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Old 11-10-14, 03:20 PM
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I'm going to get Evolve and GTA 5
Old 11-12-14, 10:03 AM
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GOG.com huge fall sale is live. Two daily bundles, flash sales every 40 minutes, free Mount & Blade today, free Witcher 2 and a movie if you visit 7 times spread over the week of sales.
Old 11-13-14, 06:53 PM
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<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lV0wWzDAwJU?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
Old 11-16-14, 04:28 PM
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I am posting these on another forum also, so I don't know what is still active and what isn't....


Monaco: What's Yours is Mine
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The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
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Old 11-16-14, 07:05 PM
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Tried Monaco, already used.

Thanks anyways!
Old 11-16-14, 08:24 PM
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Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
That looks awesome. Can't you just change your VPN to play?
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Free "MMO" update to Goat Simulator on the 20th. I think I'll now need to buy this game, ...
Old 11-21-14, 06:49 PM
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This is amazing impressive:

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Old 12-12-14, 05:44 PM
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http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/12/73...s-time-to-talk

Microsoft plans to hold a Windows 10 event at its Redmond campus in late January, according to the official Windows blog, and Xbox head Phil Spencer will be on hand with others to talk about the "consumer experience."

The news comes the same day that Spencer touched on the importance of Windows gaming in a tweet:

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@RpLayy I'll be focusing more on what we are doing on Win10 in January, it's time for us to talk about gaming on Windows.
Hope they have a better vision and push for PC Gaming.
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From what I've read it's basically having the same framework for Xbox/Windows PC/Windows Phone, so people can code for one and have apps/games ready for the other two pretty quick.
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Had some "classic" PC fun yesterday.

I was playing The Evil Within and the game had a hard crash, that it restarted my computer completely. Took a break and came back with my PC from 3-4 years ago. It was loading an old version of Windows, well, it was actually using the Ubuntu loader that I had at that time, where I had a screen where I could select what OS to start.

So I loaded Windows, looked around and found out that my SSD drive had disappeared. So it was actually loading an old drive that I kept there when I upgraded to an SSD drive. That old hard drive was the one with the old Windows and Ubuntu. So I enabled the SSD drive. Then went to BIOS and put that as my first boot selection. For some reasons that boot selection looked different from the last time I checked hmmm.

So I start from the SSD drive and of course it says that it can't find the boot manager or something like that. That I needed to use my rescue drive. So now I need to find my Windows 8 DVD. Thankfully it wasn't that hard. Now repair, fix problems, etc. but yeah, that didn't work. At the end I had to do a restore. Thankfully, for some reason, I removed a program last week, so that was the one available.

And that brought back my PC! This is the short version of course.
Old 12-25-14, 07:12 PM
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Old 12-25-14, 10:13 PM
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I was playing The Evil Within and the game had a hard crash, that it restarted my computer completely.
That could mean that your PSU can't handle the load.
Old 01-04-15, 03:19 AM
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My Steam Profile

  • Worth: $2262.42
  • Games owned: 185
  • Games not played: 107
  • Percentage: 58%
  • Hours spent: 274.0h

The dollar amount spent is obviously incorrect as I've purchased most of those games well below the current price.
One year later:
  • Worth: $3079 ($914 with sales)
  • Games owned: 277
  • Games not played: 140 (51%)
  • Hours on record: 536.9h

Damn, almost 100 new games. At least I got my not played percentage down.
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I'm scared to look at my profile. Probably 500 games and 490 unplayed.
Old 01-04-15, 10:36 AM
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My current count is 131 games, 60% unplayed. However, I have at least a couple of dozen games at Humbe and other bundle sites that I haven't even redeemed on Steam so it's probably closer to 70-75% unplayed.
Old 01-06-15, 03:44 PM
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Emulated DOS games in your browser. A shit ton.

https://archive.org/details/software...msdos_games/v2
Old 01-07-15, 05:04 PM
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They have Jazz Jackrabbit!
Old 01-08-15, 09:47 PM
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Beamdog, the makers of Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale enhanced editions, is planning to release this year a new game that takes place between Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, using the Infinity Engine.

http://www.beamdog.com/beamblog

I don't know whether they've released anything original yet, or just done these remakes, so it'll be interesting to see if the quality is up to snuff.
Old 01-13-15, 09:58 AM
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Heroes of the Storm goes closed beta today. If anyone is interested that wasn't in the alpha, let me know

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Old 01-13-15, 11:16 AM
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its a lot of fun. I played the alpha a bunch last month.

I'm still hyped for Overwatch
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Originally Posted by fumanstan
Heroes of the Storm goes closed beta today. If anyone is interested that wasn't in the alpha, let me know

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i am definitely interested
Old 01-15-15, 06:38 AM
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Old 01-15-15, 06:46 AM
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I never understood why anyone wets their pants over these non-real world scenario tests that require a ridiculous cooling system no average end user could ever afford (or even want). Just give me the specs of what it can achieve with normal cooling solutions under real world scenarios for an end user.

G.Skill sets new DDR4 overclock world record of 4,255MHz



G.Skill sent out a cheery email on Monday announcing that it has set a new world record for DDR4 memory frequency overclock speed. Using a single 4GB stick of Ripjaws 4 Series DDR4 memory in single-channel mode, the company has hit a DDR4 memory frequency of 4,255MHz CL 18-18-18.

The feat was achieved on an Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard (X99 chipset) with an Intel i7-5960X processor using a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The X99 chipset supports quad-channel memory, but a single-stick configuration is better suited for frequency record-setting.

Are you going to be running DDR4 at this speed on a typical gaming PC? Of course not. In other words, this is all a bit of a marketing ploy, but it's a cool ploy nonetheless. Our RAM feels just a bit sluggish today, for some reason...

Check out the full CPU-Z validation of the record below.

Old 01-15-15, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
I never understood why anyone wets their pants over these non-real world scenario tests that require a ridiculous cooling system no average end user could ever afford (or even want). Just give me the specs of what it can achieve with normal cooling solutions under real world scenarios for an end user.
There are people who do this kind of thing, and there'll be someone out there trying to beat that record.

This isn't a review, just someone boasting a record. Don't really understand why it bothers you.

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