Yup. :D

Stupid question but you're obviously getting it on PC huh? ;)

Worth starting Deus Ex from the first game, or will this be standalone?

Worth starting Deus Ex from the first game, or will this be standalone?

So about half my games got rejected for being imports lol.

But with the console, both HDD's and all the rest of the games with their 50% bonuses, was able to pre-order BF3, Far Cry 3, and only paid $40 for Deus Ex HD.

They left me Red Dead Redemption and Tiger Woods 12, so I can go back to those if I want again later.

So basically best of both words :lol:

Yeah, that's why I stopped buying from play-asia. Try these 2:

http://www.dungeoncrawl.com.au/
http://www.ozgameshop.com/

You've probably heard of them before, but incase you hadn't:p For everyone elses benefit too, I don't think Ozgameshop's prices can be beat.

Yeah, fair enough. I was looking forward to using Steam, but because my girlfriend will be playing games as well, it's impractical for us, because we'd have to buy a game twice if we both wanted to play it #-o

What do you mean?

At the same time?

Well yeah, you can't do that.

You can keep copies of steam and it's games on multiple computers, but only one login can be active.

[size=6]Sony offers free ID theft protection to Aussies[/size]
Asher Moses
August 11, 2011 - 3:02PM
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/sony-offers-free-id-theft-protection-to-aussies-20110811-1io5u.html

Sony has offered the owners of about 1.5 million Australian PlayStation Network accounts free identity theft protection to make up for its lax security that resulted in one of the world's biggest privacy breaches.

Users of the service who are over 18 and had a PlayStation Network account on April 20 - the date it was hacked - are eligible for a year's free identity protection with global firm CS Identity.

Members began receiving emails this week containing the unique code they need to redeem the offer.

The package includes "CyberAgent Internet Surveillance", whereby CS Identity's technology scours the internet for unauthorised use of your identity. The firm conducts 24/7 monitoring of criminal web pages, chat rooms, bulletin boards and file sharing sites to identify trading or selling of customers' personal information.

Identity restoration is also included, which involves the firm helping customers restore their identity after becoming the victim of identity theft.

The data stolen during the breach includes names, gender, addresses, email addresses, birthdays and login passwords for Sony's PlayStation Network and its Qriocity music streaming service.

All up 1,560,791 Australian accounts were affected - 280,000 of which had credit card details. This is a fraction of the 77 million total accounts exposed worldwide.

Security experts have warned that even without credit card details, hackers could use the other stolen details to construct highly targeted and believable attacks designed to steal more personal information and/or infect computers.

The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has been investigating the breach and it is understood this investigation is ongoing. Pilgrim does not have the power to fine Sony but will likely obtain undertakings from the company to help ensure there is less of a chance of future breaches.

Sony shut down its PlayStation Network on April 20 when it learnt of the security breach. But it wasn't until a week after the initial hack that Sony revealed personal details had been stolen, which the company said was because it did not discover the theft until later in its investigations.

"We deeply apologise for the inconvenience we have caused," said Kazuo Hirai, chief of Sony's PlayStation video game unit, who was among the three executives who bowed for several seconds at the company's Tokyo headquarters in the traditional style of a Japanese apology.

"This criminal act against our network had a significant impact not only on our consumers, but our entire industry."

I haven't played Invisible War but from what I've read, I don't think I'm missing much at all and apparently it was a really shoddy console port to PC, but the entire game was meh.

We both have Steam accounts. Say Skyrim comes out, and we both want to play it. If we buy it through steam on my account, she has to buy it again, to play it on her account.

Unless I've been completely misled.

There's no such game as Invisible War. You must be mistaken.

The only Deus Ex game is Deus Ex. And HR, but that's not out yet.

Its worth playing like the others guys said, because its one of the best games ever. Also despite the fact that 3 is a prequel, I think it will be tying into Deus Ex a bit so would be good to have that knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Invisible_War

I didn't know it existed either until I saw it on YouTube the other day.

Actually it isn't, at least not in the literary sense. It's set before the original but is a separate story ie. doesn't lead into the story of the original, but does set the context.

Steam is one of the lowest cost distribution channels in the world for software.

Ea's short term strategy would lose them money as people switch to retail (which gives EA less margin) or cheap key sites.

In medium/long term (say another 2/3/4 years) once they have a 'customer base', from BF3 and TOR and their PC Sports games (plus the Sims I guess), I wouldn't be surprised if they simply pull all EA games from everywhere online but Origin. There's no point in building their own distribution system if they aren't going to use it's monopoly power.

They'll crack down on cheap/import keys, lock each new game to a specific Origin account, and essentially become a full monopoly for EA games, and everyone will be paying either full price on Origin or full price at Retail, giving EA back the control they have lost due to the rise of Steam. Consumes will absolutely hate this but they will have no recourse. In Australia it might be illegal for EA to do that, but it'll be something that EA will be able to lawyer up about and it'll never mean anything. EA will do it regardless.

If you want an example of what this infrastructure duplication is all about, just look at the 90's cable wars* for how the current system works (Ea with it's own games vs Steam with it's own games + others) or the current copper network monopoly**.

The only two questions are the aforementioned using monopoly power to pull EA from all online sites but Origin, and will they open Origin up to other companies?

Only a handful of companies are in a position to truly compete (and not just duplicate/monopolise their infrastructure by making download services only for their titles) with Valve/Steam, and EA is one of them.

If they open up Origin and compete then there might be light at the end of the tunnel for the consumer. If they choose to stick to EA only, then it'll only be worse for the consumer, no matter what EA pr bullshit is spewed.

Edit for here: The "Cable Wars" was the Optus/Telstra HFC pay tv cable overbuild. Optus ran out a Hybrid Fibre Coaxial network for Optusvision, and Telstra followed right behind them. Billions of dollars were completely and utterly lost by both parties simply to avoid market share being lost, when the smarter choice would have been a combined HFC build with open access between the two of them. It basically meant they both went down the exact same streets building the exact same cabling, and servicing the exact same customers, ie, duplication. It was also the instigator for the "Super League War" in Rugby League.

**When Howard sold Telstra without separating the Retail and Wholesale side of the copper network/internet access, which we saw had devastating impacts on speed and price of internet in Australia by impeding development of ADSL2+ and slowing speeds. It's taken the NBN for the problem to finally be corrected, when in reality we should have had an predecessor to NBN (FTTN) built in the mid-late 90's

At this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Konami confirmed the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, saying the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 compilation would bundle together Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and last year's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Today, series creator Hideo Kojima revealed players will be getting even more for their money with the package.

In a series of posts on his Twitter feed today, Kojima offered a bit of extra information on the bundle. Specifically, he confirmed that the version of Metal Gear Solid 3 included in the package is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, the 2006 follow-up that packed in an additional online mode, the ability to control the in-game camera with the right analog stick, and other tweaks.

However, Subsistence also featured emulated versions of the original MSX versions of series progenitors Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2. That makes the collection a little more comprehensive than before, with the original Metal Gear Solid now the most glaring omission. (Kojima did note that the Japanese Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will include Metal Gear Solid, but it omits Peace Walker.)

The HD Collection isn't the only bit of Metal Gear nostalgia on the way. 3DS owners can look forward to the release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3D later this year.