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Are you retarded? The thing doesn't require you to buy DLC, it's something that Microsoft and Obsidian (not Bethesda, as you so incorrectly tagged the post) messed up when uploading the patch.

Dear Mr Idiot.

I know this. But if you fail to see where the joke is it is up to you. So please go hate somewhere else. And it is Bethesda you turn to when the patch isn't working or the game doesn't work. Not Microsoft, not Obsidian. It's even in the manual. And it is Bethesda that responded on all fronts about the patch, not Microsoft and not Obsidian. So who is the retard now?

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New Vegas Patch Update!

No mail replies yet. No word of any compensation to all gamers that couldn't load their saves. And that would be ALL Fallout New Vegas Players.

BUT! A Bethesda representative wrote this on a forum board earlier today:

Updated news on the Xbox 360 update for New Vegas. The update for English versions of the game should be going live later tonight. Exact time is TBA, but it'll probably be later in the night. For folks playing the game in other languages, the wait is going to be a little longer. When I have a better estimate of what that will be, I'll let you know. For now, if your game save is working properly after getting the "missing content" notice, here's what we suggest. Load your game save after getting the message about missing content. Once you're in the game, make a new game save, and moving forward you shouldn't have any issues. Once the new title update is up, you can then go back to your older save files. If your game is crashing after loading the "missing content" save, you'll want to wait until this new update goes live. Again, I'll provide new details as I get them. Thanks for your patience. Update: We're told this update should go up around 2AM PST on 4/30 

And it seems to be working now. Another 8MB patch was issued that now makes the saved games loadable again. Sucks for everyone not playing in English though. Another slap on the fingers for Bethesda in my opinion.

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Fallout New Vegas Patch renders game useless!

Today when booting up my faithful XBOX360 to pass some time on Fallout New Vegas something horrendous happened. There was a new update... that made all my saves useless. And therefore rendering the game useless. Face it, I am NOT in a million years going to go through all those hours doing just about everything again.

So, I sent a mail to Bethesda support. To the mail mentioned in the back of my manual to the game. If you cannot find it and also want to mail them your heartache: [email protected]

Here is what I wrote:

Game update crashed game!

I have played Fallout New Vegas (XBOX360) extensively for the last weeks. Most recently yesterday. Today however I got a notice when starting the game that there was a update available for download. Nothing more! No warnings, no information. The update was about 8MB in size.

Here is where I get angry. After I applied the update I cannot load my saved games anymore. I get this error message (see attached image). "This savegame relies on downloadable content that is no longer available. Some objects may be no longer available. Continue loading?"   Well I don't want to quit playing, I have things to do in the game. So off course I want to continue loading. Thing is... it doesn't. A few seconds into the loading screen the console hangs.

Another thing. I have never downloaded any content for this title. And I sure don't feel like being bullied into downloading any content just to load my save from a game that worked yesterday. Before this update.

Fix it! I have payed money for this title. Not on any sale or second hand. This is bought brand new a few days after release. Played on a non modified console. The disc is in perfect condition and as I said, I have never downloaded any content. So, the problem is coming from something with your update... fix it!

It angers me even more knowing that I probably will have to wait a long time to get some answers to this mail, if any at all. And just for that I will post this mail and your answers on my gaming blog. (gamerelated.tumblr.com)

So, stay tuned for the answer to this mail. Now I am going to play something else, maby Fallout 2, by Black Isle Studios.

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Portal 2 Final Scenes *MEGASPOLER*

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Portal 2 last map in co-op. Here is how you do it.

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Battlefield 3 Full Length Trailer!

OMG! This is 12 min of pure drool material! You have to see it!

And also, I just found a nice hint in the game that swedes are making this fine game. On a box I found this text in swedish.

It says "Denna sida upp, Hanteras varsamt". Translated: "This side up, handle with care".

Anyway, here is the video:

Don't miss our previous post about this game: Battlefield 3, Swedish Craft Matched Only By IKEA

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Crysis 2! So pretty! My eyes are not worthy!

Crytek really shows off their new and much improved CryEngine 3 in this game. My concerns with CryEngine has always been that it makes every single PC I have owned want to commit suicide. Granted, pretty! But demanding.

