Damn Heat. Now I am in a bad mood.

Its not fixed. The refs are just idiots. In the end refs dont determine the game. Our guys have not hit threes, Wade is.. I dont even know what he is anymore. Bosh was lost today. And we still almost won.

_Bear said:

600 for the new xbone wtf? I'm hoping for a 400 PS4 I refuse to pay more than that.

600 Euros is significantly more than $600. But knowing how we usually get screwed in Europe, Americans would probably pay $600.

Ravenprose said:

Nintyfan17 said:

According to most of the articles after the Nintendo Direct it said that SEGA handed the publishing and distribution rights over to Nintendo for that three game exclusive deal.

Wikipedia says Sega is the publisher, and Wikipedia is never wrong.

Nintyfan is right. But I think I read recentely that SEGA are going to distribute it in America and Nintendo in Europe.

Wii U pad battery now availible to buy, 3x the battery life

IGN Sonic Lost Worlds preview said:

Sonic Team is taking that design concept to the next step, blending 3D and 2D mechanics in abstract levels that more than resemble another Nintendo exclusive – Super Mario Galaxy. Derivative gameplay is sometimes frowned upon in this industry, but in the case of Lost World, this is more than welcome, and more than necessary. The development team has now been freed to think of gameplay first and worldly concepts second, and that can only mean good things for the final product.

I recently had time to watch three levels of Sonic: Lost World, and the changes being made to the franchise range from entirely obvious to remarkably subtle. First and foremost – the game’s aforementioned larger design approach, and the necessary control alterations that followed.

“We wanted to create an all-new design for 3D Sonic games with Sonic: Lost World,” producer Takashi Iizuka told me via e-mail. “Ever since the first day of development, we were focused on creating new and unique levels to best fit this new style.”

That ‘style’ basically removes Sonic from the constraints of a cohesive, grounded world design. Instead, players will find themselves twisting, turning and jumping along floating constructs suspended in mid-air. Levels are now informed by gameplay needs, with some stages focusing on slower speeds with more platforming, and others pushing players to run as fast as possible

Ravenprose said:

The battery Nintendo should have used  in the 1st place.

It's $23 without shipping. Would be cool but if you use the charge stand that comes with the Premium U the pad life isn't a problem. I was looking at getting this, before I started using the stand. Whenever you aren't using it it's charging and when you do need it charging you just pop the end out of the stand and into the pad, takes about 3 seconds.

edgecrusher said:

If you want to see bad refs, watch some NHL playoff Hockey....these guys make some insanely shitty calls that will definitely have you wondering if they're paid off.

My Boston Bruins are about to start a big series against the Pittsburg Penguins....this will be the best series of the playoffs.

Our teams are versing each other in the Eastern Conference Finals; I think it will be a hard battle for both teams and I could see it going to game 7.

Who has a Vita?

gamingeek said:

bugsonglass said:

Who has a Vita?

Vader and Bear, maybe.... Aspro?

I don't have one but I'm interested in getting one.

MCV said:

The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected.

Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking nature of both consoles is taken into account, only four cores are likely to be left for gaming computations.

The site’s conclusions are less than encouraging.

“Is it any good? In a word, no. Not in a gaming context,” it stated. “To be fair to AMD, the A4-5000 is a nice chip for its intended market – mobile devices at the cheaper end of the market. But as a gaming CPU?

The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected.

Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking nature of both consoles is taken into account, only four cores are likely to be left for gaming computations.

The site’s conclusions are less than encouraging.

“Is it any good? In a word, no. Not in a gaming context,” it stated. “To be fair to AMD, the A4-5000 is a nice chip for its intended market – mobile devices at the cheaper end of the market. But as a gaming CPU?

“In raw processing terms, these four Jaguar cores have slightly less than a quarter the grunt of a Core i5-3570K. It’s the same story on a core-by-core basis. Less than one quarter of the performance.

“On the one hand, it does rather look like [PC gamers will] pretty much never have to upgrade your CPU to cope with the next decade of console ports. Almost any half decent CPU you currently have will be game enough.”

The same author has previously claimed that the Jaguar chip will even fall behind AMD’s FX series by a margin of 50 per cent.

Good news for PC gamers, then. But what does it mean for the next-generation of games? Is the supposed generational leap offered by the new hardware actually going to hold gaming back?

“I just can’t see how developers are going to really ramp up game engine technology with these CPU cores. Next-gen AI, fancy physics, don’t see how it’s possible,” the site adds.

“At this point, somebody will pitch up and opine that they’ll shove some of that onto the GPU. But the graphics grunt in the new consoles is merely OK, so where’s the spare headroom? Pinching GPU resources will limit graphical fidelity. Then again, it might just mean nobody bothers at all and we’re doomed to suffer a future largely populated with console-compromised ports.”

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