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http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/09/microsoft-plans-to-buy-minecraft-developer-mojang-for-2b-according-to-rumor/ ...and http://online.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-near-deal-to-buy-minecraft-1410300213 and lots of other news on this. So Microsoft is close to buying Mojang. Notch will supposedly see the deal thru then depart with his $2b (pre-tax). Great payday for him, but then what? Remember, it's not just the developer but all the licensing businesses...how many of you have Minecraft licensed shirts, condoms, keychains, rainbow colored rat poison pellets in the shape of a creeper, rainbow colored kids vitamins in the shape of a creeper, cardboard Steve heads, etc. etc. etc. ? Minecraft is one of my top 10 PC games of all time, no questions asked. There is the question about the PlayStation versions of the game, but I would be shocked if Microsoft pulled them from the market because it would enrage a lot of people. Two observations: 1) This signals that Microsoft is still serious about the games space. You don't invest $2b without having a strong commitment to the space. 2) The market for Minecraft will saturate. How many copies can you buy? How much Minecrap can you buy (see above). Minecraft movie? Fine. TV show? Eh maybe. But all that takes a lot of work and additional capital to make a return from. What about other Mojang games/products? Think any future Mojang creation will come close to Minecraft potential? It's unlikely. Discuss.

ps4 here.

Yeah looked like when a javascript site has its javascript broken. All fixed now.

Awesome. But damn that was cheesy. I think the Black Ops 2 and MW3 TV spots were more on point with what CoD was trying to achieve. Still gonna get Destiny though. Nothing can turn that ship around!

Lol you turd! You forgot S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Mercenaries (the first one) Man, egg on your face. oh...

Half-Life (plus expansions and sequels) Warcraft 3 (and Frozen Throne and that other MMO game...crap what was it called...?) Full Throttle Borderlands Jedi Knight II (OMFG was this game amazing) GTA V. Best game in the series imo

Epic interview, epic work. Pure awesomeness.

Just gonna leave this here: and... http://us.battle.net/wow/en/warlords-of-draenor/

Rewatched this a few times... I mean...it'll be another CoD campaign/story so how amazing can it be? I'm assuming roughly 5 hours long. I must say it does feel a bit like Black Ops 2 which I admit I enjoyed. Right now I'm feeling more positive about the SP compared to Ghosts which felt uninspired. eh...giving it a chance at least.

At least the interviewer asked a lot of direct questions, with several cases of followup attempting to ask the questions many, many people want answers to. +1 for eurogamer i guess.

Da fuck dude? lol Last of Us felt more of a game than the last 4 Call of Duty games did. We keep this up, we're gonna be discussing if games art all over again. What HP said.

(FYI tl;dr at the bottom for your convenience...) MOBA is basically dominated by F2P. I'm looking at data all the time and as an up front purchase model (ie, $60 for a Xbox One / PS4 / PC premium AAA yada yada...) MOBA is really tricky. Valve basically did it with DOTA 2 given it was an upfront purchase to get into the "open-closed" beta before it went truly F2P a year ago. And yes, many who got into LoL bought a bundle pack up front with currency etc. But on console no one has really done MOBA as a business that scaled. For MOBA to really work as F2P you've got to get big user numbers. On PC this is much more feasible than on console given the global reach of PC is much larger. Even if you get a few million people to download your F2P console MOBA, you need some seriously high revenue per paying users to make the model scale well. This all assumes that Battleborn will have a significant budget. I can't imagine Gearbox pulling it off for a small amount of money. That's just not how Gearbox (or any other AAA developer) has operated. LoL and DOTA 2 both had big dev budgets, granted they were spread out over time and the live ops costs are very significant. Thus the assumption is that BB is not small budget. (If I'm wrong GB, let me know.) Soooooo.... 1) I can't see how this could be F2P and actually succeed. 2) If it's pay up front like traditional console/AAA product, then how exactly will the MOBA model work? If I pay $60 up front I sure as hell won't want to sink more money into it unless I have an incredibly compelling reason to. Maybe Gearbox figured this out. Of course, there is the question of DLC vs. buying virtual currency for quicker upgrades etc...but that $60 would still be in the back of my mind... 3) If the model is traditional AAA, and if the F2P model isn't really going to work, then maybe this game will depart from "traditional" MOBA in some way. After all, Borderlands games best known for co-op multiplayer...so it's possible Battleborn is some kind of extension of how that worked. tl;dr version: I'm not sold on the concept for business reasons but it's all speculation right now. I've seen a million MOBA pitches lately and they are all fucking terrible. Maybe this one bucks the trend and is doing something "refreshingly different?"

Been seeing this gif go around...just looks like an old man hugging a gold penis.

Gearbox is making what sounds like a first person MOBA. Announcement trailer below. Discuss.

Can't wait for "Sequel of the Reboot of the Rise of the Damn-you-to-hell of the Planet of the Apes" because the more "of the" in a movie title the better.

I thought it was NHL finals. In any event, awesome World Cup so far.

So isn't Group G the only one where all 4 countries are technically still in it? 1) If USA and Germany tie, they both advance and Ghana and Portugal are eliminated 2) If either USA or Germany wins, that team advances but for the losing team, if Ghana and Portugal tie then both Ghana and Portugal are out and the loser of USA/Germany advances 3) If there is a winner in Ghana/Portugal and a winner in USA/Germany, then the winner of Ghana/Portugal only advances if their goal differential is greater than the loser of USA/Germany, right? 4) If #3 happens, then if Germany is the loser of its game then it would have to lose badly along with the winner of Ghana/Portugal winning by a big margin to overcome the current German +4 GD and overcome either the current -1 GD or Portugal's -4 GD. OR... Am I misunderstanding that if there is a tie for points they will go by the GD first, then by heads up who beat whom like in NFL or something? Regardless, futbol is quickly overtaking football as my favorite spectator sport.

I finally In any event, I met with a Take 2 exec at E3 and asked about if my PS3 singleplayer progress would carry over to PS4 and he said yes. Then I checked elsewhere and it was GTA Online that would carry over and not singleplayer. Then I checked wikipedia and it said GTA Online only. Then I thought (since I don't play much of the GTA Online) that if this is one of the few console games I like so much that I'd be willing to play it over again would I pay $60 to do so for whatever improvements come with the PS4 version? It's really tempting me.

I am officially bored with football and now prefer football.

Pretty much.

USA 2 Guana 1 What a game!

Congrats! She's beautiful! Welcome to the rest of your life. (esp if you go for a 2nd one down the line.)

Exceeded my expectations. So basically you have an open world type stealth/action game...what they showed was Afghanistan. So it basically felt like Red Dead Redemption...you even have a horse. HOWEVERS...you can fulton just about anything. Those things end up back at your mother base, even the people you knock out. They become resources that you can "spend/utilize" for upgrades and etc. Sure, it had that metal gear feel to it which I know feels "Japanese arcade-y" but it sure did smack of Kojima's desire for humor in the game. Your mother base is basically a platform in the ocean that you upgrade and grow over time. It's like a growing level in itself....which can be attacked and your defenses will respond, including other NPC friendlies. I really liked that idea...a lot. Otherwise the gameplay itself is like what is in Ground Zeroes though they claim the world in Phantom Pain is 200x larger. Still unsure about Keifererthfer (no offense, I love 24) as Snake but eh the more I hear of him in the role the more I am fine with him. As for the story, it's Metal Gear....so I'm feeling a bit like this: About fulton system: ( http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system )

Ok about to do the MGS5 dog/pony. My body is ready.