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The wait is finally over!

STEAM!

Ps. I just keep on failing with the iframe code so will post only the link.

Didn't quite happen last week, but here it is!

This interactive trailer gives you an idea of how The Detail will feel first hand.

[video=youtube;HVHUo75ezoA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHUo75ezoA[/video]

You don't have to believe my word for it.

You can now check a preview of our pre-beta material by HardcoreGamer: http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/06/26/the-wire-meets-the-walking-dead-in-the-detail-for-real/91461/

- Lex

Thank you both of you!

Let's see if we can push out something new this week

We have just released a new trailer:
[video=youtube;MD4YKsp6KyM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD4YKsp6KyM[/video]

Thank you for the kind words and sharing the message!

We are currently working on what is the best way to deliver a closed beta on PC, but more information on that in the near future!

- Lexander

[Facebook:]

Hello good people of dMw!

Some of you might remember me from way back. I used to be somewhat active in WoW and Call of Duty. I would like to use this opportunity to present you a game called "The Detail", it is the first franchise of a young game company called Rival Games where I'm one of the co-founders. We have been working really hard for the past 15 months and just today launched a Steam Greenlight campaign. Would be nice to get some feedback of the game and maybe even couple of plus votes in the Greenlight process

Here is a short introduction to the game:
The Detail is a new adventure game from Rival Games that takes the player to the streets of a crime-ridden city and into the shoes of Reginald "Reggie" Moore, a veteran detective grown frustrated with the lack of justice, and Joseph "Joe" Miller, a former confidential informant now dragged back into the life of crime he barely escaped.

The player will need to investigate criminal activity, scenes of murder, arrest suspects and interrogate them for information, all while trying to navigate the pitfalls of an underworld where every choice holds consequences.

The Detail. This is where HBO’s The Wire meets TellTale Games’ The Walking Dead, premiering in 2014. Target platforms are Pc, Mac, Linux and Tablet devices.

Link to the Greenlight page: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=270003945

You can also find us on:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RivalGamesLtd
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RivalGamesLtd
Website:
http://rival-games.com/
Blog:
http://blog.rival-games.com/

I'm happy to answer if you have any questions or comments regarding our first game!

- Lexander

Edit: We are soon doing a closed Beta test so we might need some help with that, if someone is interested :flirty:

The thing is that it's for my Shuttle which is also my main PC and upgrading the SD37P2 is not possible I think, I've posted also on Sudhian, a bareboneforum where I hopefully get some more suggestions how I can upgrade my Shuttle big time when it's needed.
If I can upgrade my Shuttle now for 70 Euros and it plays okay with the current games then I'll be happy (christmaspresent for myself)..

I think what Tutonic meant is that is 70e worth the extra 1 or 2 fps ? Even with that 6700 you are at the low requirements bar right ? I mean if you pay the 70e and still can't play the game because of bad graphics or slowing down it is not worth it, or maybe even buy some more memory to help it out.

First of all I would just try the game to see how it works out with your current setup.

I'm obviously thick so help me..

I click the linky but there's no article. It only allows me to leave a comment..

Like I said.. I'm thick so help me..

If you mean the TeaLeaf's article, the same happens to me.

Forcing people to re-take the driving test once every, for example, 10 years would be a good move in my book.

It might stop people getting into bad habits that you see every day on the roads. I'm pretty certain that some people think that because they've passed their test they no longer need to do basic things like use their indicators....

I disagree with that as it might work with the bad drivers, but for good drivers and professional drivers it would just be an extra cost of hundreds of euros or pounds for nothing.
Maybe there could be a system to block the bad drivers from good drivers, otherwise it will just be teasing overall.

I'm sick of people(both developers and friends) telling me that PC gaming is dead and consoles are the way forward. Now someone has actually made the research:

The PC gaming week made me think about something... it's the whole "PC gaming is dead" debate.

People basicly throw this claim into a discussion but hardly have any evidence to back up their claim besides "there are no games for PC", "there is no money in PC gaming because of piracy" or some old NPD sales report. So i figured there must be a way to bring some actual facts to this discussion.

These facts can be easily obtained, trough the annual finnancial reports by publishers. So i did look up some reports and the results are rather suprising. That's why i'm gonna share them with you people here:
(All $ numbers are MILLIONS)

Electronics Arts

Link to the report: [files.shareholder.com]

Important information is on page 184 of the adobe document.

