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I also just got this fully working, in the way I want it to.

I wouldn't settle for anything less then being able to use the resolution that I was used to on my main monitor (1920x1080), so I have just been waiting for a TV to be at the right price and still be able to do 1080.

Found one at Best Buy (37" Insignia, not top of the line but gonna work for this student for now) last week, order up a 25ft HDMI for amazon.com and just tonight hooked everything up and it works great. Watching the last Brono ER on the TV in my living room running off my PC in my bedroom (yay for small apartments!). I would never want this as my main computer desktop screen though, I can't seem to get text not to be slightly blurry. Not bad, but I could see it creating some major headaches if I had to do long homework/writing sessions.

My only issue right now is that every time I am going to want to use the TV, I have to go into the ATI settings a tell it to "replace" my main screen from the computer screen to the TV. But I can deal with that, games run great and so do all the video stuff I want to watch. Having one of the 360 wireless controllers for the PC makes this all come together like it was meant to be.

I am sure putting my 5770 to the test, but damn it if the little guy is still going strong running two monitors at all times and now moving from the "TV" in the living room to the computer monitor at my desk depending on where I feel like being.

Congrats on your set up @GreggD !

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Ended up collecting a 360 and PS3 long before I could get a gaming PC. So I have consoles, but they don't get a whole lot of love anymore.

@JCTango: I'll add you to my steam friends when I get home.

Gaming has slowed a bit now that school has started, I might end up blocking out a weekend night for TF2/L4D so I don't go totally crazy.

The first game I remember playing is Mario 3. I think the first game that I went out and bought myself was MarioKart or Earthbound for the SNES.

God I spend a lot of time playing Earthbound when I was little. Such a fun game.

Like what seems like the most here, never. Yeah, weird - all my NES, SNES, N64, GC, PSX, PS2, PS3, X360 controllers are all the ones that came in the box with the machine.

With the amount of gaming I have done on all of them I am shocked that I haven't broken any of the OG controllers. Even my mouse and keyboard are pushing the 4+ year mark and doing well.

So, to answer your question, never. I have bought extras for friends to play games with but have not needed to replace my main one.

I decided awhile ago that if a game has Steamworks, I'll buy the box to have that and pair the game with Steam. If it doesn't, then I buy the game off Steam because I like the way they handle there download/DRM stuff, which is that as long as I can remember my password and am connected to the internet I get to play the game - so I have never had an issue.

In this case I just decided to go with GameStop. I haven't used Origin, but really cannot afford to pay for the game more then once and really don't enjoy getting hung up on by customer service, ie: I have heard way to may bad stories about how Origin is dealing with issues with there services. I could be better after all that Battlefield stuff, but it's just not a chance I want to take.

From what I can tell there isn't any word officially if ME:3 will be on Steam, but if the 2nd one is then the 3rd almost surely will be - I don't see why they wouldn't. But, in the event that they pull some "Get it in stores and on Origin first!" everywhere else a week or more later kinda bullshit, it seems easy enough to just get the damn thing from Gamestop.

In short: Gamestop. Because why not. And I am sure that Valkyrie Rifle will be totally worth it.

This is great!

Man though... it can be hard to watch someone else play a Souls games sometimes. The deliberate and methodic way that a person has to play a game like this makes someone like me go "But! Ah no - you should have, gah!" at almost every encounter.

As always, looking forward to future installments.

Other then tbe bombcast i listen to Weekend Confirmed and the IGN UK podcast.

I... What..... Yes. That was great, thank you.