It also often comes of like PC gamers blame any negative things about PC gaming on console gamers. When some people go so far to blame the downfall of Origin systems on console gamer they have some very very skewed world views.JLF1MarkII

I don't know about Origin Systems specifically, but a fixation on consoles has demonstrably led to the decline or total destruction of several successful PC developers whose only mistake was to specialise in genres that were successful on the PC but unsuited for the consoles. Ensemble Studios and many others met their end this way.

When every genre has to fit into the round hole of the consoles the square pegs get discarded.

Have you tried using a keyboard and mouse while lying down?

xbox 360 controller is not supported on all games ie ME3 (unless im mistaken)Evo_nine

BioWare is about the only developer not including controller support. It's become increasingly common for a while now and it's now very rare to see a new release that would suita a controller and yet doesn't support one.

Strategy games and most MMOGs will continue to lack controller support; by their very nature they rely on having immediate access to a huge number of inputs (the average MMORPG lets you bind 30+ skills/items to hotbars and execute any of them at a moment's notice), so playing with a controller would put you at a huge disadvantage.

The gaming industry won't and can't survive off second hand sales or gamefly players.CajunShooter

Every other industry survives second hand sales of their physical goods... what makes video games so special?

Physical goods have been re-used and exchanged for thousands of years and form the basis of our economy; video game publishers have no right to subvert the way the world works. If they don't want to be subject to the standard treatment of all physical goods then they shouldn't be making physical goods in the first place.

I just got a pair of Sony SS-B1000 speakers. Should be interesting to play Dead Space or Battlefield through those. Though I do wonder if I'm going to need a dedicated sound card to get anything out of them.Cherokee_Jack

These days a dedicated sound card is overkill unless you're an "audiophile" and/or need very exotic connectors; for everyone else it's money that will have a far more tangible result by being put towards an extra game or faster video card or whatever.

An enhanced port is not an exclusive. The PS3 has enough exclusives without trying to count ports among them.

Lovely is'nt it? Brave new world.....

As always, this does'nt affect us tweakers, it does'nt affect hackers and it does'nt affect pirates......

It does affect the average consumer of course.MlauTheDaft

This is for killing known malicious software. It is not there so The Man can prevent you running what you want on your PC.

There are a huge number of infected computers in the wild that are used to perform various malicious tasks without the owner's knowledge. Even if your own PC is clean these other PCs are still affecting you in some way, whether it's spam in your email or your favourite site being taken offline by a denial of service attack.

Encouraging users to get their software through an app store instead of the internet at large will help reduce the number of exploited PCs. It's very difficult for a malicious app to get onto an app store in the first place, and even if it happens the inherent sandboxing means the damage it can do is limited and the remote kill functionality means Microsoft can easily clean up every PC that has downloaded it.

What about games that are recognised like virus (example: WarRock), will they get deleted and unplayable?

tjricardo089

No, this process involves real people investigating an app's behaviour rather than any sort of automated heuristic process. This is also only for new-style "Metro" apps downloaded through the Windows Store. Old-style desktop software is unaffected.

The app stores on iOS and Android also have the ability to remotely kill known malicious apps so having it in Windows 8's app store is no surprise.

Good for the devs as far as I'm concerned.ispeakfact

Except that it isn't. Developers are paid a set amount for a game/DLC and any profits beyond that go to the publisher instead. The only time you're supporting the developer by buying new instead of used or whatever is if they are their own publisher (e.g. Bethesda) or have retained ownership of the IP, and this isn't the case for most games.

You might also think that a game that sells well will result in that developer getting more work in the future, but to the publisher its success was due to the IP rather than the developer behind it. Because of this sequels are frequently made by unrelated developers.

But what if the steambox gets really popular, and developers start to develop for the specs of that device more and less for high end rigs ? I could see it having a negative impact on PC gaming.R4gn4r0k

They already partly do that for the consoles, but there are still more than enough PC gamers buying dedicated hardware to make it worthwhile including higher settings and such. Having ready-made gaming PCs in console form factors probably wouldn't change that.

It may be that this hypothetical system would not be a fixed system but instead hardware and software specifications that existing PC OEMs design systems to comply with, with any additional performance of a particular configuration being an added bonus for the customer.

I don't do MMO's

ZombieKiller7

This isn't an MMO in that sense. It will apparently be like the multiplayer of previous games combined with an out-of-combat persistent metagame where battles determine territory control and match generation and so forth.