I don't know what you have and have not tried but just in case have you checked the sound properties in windows ? Just go to control panel and then select the sound icon (if you are in win7). Select the playback tab and you should see a list of devices. Normally my sound settings are on "Speakers" by default. If I want sound to play down HDMI via my Nvidia card I have to make the HSP-1 Device as default.

As to whether you should flash the BIOS of your card. It isn't something I would recommend unless you consider yourself EXTREMELY tech savvy. Not to mention the fact I have a hard time seeing how flashing the BIOS will actually rectify the problem (not saying it won't just saying it is highly unlikely)

only one review, IGN have "exclusive" access for a few days. nutcrackr

Yep this exclusive "review" should be treated with extreme caution.  Infact you would do better to treat this "review" as a preview instead.  I am not saying Bioshock Infinite will be a bad game, I just do not think you will get an accurate picture of the pros and cons of a game from a exclusive "review".

Loved the SimCity franchise, to this day I still remember buying a 4mb RAM pack so I could play Simcity 2000 on my Amiga A1200. However times change and EA really like to trash the hell out of franchises. The fact this game has no single player (the DRM disguised as a "feature" excludes this from being a single player game) means I will be skipping this. It seems like I won't be a lone either, Maxis did an AMA on Reddit and not a lot was discussed in that AMA other than "take your disguised DRM and shove it where the sun doesn't shine". This smells like Command and Conquer all over again.

I was a huge fan of the original Elite, pumped hundreds of hours into Elite on the Spectrum 48k. Then it went right down hill with subsequent "sequels" to Elite. I remember Frontier Elite 2 on the Amiga500 for all the wrong reasons, what a bug ridden mess that was. The sequel was so awful I didn't even bother with Frontiers: First Encounters and hell I am sure I remember reading stories that the game even formatted PC's it was that bug ridden.

I have very fond memories of the original Elite, but there is no way I am backing this for several reasons. Firstly I just got sick and tired of Braben constantly "promising" he was working on a successor to Elite (he has been promising Elite 4 for years). Secondly I have no faith in Braben to produce a competent product and thirdly I do not like the way he tacked onto Chris Roberts Kickstarter. The whole kickstarter comes across as "hey look how much Chris Roberts brought in, I want some of that pie".

If this game ever gets made (and I seriously have my doubts even if they do reach the kickstarter target) I will naturally check it out and get behind it. But there is no way I am stumping up cash based on Brabens history.

So you get 600 hrs in ME1, then 800 hrs in ME2, and when BioWare can't pull off a third part to match what you are probably calling near masterpieces (because of the hours played) of the 2 first parts then ANYTHING BioWare does is crap from now on?FelipeInside

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, there has been a steady decline in the quality of Biowares games. Nearly all of Biowares games have been unmitigated disasters. There was Dragon Age 2 which was widely reviled, Then TOR went free to play in less than a year and now ME 3 which is the "weakest" part of a Trilogy and that is me being polite about it. I don't believe ME 4 will be of any great quality I am expecting something along the lines of COD in Space for ME 4. I don't expect there to be much in the way of a single player story because it will be all about the multiplayer. Either way I refuse to invest any more time or money in their games simply because they have not LEARNED anything from this mess. All they do is shove their artistic integrity in the customers face and tell them to "deal with it".

Oh and I stopped watching Aliens after that god awful film set in a prison with Ripley (Alien 3) and as for Terminator well it isn't a Terminator film without Arnie so I stopped watching Terminator films after "Rise of the machines". I hear he might be back for T 5 but realistically it wouldn't be the same Arnie (he is 63 years old now). The thing about Terminator though is that is has run it's course and should now be left alone. I could say the same thing about Mass Effect, it has now run it's course so stop milking the corpse and let it rest in peace.

I really enjoyed all the ME games, with probably ME2 my favourite. It is VERY difficult to create yet another SciFi Universe these days but BioWare managed to pull it off and with really good ideas, characters, locations and story.FelipeInside

I enjoyed ME 1 and ME 2, looking at my steam profile I have something like 200 hours on ME 1 (probably closer to 600 hours because I already owned the game before it was on steam) and ME 2 I have 800 hours clocked in the game. If I had to say which is my favourite though I would say ME 1 because that made me FEEL as though I was in the Mass Effect Universe something ME 2 lacked a fair bit with it's shooter focus.

