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Submission + - Instant Browsing in Chrome 9 (maximumpc.com)

ninjacheeseburger writes: Chrome just got updated today and aside from webGL support it adds "instant browsing" a feature where the site loads as you type the address (Has to be enabled from the options menu).
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Humble Bundle 2 Is Live 217

Dayofswords writes "The first Humble Bundle was a monster success, with over 100,000 people donating over $1 million in total to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and of course the developers behind the games. The second bundle is now live (bundle site), containing five great games: Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Each game is DRM-free, the games work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you pay what you want and decide where your money goes."

Comment Re:Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... (Score 1) 412

Either way some games are better on consoles (fighting, local multiplayer, driving games etc) , while other games I prefer my mouse and keyboard support (simulation, rts, fps, etc)

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console != controller

You can play pc games with almost any input device you want, including xbox 360 controllers.

Comment Steam sales data (Score 1) 412

All major publishers have games on steam, so I'm sure they have a reasonable idea of how well their games are selling even if we don't, just looking at the steam stats can give a rough idea.

To be honest I like being able to play the latest games with the settings on full, "developments will be pretty much limited to what their creative expressions is, what the content is" is not necessarily a bad thing, its the game play vs graphics argument.

Comment I tested this a couple of days ago (Score 2, Informative) 44

It does work, but there defiantly needs to be improvement.
I was using my uni's 55mb connection, and the resolution wasn't very good, even when I selected full screen there were massive black bars round the game. The anti-aliasing needs to be turned up as well as even the cut scenes looked horrible.

Control wise the game was playable but I had major difficulty aiming with a sniper rifle.

I believe the idea is to offer instant demos to people on game sites instead of just adverts and trailers, instead of onlive's approach of buying and playing games. If this is the case I could see this being a useful service even if the quality isn't great, I'd never played Mass Effect before and this allowed me to get a taste of the game without downloading GBs of content just for a quick demo.

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