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Valve only handles their Steam distribution, EA handles all of Valves retail products. About a year ago, Game Informer did a large article on the relationship between developers and publishers and how the money flows between them. I don't have the issue anymore though and certainly can't remember specifics or what issue, but they may have it online somewhere...I do remember that they spoke with companies inside the industry.

I'm not sure about the stunning(which has odd hit detection anyways) but the others you can drop a smoke bomb near a large group to have plenty of time to manage.

Beat it a few days ago as a Dwarven Casteless Warrior, great game miles beyond Kotor and ME. Started another run through as Human Female Mage, mages do ridiculous amounts of damage, I love it. I was fairly nice in my first run...excepting that time I desecrated some stuff. Now I'm going to be buy the books self righteous. Like abandoning Sten in his cage, since I hate him and his literalness

Feathers, Wear the Auditore cape, Stun 4 guards with sand, Sweep 5 guards with a long weapon, and The kill 10 enemies without being hit. I know I could get them, I just haven't got around to doing it.

Beat a few days ago, just plain fucking awesome. A complete improvement over the first without adding in new negative elements. Love the ending and where they seem to be taking the series. Got 45/50 Achievements, I suppose I'll get the other 5 eventually, I don't relish finding the feathers but they are easier than flags at least. Although I would have liked more out of the animus experiences as I liked talking to the other characters and getting their thoughts on things.

With no real order: Shadow of the Colossus Ico Assassin's Creed 2 Halo CE No More Heroes Team Fortress 2 Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl Metal Gear Solid 3 Prince of Persia Trilogy

Why don't you go troll somewhere like Gametrailers or gamespot, it's a lot easier, and less annoying to us.

A quality CRT can provide a better picture though:heh:

Not a bad deal, but keep in mind that an OS is extra and I'm not sure if they throw in any extras such as a mouse or keyboard. A monitor would certainly need to be factored into the price as well unless you have one you're content with.

Christmas is the season to be giving. I absolutely love the film though, not too scary really. It even has a happy ending...although the alternative endings were considerably less so. Star Trek My first time seeing Star Trek anything(movies or series). I was informed of some of the references, and know the basics of the universe though. I quite enjoyed the film, and liked how they handled setting it into the timeline. 8/10 I feel like tracking down other things of Star Trek now.

I certainly second triforcemario, Avast is superb. Keeps me Virus free.

We had snow xmas eve....then we had pouring fucking rain all day on xmas. Melted all the snow, but not before turning it all into slick sheets of ice.

Wait...what? I was talking about literal cranberries, like...the food. Although in my opinion, they really aren't food.

I don't have a camera, so fuck taking pictures. I got: Assassin's Creed II (360) Dragon Age Origins (360) A Boy and His Blob (hWii) $200 Amazon Giftcard Magnetic LED Flashlight 1 novelty T-Shirt reading: "5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions." (it's weird to type as you're looking down to read the shirt you're wearing.) Humidifier (well actually it's steam, but Vaporizer sounds like a weapon...) and, A $25 check. Oh, also Trainspotting on DVD, but it's in the mail still. Amazon pissed my mom off, otherwise I would not have gotten DAO and instead would have Smokin Aces and a Preorder on NMH2....She was trying to choose the least offensive games/movies. Since the thread title is a bit ambiguous about who's presents... I got my 4 yo nephew de Blob since it's basically perfect for him to play. It's also a damn fun.

My Christmas films of choice would be National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and The Ref.

Vista can be upgraded to 7, or as you say 'over the top'. You can also do a clean install and format Vista which 7 should be able to handle. Your choice and all that. A Clean Install might be the better idea as it should clear out the bloatware every laptop seems to come with.

Sounds like a grand plan.

Even I saw Wallace and Gromit as a kid. Top quality shorts they are. The Rescuers Down Under My personal favorite Disney film. Just love it.

But....Cranberries are shit.

The game glitched on me, I killed him but the door out wouldn't open and I didn't have a previous save to try and redo the battle or something. He and Bastilla just stood around like tards.

No one has said the Console is enhancing the image, just that a console (with dedicated graphics hardware) is scaling the video output and that it performs this task better than a TV. Better meaning less loss of fidelity. As there is a loss regardless of what device is scaling. In comparison, I can watch a DVD with my 360, it's scaled to 1080p, it looks...okay. I can watch the same DVD with my laptop upscaling it to a 1080p image (assuming fullscreen) and it looks better than the 360. They're hooked up to the same monitor as well. Source material affects the overall outcome though, a movie without any retouching will look like a VHS tape whereas something newer like Transformers scales quite nicely in comparison. Both the 360 and laptop however, do a better job than a regular DVD player hooked up with component to a 1080p TV.

If it's the actual connection dropping and not just the wireless signal perhaps check with your ISP and check about any line problems.

Windows 7 and gaming capable, this is the next closest on ebuyer. Mind you it's much more costly, just shy of 500. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172298 I'd say give a peek to other sites like aria.co.uk or scan.co.uk and compare their graphics to notebookcheck to give an idea. Although, basically anything Intel is worth ignoring, actually anything integrated no matter the company. I've no time, or else I'd be looking around.

Well....The CPU is about the same really, but the GPU is Intel 4500 which is certainly worse than the ASUS. 4570 Intel GMA If you scroll on down you'll notice that the Intel solution can barely play WoW on low. If you want to play games of any sort, don't go with Integrated Graphics.

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