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Hey guys, Arthur here. Torrents are active, libsyn is fine. The site should be ok, but if it's down and you want to find the podcast, there's a neogaf thread on it that has mirrors and such. I speak for the guys when I tell you thanks for all the support.

Nvidia refused to renegotiate the price of the GPU in the original Xbox over the lifetime of the product. It was one of the reasons that they continued to lose money on the system throughout its lifetime. That's why they purchased the design for the Xenos, so they'd be able to commission redesigns and contract out production for the part elsewhere. It allowed them price flexibility. Basically, Microsoft blames Nvidia for costing them billions.

Wait. I was under the distinct impression that ATi designed the 360's GPU under guidelines from Microsoft, and that Microsoft bought the designs and holds the rights to them. Is that crap? Because that's what all of their press materials stated leading up to launch. I'm pretty sure there are ATi logos on the packaging as well, although don't quote me.

10.00 bucks says the one of the postponed games is Haze on the PS3. A quarter says another is Assassin's Creed on PS3. Haze being delayed would be a good thing, I assure you.

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That would be all fine and good, but Bioshock was largely developed on a heavily modified version of the Unreal Engine 2.5. It was moved to Unreal Engine 3 mainly to take advantage of project management and iteration features. And surprise surprise, another game that "uses UE3" that couldn't make its original release date.

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This game excites me most because it's possibly the first game I've ever seen to directly tackle an incredibly controversial system of morality that polarizes its supporters and enemies. It takes itself seriously enough to critique Objectivism in a compelling way, which is especially ironic because Ayn Rand used a similar story to make the same philo sophy appealing to people. It's satire and parody used in the best way possible, to seriously criticize an important social concept, and in doing so, it might as well be a direct rebuttal to Roger Ebert as well. It's the game we as a subculture have been waiting for for a quarter century.

And yeah, shooting electricity into puddles is pretty great.

This is something like the third version of this game in three years. Unfortunately, it's lost more and more distinctive visual aspects as time has gone on. I will say this though, the game looks significantly better in motion than it does in screenshots.

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Wow. Um, I'm pretty sure I know who the anonymous game reviewer is, who the editor is, who the developer is, and what the game was. And that would explain a lot of things.

Hey, look at that. I was right. Except for them deciding not to package episodes together. And that pricing is way, way more reasonable than I expected.

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I just don't see where the games or supply were in May to justify his optimism. All his numbers seem really high; 25ish percent increase in PS3 sales, 30 percentish increase in 360 sales, and 11ish percent increase in Wii sales, all while there were no new games, few new games, and little increase in supply respectively. The only console I could see having a better month to that degree would be the DS, which is finally non-supply constrained.

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