Recent content by Alek The Great

Wait, what are you doing in downtown Vancouver?? Have you been living here all this time? That comment just caught me off-guard almost as much as (years ago) finding out that LRR folks were based out of Victoria. Well, I suppose it's just neat. OT: I've only had weed and "stories" (usually...

I think there is a mistake here. Epic sold the Gears of War IP to Microsoft a while ago and the developer of Gears of War 4 is The Coalition (aka Black Tusk Studios), so not sure why Epic is referenced here? The source didn't mention Epic games in any shape or form either.

It is free as in free to play. I'm in the beta right now and while I can't really say much because of NDA, I can say that I've never felt like I have to pay to progress so far and have been having a good time with it.

I actually really enjoyed Arkham Knight as well, but felt the Batmobile was handled terribly. It was alright for driving around and some of the riddler puzzles/races with it were ok, but the tank battles completely destroyed the pacing for me and while I never got bored of the incredibly...

I don't disagree that it feels like things have slowed down, but I certainly wouldn't say that nothing's moved forward in the past 3 years. We had the Tomb Raider reboot and AC IV come out both of which I felt had progressed in some way, the former modernizing a franchise (it had its flaws...

Except if I remember correctly the PS Vita port was in early development (if at all even in development) when MS bought the IP and they still continued developing for it.

You do get fallout 3 immediately (or, well, a few days after you have preordered the game online at most). What happens is you get a redeem code that you punch in either on the Xbox site (where you preordered the game in the first place) or on a 360 if you have one. You can immediately start...

Yes, both digital and physical games are part of the backwards compatibility. For digital releases, a whole bunch of the digital 360 games I have just showed up in my "Ready for Download" section on my Xbox One and I just selected which I wanted, no other steps necessary. For physical...

Can't have been new hardware when I have the first version of the Xbone running 360 games at this very moment.

I've been trying this out for the past few hours and all of the supported games have been working great. I also just copied all my saves from my 360 to my cloud saves and could carry on from where I left off without a hitch. I hope devs and publishers get on board and give the green light for...

Aww man... There's less and less support for split screen and this is just ridiculous.

Josh Holmes said in a tweet in December that there is 2-player split screen, but I'm not sure if that's changed. I'm also not sure where people get the no split-screen info from because that GameInformer article that's linked doesn't seem to indicate that? I still would very much prefer...

If I'm not mistaken, it's 4-player split screen that's out and instead there's only 2-player split screen for both coop and multiplayer, which is a bummer but is the only thing they've changed compared to previous Halo entries in terms of features (unless they drop forge and theatre mode for...

There is a downside to client-server DRM and that is that people can't host their own games and, once official servers are taken down, the multiplayer experience is absolutely dead as well. So many multiplayer games can't be archived for this reason which only hurts the art-form as we might not...

Internet.exe also gave me a lovely surprise. I had my phone speaker on full blast and all of a sudden dial-up tones came on and freaked the hell out of me. Ah, the good old days of yelling at people to get off the phone so you can send an email. More on topic: I thought it was hilarious, but...