I got a fancy new smartphone with a super responsive multi-touch Capacitive screen. Annnnnd after 24 hours with I have decided that [good] resistive touch screens are better. For accuracy you cannot beat a stylus and you can still often use your fingers. With Capacitive unless you have a huuuge screen half the icons are less than half the size of you finger tip. So you fluff it a lot. The keyboards are tiny, fine for stylus but borderline unusable for finger typing. Your large fingers obscruct the screen and you can't use a stylus with them either.

Cool LEGO CITY Japanese locations trailer

Michel Ancel said:

"When the Wii U version was completed we could have said 'we stop the Wii U version and only develop content for Xbox 360 and PS3'. But what we said was 'Let's continue on Wii U, adding content to Wii U', and the main illusion that we had that game in particular was to work on Wii U. working with Nintendo, development kits, discovering the Wii U... so we continue with this positive energy until the end". The creative director at Ubisoft Montpellier seems delighted with the new Nintendo console, "what happens with the Wii U is that it is not easy for the mass market to understand what's great inside". Ancels' words almost trace Satoru Iwata after E3.

"I see it at home, when I say to people, 'look, we have this console, it has a touch screen (which looks like a large smartphone or a tablet)'... and people don't directly connect all these things as a system, or see the fun." It will take time, also took place with the DS. "That is the risk when you are innovating: perhaps people are not as fast as you".

Eurogamer Rayman Legends preview:

All of the levels are better with friends involved, and up to four players (five on Wii U) can essentially drop in and drop out at any time. But the lack of the GamePad controller for non-Wii U versions is sometimes a problem. Ubisoft has done its best to replicate the touchscreen Murphy character's actions for other systems by having him move automatically and be operable with the simple press of a button at the right time. But this removes some of the fun of frantically looking from screen to screen to balance what's happening on both, and of performing Murphy's movements and actions yourself (such as firing a slingshot, re-arranging platforms, or tickling and swatting away enemies).

You also lose some of the precision gained by controlling the character directly with a fingertip. In one level Murphy must eat through a solid section of cake to create a tunnel for the players to follow. But the timing when he's automatically moving on PS3/Xbox 360 versions is less precise - I had to restart several times.

I can't find my Virtue's Last Reward cartridge.

No can do, Travo. I have to find a $40 cartridge before I lose my mind.

Edit: Well, I give up.

Dvader said:

La Mulana dev asked Valve to put their game on the daily sale on steam but they refused. It will only be 50% off. The dev is quite upset, all this is on gaf.

When did they ask?

Ducktales Himalayas video

That was fun to watch, but I'm a wee bit disenfrachised with the Wii U these days so as soon as I was done watching this my first thought was, "I wonder how long this is going to be delayed."

Tech Analysis: Watch Dogs on PlayStation 4

• Watch Dogs was initially demoed using high-end PCs, with raw power much greater than either of the next-gen systems
• PS4 version appears to lack some of the sheen of the PC code revealed a year earlier, and didn't seem to match the version seen at the PlayStation Meeting event in February either
• Image quality on the PS4 version looks slightly less refined than PC
• Post-process AA solution of some kind on the PS4. Meanwhile, the older PC demo appears to be employing a far more aggressive edge-smoothing algorithm that delivers a much cleaner appearance
• There are some clear examples where certain features have been scaled back on PS4
• Depth of field is used more often in the older PC demo, and to greater effect
• The appearance of ambient lighting and shadowing is toned down on the PS4
• PS4 has reduced depth and visual flair across the scene
• Weather-based touches are also dialled back on PS4
• There are subtle differences in how shader effects are handled on PC, where these elements appear slightly more pronounced than PS4
• Visual presentation is generally less refined on PS4, and as a result the world doesn't quite generate the level of immersion it did during previous showings.
• Occasional, sudden drops in frame-rate along with a bit of judder from time to time.
• Otherwise Watch Dogs on PS4 currently manages to stick quite closely to the targeted 30fps update with no tearing to speak of.

Looks like this 'beast of a machine' is already having to scale back from what the PC version looks like.

There's no doubt it's the most powerful console but it's still not as good as PC, even at launch where its tech is relatively new. I'm not bothered by that other than the narrative so far from Sony and the media is about how beastly powerful PS4 is. And here it is having to scale back already, from PC.

gamingeek said:

This is what happens when you don't buy Lego City Undercover.

I was actually going to buy it a couple weeks ago, but the store I went to didn't have a used copy. I'm not quite ready to pay full price for it yet. I just don't really like the Lego games, regardless of how funny they are.