o.O

Do you even get outside?

It's mostly hardware for work, and steam sales, those damn steam sales.

Buying a whole new rig, a 4k display and a 22" cintiq hd touch didn't help much either.

If it's for work, then it doesn't count . After all, no one buys consoles for work, right?

I'd also bet that your LG 31MU95 is what took most of those 10k in hardware.

Dungeon Keeper is free on gog

This year, my plan (or theory as always happens something that makes me change my plans) is getting a new GFX card and maybe one of those NAS boxes for home, I'm looking at either the WD MyCloud EX4 or Synology DS414, but with 2 drives to start (I'll probably get a couple of 4TB WD green. No need for reds). And games, of course.

No new consoles this year.

How Im spending my Valentines Day

Oooh shiny hardware thingies!
Nice all round rig you're building there.

I *still* haven't had the chance to play with a Haswell CPU yet. :(

Battlefield 4 Naval Strike DLC features DICE's tribute to 2142's Titan mode

Carrier Assault might sound like an innocuous enough mode from the outside - featuring either a baby-snatching or till-side bag grab objective, one of the two - but it’s better than that. Carrier Assault is a playable homage to the Titan mode from the now eight-year-old Battlefield 2142.

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Brisbane City Council commissions "educational" Minecraft map

When we report on the state of games in Australia, it’s usually for steep pricing, or its Ratings Board’s relatively conservative rulings on dildos and alien narcotics. It’s the pointy corner of a frame rather than the full picture - so it’s nice to be able to show that Brisbanites also recognise a game that’s good for children when they see one.

Brisbane Council has commissioned and developed a Minecraft map of the city and made it available for download - in the hope that local children will see benefits in reading, writing, maths, geometry, collaboration and “general creativity”.

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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn expansion will double what was there at launch (and that was good)

You have to call Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn by its full, overlong title, because otherwise you risk dismissing the years of rebuilding that went on after its original crummy release, and eventually resulted in the most polished MMO our Nick’s ever played - and gosh, does he play them.

It’s going to be tricky on the tongue, though. Square Enix are readying another colon and another phrase to append to their game’s title. There's an expansion coming, and it’ll be a biggie.

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Now uzi it: Valve add Counter-Strike's first ever automatic pistol to Global Offensive

Oh, so auto aim’s not cool in CS, but Valve introduce their own ‘automatic’ weapon and suddenly that’s okay? Typical devs.

The CZ75-Auto is Counter-Strike’s first ever automatic pistol. It’s available in-game now as a stock weapon, and should prove an inexpensive counter to well-armoured opponents.

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Minecraft snapshot 14w07a introduces team objectives and hidden nametags for multiplayer

Mojang’s Minecraft division - about a sixth of their overall headcount these days, by my maths - are hard at work rewriting internal things that don’t make for good headlines. The way blocks are rendered, the inventory system: that's the sort of stuff they’ve been fiddling with before they usher in a new Plugin API.

For the time being, we’ve a weekly snapshot update that fixes a bunch of bugs - and adds some potentially really cool options for map makers.

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Super Hexakill: League of Legends gains six-player mode on February 20

“Five to a team just wasn’t enough,” say Riot of their new mode. They’re not throwing out the principles of lane-based heckling, of course, but introducing a new Featured Gameplay mode - one of the playable experiments that Riot rotate in and out of circulation like Left 4 Dead’s mutations.

This one adds an additional player to each team, to make up a new total of six. In a game where miniscule itemisation edits regularly wreak far-reaching consequences, there's no way it won't change everything.

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GOG make Bullfrog's Dungeon Keeper free to play, after a fashion

The digital retailer formerly known as Good Old Games have today gone some way to justifying all the office time they evidently spend tending to Twitter feeds and trawling news websites like this one. Just as furore over EA and Mythic’s free-to-play mobile Dungeon Keeper has reached its anti-choral peak, they’ve made the original game free - not only to play, but also to download as .exe and keep on your PC in its entirety forever.

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Why Sadwick will return in The Whispered World 2 - without his English-language voice actor

Ask the Whispered World player on the street what they liked least about Daedalic’s inventively miserable adventure game, and they'd say, "Sadwick's voice actor. Ah!”. And then they’d hurry on home, humming happily, an unrelated puzzle having just clicked into place in their back of their head.

Those players were understandably dismayed when it transpired that one of Silence: The Whispered World 2’s two new protagonists would in fact turn into Sadwick over the course of the game, like a version of District 9 in which Sharlto Copley had to leave his family not because he was an alien but because he was irritating.

We’ve talked to Daedaic, though, and they’re full of reassurances: Sadwick will return without his offending vocal chords, and with plenty of justification for his presence. Beware some inadvertent Whispered World spoilers along the way.

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Build it big: massive new Terraria patch is here

The more ambitious you are, the more satisfaction you’ll get from Terraria. It looks like that’s a mantra adopted by the development team too, who have just released patch 1.2.3 into the wild. The changelog is a thing of awe inspiring beauty; a whole seven mouse-wheel-spins long and seven categories strong. 

Among the changes are bug fixes, balance changes, new NPCs, new items, and freshly made features. It’s a bumper crop for all! 

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Fiscal fumble: Guild Wars 2 isn’t farming as much gold as before for NCSoft

The Christmas period is always full of shiny new games to pry our attention away from older releases, and NCSoft certainly felt the sting of that tradition. The publisher saw a notably weak final month to 2013 compared to 2012, and Guild Wars 2 sales drop by a quarter. 

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Let’s check the replay: GOM eXP are releasing three years of eSports for free

Do you remember exactly where you were during the WCS finals of 2011? Or perhaps that blindingly great match during the GSTL in 2012? Now you can relive those moments thanks to GOM eXP’s YouTube channel, which is now home to every season of eSports they’ve covered for the last three years. And whatsmore, you won’t have to pay a penny. 

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Awesomeness Awaits – The Witcher & The Witcher 2 Are Free On Steam This Weekend

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The Evil Within Coming On August 26th

February 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 6 Comments

Great news for all horror/survival fans as Bethesda has just announced that The Evil Within will hit digital and retail shelves on August 26th. The Evil Within is a survival horror game developed at Tango Gameworks under the direction of renowned game designer and studio head, Shinji Mikami. Continue reading →

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Here Is 17 Minutes Of Gameplay Footage From The PC Version Of THIEF

February 15, 2014 John Papadopoulos 5 Comments

THIEF fans, here is something for you today. Square Enix and EIDOS Montreal have released a new video for THIEF, featuring 17 minutes of gameplay footage from its PC version. According to the team, the PC that was used for this recording featured an AMD FX 8350 that was paired with 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7990, 125GB SSD and Windows 7. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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New Call of Duty: Ghosts Patch Adds FOV Changer

February 15, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Infinity Ward has released a new update for the PC version of Call of Duty: Ghosts that adds a FOV changer. Although we don’t have any release notes for this new update, we do know that PC gamers are able now to raise the FOV from its default value to 80 (80 is its max value). Continue reading →

What are your guys thoughts on Guild Wars 2? I couldn't get into it, despite playing the crap out of the first.