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    BioShock 2 Disappears From All Digital Marketplaces - Update

    I was a little bit worried when I read this, because I had an old 2k humble bundle copy that was sitting unredeemed. Went and redeemed it; seems to have worked ok.
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    CliffyB: Microtransaction is Not a Dirty Word, EA is Not The Bad Guy

    The problem with microtransactions is that they usually don't make games better. Let's go through the individual types of microtransactions and what is wrong with each one: Microtransactions make single-player games easier: These are the microtransactions that let you skip stages, give you...
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    Supersoldiers

    I've always thought the worst thing about the supersoldier plot, aside from the overuse, is that the supersoldiers are always an idiot's idea of a perfect soldier. They're usually big, strong, dumb, slow, and difficult to kill. The thing is, in the modern military, those disadvantages are huge...
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    System Requirement Checks: Why?

    The most frustrating thing about these checks is when they are either wrong or obsolete. The most obvious example of this is games that complain to core 2 duo or quad owners that they don't have a processor with enough mhz to run something that was designed for a pentium 4. However, I've had...
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    Crimes against gaming

    First of all, the major ones. The things that can, individually, stop me from buying a game, regardless of the game's merit. 1. Fixed controls. This is non-negotiable: you must let me remap my controls in every game and let me use arbitrary control devices. Computers have done this for...