Yeah it's insane. I love how a lot of people complained about Adobe doing the same thing and now everyone praises the model. I've always liked it. Constant updates/support and can cancel at any time.

This move by Epic and Crytek has to be to counter Unity's popularity with indie devs. Unity are going to have to step up and I hope they do because I still think it's a very decent engine.

Awesome, this is so ****ing awesome.

How does licensing an engine on a monthly basis work? Do developers really just have to pay while the game is being developed (patched/added to)?

first-person mauler

If you use Unreal you have to pay 5% gross revenue to Epic once you ship. I haven't read up on CryEngine's new terms but if it's royalty free then what you said is exactly what it means, which is insane. First major royalty free engine.

One of the key reasons Unity is so popular is because their entry level pro version is cheap($1,500 or a min of $900 with a 12 month subscription) and royalty free until you make $100k. Now 2 of arguably the most powerful 3rd party engines are just as accessible.

I have more money than time. I just don't have time to be screwing stuff together, worrying about whether my front panel's cables are facing the right way into the motherboard's pins or if I'm off by one, whether I have the right amount of thermal paste, what to do about my fan that keeps falling off the the cooler tower, or whether my cable is long enough to reach my optical drive, whether my liquid cooling is going to leak, or any of that ****. Just want to buy a computer.

You're crazy. I built a computer from parts 2.5 years ago, didn't know a thing about it, took a few hours to choose parts, now with the resources that are out there would take about an hour, and then literally took an hour to assemble them which took amazing youtube-watching skills and it turned on the first try. But whatever enjoy your alienware.

I see where dd is coming from. Everything's cool when you put it all together and it just works, but even if you know your **** it doesn't always happen that way.

Yeah.. like the time I failed to notice a transparent manufacturer logo sticker covering my northbridge, and had my mobo die after a few days. Forget who made it, which is sad since I swore I'd never buy their products again

That's pretty mindblowing - it's basically free for what you're getting.

Doesn't always happen that way when you buy a built one either though.

I've built most of my own machines for the past 15+ years, but with the current one I went with one of those 'select parts (from a limited selection) and we'll build it for you'-deals as they offered pretty much what I wanted for parts anyway.

Had to send it back twice because of some short circuit-problem and since this is a maxi-tower thing that weighs a ton, dragging it back and forth from the post office and having to wait for over a month extra for them to return it twice, means I'm pretty unlikely to do anything but build my own next time.

Stuff has gone wrong and parts have needed replacement when I built them myself too, but at least it's usually just one part you have to exchange if it does and it's pretty easy to do so. In addition you don't have to deal with getting so frustrated and annoyed over idiots who can't even put a computer together despite it being their job and them getting three tries at it...

The machine still has a short circuit issue, but it doesn't happen unless I use the USB-ports on the front of the cabinet so I can live with it. Still pretty annoying though.

So yeah - sample size aside, if you want something done right, do it yourself

Get an alienware then.

I am capable at building PCs.

About 4 rigs ago, bought all the parts put them together in about 40 min, machine would not boot. Fast forward about 3 days of uber frustration error isolating diagnosis turns out the keyboard was faulty and sending a signal to the machine at start up telling it to not boot. Rage.

I now have one small uber competitive on price supplier that I trust and always buy from them.

lol totally had a keyboard error one time. motherboards with LED error codes are a godsend.

Another forum recommended ibuypower.com, so this is what I ordered last night:

AMD Gamer Ultimate

Case 1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Gaming Case - Black
iBUYPOWER Labs - Noise Reduction 1 x Basic - iBUYPOWER Harmony SRS Sound Reduction System - Reduce System Noise
Processor 1 x AMD FX-9590 CPU (8x 4.70GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling 1 x Asetek 550LC Liquid CPU Cooling System (AMD) - ARC Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade
Memory 1 x 16 GB [8 GB x2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - FREE Upgrade to DDR3-1866 ADATA XPG V2
Video Card 1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 - 3GB - Single Card
Free Stuff 1 x [FREE] - McAfee Antivirus PLUS 2014 - FREE with any System ($49 Value)
Motherboard 1 x Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 -- AMD 990FX w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16
Power Supply 1 x 700 Watt - Standard - Free Upgrade to 700W OCZ ModXStream Pro - 80 PLUS
Primary Hard Drive 1 x 2 TB WD Black HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200rpm, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
Optical Drive 1 x 24x Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black
Sound Card 1 x 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Network Card 1 x Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
Operating System 1 x Windows 8.1 + Office 365 Trial [Free 30-Day !!!] 64-bit
Keyboard 1 x iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Keyboard
Mouse 1 x iBUYPOWER Standard Gaming Mouse
Warranty 1 x 3 Year Standard Warranty Service
Rush Service 1 x No Rush Service (Ships in 10-15 Business Days)

Fedex 2 Day $1951.60 Total Price

I'm sure someone will jump on me and say I paid $300 too much or whatever, but I like how they had those sound reduction options available.

Does seem a little expensive (I just got a gaming laptop w/ what I think are similar specs plus an SSD main drive for $2400) but all that matters is that you're happy with it.

I went to the computer games museum in Berlin today and:

- saw original Pong machine
- saw original Atari ET game
- all sorts of weird eastern european crap
- played Yoshi's Island for the first time
- realised the Virtual Boy was actually a thing

None of this beat seeing a 15ft Lego giraffe

I had a friend in junior high who saved up for close to a year to buy a virtual boy, and would not shut up about how great it was going to be. When it came out, he was absent from school for a few days and never mentioned the Virtual Boy again.

Funny vids from GDC.

That first one is amazing.

Unreal engine 4 seems very awesome from the few videos I've watched so far!

I think it's quite different to the Adobe model. With Unreal, you are paying a monthly for updates, not the executable. Now, I realize there is likely less desire to update a Photoshop, but reality is if you end you CC subscription you can no longer use Photoshop to edit your PSDs. UE4 you can subscribe for one month, download all the editor / examples / source code etc and when you cancel you can continue to work with it for as long as you wish - you just won't get any new features until the next time you sub. It sounds great!

Yeah I hadn't read that when I posted. You still have to pay royalties if you release of course but it's still an insane deal. If 4 is anything like 3 was then you're going to want those updates for a while though.

Who else is playing Pokemon X/Y?

This ****'s the best pokemon game I can remember.

7 Entertainment (Fast2Play, Kinguin, G2Play, others) found reselling bundle keys

http://www.************.com/b/news/a...ps-profit.aspx

I think most of us knew this was going on, but it will be interesting to see how bundle sites react. I imagine a large portion of their sales are derived from resellers.

Edit: no idea why the link won't post without asterisks, but it's game informer

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edit: lol wtf

Someone is trolling xboxs using the gamertag xbox skype