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"Johnson is a floating, disembodied demon skull with a lusty outlook on life [...] Knowledgeable about the ins and outs of Hell, Johnson also acts as a tour guide of sorts, offering color commentary and helpful underworld information."

Sounds a lot like Morte from the RPG classic Planescape: Torment. Coincidence?

I liked the first game a lot, have played some really enjoyable 4 game matches on Steam. The only thing bothering me was I couldn't select which land cards were tapped, which sometimes forced me to play cards in a less than optimal order or I would run out of land cards of a particular colour.

@SgtDookie

Me for one. Obsidian is by far my favourite developer, due to their focus on ambitious story driven titles.

For those who like less shooty titles: Mount & Blade Warband. Sam and Max season 3 episodes have all been really good so far.

Two games that were outstanding in my opinion, but got disappointing reviews: Alpha Protocol, Puzzle Agent.

@Mmmmz

Tastes obviously differ. For me, they are the most interesting developers around, they always find an interesting new perspective on existing concepts. I'd love to see what they could do with Chrono Trigger!

@dimithra
Yes, because higher clock speeds uses more power and gets hotter. That is why there has been a movements last couple of years towards parallel architectures and other ways to do more instructions per seconds than just "brute force" clock speeds.

Sounds neat, but how hot will it get? That was why I reluctantly picked a gaming laptop with ATI card in it recently (even as a Linux dual-booter I know I'm going to get driver issues). All the nVidia based laptops I read reviews for mentioned that they got painfully hot and had really loud fans.

@quillaja
I agree it is annoying, but it has its reasons.

The companies risk liability (and a bad hit to their reputation) if they cause any problems with customers hardware or data. Cyanogen (bless him), just says "Use this at your own risk, I take no responsibility whatever happens".

The added need for testing and quality control takes quite a bit of time and money.

"without that pesky Java virtual machine"

It's not a full JVM running on Android, it is the Dalvik VM, the Java code is compiled to Dalvik bytecode.