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Who here got some good deals this weekend? I went to Microcenter today, and I got a AMD FX 8320 Black edition CPU, an ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 Socket AM3+ ATX motherboard, and 8 gigs (2x4gigs) of Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) RAM all for $206 with tax. I would have got more...

Hey everyone, I thought I'd put up a ticket in general for people to check out if they're considering a new console. The idea is to add a game, mention the console, and why it's a game to consider for that console. Please try to keep it about the games themselves, try to keep the...

I used to play Minecraft a lot, but it's too limiting in some ways. I want a game with that kind of creativity, but I want to build and explore in space. I want to build space stations, working space ships, explore, and deal with aliens and shit. I don't care if it looks like Minecraft, I just...

Nintendo just announced that they're combining their eShop system between the Wii U and 3DS. After the next update for both devices, your Nintendo Network IDs can be linked to your 3DS and Wii U, sharing funds between both devices under a unified network ID. About fucking time. This should...

Is there a method to calculate how large of a power supply you need? Is as simple as something like this: Power Draw = (Power rating of motherboard + power draw of the video card + ram power requirement + drive power draw), or are there other considerations? I've never had to really look deep...

Now, I'm not neccesarily looking for a specific model to consider, I'm just looking for what features I need, features I would want, and what pitfalls I want to avoid. Like I mentioned, I'm looking for a motherboard for an AMD FX series processor, preferably with 2 GPU slots for crossfire...

...what would it be? What single piece of gaming PC equipment do you use that is, what you believe, the single most important part of your rig? A video card? A CPU? Controller? Mouse? What single piece would you recommend? As a rule, you can post more than once, but each post should only...

So for this generation, games and consoles seem set up for Day 1 updates right away. The Wii U had a 1 to 2 gig update initially to bring the online features up. The PS4 will require a day 1 update to even enable DVD and Bluray playback at all, Remote play on the Vita, DVR functions, facial...

Damn, talk about an upgrade. Better pacing by pairing down the tutorials and giving you most of your device functions right out of the gate, and giving you some good options for your Pokemon. This weekend we played for 14 hours in total. My thumbs hurt like hell by the time I went to bed on...

There's a 10 year old PC game that I loved that is available on Steam and GOG. The game is Ghostmaster. It's a strategy/sim style game where you use ghosts to scare people to generate "plasma" to power your abilities. You choose a team of ghosts to go into a mission, and you start small, like...

What feature, or function, or aspect do you miss the most from games coming out today? It can be something that was extracted from a game series, or just something missing entirely from games nowadays. For me, I miss the sense of exploration you used to get from the 3D Mario games and Zelda...

I really have never liked most GTA games because the story missions just.. didn't interest me, and I got bored with the standard mayhem you would cause with the weapons, so I was ready to write off GTA V. But after seeing the latest videos they've been showing, I'm definitely going to go and put...

A couple of people asked me what a Nintendo Direct was, so I thought I would point out that they just announced one for tomorrow. They're focusing on games coming out this year for the Wii U and 3DS. The time is 7am PST, and you can usually find a link on their website for the video, or you can...

Supposedly it's being released on the Wii U's virtual console today, and considering it was a very well received, but poorly selling game, it seems like it should be a big deal. I had a Sega Genesis and not an SNES growing up, so I missed out. Anyone here a fan of the game?

If all of these ceased to be tomorrow, what would your reaction be? I've never really paid too much attention to them, but I know they mean a lot to some people. Thoughts? Opinions?

As a bit of an opposite to one of my previous threads, what would be an event that would cause you to swear off any specific gaming device? To me, this was inspired by a news report that supposedly said that neither the PS4 or Xbox One will be able to handle the Unreal 4 engine to it's full...

I think the title is pretty self explainatory, but let's delve a little deeper. What is a single game that you would be more than willing to buy a whole system just for the one game? You wouldn't neccesarily be forced to throw away your other consoles (or PC), but you'd have to be willing to pay...

Here's an idea: Take a listing of all (or some, I don't care) of the consoles you've owned, and mention a game for it that was important to you. Extra points for obscure games. I'll start: Atari 2600: Some firefighting game. I forget what it was called. NES: Legend of Zelda. Mostly I...

I'm making this thread about Nintendo's post E3 announcements because during an interview, Shigeru Miyamoto was quoted as saying "We're also working on a new Wii U Zelda game. Work on that is progressing fairly concretely. In fact, we were thinking about showing it here at E3 but decided to...

What kind of gamepad do you use? If the Ps4 and Xbox One completely drop the ball at E3, I'll be investing heavily in my PC, and there's a couple types of games that I prefer a gamepad for. I could always hook up a PS3 or Xbox 360 controller, but I think I want to try something new. What do you use?

I've used a few cheap motherboards in the past, and after the last one failed I ended up putting a little extra money down on a Gigabyte motherboard. It works pretty well for me, has been really reliable in general, although a few of the newer drivers don't seem to work. I'm going to be in...

I'm considering redoing my desktop with a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card - The works. However, I'm not planning on spending an enormous amount of cash, and I have no intention on using it on more than 1 screen at once. I am only considering motherboards that allow for Crossfire/SLI...