Net revenue by platform

Xbox360 - $868
PS3 - $771
Wii - $570
PC - $687

As you can see the PC made even more net revenue then the Wii did. It's within shooting range of the PS3.

Activision Blizzard

Link to the report: [files.shareholder.com]

Important information is on page 27 of the adobe document.

Net revenue by platform

Xbox360 - $857
PS3 - $584
Wii - $584
PC - $1.412

It should be noted that this is the Report of 2009, all other publisher reports are from 2010, the one for activision 2010 isn't released yet afaik. So it doesn't include Starcraft 2, but it does include Modern Warfare 2. As you can see WoW is hard at work. The money generated by WoW alone dwarfs any other platform by far.

Also MW2 had a huge impact on the console net revenue, boosting it considerably. For comparisson here are the 2008 numbers that don't include MW2:

Xbox360 - $362
PS3 - $241
Wii - $407
PC - $1.251

Without a mega release like MW2 the WoW/PC revenue alone surpasses that of ALL consoles combined.

Take Two Interactive

Link to the report:
[phx.corporate-ir.net]

Important information is on page 23 of the adobe document.

Net revenue by platform

Xbox360 - $171
PS3 - $155
Wii - $5
PC - $10

That's Red Dead Redemption hard at work, which didn't get a PC release.
The PC once again generated more net revenue then the Wii did.
Without such a mega seller the platforms are way closer to each other. For comparisson reasons here are the numbers from 2009 where no huge console exclusive title like RDR got released.

Xbox360 - $30
PS3 - $11
Wii - $15
PC - $13

As you can see, without a huge console exclusive getting released the PC holds up pretty well. Who knows how the numbers for 2010 would have looked if they actually released RDR for the PC too...

Ubisoft

Link to the report:
[//www.ubisoftgroup.com]

Important information is on page 16 of the adobe document.

Sales by platform in %.
(sadly there is no net revenue in $ values)

Xbox360 - 22%
PS3 - 23%
Wii - 26%
PC - 8%

Okay doesn't look that great over at Ubisoft. But the question is, why? Hasn't Ubisoft been the one who invented their awesome new DRM to combat piracy? Doesn't look like it worked that well... to the contrary i think it actually backfired. Also they make the majority of their money trugh Wii casual titles, so it could also be a problem with their overall software lineup.

Another Publisher i wanted to add had been Bethesda Softworks (ZeniMax Media Inc.). But sadly i couldn't find any annual finanical reports from them. If you find them feel free to share them.

But it's not far stretched to assume that the PC side of things don't look that bad at ZeniMax either. Considering that that Bethesda has a tradition in strong PC games, they also have Arkane studios, Splash Damage and the newly aquired id Software which traditionaly are also very strong in the PC sector.

So here you have it, these are actual facts about the market situation. And they clearly show there is TONS of money to be made on the PC. It's the task of publishers/developers to tab into that potential and actually make that money.

And before anybody brings this up: I'm well aware that EA has The Sims, Acti/Blizzard has WoW which are big hitters. But as the examples of MW2/RDR show that the console market also depends very heavily on a few very big franchises beeing sold. So i don't see that as an valid counter-point.

Thanks for reading (if you got this far) feel free to discuss and feel free to link to this comment the next time some troll comes along going "there is no money in PC gaming herp derp".

http://kotaku.com/5677764/

How it looks to me is that consoles are becoming PC's in away and PC gaming is getting stronger every year.

The best line for me was Stallone say "I just got my ass kicked!" - made the film for me

The whole church scene was best in the history of movies such an meeting of eternal action stars has never happened.

The thing we all want to hear is, BABY EXPENDABLES 2 IS COMING! Filming starts in January.

Expendables writer/director/star Stallone seems to agree and is, according to Willis, ââ,¬Å"going for all the marbles this time, and [is] going to get everybody in ['The Expendables 2']ââ,¬Å" ââ,¬â€œ and by everybody he means essentially every brawny, bad-ass action star that had their heyday on the big screen during the 1980s on through to the early 1990s.

Rumours about: Van Damme, Chuck Norris (??) and Steven Seagal

Stats page's down!

The whole stats page system etc is down due to some server crash, but will be back eventually...

I'm not touching it again until I see posts from people on the Steam forum saying it works.

Hi folks

We have updated the server and tried to address as many things as possible in the short time remaining this week. There will likely be more fixes and versions next week.

As always feedback is appreciated

Please see my original post for a new DL + change log.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1535796

Hopefully that solves the problems.