Well, CryEngine 3 does strain your PC a bit, but not more than expected by a newly released high end game. In fact, I could run it at "medium" setting quite comfortably. I have no idea why Crytek calls "low settings" for "gaming" by the way!? They call the medium setting "advanced" and the high setting "hardcore". Have they confused it with the difficulty settings?

But, the game is crazy pretty. It is so very hard to describe how good it looks so I have recorded a short in-game sequence to show you. Nothing pre-rendered. This is actual gameplay... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZcbb0Z-ck&hd=1

It is quite fun to play actually. I was not able to play through Crysis 1 because I got really tired of all the trees and jungle all the time. But here we get to play around in a city. And it is much more fun. Maby I will have the stamina to play through the whole thing this time. In fact, I do not want to tell you anything more about the game because I am longing to get back to playing it. I need more awesome computer graphics to dazzle my mind.

I leave you with a few screens. And oh, just fyi... you should get this game.

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Gears of War 3 rumored to be colorful

Gears of War 3 are rumored to be really pretty. I even think the word "sexy" was used. More sunlight, more colors, flowers, green grass and shiny. And, ofc bloodspray that is more good looking than ever.

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Arkham City trailer WITH GAMEPLAY!

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More Riddler!

Even though he was on the back burner in Arkham Asylum, Rocksteady reports that the riddler will have a much more significant role in upcoming Arkham City. Looking forward to seeing more of Mr. Edward Nigma. Good stuff.

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Kinect sells better than anything else!

Not even Apple beats Microsoft when it comes to selling. Kinect has sold better, faster and more than both iPad and iPhone. It also sells faster than Nintendo Wii!

In fact, it sold so good that Guinnes book of world records has chalked it down as the fastest selling electronic device ever. In a 60 day period from november 2010 to january 2011 it sold about 10 million units, or 133.333 per day. Comparing to iPhone 120.000 per day, iPad 50.000 per day and Wii 85.000 per day.

So, if you got one of theese as a christmas present... so did ten million other people. Congratulations.

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Batman Arkham City Release Date!

A date has been set. October 21st. Just about a year after Arkham Asylum. Really looking forward to take the role as Batman again. In the game you will also see: Quincy Sharp, The Joker, Two-Face, Catwoman and Harley Quinn.

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Battlefield 3. Swedish craft matched only by IKEA.

Patrick Bach from the Swedish company DICE has been in the Swedish newspapers more than usual recently. This is off course of DICE humongous investment in their upcoming game Battlefield 3. 

To the magazine Aftonbladet he said: "You can do cool stuff just by borrowing from the previous game and then fix, repair and plaster. But we are not renovating a apartment now, we are building a whole new neighborhood. And I think you can feel it and see it. It's not just the graphics we have fixed. People have seen new graphics, people have heard new sound. The big step is when people will play it [battlefield 3] and go 'wow, this is really different'. That is what we want to achieve! Meanwhile we know that the Battlefield concept is holding strong."

And from what we have seen I cannot more than tend to agree. The new Battlefield 3 is really looking promising. The new game-engine Frostbite 2.0 that has been developed for BF3 looks like it could deliver the most photo-realistic game ever to be released. And that is saying a lot.

EA-games is backing the production whole heartedly also. The most expensive production in Sweden before this was a series of movies with a budget that was over 30 million dollars. When Patrick B. got asked if BF3 was closing on those figures he reportedly said that on that [small] budget the game wouldn't have gotten far at all. He should have been interviewed by Gamerelated instead, we KNOW that 30 million is a ridiculously small budget.  

A matter of fact though is that this could be the biggest investment EA-games has ever put into a game.

Patrick Bach: "EA has full confidence in DICE. EA has learned to trust DICE over the years. And now is the time. And it feels great that a multinational company such a EA goes all-in and really embraces small DICE and says 'What do you want? How can we help you?'. So for us it is fantastic. Meanwhile there is a great pressure on the studio to deliver. We are still sure that the product will be good though."

