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  1. azrael
    Folks, as Roy mentioned, the spoiler ban has been lifted. That is unless you live in: Belgium Finland Denmark Netherlands Portugal South Africa Turkey France Italy Czech Republic Israel Brazil Spain Greece Venezuela Argentina Japan In which case, stay the hell away from this thread until it appears in theaters.
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    'Told you people kids these days suffer ADHD. In my day, we would cap an entire 50 episode-series in 1 night and had time to spare for its OAVs.
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    It's probably more of a coincidence. When you say "actual creators are on much better terms", care to elaborate?
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    It's important to stress that we don't know the details yet and that article is being re-edited as more info comes in. If it did follow that scenario, it would be equivalent to or comparable to in price. The 35 Euros is a estimate price. The numbers aren't final and we probably won't know till, I would say, well after E3. But it probably will fit the model that Microsoft and the studio get a cut of the resale. My guess would be Microsoft would take a 10-15% cut, then the studio would pocket 20-25% and the retailer would keep the rest. Another scenario is there will be a surcharge to reactivate the used game. So if you bought a used game for say $40 (~30 Euros) from a retailer, the retailer pockets that entire sale, but then you'll have to pay an activation charge ~$5 (4 Euros). As I see it, the end result, regardless, would be that used games would probably go up in price. Again, we don't know the final details and what we are hearing are probably the beginnings of the negotiations for how they are handling this.
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    Bungie's most recent official response: Maybe. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/124337-Destiny-May-Appear-On-PC-Says-Bungie
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    I'm sure there are plenty of loopholes in the contracts to allow for it. You would probably need a lawyer to find them. Now I remember what I wanted to say about this... Yes, the writing is on the wall for traditional computing. But it's important to remember that behind those OSs like Android, iOS, Windows, and all thsoe apps we use is a mountain of code. Stuff that for better or worse, probably couldn't be written on a tablet, let alone a phone. That still needs traditional computing. Windows 8 is a DID-mess. It would be better if separated the Modern UI but left in the touch-capabilities. Yes, this would fragment the ecosystem, but it would probably fix the dissociative disorder-mess we see now. Perhaps like what Apple is doing for Mac OS and iOS. One OS for traditional and professional computing, 1 OS for all the consumption devices (phones & tablets).
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    http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=36895
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    Report on how used game sales will work for the X1. http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/publishers-to-receive-cut-of-xbox-one-pre-owned-sales-at-retail/0116137
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    Just to add (probably reinforce), the scope of these shows is quite limited. We are only seeing a fraction of what is going on in that universe. Does it limit what kind of music we hear? Of course. But if they threw in other musical styles into the world of each series, there wouldn't be enough money for the actual show.
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    New trailer...with absolutely ZERO gameplay footage.
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    Alright, enough. Either get back to b*tching about Michael Bay ruining your childhood or else.
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    Which is kinda funny since during the unveiling, anytime "Xbox"/"Xbox Live" was mentioned, anybody listening to the stream near their Kinect would instantly be kicked on or off whatever their Xbox was doing because the Kinect would hear "Xbox" and kick them off the stream while waiting for a command or would power on. http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4353010/kinect-trouble-xbox-one-reveal
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    Carrying this conversation from the other thread... Perhaps they expect us all to be using touchscreens? Another way I look at it is an issue of market melding. For the time being, tablets and phones are consumption devices. Windows 8 tried to meld the consumption-type interface with the production-type interface and we see how that's turning out. IMO, this is where MS went wrong with Win8. They can have touch-based commands but making the whole thing geared toward touch-based doesn't work for people who use a keyboard+mouse/pen & tablet(like the Wacom input devices). For those of us who have multiple applications open, having the ability to jump between the many is much easier with keyboard+cursor-moving-input-device. We can't have full-screen apps. Booting to desktop is nice, but they need to bring back the Start menu (not hit Start button to go to the Modern UI/Start screen). The UI may work for Windows Phone, Surface, but for laptops/desktops? People won't go for that. The touch features I use on Mac OS are perfect and much more intuitive than Windows. And MS deserves it. Maybe in a few more years, we'll get there. But I can't ask office workers to touch their screen for 8 hours a day. Let alone retrain them for the Modern UI. It was hard enough to retrain them to use the frakin' Ribbon UI.
