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As far as I can remember from my music theory classes, the types of vibrations of a medium (air, in our case) are technically defined as one of sound, rhythm, or music. Sound occurs in nature with or without human intervention but does not follow rules defined by a human for the sole purpose...

I loved Mirror's Edge despite it being totally not the kind of game I usually play. It's weird, it's not even a great game technically, but I just loved it. I really hope Mirror's Edge 2 is not an Xbone exclusive. I don't think it will be, it would be a bad marketing decision anyway, but if...

I think Frostbite is reasonably versatile. Hawkeye already pointed out a list of games that use it: Most of them are of the FPS variety, but some different games are starting to appear (C&C). I think I've even heard that they were considering it for a golf game (it simulates foliage and...

I personally would really like to see a movie adaptation of "1602". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_1602 ... but it will probably never happen.

1. System Shock (the first one) 2. Starcraft 3. Counterstrike Although Neverwinter Nights and the Wing Commander series are pretty close to making the top three too. I still play System Shock on DOSBox. Every now and then I just fire it up and play it start to finish. I don't know why, I...

When I play RPGs which let me customize characters, I always create at least five with these names. In Skyrim they are: Karl the Bronze Lion - Redguard sword&shield warrior Luna the Elf - High Elf wizard (he's male despite the name) Diomedes the Dragonslayer - Imperial two-handed warrior...

True. MovieBob has it wrong, but it could be intentional, as an ironic attack to people always pronouncing any word in any language with English sounds. Who knows. Also, proprietary memory cards... that seems a bad decision to me. However, if you want to run games from those, it's possible...

Hm... definitely one of these three, or maybe all of them. On an IBM PC in '86. Digger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29 Alley cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_%28video_game%29 Galactic Gladiators: (sadly, not popular enough to have a wikipedia page...

I almost cried at However, I did actually shout "NOOOOOOOOOO!" very loudly. For me it was the saddest moment in the game. It felt so unfair.

Nexus the Jupiter Incident 2. http://youtu.be/PC4y2T0-skM I'm surprised not to have seen it in the previous pages. Nexus 1 was one of the best space RTSs and it had a great narrative. Then they started to develop Nexus 2, and they sort of already had the engine when the plug was pulled. I...

Most of the stuff by Dark Tranquillity. Like, say: http://youtu.be/Nkhv1MUV9yQ (I was somewhere in that crowd - great gig)

You are right, that's probably the solution. Antivirus companies often release "removal kits", little programs whose only purpose is to remove one specific malware. You run them and they do their job. The only difference in this case would be that there is an additional step where you have to...

Actually, they've existed since DOS. :-) Most virii in the 80s used to infect the boot record of floppy disks and hard disks. Operating systems have become more robust since then, but I would guess it's still possible to find a way to write on the MBR. Windows itself must do it to install the...

I've only skimmed a few pages of this massive thread, but it looks to me as if most of the voted games are very recent ones. Which are still very very good, but in my opinion there are also gems in our past, so I'll vote for them (yeah, ok, I'm old and nostalgic). Digger...

Well...