more news just in there might also be a kights of the old ruplics single player game too

http://kotaku.com/355808/bioware-at-work-on-a-new-kotor

this is not con irm yet

blackdreamhunk

This rumor is from february. It has now been confirmed the project is a mmo. Sorry but no single player game for now.

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good article.

One thing I might add is that consoles also have their revenue diminished in various ways but you never hear about that. The second hand market, roms market, just plain old ripping console dvds, and the rentals market all disproportionately affect the console market but all devs ever talk about is warezs and torrents.

I also like that he pointed out that games like crysis(he didn't specifically say crysis) don't sell in part because the high-endpc gaming market isn't that big and they scare a lot of people off with high system requirements.

Makari

yeah "don't sell" was probably a bad choice of words but what I meant is they don't sell enough to recover their investment and make enough profit off that investment. sins didn't cost that much sop the return on investment was pretty good even with lower sales.

good article.

One thing I might add is that consoles also have their revenue diminished in various ways but you never hear about that. The second hand market, roms market, just plain old ripping console dvds, and the rentals market all disproportionately affect the console market but all devs ever talk about is warezs and torrents.

I also like that he pointed out that games like crysis(he didn't specifically say crysis) don't sell in part because the high-endpc gaming market isn't that big and they scare a lot of people off with high system requirements.

Half Life 2 isn't even in my top 10.

My #1 is System Shock 2.

fatshodan

Don't know about system shock being number one but I agree about half-life 2 not being in the top ten. A linear fps with aliens, how original.

Well I think the concept of procedural animation and procedural methods in general has raised a lot of eyebrows. I am a little worried the game won't be a fun game for a lot of people. Its really open and I wonder how well guided you will be. For instance a lot of people didn't like oblivion because they didn't know what to do. Spore could be 10 times worse.

Still if its another blockbuster like the sims it will certainly make developers step back and reevaluate what the most important aspects of game design are.

first this should be in the hardware section but since you asked....

We need all of your specs motherboard, cpu, memory, gpu, additional pci cards, case specifics(how big and how many fans, liquid cooling?)

in general for a single high end graphics card and a moderately high end cpu and mobo, 520W should be enough. The biggest question in psu's is not just max watts though but how reliably and steadily it can deliver the power and how many rails its being sent down. So if the choice is between higher watts or higher quality, quality is almost always the better choice.