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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:39:23 +0000

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By: GamerBlits.com

GamerBlits.com — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:39 +0000

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By: GamerBlits.com

GamerBlits.com — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:01:11 +0000

Alan Wake Arrives for PC in February, and Won't Use Games For Windows Live…

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By: newyearnewrule

newyearnewrule — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:24:39 +0000

I remember this! Awesome article. Far from believable, though. More and more talk is that PS4 will release next year or early 2013.

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:18:15 +0000

Good idea, I guess I could visit take the challenge in the near future. In the mean time, though, we’ll continue to bring news, articles and opinion pieces. Hope you enjoy them, as much as you enjoyed this one ; )

You’re official now, share your thoughts on the other threads!

By: Boyatsea

Boyatsea — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:30:23 +0000

Justifying one bad article by saying ‘others do it’ is no justification, really.

Yes, articles can have opinions, but they have to be backed up by sources – not only is that an important way to distinguish your view from everyone else’s, it’s also part of the fun for the reader. It makes it genuinely interesting and thought provoking.

What you’re written here is essentially a diary entry, or a blog post. You might not see that as an especially big deal, but by presenting it as an article, you’re essentially dragging down the site.

If you’re going to do a piece, do it properly; just what Sony has in store for PS4 could be a really good article if you do some research, grab some quotes. So, why not do it?

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:00:23 +0000

Alright Boyetsea, I see some of your points. But if you read the article properly, you’d realize that I never painted the mistakes Sony made with the PS3 as some kind of big, long term strategy.

Also, an article is one’s opinion, if you find it hard to accept, then, I guess, no one should write them. Just the other day, I read a piece from another site that claimed Uncharted 3 will be the best game ever made.

What? How can he say that, right? Well, at the end of the day, it’s the writer’s opinion and he writes interesting articles so his base could read and have a great discussion over.

Learn to take life a bit more light. Can’t be so serious. It’s not like I was lying on anyone, or misquoting anybody.

By: Boyatsea

Boyatsea — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:36:03 +0000

Ernice – I know how websites work. I’ve worked for plenty in my time, thanks. And, as such, I’m telling you from a non-fanboy, non-biased perspective; this article is especially amateur and, worse than that, completely unsourced.
If you want my advice, you’ll strip back your own wants and desires and take a real, detailed look and how PS3 is fairing and, as such, how that’s likely to influence Sony’s decisions in the run up to PS4.
Here, you’ve neither given an accurate account of the current situation – your take on the Xbox 360′s predicament, as it enters the strongest sales in the last three years, is laughable. Likewise, there’s no point whitewashing PS3 as a massive success, or indeed, as part of some kind of wider strategy.
Sony have made some huge fudges this generation – E3 2006, SixAxis, original PS3 design, price, etc etc – and it’s only by acknowledging these, rather than trying to suggest that everything has gone just as Sony had planned, that’ll you’ll begin to touch on just what kind of console we’re likely to see with PS4.
As a writer, you’ve got to back up every argument you make with facts, otherwise the whole thing falls apart and any predictions you make ultimately look like they’ve come from the back of a fag packet.

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:27:37 +0000

No they didn’t, in all fairness to them. We’ve been considering a podcast, NamelessTed, and I’m starting to think we should go ahead with it. As for LIVE, it’s better than PSN for sure, and the contrast you made with WoW really caused me to pause and think.

And I do think that LIVE is worth every dime.

Great comment, however.

By: NamelessTed

NamelessTed — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:05:12 +0000

I get that a lot of people don’t like paying $50 per year for Xbox LIVE but to me, it is totally worth it. I have seen LIVE grow from something tiny into what it is today. For every year I have had LIVE, it has been the thing I use more than anything else on the system so the price is more than justified.

I think it is mind-blowing that people pay $15 every single month just so they can play World of Warcraft online. That is just one game and it turns into $180 every year to play it. I think LIVE is more than worth everything I get for the $50 each year.

I do think Microsoft has the opportunity right now to start offering more services for free, however. In the beginning, online play was all they had. Now they have party chat, and webcam chat, and netflix, Hulu coming soon, last.fm, facebook, twitter, ESPN, skyTV (in UK), and plenty of other stuff.

I think Microsoft will be growing their LIVE platform even further in the next year or so and might eventually be able to justify offering more services for free. I don’t know if free online play will be in the cards in the short-term though.

I should also point out that I hate crappy achievements. There are games that have amazing achievements but other devs either don’t understand or are just lazy when it comes to them. The adding of a boat load of collectible is inexcusable. But, achievements like in Alan Wake where it challenges you to get through an entire episode without firing your gun, THAT is a great achievement. It adds re-playability to the game and you get an entirely different experience from the game.

There is plenty more to talk about on this subject but I feel that comments aren’t the best way to do it. As long as everybody involved is level heading, conversations like this are great for podcasts because I think most people can get their points across better.

Also, multiple DVDs do suck. I LOVE Mass Effect 2 to death, but the two disc system can be a little bit annoying. In fairness though, Microsoft didn’t have much choice.

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:49:07 +0000

Anybody reading this piece would instantly know it’s an article. The reason it’s tagged under news is for other reasons. If you knew how websites work then you’d understand. What you don’t see is that the piece is also filed under article, but you can’t see that……

Anyways, welcome to GamesThirst, make yourself at home.

By: Boyatsea

Boyatsea — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:24:16 +0000

Ernice, don’t be daft. It’s an entirely delusional piece and you know it. Fair enough â€“ that’s your opinion.

But to present it as some kind of fact â€“ and for GamesThirst to publish it as news â€“ just makes you look out of your depth as a writer, and the website as a whole hopelessly amateur.

There are plenty of analysts who predict brighter days for PS3 â€“ and, indeed, have the evidence to back it up. But to simply roll out your personal views – based on nothing more than your own hopes – as fact in an article is ridiculous.

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:11:09 +0000

Look closer Boyatsea, dig deep and realize for yourself who’s being the fanboy here.

By: Ernice Gilbert

Ernice Gilbert — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:09:50 +0000

@ Nick. That the time 2012 rolls in, it’ll be 8yrs since the Xbox 360 came on the scene, by then, Microsoft will have to release a new console….

By: Boyatsea

Boyatsea — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:07:38 +0000

What absolute fanboy nonsense. Even the most cursory glance at worldwide sales figures shows that, in every territory other than Japan, Xbox 360 is easily outselling PlayStation 3.

It’ll be Sony that moves before Microsoft next generation, as the PS3 is effectively stuck in third place this generation and is showing no signs of making up any real ground.

You simply proclaiming the 360 a ‘dead duck’ and adding ’4′ to the end of a load of Sony franchises does not a good article make.