"We are not trying to sell something that we don't have. I can understand projects that uses pre-rendered animations to promote something, without having a game. WE only show things from within our game. We are extremely Swedish in that way. We are stubborn, we don't show anything that we cannot deliver. It may not be popular, but in the end it pays. We are not talking shit. Even though we are trying to learn how to be a bit more selling, a bit more American in that way, you will know that when we say we will deliver something on a specific time, we will deliver it."

"And, it's not about EA, DICE or me, it's about the team. It's really Swedish teamwork at it's best. It's IKEA all over again. If we know what we want, it will be good. And we can be modest when the result is good, but we wouldn't promise anything we cannot keep."

So there you have it. It is going to be awesome, the most good looking game you have ever seen, and it will be delivered on time! I really hope that Patrick wont have to regret his confidence in any matter. Because if this will be everything that it is promised to be I might have to consider changing my favorite game engine from "Unreal Engine 3.5" to "Frostbite 2.0". 

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I can't stop watching this....

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Are they stupid? For real?

Ok, here is what I have to say about super hyped Bulletstorm...

Great looking graphics. Ok story. Lots of swearing, I like that. But a few minutes into the game I was thinking "this would be great to play in co-op". And you know what? They originally was planning on having co-op, and then removed it!

Yeah, it's true! Cliff Bleszinski on Epic Games said that even though it was at one point implemented and working, it was removed because "it broke" the game. And when he says broke, he doesnt mean the game engine, he means the gaming experience. I think it is retarded!

So, now I have the option to play through it alone, or you know... play something else with my friends. So, I am gonna play something else. There you have it, it could have been great, and now it is not. Fox News even asked if it possibly is the worst game in the world. (They have complaints about the violence they claim, but we know... we know it really is about the lack of co-op.)

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This looks real promising!

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Will there be cake?

First, I am so sorry there has been no posts for a while. December was really busy and January has been really depressing. But, enough about that, lets get on with it.

So, a game that I am really super excited about is Portal 2!

As usual it is developed by Valve Corporation and released by Electronic Arts sometime during 2011. EA is known to be releasing good games they had absolutely nothing to do with developing. Portal 2 will run on Xbox360, Playstation 3, PC and Mac. So, most people will have a chance to enjoy the game.

The plot is the same as in the first one, kind of. You will be solving puzzles and labyrinths using your super fancy portal gun. It is a portal gun, you can figure out that you make portals with it right? The scene will be as in the first one, Aperture Science Enrichment Center, which is  awesome because it is a really weird place.

This time you will be able to move air (pneumatic pressure) through your portals, and will be required to do at some parts of the game. You will also be introduced to a "gel". A Flubber like substance you might say. The gel will have to be transported at times and applied to surfaces and objects and so on. There will be two uses from this. Propulsion that will give you speed and repulsion that will give you higher jumps. New cubes are something interesting too. Not just another companion cube, which you killed in the first game, you bastard. A "storage cube" and a "redirection cube". I think their name says most of what they will be used for. Other new things include: Thermal Discouragement Laser Beams, Aerial Faith Plates, Spherical Weighted Storage Balls and Hard Light Bridges that can be redirected with the use of portals.

But, the feature that I am most excited about is the two player CO-OP mode. This will be a separate campaign that will be more challenging than the single player campaign. So, you will be able to play through the game in both modes without repeating what you already have played. Valve also says that both of the campaigns will be about twice as long as the first portal game. Good times!

Portal 2 takes place a couple of hundred years after the first game. And you will be playing Chell in the single player mode. Who was placed in a stasis after being dragged away by that unknown figure with the robotic voice in the ending of the first game. You know, that figure that we never got to see... yeah, I don't remember either. I just remember the epic song playing during the credits. But since some time has passed the Aperture Science Enrichment Center will be a bit overrun with vegetation at some places. This will give a bit more life to the game than just flat white walls and monotonic robot voices did.

In the much anticipated two player mode you will see a new couple. Their name is Atlas & P-body. They are a turret gun and a modified personality core. How awesome isn't that? Just look at them! According to Valve they will make "expressive noises" when talking to each other. Not sure what that means, but I am sure as hell looking forward to finding it out. And you and your friend who you choose to play with will be having one portal gun each. Twice the portals, twice the difficulty and loads of more fun.

As I said, I am really looking forward to this game. And I wonder... will there be cake?