According to the Wiki, the series was renewed for a 2nd season:

The series was renewed for a second season of 13 episodes on October 17, 2012.

I'm very glad for it, because I felt it's one of the better shows I've followed on TV in a while. Nice that they've also increased the episode count from 10 to 13 for the 2nd.

I may try to resist the hype for this, but already the chant is starting to build.

Genius

Agreed, that's an awesome catch for a snippet of a film that works for this.   

If I recall, Halo Reach actually had decent space fighter combat, and good looking space gameplay. I didn't play it myself, others can chime in on that. So Bungie is no stranger to space combat gameplay.

There was space combat, but having played through the game 3 times now I have to say it's nothing to get excited about. In fact I feel the space combat in Star Wars Battlefront 2 was better in just about every way.

I can't say I like this aspect of it:

As a co-op-focused, persistent-world shooter, Destiny will require an internet connection to play on all platforms, whether you choose to play solo or with others. Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg says that the "desire for connectivity is the only way to realize the vision of the game," and denied rumors of a subscription fee to play the game.

This rings of CoD BLOPS where XBL Gold was required just to play split-screen co-op against bots. I realize this game will have much more in its co-op experience, but it still ends up being a bad deal for the player who just wants to play along with their buddy sitting on the couch beside them.

Otherwise I like everything I've read about this game. I'm also very glad to hear they're doing it on the 360 and PS3 instead of next gen. I would have been skeptical Bungie could milk the kind of graphic fidelity they're aiming at out of the 360 up until Halo Reach, which IMO looked every bit as good as Halo 4 yet performed much better. It's a new franchise, so I'll wait and see, but I'm betting I end up getting this the 1st week it's out.

Sweet, I noticed the co-op patch is in the GOG version. Since that was an official patch from Looking Glass Studios, I wonder if it's even available now? I'm thinking I'm probably going to pull the trigger on the GOG version for that alone.

Awesome that someone is finally retailing it again. I still have my CD-ROM in storage, so I doubt I'll buy it from GOG. I think some will be challenged to get past the graphics even with the the hi-rez patch. The sound and pacing IMO was what really made it stand out. I'm wondering if the GOG version will have the co-op patch and a way to host it by IP connect? It's been a long time since I played it that way, but IIRC it only supported dial-up connections or LAN connections over IPX.  

Watched the game in the pub tonight and loved it. Heckuva great game for Cammalleri.  

Matt Cooke claims another victim: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=415943

FWIW I don't think it was intentional, but that is a devastating injury.

Yeah I saw that, very nasty and a major blow to the Senators who were already limping as a team. I'm beginning to think that on a subconscious level Cooke can't help himself from causing shit like that. I'm sure it was accidental, but on the other hand it seems pretty damn reckless to make a downward slicing motion with your skate when you're that close in on the boards with another player.

How much yah wanna bet that Don Cherry rags on Cookie next Saturday for being a reckless fool.  

Melting poles for sure, I just love boating and swimming. 

I think the settings and themes in the G and T canons have been visited and rehashed to death.

That's not how the canon layers work. When the new movies come out, no matter what topic or theme they cover, they'll be part of the G canon. The canon layers don't restrict the content that can be placed in them. It's merely a way for the license holders to organize and prioritize the enormous amounts of lore that exists for Star Wars.

Maybe someone should have explained that to George Lucas. 

Don't you mean LucasFilm? LucasArts is their game company division

Yep I meant Lucas Films, but Lucas Arts chucking it as well would probably improve things too.

they could make a game where you go back in time and alter events to fit a proper timeline.

I love it and want to play it! If you were able to delete out that crappy episode that occurred about 1000 BY, involving a bunch of goofy and annoying kids with names like Bug, that would be very cool.

I'm personally more interested in a movie that draws on sources found in the C-Canon. I think the settings and themes in the G and T canons have been visited and rehashed to death. I'd like them to go forward with something like the Thrawn Trilogy or  go far backward to a time and place set in the Old Republic.

And while on the subject of the canon hierarchy, IMO the 1st thing  Disney should do is make sure Lucas Arts chucks it.

If they had called it, the 49ers would've gotten 4 more plays. Defensive holding or a pass interference is an automatic first down.

Doh! Yeah, I was having a brain dead moment there - it's the same in the CFL, but only 3 more plays.

