Well don't I feel stupid, after my RROD hardware rant I followed MS support page's E68 error advice and disconnected the hard drive. Booted everything up and it worked. So it seems the hardware isn't faulty and I owe them an apol.... wait a minute! The hard drive is part of the hardware so they still screwed me.

Wait...... all my gave saves are gone. I.... have... to... play... Arkam City.... from... the beggining...?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF? My Assasins Creed 2 save is gone, I kept it so I could easily relive my Italy vacation hotspots. It's gone, godamnit.

The other saves I don't care about as I intended on replaying those other games from the start.

FAMITSU SCORES:

Resident Evil Revelations (PS3/Xbox 360/Wii U, Capcom): 10 / 9 / 9 / 8 - (36/40)

Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS, Atlus): 9 / 9 / 10 / 9 - (37/40)

Terraria (PS3, Spike Chunsoft): 8 / 7 / 7 / 6 - (28/40)

Valhalla Knights 3 (PS Vita, Marvelous AQL): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (30/40)

Kamen Rider: Battride War (PS3, Bandai Namco): 9 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (33/40)

Z/X: Zillions of enemy X - Zetsukai no Crusade (PS3, Nippin Ichi): 8 / 8 / 8 / 7 - (31/40)

Tamagotchi no Doki Doki Dream Omisecchi (3DS, Bandai Namco): 8 / 7 / 8 / 8 - (31/40)

e-ji no Kane to Cinderella: Halloween Wedding (PSP, Quinrose): 7 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (29/40)

Rakuen Danshi (PSP, Takuyo): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)

Foolz said:

Wow. The lighting in Metro: Last Light. :'( Wish I could have SSAO above 0.5, but it's absolutely incredible even on that (if a little lo-res looking). It's taken me 2 days and one game destroying glitch (luckily you can level select) to get it working stably, and I'm still running into all sorts of bizarre glitches...but God damn, the lighting makes it all worth it.

Can you grab some pics from your PC?

Archangel3371 said:

I played Revelations demo with the default options and it ran perfectly fine. I never noticed any framerate drops. I think the game looks very good on the big screen.

Yeah it's weird, some people are experiencing frame rate problems other people find it really smooth. For me it's really, really smooth and looks great too.

EDIT: Read more of the GAF thread, those guys are nuts the hyperbole is crazy, it's the same damned game only looks crisper and better and suddenly because of no gyro aiming it sucks or because they can't run it higher than 1080p on the PC version it's shit. Then you have the guys who never played if before just going on about the bullet sponge and how it doesn't play like RE5.

Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure announced (PC/3DS/WiiU)

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure today, a Scribblenauts game for Wii U, 3DS and Windows PC with a DC Comics twist.

Developed by 5th Cell, the game is structured around the story of Maxwell and his sister Lily, who travel into the DC universe with Maxwell's magic notebook and summon DC-specific characters and objects to solve puzzles.

Speaking to Polygon, Scribblenauts Unmasked's senior producer, Caleb Arseneaux said the game contains every character who has ever appeared in a DC comic book, from the Justice League, to all the variations of Batman and Superman, to the most obscure characters who have only had brief cameos in the comics. He said that Scribblenauts is all about letting players have "whatever they want," and the DC universe is so rich with characters who have so many superpowers and abilities, that blending the two franchises made sense to the development team.

Too.... cute.

"Despite only launching in Japan so far, New Leaf has outsold the last home console game, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City, with 3.86m units sold."

Foolz said:

Screenshots won't do it just as it's all about how the effects move in real time. I was looking for videos on YouTube, but you've pretty much got to go through the whole video to find a part that shows it off because of how dark most of the game is. The best I could come up with was this benchmark video, but I saw one playthrough that stopped just before the section I'm up to which is the most stunning thus far so if I remember I'll link you to tha when they continue.

2:10 (with the spinning shadow) I think gives you the best sense of what the game is actually like, but really the whole thing is far too over the top so you don't get the really excellent sense of contrast that the game itself has. The way they use headlamps to give away enemy positions is awesome, because although they show you where the enemy is, they're hard to shoot due to how bright they are on the eye.

Very nice lighting are you having trouble running it?

