Two takeaways from the PS4: 1. GDDR-5 memory. This means a lot of bandwidth to communicate between assets and the CPU. A pretty big deal as it ensures that their CPU will be more fully utilized. 2. 64-bit. This is huge. Means you’ll be able to support megatextures and have vastly richer worlds to play in. More specifically, it’ll mean that it’ll support types of games that you couldn’t realistically do on a mobile device which keeps the iOS/Android games away. It also means that the g...

Penny Arcade today: So who has a Kinect? What do you think of it?

Isn't one of the selling points of console games versus PC games that the console games are less buggy? That hasn't been my experience so far and right now, I'm pretty exasperated by it. I'm enjoying the new Knights of the Old Republic game. I played the first one on my PC and loved it so much that I bought an Xbox pretty much to get this game. But it's glitchy. Tonight I hit the biggest glitch yet, a game ending one. I escaped from the the planet Telos and as it loaded up the next screen...

I finally broke down and got an Xbox. I have a Game Cube already but I'm mostly a PC games person.  I've been playing some World of Warcraft, Kohan 2, The Sims 2, and a few others games that recently came out. No, I'm not playing Half-Life 2. Indeed. I'm waiting for my new mega machine to arrive. Only then will I begin playing it. But in the meantime, I wanted to see the hub-bub about Halo 2 was.  So I went out and got the XBox and Halo 2. The XBox came with a pretty decent foot...