I bought the Pro upgrade last week. Maybe I should pick up some Blackberry stock this week while I'm at it.

I'm sure Mr. Huang and his children are enjoying these devices immensely.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of Mantle, but it does have the potential to greatly increase the performance of games that support it and extend the life of ATI cards. Being the owner of a 7950 I'm looking forward to seeing how much of a performance boost Mantle gives vs. DirectX. I believe Battlefield 4, which I plan to purchase, will be one of the first Mantle supported games when they patch in Mantle support in December, can't wait to try it out.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7371/understanding-amds-mantle-a-lowlevel-graphics-api-for-gcn

Whats to buy? Its going to be free to download and install, like Steam is today. Yeah there will be SteamOS devices built by Valve or most likely other companies, but since its free alot of people will probably try it. My use case will be installing it on my older pc for a living room based gaming PC.

As for people adopting it, when the SteamOS and the hardware are released you know Valve is going to have a big carrot dangling to get people to try it out, something related to a game with a 3 in the title methinks.

In all my years of University and working at tech companies after I have yet to see anyone eat a Twinkie. Can't say I've ever heard of them being called the "Breakfast of Programmers" before, but I guess they had to shoehorn a way to put it on /. Even the overlords at DICE gotta eat I guess.

Carlos is full of it. He only made $4000 in a month, on the Internets.

Nvidia has always been pushing their propriety tech, so its not surprising they don't support ATI video cards for streaming, but they are cutting out a large number of users by supporting on their cards. The number of people who are going to buy an Nvidia card so they can stream to Shield is probably going to be very low compared to the number of current ATI customers who may have given it a try, myself included.

Don't most PS3 games come on Blu Ray discs?

What's not to love about this?

Ubuntu

Someone needs to make a Kinect/Eye Toy/Mobile game that engages pets and generates a bunch of bogus random data for NSA spend resources crunching.

Yup, Win 7 updates are no longer optional, they install auto-magically with no option to not install them.

The Walking Dead is at the height of its popularity right now. The S3 finale had its highest ratings yet.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-season-3-finale-ratings-431948

World War Z has raked in $366 million so far, so I don't think people are tired of zombies yet.

Motorola's future press release will contain something along the line of "It was mistake!?"

Why on earth not?

"it was probably their idea and lobbying that forced Sony and MS's hands."

Yes, I'm sure EA crammed it down their unwilling throats, with a smelly yet gold-encrusted plunger taken from Riccitiello's gold-plated water closet.

Why would Microsoft or Sony care about losing revenue from used game sales? The full revenue they get from a new game sale and the $7 license fee for 3rd party games, who would want that money?