In contrast ME 3 I have 20 hours, I managed to finish it ONCE and never wanted to touch that sorry excuse for a game ever again. I am not talking about just the ending here (as if that wasn't bad enough) the game was incredibly poor from start to finish with only a few moments ever approaching ME 1 and ME 2 levels of excellence. The pointless fetch quests were extremely annoying and didn't fit "hey Shepard get me a fridge, it doesn't matter if the Universe is being destroyed". The whole story felt so rushed and nonsensical at times. I also found the "side" missions to be extremely luck lustre cos they were basically MP maps with bots. The whole crucible thing was beyond moronic and then there was that ending.

I don't want to hate the Mass Effect Universe, I used to love it with a passion, but Bioware just crapped all over the universe with ME 3. I honestly do not want a prequel or a sequel. I would actually prefer if they just moved on and left the universe alone But right now I am not going to invest any more of my time or money in anything from Bioware because they clearly cannot provide a "pay off" with any of their games.

TRUE, but also lots of people were begging BioWare to do a SW MMO as well....and it was the natural progression cause KOTOR had the universe for it. Hopefully ME4 turns out good.FelipeInside

They listened to the wrong feedback then since TOR has pretty much tanked. Bioware has always shown a bad case of selective hearing, they are very interested in fan feedback when it is what THEY want to hear. There was a louder voice asking for KOTOR 3 but Bioware ignored it because THEY wanted to do a Starwars MMO and they saw all the dosh Blizzard were making.

It is the same with the next Mass Effect, this "listening to fans" is nothing but a load of cobblers. As far as I can see most fans are asking for a deep, involved RPG single player sequel to Mass Effect 4. What they will probably get is a shallow, luck lustre first person multiplayer shooter prequel, because that is what Bioware want to do.

Cause when they create something, people like you come out and bash the s*** out of the story. So now they are kindly asking "What do YOU want?"FelipeInside

So they will ask us "what we want", make a big hoo ha about "listening" and "your feedback is important to us". Then they will promptly ignore pretty much everything and turn out some "artistic" crap that we are not meant to criticise in anyway whatsoever because we are just customers that do not understand the "artists".

Where's the option to bury the entire franchise altogetherZyamaman

I will go along with that, I don't want prequel or a sequel the franchise should now be put to sleep like the dying dog it is. I certainly won't be bothering with anything else from Bioware since there seems little point in "investing" in any of their games when they can't even do a proper pay off.

I don't know about the whole asking for pledges and getting perks for it, how much of a big time awesome game can this be when they are asking for donations? Pledge $10,000 and get to name your own ship and start wth 20,000 credits......who asks for $10k in exchange for some virtual crap?

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Just an FYI this pledge drive they are doing is NOT going to raise enough money for the game. They actually need $12 - $14 million to produce the game. The goal for this pledge drive is to show private investors that there is a demand for this kind of game. So if you are thinking of pledging money for this game then be aware it is not being run like a "traditional" kick starter.

As for whether it will be f2p it will work along the same lines as Guild War 2. The game will have to be purchased but there will be no subscription fees, the server costs will be met by people purchasing in-game virtual items (whether they give an game play advantage or not is anyones guess).

I have to confess when I first saw the game I just didn't "get it". I thought it looked bloody awful, I honestly could not see the appeal. Then I bought Terraria and enjoyed it but I hated the 2d world so thought I would give Minecraft a go and bought it whilst it was still in Beta (1.7.3 version I think). Now to date it is my most played game. I spend hours in the game both single player and multiplayer. I play on a small private server and specialise in cities. Here are one or two screenshots of my work :-

This is Dome City which took about 6 months. The city is so huge it even has it's own Amusement Park :-

Most of the domes were completed before the height increase, which means they are a tad bit shallow. I am hoping that Dome City 2 will look a lot better with decent height domes. I will be starting on DC 2 once I have finished my latest project which is a sort of "futuristic/atlantis" type city :-