Lame pass interference no call in the endzone and lame holding no call on the safety.  But niners put themselves in this situation in the first half and letting Jones score on the kickoff


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Actually it was Defensive holding on the last play because the infraction occurred before the ball was thrown iirc.  The (offensive)pass interference no call was when the receiver threw the defender down.  So they were both guilty but the first one should have negated the second.   Zero chance they make that call in that situation though unless it's just blatant.  I thought the bigger no calls were all the punches being thrown during the numerous mix ups.  Regular season game and at least 2 players would have been tossed.

You guys have a better perspective on it than I do and I'm only a casual NFL viewer, but I can tell you that there's absolutely no way in a CFL game (Cup final or not) that Baltimore would have escaped without a penalty on that play. The CFL's rules on pass interference are virtually identical to the NFL's, so I was surprised a flag wasn't thrown. That makes sense though from the perspective of a  CFL fan, because the CFL flavor of football is more of a passing game.  I'm not sure the 9'ers would have scored on an ensuing play anyways, because the Ravens seemed to be mucho fired up defensively at that point.

Is that Holmes in the back on the right. If so, why does he look so much like STNG's Data?  

Otherwise, sounds like this should be decent game.

I'll be moving to the next gen with the next Xbox, but I won't buy one until it's been on the market for at least a year - might even wait longer. Halo became my favorite console franchise this gen, so I need the system that plays it. That said, I'll probably get a new PC before I get my next Xbox. I just don't game enough anymore to justify buying the other 2 consoles.

Wow! That was 1 of the weirdest and 1 of the best games I've ever watched. Love that the Lewis legacy went out with a bang.

The lights going out are baffling to me. How the Hell do they manage to screw up the electricity for 1 of the most important sporting events in the US?!?  

Meh, I always say wait 20 games into a season before you start getting excited about or bemoaning your team's performance. This season is only 48 games long so make that 12 games now. So with that in mind, most teams aren't even half way to that number yet. It's a short season, but there's still lots of hockey left.

I've played this before and really enjoyed it - easily one of the best SciFi themed boardgames I've ever played. It also had Corey Konieczka behind it, who's my favorite game designer for games with card-based play mechanics. The only downer for this game is that it was published by FFG who isn't very friendly to fan-made projects for their boardgames, so consequently there's no Vassel module for it. The other downer is the cost of a used copy.

I hope the IPs fare better than they did when 3DO was carved up.  I'm still waiting on High Heat Baseball.  Microsoft has been sitting on it for a decade.

Looking Glass Studios (RIP 2000) is another company whose IP's didn't survive the butcher block too well. Since their demise - only 1 Thief game in 13 years, the Flight Unlimited code deep in forgotten storage at EA  and a Janes Attack Squadron that ends up being a complete piece of crap! All of those series consistently turned out AAA titles before the carving up of LG.

I'm not sure how I feel about Koch Media buying Volition and Metro.  Deep Silver isn't exactly a publishing powerhouse and they generally put out niche games, buggy games, and weird Eastern European stuff.  Some of which is really cool, but none of which is as polished or mass market as something like Saints Row The Third.

Not to mention that their movie distribution branch has releases a lot of products that are of dubious quality. Overall I don't see them as a company too concerned about quality.

I'm skeptical about Sega buying Relic - they decimated so many of their own studios with bad policies and practices. I have some concerns for relic such as unrealistic dev cycles and poorer quality due to products being rushed to market. Creative Assembly does seemed to have maintained their quality under them, so hopefully whatever relationship the have with Sega will transfer to Relic.

Not that it matters too much, because with just 11 days left it's looking like it won't make the $50k goal.

As noted, it certainly can matter as this is a "flexible funding campaign" which means they keep your money no matter how far short of the goal they fall. Be curious as to what you find out.

Exactly. My thinking was with only 10 days left, who here is going to fund it anyways,as the goal doesn't look achievable and you won't be getting a refund if they fall short. I'm curious if my my fellow gamer knows about this too; I'm thinking if he hasn't heard about it, this has next to no credibility.

I was thinking it would be Joseph Kosinski who'd get the job, but I'm very happy to here it's Abrams. He has 1 quality that I think is very important for any Star Wars film at this point - a director that can also write. Hopefully this will see an end to some of the terrible, wooden dialog that plagued Eps 1 - 3.

The gamestop.ca online store for Canadian customers has being doing digital sales of PC games for about 2 years now. I think you can still buy the odd hardcopy PC at their online store, but they're the exception and about 99% is digital only. They also stopped shelving PC games in their EB stores in any significant way about 2 - 3 years ago.

