Facebook sucks. I signed up so I could upload videos and pic from my PS4, and those fuckers have spammed me daily ever since. I call that evil. I have all their emails go directly to my junk folder.

Not sure what to make of Facebook buying oculus rift.  If they just wanted to get in on the VR action and will leave the Oculus team more or less alone, I don't see a problem with it.  However, I'm no fan of social media myself, and I can't help but feel the same 'Facebook is evil' kneejerk reaction.  I just hope that they don't put them to work on social media stuff.  I could definitely see gamers buy a VR headset.  Facebook users not so much.

First of all good for Notch for cancelling planning for Minceraft Oculus because of Facebook.

Second of all, anyone who doesn't think this is Zuckerberg trying to create Ready Player One either doesn't know enough about Zuckerberg or Ready Player One.

Facebook's stock should have tanked to junk status when they announced this, Zuckerberg just drifted into Howard Hughes territory.

Update: Following his note on Twitter about canceling Minecraft for Oculus, Mojang founder Markus "notch" Persson elaborated his position on his personal blog. He recounts his recent trip to Oculus headquarters, which was a backer reward for funding the Oculus Rift Kickstarter at the $10,000 level.

"What I saw was every bit as impressive as you could imagine," he writes. "They had fixed all the major issues, and all that remained was huge design and software implementation challenges. My head started spinning with potential applications and how to deal with all the issues (how do you do gui? how do you deal with locomotion? what input do you use? what happens if the player leans far enough forward to clip into a wall? how do you prevent vr induced existential crisis?)"

As Persson mentioned on Twitter, he doesn't trust Facebook. He explains why in his blog post.

"Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts," Persson writes. "Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers."

He goes on to acknowledge that social might be a great use of VR technology (business meetings and virtual cinemas are two examples), but says unequivocally that he does not want to work in that space. Persson reinforces his interest in virtual reality, but is clear that he will pursue it in another way.

"I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook," he states. "Their motives are too unclear and shifting, and they haven’t historically been a stable platform. There’s nothing about their history that makes me trust them, and that makes them seem creepy to me."

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

Facebook is evil.

Not a fan of social media companies getting into other businesses.

Whatever, that just sounds like anything that is popular is evil. I have no clue of one evil thing they have done.

They profit from exploiting base human needs for socialization. Is that evil? Nope, that's capitalism (and I am not being flippant, that;s just the reality of it).  It is the duty of a corporation to exploit whatever weakness it can to make money. Facebook provides a social good by connecting people, they exploit a portion of those people by selling their volunteered personal information to advertisers. Informed consumers can take advatage of Facebook by taking the social good of connectivity while protecting their privacy (but most people either don't care or are too dumb to know how).

So facebook is not evil, they just suck.

Pretty sure I could fake it by reading your old reviews.

^Sounds like a dare. i shoudl write a review some time just so you can hack it apart.

Facebook is mundane.

Wii U virtual console gba support just got serious

~~Europe : GameBoy Advance line-up for Virtual Console in April

YouTube

EU Line-up (6.99€/6.29£):

Metroid Fusion - April 3

Advance Wars - April 3

WarioWare Inc. - April 10

Kirby : Amazing Mirror - April 10

Mario & Luigi - Superstar Saga : April 3

Golden Sun - April 17

F-Zero : Maximum Velocity - April 17

Yoshi's Island : Super Mario Advance 3 - April 24

~~JP line-up (for comparison)

Originally Posted by JP LINE UP ONLY, NOT EU or JP

April 3

- Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World

- Wario Ware

- Kirby and the Amazing Mirror

- Golden Sun, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

- Advance Wars 1+2

April 30

- Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

- The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap

- Mario Tennis Advance

- Wario Land 4

- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land

- Metroid Fusion

Good looking line-up for the GBA VC. Very curious to see how the games will look. Even moreso though, I'm dying to know if Konami will be putting their games on it. Really would love to get my hands on Aria of Sorrow again.

aspro said:

SupremeAC said:

aspro said:

Well, the DLC has been dragged out for so long that it outlived the studoi making it. Plus at this point I think the revisionists have won (the same people who gave it tens) and have decreed that Binfinite was a dissapointment in general.

Well, the DLC seems to bring both narratives(bioshock and infinite) together, in a way that sheds new light on the whole lore, or something like that...  I haven't played bioshock, and only played maybe 30 minutes of infinite so far, but what I read about the dlc surely made it sound very cool.

for fans only at this point.

Isn't that inherent to DLC in the first place?