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@BlueRajasmyk
The only time forensics are ever needed for data recovery is if the disk is physically damaged. In any other situation where tracing the iron shards would work, it wouldn't require $10,000. It would cost you $0 in the form of free software. A full wipe is a full wipe. The only danger is of a quick format, where only the file table availability pointers are blanked, which is what you get if you do a "quick" format. In that case, all the data would be intact as long as nothing else overwrote the areas marked as empty. Sadly, that may actually be what Microsoft does in service centers sheerly to save time. It's much safer to do a full format rather than relying on the data to get overwritten over time. The only way to be completely sure is to rub a low power magnet across the top of the disk a few times to scramble everything.

Maybe the engineers they bring in to continue support on Unit 13 will actually give a damn about the community's requests. I scoff at the comments about continuing support for MAG and SOCOM 4. They stopped supporting that shit long before Unit 13 was even released.

I really don't understand why people complained about the major differences from the first game when it was first announced. The precedent established equaled to one game. I am more angry about things like Resident Evil, where numbered games changed the series from a survival horror to a third person action shooter with horror elements.

It's not that RE4 or RE5 are bad, and RE6 looks like it'll be a pretty great game, but it puts a nail in the coffin and prevents any chance of the old style of RE to ever come back. With Prey, there really isn't any history to it. The first game was great and I'm happy to see they were taking artistic liberties for the sequel rather than playing it safe and pumping out the same crap again and again. If every game in a series had to be the same, there would never be a reason to go back and play the older games. God knows I really don't want to slog through GOW or GOW2 again to see the story. It's not worth it when you're burned out from GOW3, and you certainly don't want to go back and play basically the same game again except without the iterative gameplay improvements from later games in the franchise.

Now I can finally stop using Excel Mobile for my spreadsheets on the go!

@CypherSignal
News flash: Every analogue stick since the beginning of time requires calibration. There is an unavoidable margin of error, no matter how small it may be, and I'm sure you'd rather have calibration than to just deal with that margin of error. On top of that, the mechanics can settle with use and the "precision specifications" are not perfectly adhered to anymore. Know that every time you turned on an N64 all the way to the Xbox 360, the controllers calibrated themselves when they received power. Hell, the Playstation 3's controller even calibrates when you just spin the sticks in full circles. You're calibrating your controllers all the time, even if you are not conscious of it.

Meanwhile, in Fable 2...

If you have more than 10 regions in a single file, you have failed at OOP.

Looks like Sim Tower minus the complexity and plus a forced indie vibe.

@xiLeShadow You did play C&C4: Tiberian Twilight, right? It was PC exclusive and still ended up being shallow as hell. Not that it was a bad game, but it was even more shallow than Halo Wars.

I thought Dead Block was already released...