I wouldn't call Windows 10 heavily touch-oriented. The touch stuff is there, but only in tablet mode. Otherwise, the whole interface, and that includes the "metro" apps, is closer to Win7 than Win8.

That said, with my touchscreen laptop, it is nice to jab my finger at onscreen buttons occasionally rather than drag the cursor all the way over there.

Probably to discourage replies that dismiss his question as asking about spirit or soul or something. Or to make it clear that it wasn't intended as flamebait.

I dunno about that. It's still an older property at this point, but Nintendo is making plenty on Super Smash Bros. And while it's probably not churning out oodles of profit (yet,) Splatoon has a lot of promise as a brand spanking new IP.

No they won't. It popped up a screen that asked me if I wanted to change my defaults for four common tasks to the new Win10 apps for those tasks. Photos, videos, music, and browser. I clicked no on each, and my old defaults carried over.

From Xbone to PC was announced months ago, maybe even years. The announcement I'm talking about is from PC to Xbone being "in the pipeline." It's as good as an announcement as we're likely to get for a while.

But the article is talking about Steam Machines, not the Steam Link. The Steam Link is basically a Chromecast for streaming games from a computer running Steam. A Steam Machine is a full on gaming PC/set top box that runs Steam by itself. I don't really understand why you'd by a Steam Machine for streaming from another PC instead of the cheaper Steam Link, but whatever.

Will. If I wanted to stream PC games to another box and I had the choice between streaming to a box that plays exactly those games and nothing more (a steam machine) or plays all those games and some console exclusive games (an XBone,) I'd go with the latter every time.

As is my gaming desktop is already hooked up to my TV so I'm not in the market for either, but if I were it would be a no-brainer, especially if they're around the same price or the XBone is cheaper.

Did you even read the summary? They announced an app for XBox One that lets you stream you PC games to your console.

This is the thing to remember. Past behavior is a much stronger indicator than campaign promises. Once elected, Clinton would have no motivation to actually follow through on any promises; she'd just make the same promises again when she runs for re-election and then have four more years of not needing to keep any promises.

If someone asked me to name a tech CEO that really new their business, Iwata would have been the first name on my tongue. He played games, he made games, and he knew what made games fun. This is a tragic loss for Nintendo and the gaming industry as a whole.

Yeah, but it's not like you just give up and stop using a computer when Google plays "where's the send button now?" with gmail.

Right now I feel the problem is a range/cost issue. You can lease an egolf for $200/month because your wife has a regular gas car. As a single person who makes 100+ mile trips with some frequency, I wouldn't be able to lease an egolf. I'd have to go with a higher range car, and even, for example, the cheapest Tesla model S is $600+/month to lease. And even then, I don't have a convenient place to charge it. At an apartment complex without a garage. Sometimes I have to park quite a ways away from my apartment, too far for an extension cord from the 240V outlet inside my apartment. Also, I'd have to run the cord out my apartment door and leave my place unlocked to charge my car.

My situation isn't all that uncommon either. An analogous situation applies to pretty much every single person who can't afford a nice house in the suburbs, both rural and urban.

Aside from all the other issues that have already been posted, another problem is that different systems will have different defaults . Makes stuff just that much less portable.

I never much cared for realistic racing games... except the arcade games. Something about trying to get to the next checkpoint before the timer runs out is very satisfying in a primal, visceral way. I'm glad that the power of PCs and home consoles has let us explore the world of game design like it has, but I wish more developers would look back to the arcade era for design cues. Just about any game is worth spending a quarter to try. It's the game that get you to come back and spend more quarters that really had something going for it, and I think there's something to learn from those.

I used to moderate a couple of forums about a few different video games, sizable at the time but nothing the size of Reddit, for sure. But there were some rigid things about our setup that I liked.

• We had very specific rules. No "community guidelines," but hard rules.
• When disciplining a user, we had to cite specific rules that had been broken, and it was good form to cite or quote the infraction.

I feel like the backlash (maybe shitstorm is more appropriate) on Reddit is because the users don't feel the admins are playing by a set of rules. They haven't cited any specific rules the banned subreddits were violating, just "harassment" (which they didn't define.) Moreover, the punishment has not been doled out uniformly, with plenty of users pointing out subreddits that also should have been banned if harassment subs are banned.

The judgements being handed down seem, to apparently fucking everyone on Reddit, arbitrary. Like some far off god on Mt. Olympus has suddenly decided mess with people at random.

Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass because I've never had to manage a community the size of Reddit, but this just seems like an admin took offense to something ("got triggered," in the parlance,) and dusted off the ol' banhammer without thinking. I don't know if that's what happened, but that's how it seems, and that sort of abuse of power always triggers (the way the word is really used) a community schism.