I'm getting sick of blocky shadows on consoles. I would prefer pre-baked straight rather than blocky realtime.

Gamesradar Scribblenauts Unmasked preview said:

The next chapter in the Scribblenauts series has been unmasked, and it’s a large departure from the franchise's past. Though you’ll still be scribbling people, places, and things into existence, you’ll be doing it in a much more... heroic way. Warner Bros. is leveraging its DC license for Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, and having 5th Cell make the first game to include all of the DC comics characters ever created. Literally all of them. Yeah, even that one guy who appeared in one panel of one comic in 1963. He’s in there.

You’ll be able to write into existence over 2000 DC objects, including 33 different Batmans and over 130 Green Lanterns. There’s a structured story this time around, pulling Maxwell and his sister, Lilly, through a variety of DC locations. Each level will include procedurally-generated quests, so traveling to the planet Oa once might have you saving a paralyzed Batman, whereas your next visit could have you cross paths with a confused Kyle Rayner trapped in a burning ice cream truck. Solving problems will increase your Reputation, pushing you through the narrative.

And if the game’s roster of thousands isn’t enough for you, you’ll be able to create your own characters in the Hero creator, gifting your creations with powers. In other words, it won’t take you much effort to fill the game with Marvel characters when it releases for the PC, Wii U, and 3DS this fall.

Polygon article said:

"So when you play Scribblenauts for the first time and you spawn a cat, that's usually when people are like, 'Oh my god, this game has a cat! That's awesome!' Then you type in dog, and the dog appears and starts chasing the cat," he said. "In Unmasked, we have a Red Lantern that is a cat — Dex-Starr — so if you spawn a dog, and then you spawn a cat, Dex-Starr will appear, and when the dog tries to chase him, he'll beat up the dog."

The game also has a hero creator, which allows players to mix and match parts of existing superheroes and villains to create their own DC hybrid character. These characters can be used with Scribblenauts' system of adjectives to change their state even further. In the demo we were shown, Arseneaux summoned a zombie version of a superhero, who proceeded to infect all surrounding superheroes, resulting in a screen full of zombie Batman, Zombie Wonder Woman, Zombie Super Man, and hundreds more.

aspro said:

Here you go, just for you.

Too.... much... effort.

Oh shitballs you just reminded me, my 100 hours in Oblivion save is dead

gamingeek said:

Too.... much... effort.

Oh shitballs you just reminded me, my 100 hours in Oblivion save is dead

That specifically is what made it worth it for me.  But I also like tooling around with PC hardware.

Silicon Knights "Mostly Working On Legal Issues"

Something tells me "Legal Issues" is not the name of their next game.

Hmm, seems 2 of the 8 cores in PS4 CPU are reserved for the operating system, so devs have access to 6 cores only.

1.5gb RAM seems to be reserved for the OS too. So game RAM would be 6.5gb. Character models have 4X as many polys compared to KZ3 but the visual difference isn't that big in the screen at least. Seems they are using Sony's custom AA solution that is less RAM intensive for 1080p.

"While the GPU is considered to be very fast, but shader optimisation seems to be the key to getting the most out of it.

What is very interesting is that the developer says that the GDDR5 memory really gives the system "its wings", and lauds the immense 176GB/s of bandwidth available. However, it's not a bottomless pit of unlimited throughput - efforts still need to be made to use small pixel formats in order to maximise performance. Bearing in mind that the vast, unified memory pool of high-bandwidth RAM is one of the key advantages PS4 has over PC and the next-gen Xbox, it'll be interesting to see how multi-platform projects cope.

Also fascinating is that by its own admission Guerrilla is not using much of the Compute functionality of the PS4 graphics core - in its conclusion to the presentation it says that there's only one Compute job in the demo, and that's used for memory defragmentation. Factoring in how much Sony championed the technology in its PS4 reveal, it's an interesting state of affairs and perhaps demonstrates just how far we have to go in getting the most out of this technology - despite its many similarities with existing PC hardware."

Quick question to everyone, do you have any opinion about the PS4 and Durangos 8 core 1.6gz CPU? If you haven't read about them at all, what do the numbers themselves give you an impression of considering Xenos was a tri-core 3.24gz?

I will be the judge of Revelations. I can have all four versions running at the same time and compare them all.