better looking. 

I miss the under water setting of Rapture, too.  Salt seems to drain almost instantly and the intro was too drawn out.  I'm hoping with some more time I will begin to enjoy it more.

I agree here, but I think the issue  will be mitigated when you get Elizabeth

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So, I spent some time with Bioshock Infinite and I am impressed,  I miss the scare of Bioshock 1 & 2, but Bioshock Infinite sparks a very different kind of emotion for me.   The ideology of the citizens of Columbia is very freaking disturbing especially the first time I had to

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throw the ball at a Irishman (I think) and a black woman

I’m a child of the civil rights era and I can remember my parents and grandparents talking about some the racist stuff presented in this game.  Thankfully, I was never really exposed to it, but seeing it presented so well in this game is a testament to Kevin Levine and 2k Games

I can understand the review scores now, but I would have to deduct a point or two for auto-saving.  Its 2013 and it needs to go away


Great game and so far early contender for GOTY

Anyone find the Steam Pre-order bonus items?

This. Not sure where they are. For example I own XCOM but I can't see it in the gift library either.

I actually got my games I'm talking in game pre order items. Kato check under inventory on the Steam interface