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    That I blame on MS and vendors for not writing proper drivers. But I'll carry that conversation over to the other thread. Regarding Xbox One's 'net connectivity, you can be offline but it probably will try to phone home occasionally. I'm guessing this is part of MS' strategy to deal with the trades and used game sales. Yes, this could be a problem with people who can't be online 24/7 (Armed Forces or people working overseas, rural areas) but you do not need to be online do most things. Regarding backwards compatibility, I don't think they wanted to invest in a solution like Sony is (cloud-based gaming for old and some new titles) and they probably hoping the other features will draw people in. In the end, it would probably be nice to have it but I don't think it would be a show stopper. We'll see how buyers react at release time.
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    I'll eventually get to it. I honestly don't know what Lindelof is apologizing for... https://twitter.com/DamonLindelof/status/336606133055811584 https://twitter.com/DamonLindelof
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    http://news.xbox.com/2013/05/qa So I'm guessing you will need to "disown" the game before you sell/trade it.
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    But don't you know, we have to tell everyone of our friends and family that we're wasting net-space by playing games going to be on level 99 of Angry Farm-pigs-birds-gangsters. That, I'll give MS props for. Though oddly enough, it looks bigger than my work computer...Yeah, it's a prototype but still looks very blocky. I call it a subtle "Buy our new games"-nudge. The kernel isn't bad. Just the UI, which just doesn't fit people who are trying to do real work at their desk slaving away at a keyboard and mouse, with sticky fingers...You know, everyone who works in an office. Now now, they want to let people down gently.
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    Yeah, Sony did their little tease late yesterday. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/sonys-next-gaming-system-is-an-out-of-focus-black-rectangle/ Here's a write-up for what was presented. http://kotaku.com/the-next-xbox-is-called-xbox-one-509069410
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    Time for a new tag for this thread: Xbox One 8-core processor 8GB RAM Blu-Ray USB3 500GB HD HDMI in/out SmartGlass Kinect: 1080p camera, Skype connectivity New controller: new battery, ergonomics, d-pad. Improved response-triggers, programmable triggers More details and game announcements coming at E3 in 3 weeks. Xbox One IS NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE with Xbox 360: http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-is-not-backward-compatible-509088037 Xbox One games will be tied to your Xbox Live account (i.e., there goes the Used Games market)
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    Some tidbits from recent filming has pointed to another miniseries you may wish to read up on: Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.
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    Judging by the comments here...perhaps Netflix for me. Sounds like too many "Good grief"-moments.
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    Like I said, read the comic. It will explain it a lot better.
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    Since Clone Wars is coming to an end, we're getting a replacement. http://starwars.com/news/new-animated-series-star-wars-rebels-coming-fall-2014.html And because title, I have to throw in the obligatory clip (Sorry, cleanest copy I could find in a hurry on YT). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqpuwVqlrs
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    YT link: And if you preorder, you will receive Deathstroke as a playable character DLC. Some other tidbits: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/20/batman-arkham-origins-is-a-blast-from-the-past Batman will be voiced by Roger Craig Smith (Ezio from Assassin's Creed and Chris Redfield from Resident Evil). So is Kevin Conroy doing a flashback roll in this or does he have his games mixed up? Troy Baker will be voicing The Joker. Also taking a cue from the earlier setting is now you'll have to avoid the GCPD as Commissioner Loeb will be after you (Batman).
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    Was anybody at Dallas Comic-Con to hear this? CONFIRMED: Kevin Conroy Says he WILL Return to Voice Batman in 'Batman: Arkham Origins'!
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