One of my fellow gamers in our BattleTech miniatures group was a designer on Howeworld2.  Since working on HW2 he's kept in touch with a lot of the HW fan base. We're gaming next Friday so I'll see if he has any in depth info just how legit TeamPixel and this fundraiser is. Not that it matters too much, because with just 11 days left it's looking like it won't make the $50k goal.

I won't be surprised if this happens in Canuckistan too where the stores are still named Electronics Boutique. In the past few years they've been up against new, stiff  competition from Futureshop and Best Buy who started offering preowned games. They still seem to be doing good business at all the stores I've visited recently  in my city. Their preowned games are almost always the best deal for me because the membership card that I pay $5 annually for gets me an extra discount which usually beats FS and BB for price.

I'll personally won't be happy to see them go, because with few exceptions the stores and staff in my city are good. I especially like the store nearest to me where just about every staff member is a young women. It's probably just me, being middle aged and all, but talking with a young women who really knows her stuff about videogames never gets old.

Are these rankings of the most anticipated?  If so, wow that Tomb Raider ranks in only at 10th  behind 2 PS3 exclusives and a WiiU and PC exclusive. I've seen nothing but heaps of interest in that game on sites across the Internet. It's certainly in my top 3.

The..eh..Loremaster of Tamriel talks about the various factions.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/21/meet-loremaster-lawrence-the-elder-scrolls-online/#more-139050

The warring alliances is about the stupidest thing I've heard so far for this MMO. Yeah I get it, ex DAoC team members wanting to remake the RvR realms with Cyrodil as the center piece prize now - <sigh>. My problems with this is that IMO it doesn't fit well with the ES canon. As well, the grouping they've made for the factions, if using racial types from the video games, wouldn't work very well - particularly the Aldmeri Dominion. That says to me that the dev team is likely nerfiing some races to create balance - wimpier Redguards and Nords for now Uber High Elves who suddenly excel at some forms of combat. Nerfed races was one of the biggest problems with DAoC and it looks like they're set to repeat.

Aside my other gripes with this like class based/restricted characters and the alliance concept, the premise and story elements I've seen so far just seem ill conceived - I swear the simple campaign my son's thrown together for the Elder Scrolls Pen'n'Paper he GM's is better than this stuff! I wish I could be more excited and positive about this, but it just keeps looking more and more to me to be some fantasy-based  MMORPG with a ES skin thrown over it. Wow, what a disappointment that Bethesda would let such an imagination-challenged team take the reigns for this.

I'm really enjoying this game and I've been playing F2P, although I did use some SOE credits left over from EQII to unlock the Dark Elf and Druid class. I've just cracked lvl 20 with one of my toons, so I really haven't felt too restricted for either. My only real problem with the game is the lag, which is particularly bad on my system at times. From what I've read the degree of lag seems to vary from system to system - some get lots and some get next to zero. The great news is that the dev team have a plan to tackle the lag. Apparently the game was developed with the Unreal 3 engine which has craptastic networking code for large populations. What the dev team has in the works is to replace it with the newer networking code that was developed for Planetside 2 and few other SOE games. That's supposed to happen in the 1st half of this year.

And now it truly is free to play as the producer explains in this link

Speaking of larger tasks in the background, we have been working on something that has come up multiple times in threads on the forums. That is, how do we make it even easier for people to come back to Vanguard to see all the changes that we’ve been making? Well, after a lot of discussion and debate, we’ve decided to do something pretty awesome. We have decided to expand and improve on the free- to-play offering for Vanguard. That means everyone can play any race, any class, to any level for free. You can also own a house, create guilds, and do a bunch of other things. Why did we decide to do this? Because we all believe that once you start playing the game without restrictions, you’ll want to keep playing and will find our Membership option to be an even greater value!

Every race and every character to max level is pretty damn good. I'd been reading in threads on various forums for a while how the management of Vanguard was putting their foot down with SOE. The issue has apparently been their unwillingness to let their game go the way of EQ II which has been an epic failure with its approach to F2P. Looks like they've won that battle. I've got to say I've been really impressed with the folks they have running the show for this game. I can't remember a MMO where the staff are so present and vocal in forums.

I actually really love it.  People are turned off by the edgy style of the revamped Dante, but I actually enjoy it for what it is.

