Hodor is also relevant to frigay because of his huge donger.

I wonder if Hodor (the character) is also gay.

Wow MS is confident in E3 for revealing all these bombs early. So what do you guys think is better, saving the reveal for E3 and have the whole excitement of “wow there it is! Look at it!!!” Or getting the announcement first and building up wait for E3 to show footage?

As much as I want to know everything that will be at E3, what makes those days so special are the surprises.

Did I tell you guys I am going to video games Live this saturday. I am going to Video Games Live this saturday.

  

PS4, Xbox One Cost Americans $400 Million While In Standby Mode

If you thought standby mode for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were a heaven-send, enabling you get the console turned on faster or enabling you to activate them with ease via voice-commands, well, those features come at a heavy costs. A cumulative of $400 million in annual consumer energy bills.

Gaming Bolt is reporting that the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released some pressing information about the energy consumption of the new generation consoles. After doing some number crunching, some energy splicing and some dollar bill counting, the NRDC estimated that the PS4 and Xbox One will cost American consumers up to a $1 billion in energy costs, annually.

They mentioned in the press release that... “But if Microsoft and Sony follow NRDC’s recommendations, they could cut the new consoles’ electricity use by one-fourth beyond current projections through software and hardware optimizations, saving U.S. consumers $250 million on their annual utility bills and enough energy to power all the households in San Jose, America’s 10th largest city.” That's kind of crazy when you think about it. Especially the part about the low-power, standby modes still costing gamers an arm and a leg in energy consumption.

It's like cutting off the arms and legs of a vampire who keeps squiggling around on the ground, biting people in the ankles. He may not be able to do as much damage as if he had both his arms and legs, but he's still biting people in the freaking ankles! What's more is that NRDC also mentioned that if the PS4 and Xbox One replaced the install bases of the PS3 and Xbox 360, respectfully – which, according to VG Chartz, might put the total at 163 million – they would consume more than 10 billion kilowatts an hour and would produce enough energy to completely power the city of Houston... in Texas.

The part I found most interesting, as mentioned in the article, was about the consumption of energy in standby mode compared to the standard use of the console, with Gaming Bolt writing... Other findings from the NRDC revealed that the consoles consume more energy in standby mode in a year than when playing games; half of the Xbox One’s yearly consumption occurs in standby mode as Kinect awaits commands; and that the PS4 and Xbox One, both hyped for their media viewing capabilities, utilize 30 to 45 times more power to stream movies than Apple TV or Google Chromecast.

This is startling news, because one: if you're concerned about rising energy costs, the PS4 and Xbox One won't help with that. Two: if you're sitting on the fence as to which console you would like to buy (or if you're going to buy one at all), you're likely going to go with something that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and doesn't contribute greatly to your bills. For casuals, stuff like Amazon Fire TV and Chromecast are looking mighty fine. I mean, you get your TV on your TV, you get some light gaming and you get to save on your energy bills. I suppose the above information is definitely something energy-cautious consumers would like to take into consideration before diving head-first into eighth-gen gaming. Also, if you're really worried about those rising costs, you might want to bite the bullet, deal with the long boot-up times and completely shut your Xbox One or PS4 down, instead of leaving them in standby mode. -

Dvader said:

Did I tell you guys I am going to video games Live this saturday. I am going to Video Games Live this saturday.

Enjoy

Halo 5 fall 2015 is great news. That means I don't need an Xbone until fall 2015 and it should be like $300.

Damn those Racist Japanese for putting all European looking characters in Mario Kart. I'm highly offended.

In fact Italian Mario possesses some of the most racist polygons I have ever seen. Virtually no color variation other than his rosy cheeks.

I started playing Mario and Luigii Bowser's Inside Story.  I am still early on but really love all the new ideas this game presents. I also got a kick out of seeing the mushroom kingdom government in action. I really wish Nintendo would do an RPG like this for their other franchises, Zelda would make a perfect setting for one. Or make a Captain N RPG that involves all Nintendo games.

the one thing that bugged me is that the combat is basically exactly the same. It's the nature of RPGs I guess, outside of bosses that does nothing for me and it feels like busy work. It was ok the first game, by the second game it bored me and in this one I am tolerating it so far.

I need to preorder Kart tonight.I'm not sure what I'll download.  Probably w101, but I did consider MH3.