Recent content by shinmalothar

This is probably just to cut costs and reduce the price of the machine (if its true). Licensing blu-ray is still quite expensive and limiting a drives use probably saves a lot of money. It makes sense to me anyway. Why should Microsoft pay money to the blu-ray foundation to put blu-ray playback...

The thing about the Wii U (from what I have heard) is that the CPU and GPU have to render to two screens, the main display and the controller screen. I'm not an expert on these types of things but I'm guessing rendering completely separate visuals on two different screens can soon sap the...

Wait a minute.... Isn't Google purchasing Motorola mobility who conveniently own thousands or patents... I smell a hypocritical troll here!

I think Epic just have something against Nintendo. They point blank refused to try and get UE3 running on a 3DS yet spent time porting it to smartphones and now they are doing the same with UE4 and the WiiU. Unfortunately the UE engine is by far the most used in the industry so it will be a blow...

I remember when Half-life 2 was released and valve used the opportunity to force steam on everyone...sound familiar? Stop whining and deal with it!

The space isn't just for piracy, Microsoft confirmed that the 1gb was actually reserved for DVD video. Microsoft are removing the video partition thus restoring the 1gb. Also, Blu-ray is not the answer for consoles as it has appalling random read speeds, hence why most PS3 games require...

I guess a lot of people are forgetting the fact that blu-ray technology at the present time is awful. Apart from high storage, its slow, has shocking random read speeds (hence mandatory installations for most PS3 games to counter-act this) and is still too expensive (even despite the recent...

I like the way that they are completely ignoring the fact that gamers can still use gamepads while being tracked by the kinect cameras, kinect isnt just a new way to interact, it can also be used to enhance gamepad based gameplay.

segio526And I know that the PS3 only uses 6 of the SPEs, but again, when they first started cranking out Cells, they yields were much too low, so they finalized on 1 PPE and 6 SPEs. If a chip came off the line with a damaged SPE, it was still good to go. If all 7 SPEs were in tact, they just...

xbeaterI don't understand why they only do the xbox first. If it is an entire game I can understand, as a marketing strategy, but if you buy this you already have the game on a platform.anyone get what im saying? I'm pretty sure it comes out on 360 first because Microsoft hand Activision some...

Rough translation: Were sick of 2,000,000 playing our games online but only receiving a 3rd of the sales.

Looking like a tool - the price we pay for being green!