What sells computers most?

OMG. How did this not come out earlier! Must Have NOW!

Morg "Piledriver Bonus!!!" anti

It's about damn time! I still have both originals... and the machines that can run them. Wait, that's probably not a bragging point...

Marathon: Infinity now available (for free) on iOS, completing the trilogy.

I'm ignorant of X-Box gaming, I play on a PS3 if I play at all. In the X-Box gaming community, are there emulators that allow play of X-Box games on Windows systems? Clearly not sanctioned by MS or game companies, but I want to play Red Dead Redemption on a PC laptop. I hate playing on consoles.

A cursory Google search tells me that if such things exist, they are not much spoken of.



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No idea about these beyond their existence:

http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/download.htm
http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/xbox/xeon.html (self-proclaimed "only one game works")

I saw those, but thought they were original X-Box, not 360. I'll look more closely, thanks!

Interesting info. PowerPC. Hmmm. Where have I heard of that chip line...

Hey kids, games! All based on fake Peter Molyneux tweets. http://www.whatwouldmolydeux.com/archive.php

ddt

EA and Activision Blizzard both up for sale? Bottom falling out of mega-studios, perhaps.

I love Plague, Inc. for iOS. Engineer a disease to kill every human on Earth. So much fun. Although I was annoyed that time that I killed everybody on the planet, except for 20,000 folks in Greenland. Freakin' isolationists, would it KILL them to open up their ports for a little bit? Well, actually, it would have. Still, humanity never discovered a cure so they can't leave Greenland. Maybe that's punishment enough.

Wizards of the Coast plans to release eBook versions of every D&D product EVER in eBook form. VERY nice. I would re-read the original three books and AD&D over and over just for the nostalgia value.

http://io9.com/5938988/whats-coming-next-for-dungeons--dragons-and-forgotten-realms

I know that I'm late to the party, but I am starting to get into Skyrim. The PC interface is clunky, but once you get past that Skyrim is a beautiful game. I like the open world nature of it; leaving you to make your own decisions. I'm playing a goody two-shoes character specializing in heavy armor and a nice two-handed axe, but I want to try a darker kind of character. It feels kind of like Red Dead Redemption with more diffused questing.

I wish they'd put out RDR for the PC...

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I'm playing a goody two-shoes character specializing in heavy armor and a nice two-handed axe, but I want to try a darker kind of character

With heavier armour and a bigger axe?

No, lighter armor, daggers, lots of lockpicks, and a penchant for enrichment through homicide. Of course, I also want to make a pure mage. I have to fight the urge to create alts so that I can continue to level up my current toon.

Been told Skyrim is more addictive, if possible, than WOW.

Not going to go near it...

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penchant for enrichment through homicide

Only as a hobby, I'm sure :-)

Vocation, avocation, what's in a vowel?

In other news: Guild Wars 2 has a Mac client in beta. I've tried GW2 on Windows, and haven't really been pulled in, but it's a nice trend for MMO's, given that Lord of the Rings Online is also making a Mac client. LoTRO's client is a true native port, unlike the Cider-ized ports that some MMO's came out with (EVE, City of Heroes/Villains).

In other, other news: City of Heroes/Villains is scheduled to shut down at the end of the month. I wasn't invested in it, but my deceased brother was heavily into the game.

I remember that John, it sounds like a sad thing, no?

For me the sad time was when they shut down his account. I would have taken it over, just to keep his characters "alive," but their corporate policy wouldn't let them. I never even got high enough in their bureaucracy to get anything other than a templated response. But that was okay, really. It wasn't him, just some computer data that brought him some joy in his last years.

The closing of the game servers is just another occasion for me to remember him, which isn't a bad thing. I had joined to play with him, but he had a trip out-of-country and fell ill shortly after his return, so we only "saw" each other once or twice. Its weird to think of his characters fading beyond any chance of recall.

Sic transit gloria cyber mundi.

My kids love Skyrim. They always want to play vampires and werewolves though.