Recent content by Scops

I wonder if this is the same PR/Marketing staff that decided to put an unskippable ad in NFS: Hot Pursuit. I completely ignored Shift 1 because it didn't have any evasion/pursuit elements to it (I am an unrepentant arcade racer fan. To heck with sims) Thanks to that ad, I think I will be...

As an IT person in an organization that uses Office Communicator (the predecessor to Lync), I could totally envision a scenario when my boss would ask me to vid-conference in because he saw me online playing Gears on a Kinect'ed 360. This scenario terrifies me. Teleconferencing solutions...

Kotick's been at Activision's helm since 1991. The guy must know the taste of his own foot pretty well by now, but that doesn't change the fact he's led his company to the top. To us, he's a bastard, but to his shareholders, he's a hero. Although, looking at the litigation in Robert...

Yes, despite the title of this article, it doesn't fill me with the same dread as articles describing Activision or EA's latest maneuverings. Developers will always talk up their publishers in order to maintain good relations, but it has always seemed to me that Zenimax's praise is a little...

In the game's defense (and I love this game, but agree with most of your criticisms), if you go online and perform well in one episode(?) of Terror is Reality, you can easily net yourself ~$65k, enough to purchase two doses of Zombrex and start you on your way to a third. I don't normally...

"Komoto says the reason there is a time limit on accumulating XP for each character class is so that players with more time on their hands don't gain an advantage over those whose time is more limited." Isn't that an advantage in ANY activity? I mean sure, here XP is a stand-in for actual...

I've been coming back to this one a few times over the last few days: "You can never go home... but you can shop there." -Gross Pointe Blank

It's all about context. If you're a teacher at an elementary school and volunteer at the church in your spare time, then no. It's not okay to swear with anything approaching regularity. If you work in my office, no one will think less of you for not swearing, but you're %*(! sure not going...

They are right to tell you to keep playing, but don't get your hopes up too high. I was pretty disappointed in the ending. (Including the trigger for the actual credit roll) The missions leading up to it (that you've already done) just killed the narrative momentum. I know they had their...

This thread makes developers cheer and publishers weep. OT: Final Fantasy Tactics was one of those games I always had the urge to play every couple of years. I was thrilled to see they remastered it for the PSP. Also, an old friend heard that I still had Bloody Roar 2 for the PSX and...

Jawless zombies can still infect you though, if they get the top set of teeth into your skin and their saliva drips in the wound. Fair warning...

Oldboy. Anyone who's seen this Korean movie (there's an American remake in the works, shudder) will simply nod their head at that one. I can't see everything leading UP to the ending, because the ending tainted the whole movie for me. Gaaah.

http://gizmodo.com/5442625/project-natal-consumes-just-15-per-cent-of-the-xboxs-cpu-power Given that devs will be strapped to 85% of the CPU power whenever the Natal unit's doing its thang, I doubt we will see many AAA titles with it truly integrated. From what I've heard, the tech...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26191/QA_West_Meets_East_Makoto_Shibata_On_Quantum_Theory.php Some fuel for this fire.

My memory could be faulty, but in British English, wouldn't "two-thousand AND ten" be two-thousand and ten one-hundreths? (2000.10 or 2000,10 depending on where you live) I thought I heard that in elementary school. Anyway, the argument of "that's what they said back in the day" is not...