That would work for me. I'm guessing they realized the went too far in the other direction with their anime series. The Dante in that had almost no edge whatsoever and what little there was they ground off with a goofy/annoying kid that shacked up with him. If this has more of a noir vibe to his character I could see myself enjoying it.

Of the entire series, I've only played the original on PS2 which I beat and enjoyed. That said, I can't say I enjoyed the controls a lot and there were times when it almost reminded me of the earlier Resident Evils. From the previews I've seen of this newer game, they looked to have addressed all of the shortcomings with controls. Of course I haven't played DMC4 either, so for all I know the better controls may have started with that version.

Is this game a retelling of the original game's story, or a different story?

Directors Cut all the way on this. I'm 99.99% sure that's the version I have (currently in storage) and I felt it was much better than the theatrical which I went to see in the theater 3 times back in the day.

I've seen previews for this and it's very much peaked my interest.  I just need to find out if it's been aired on any of the networks here in the Great White North.

More Hobbit.

What was been shown at that link? Silly Hulu won't let me view it because I live in Canuckistan.

Right now I'm torn between this and the new Fate system and its games. Both have a nice emphasis on storytelling, SWEotE with its dice abstraction, and Fate with its give and take, story as character sheet elements.

It's funny how prices have steadily climbed on RPGs in the last decade. People told me I was insane when I put out a 320 page HC book for 40 bucks, but here we are with 60 dollar books, 100 dollar box sets etc. (of course there's much, much more to it than just price point, I just find it interesting).

You're talking FFG pricing there though, who IMO really milk their customers on RPG product costs.

Someone brought the SWEotE beginners box to our last game meet, so we played the starter adventure. It didn't click with me at all - no surprise because WFRP 3 didn't either. There's no way I'd chose this over FATE. If I didn't already have RPG systems that I could run a good Star Wars campaign with, I'd be more inclined to homebrew one with FATE than use this system. To each their own though, and at least 2 of the regulars at our game meet enjoyed it.

Holy crap Eel Snave, talk about diggin up the dead thread!

I completed Spirit Tracks too and enjoyed it every bit as much. IMO 2 of the best handheld games this gen.

Wow Ravens, just wow! I love the drama of the Lewis legacy keeps rollin - you couldn't hire writers to come up with better stuff than that.   

Guys. GUYS. Why are you even arguing? Your teams are minor league compared to what Jeremy Jacobs is doing. He's giving THREE FREE (non-alcoholic) CONCESSIONS to each fan for every game in January. I'm buying a ticket to every game because there's no way I will ever get three free $10 hot dogs again.

WOW that's pretty dam sad! Even the cubic millimeter of generosity Mr. Jacobs is offering, would evaporate for me with the Non-Alcoholic part!   The Canucks have so many automatons/fans dying to see a game, that I'm betting about all they'll offer is opening the doors 5 minutes earlier so the die-hards won't have to stand out in the cold so long.    The Canuck's Management are so pwnd by the Abbotsford Heat and Vancouver Giants in fan appreciation, it's not even funny.

I bought if off Steam just a year or 2 ago for about $3. I also applied the Grey Wolves patch, but it made load times terrible. If  I return to playing it I'm not sure I'll keep that patch. It's a excellent game for what I played of it, but I admittedly didn't play many missions.

There are a number of cautions about load times in the GWX documentation. However, since my rig has an Intel i7-2600s processor the load times are quite reasonable. And the frame rate even when I'm at the bridge station is better than 350, so that's not a problem either .

I was running it on our older rig with just a dual core and a GeForce GS250 and the framerates were perfectly fine. That rigs connected to a 1080p HDTV and I actually had to turn on vsync to prevent screen tearing. So no problems once a mission was loaded, but painful while it was loading.

I bought if off Steam just a year or 2 ago for about $3. I also applied the Grey Wolves patch, but it made load times terrible. If  I return to playing it I'm not sure I'll keep that patch. It's a excellent game for what I played of it, but I admittedly didn't play many missions.

Leia's got the Force thing down, but there hasn't really been a history of the Force helping people pilot ships in the Star Wars galaxy.

Well, except for Anakin being referred to as a fantastic pilot in the original trilogy and then, you know, actually flying a ship and dealing the tide-turning shot as a little kid.

It's been quite a while since I read it, but IIRC Gav and Jori Daragon's piloting abilities were supposed to be effected by the force in DHC's Tales of the Jedi series.