RT @der_bisl: for every hour one million people sit around waiting for Diablo 3, 114 man-years are lost. That’s more than a human life. BLIZZARD KILLS
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Intellipoint fail
I’ve had a Microsoft Explorer Mini mouse for a while now, and it does work a treat. It tracks well, feels good in the hand, and it looks decent to boot. After using the included Intellipoint software for a long while, I removed it today to find that I’m much better off without them.
Even though the mouse has five buttons, while using the Intellipoint software it was only ever possible to use three of them in games. Yes, Intellipoint does offer macros, though for whatever reason you cannot select the mouse 4 and mouse 5 buttons to be.. mouse 4 or mouse 5. No Intellipoint, and I get mouse 4 and 5 buttons back for Skyrim. Silly? Yes. It works, though.
Ars: photorealistic, real-time games
How close are we to truly photorealistic, real-time games?. So we only need a 50x increase, they say, with an 8000×6000 pixel working resolution. I’m perfectly fine with games that don’t look exactly real. Most of the games I’ve been playing are a few years old, and it’s generally a bit stunning when I find a title made a year or two after the one I had last played.
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PS3 Power in a Mobile GPU, from Ars. It’s always great to have numbers, and Ars doesn’t disappoint in this short but sweet piece. The headline says most of it, but it’s also interesting that the gap between this level of graphics and the top end desktops are around 7 fold. Considering the size of these components, that’s quite close. Looking back to where computer graphics were even ten years ago, it’s stunning to think of what we are going to be using on a daily basis a year or two from now.
just picked up Counter-Strike Complete store.steampowered.com/sub/717/ and Borderlands GOTY store.steampowered.com/app/901566/ for $15, total. Good deal #gaming
Volume vs. price: one indie dev describes Steam sales. I love the Steam sales, and it’s good to know that smaller game developers aren’t hurt in the process.