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    Any other Trackball users???

    Interesting, but cordless means higher latency, plus random dropouts. (I have a cordless keyboard & mouse on the HTPC, I'm certainly not saying it's useless in general... but I'll wait for a corded version to come out). I don't get cordless devices like that. The vulnerability to...
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    Any other Trackball users???

    I find it incredibly frustrating that nobody has done an updated thumb trackball using the high sampling rate/accuracy optical technology now used in mice... Which seems at the very least influenced by trackballs! I miss my original Trackman Marble from the mid-90s, it was more comfortable...
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    Dead Space controls?

    Reverse mouse scaling, particularly awful if you have vertical sync on (funny how many ports have trouble with that) and/or a slower graphics card. Interacts badly with triple (or higher) buffering, as well. And my AMD has no option to tune that. *sigh* Having aiming/turning slow down when...
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    What is your PC Game of the Year?

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent No obnoxious DRM, no bizarre limits on amount of maps or mods you can have installed, an indie game that breaks new ground with production values you'd expect to bear a higher price. And one of the few real horror games I've played. Unfortunately not a niche that...
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    What are some old games to play on my outdated PC?

    Surprised nobody has mentioned Torchlight, great little action RPG... and it's got music and sound effects by Matt Uelmen, worth it for that alone. But it also has a netbook mode and will run on pretty ridiculously wimpy systems. Someone mentioned Borderlands, but unless that old Radeon is...
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    Dead Space controls?

    It's really frustrating how common bad input handling is on console ports, err, "multiplatform releases." Dead Space and Just Cause 2 are both good games marred by terrible input handling. Has Epic improved the input handling shipped with Unreal Engine 3 yet? Seems like UE3 is an indicator of...
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    Just Cause 2 75% off

    I'd like more co-op games in general. It's funny how there's been an explosion of them on consoles, but co-op games seem less likely to get ported to Windows.
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    LA Noire developers reveal facial animation secrets

    Blending canned animations with procedural is old technology, it's just a matter of applying it. Though they'd obviously need more work integrating it, to prevent jarring shifts in animation quality. Procedural techniques have been sadly underused in games, up until recent console memory...
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    Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced for release on 11/11/11.

    +1 Though I've got single player games I haven't gotten around to, that I wanted to complete before getting more. As far as what I'd like to see, I'd really like co-op gameplay in ESV. Not likely to happen, but it's frustrating that co-op is so dead in RPGs, even while it's been taking off...
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    Any advantage of 64bit Ubuntu if no 64 bit apps?

    You could have, but by default most distributions wont load binary vendor drivers, because they are much harder to support. You may have just missed enabling the universe & multiverse repositories, or the partners repo. All of that should be accessible as options in the package manager...
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    Activision Hate Not Based in Reality, Says Activision

    Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Of course, it's a niche game by an Indie developer that doesn't appeal to everyone, but it's a perfect horror game. Civ V was delivered with some serious issues that upset a lot of long-time civ players, it's being fixed, but I haven't read the release notes on the...
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    Just Cause 2 75% off

    As mentioned by LuminaryJanitor just a few posts earlier in the thread, it's a d3d10 game.
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    LA Noire developers reveal facial animation secrets

    That's a frustrating problem a lot of developers run into. Improve one element of the game, and you need to work on everything else again. Happens in movies a lot, too. Amazing CGI while effects are happening... But when they stop they haven't changed anything. (Last Airbender anyone?).
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    Activision Hate Not Based in Reality, Says Activision

    It's curious how rarely people think of their actions as evil, or even negative in any light. Nevermind thinking of themselves or their employers in those terms. I'm tired of publicly traded being used as an excuse for placing short-term profit ahead of all other considerations. There are...
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    The Notion Ink is ready to be preordered

    *DROOL*
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