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#1  Edited By ChaosDent

This works for me in Windows and Linux games, so if you have one try a wired 360 controller or a PS3 controller with the USB plug first. The 360 controller will probably just work with most games without any drivers. The PS3 controller should show up as a joypad, and you can either use MotionJoy to force it to emulate a 360 controller or bind your controls in game.

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I don't think I'd call it a conspiracy. They aren't doing direct PS3 backwards compatibility and the functional changes are significant enough to break games that rely on those features. You only get one chance to really define the feature set for a console controller, so I'm willing to believe they really wanted the things they added rather than adding them to excuse lack of compatibility.

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#3  Edited By ChaosDent

I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, and I'm also looking into T-Mobile. The $50/month bring your own device plan with no contract or early termination would save me about $40 per month. At that price, I would make up the usual $400 subsidy in 10 months, and could upgrade to a new top tier $650 device for "free" every 16 months if I wanted to.

I'm looking to switch in the fall or winter when my contract has expired and the next generation of phones are released. If I were to buy this summer, I'd get the "Nexus Experience" HTC One that was just announced.

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Civilization 5 is great and very accessible. None of the other Civ games have Mac ports, but on GOG.com, you can get a copy of Alpha Centauri that works with OS X.

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This could be a big deal if the often rumored Apple TV is revealed and looks amazing, that could knock some wind out of XBOX ONE's general audience appeal.

I don't think that's likely though. iOS isn't seen as a direct competitor to XBOX and Playstation and the fawning, hyperbolic Apple/tech industry press don't overlap much with the fawning, hyperbolic gaming industry press, so you will be able to get more than adequate coverage of both events.

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Control methods exist, and games are designed to take advantage of them. It doesn't work the other way around! Often, a game designed for one control method can be ported to another, but will lose fidelity. A + pad and buttons are the perfect controls for a Mario or Final Fantasy game, but it is pretty bad with Arkaonid, Rampart or Angry Birds. At the same time, try playing Mario with a paddle, trackball or touchscreen. There isn't a perfect control scheme for every possible kind of game.

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#7  Edited By ChaosDent

At the moment, my living room just has a stereo system with no TV. My home office has 2 PCs and a PS3 hooked up to a stereo and 3 monitors. I do all my video gaming and movie/TV show watching from my comfy office chair.

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#8  Edited By ChaosDent

I seem to collect between 20 and 40 games per system, so I've got hundreds of physical games between NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, PS3 and PC (binders and binders of 90s PC games). I did have an Xbox and a PS2, but I fortunately sold those systems with almost all of their games. I'm definitely more digital now than I had been, Playstation+ and Steam have been a huge change I'm the way I acquire video games and I've basically given up on new retail games because I have less time to play them.

The bulk (by physical volume anyway) of my gaming collection is in tabletop RPG books and hobby board games. I have two full bookshelf rows of AD&D books and box sets, D&D3 books and D&D4 books, with small collections of a handful of other RPGs. I also have two bookshelves full of board games I've collected in the last 15 years, from Civilization to Catan to Twilight Imperium to all of the Dominion expansions. Board games are definitely my favorite way to game.

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Rock Band.

Rock Band is why I'll be keeping a 360 about. (and the small matter of 800-odd tracks)

Amen! It's a PS3 for me, but the motivation is the same.

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I've been overspending on games and hardware for years, I play enough to get by on 2-3 new games a year but I end up buying at least 12 or more full price new releases. To fix that, I'm going PC only plus the hand held and mobile systems I already have. I plan on keeping a PS3 around for Netflix, Rock Band and Blu-Ray as long as I am able to.

I have a midrange AMD/ATI gaming PC from 2010 that is currently acceptable for the games I've been playing. Hopefully sometime in 2014 I can slap a real video card into my 2012 Ivy Bridge Linux workstation and have enough games to play that I won't feel like I'm missing anything.