The 5 or so Clancy books I had read after 98' or so were terrible, but in middle school those initial novels were the ones that really started my love of reading. Rest in peace.
Odd - I ended up checking again a few times. Have not seen any issues today.
The news all being timestamped at 8:17pm est toward the end of the day seems a little odd though - generally I would expect it to be more incremental. So I can see where an outage could have occurred.
@colorwind: Major Release: Rayman Legends and .... not sure. I have NSMBU/Pikmin3/Legocity Undercover, and think they would be placed above everything else on the list. But none of them are titles I could generally recommend (e.g. middling to fair in quality).
I would pick up Super Mario World from the eShop, and play through that again if you have not done so in the last couple years, before going to NSMBU.
Now that it can be picked up for a hamilton ($10 for those that hate carrying cash), I gave it a go.
Kind of an odd experience. The story is good enough to push the game forward, but it gives an art house "this is intellectual and good because it is cryptic and disjointed" thing. Bioshock Inf. gives me a mixed sense, like there is a serious stab at implementing a story, but it seems like it would only be meaningful if I was looking at it from my prospective 18 years ago (e.g. latching onto any game/book I liked as having literary quality if there was any level of thoughtful pretensions).
Gameplay is surprisingly good - I found Bioshock 1 unplayable, but this game is completely serviceable. Dropping the inventory system or expanding it would be nice - it sits in a weird middle-ground of interest. I'd suggest playing through Quake II before it, but it certainly is a more pleasant sort of world to play in.
@thomascro: Just watch out for old reviews; there were a lot of games that end up feeling unplayable regardless of their acceptance in the 2005-2010 time frame (even the very high score types).
Or at least make sure you are not paying to much money for them, I ended up with a lot of unplayable drek trying to go the same route recently with PS360 games after not really playing videogames for awhile. Especially everything in the first 2-years from launch.
This reminds me of the late 90s "year of the Linux Desktop" stuff that went around.
I'm not really sure that it is ever likely to happen. Linux developments usually seems to fragment out of spite whenever they really get going, and major point-releases are always a big restart button (e.g. sound, KDE/Gnome releases, video drivers).
I would trend toward PS3. You will tend to get better audio quality out of it, and it is much more functional if you are not planning to subscribe to XBLA (in addition to having blu-ray, which is nice for otherwise multi-disc games).
Bayonetta and XCOM (if you wanted to play on a console for some reason) would both be really rough on PS3; a lot of the initial games had issues. But if you already have a PC the PS3 opens up a lot more genres instead of mostly increasing your man-shooter options.
I would trend toward PS3. You will tend to get better audio quality out of it, and it is much more functional if you are not planning to subscribe to XBLA (in addition to having blu-ray, which is nice for otherwise multi-disc games).
Bayonetta and XCOM (if you wanted to play on a console for some reason) would both be really rough on PS3; a lot of the initial games had issues. But if you already have a PC the PS3 opens up a lot more genres instead of mostly increasing your man-shooter options.
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