I find that most of the new items are a lot harder to play with. They generally enhance or gives more focus to one aspect of the gameplay in each **** There are some noob items like liberty launcher and backburner but they are easy enough to get, I never once felt that they give the upper hand. The trade-offs are quite clear.

They go where the money is... and we know it's on Skyrim.

Well depends on the game. Other than that, you can actually change the registry to do that, but I don't recommend to do it.

Some games like Crysis, all you have to do is use the right commands.

Screw AIDS and Cancer, just take all their research funds and give it to the cure of baldness! When will the egg-heads find a cure for it!? :evil:

/rant

It's not that great of an achievement given European countries situations. Brazil's abilities to maintain sustained growth are minimal; the complete inertia in trying to achieve minimal political and legislative reforms will take it's toll in the long-run. Most institutions bet in a capacity of yearly growth of 4,5% of the GDP, yet we can't achieve that average without being above the target for inflation rates. Long term policies are non-existing for most areas of national interest.

The Investment/PIB ratio is ridiculous (stands between 16-18%) and the interest rate needed to achieve minimal control over inflation is way above the hypothetical equilibrium (imagine if the basic interest rates in the U.S. were 11%!). The large international yield in interest rates, financial deficit and high commodities prices - promoting an excess of dollars in the market and therefore overvalued national currency -, are promoting a prolonged process of reducing the industrial sector in favour of the more insulated sectors such as Services (misteriously agropecuary is barely growing).

Result is that after a growth in 7,5% of the GDP in 2010 (effect of the catching up after a year of stagnation and abnormal government spending), we are barely reaching 3% this year. Third trimester had zero growth in GDP, and the 4th is on it's way to near stagnation; meanwhile they lost control over inflation in december and are now overshooting the legal higher band of the legal target for inflation. Imo, the famous case of the 'vôo da galinha' or 'flight of the chicken'.

There are a large amount of problems, deficient infrastructure, stagnation of labour productivity, outdated labour regulations, bad public spending, tax evasion, high taxes, overly complex and cascade taxation, fiscal deficit, extreme corruption, economically depressing judicial and political system... The Main problem is not that these problems exist, any problem can be solved if you are willing to tackle it; the main problem is that those are not tackled or even being seriously discussed. The government and the whole civil society is unable or unwilling to commit to even discuss these problems. We get to worry about events that are turning out to be true frauds like the World Cup.

Like the poet said "Quarenta anos e nenhum problema; resolvido, sequer colocado."

/rantover

Too many to list.

Jedi Knight comes to mind.

They brought us instead Force Unleashed. Seriously, those guys should be skinned alive for making a Star Wars, DMC style game, with light sabers that hits like baseball bats and Super Sayajins Jedis. They waste 300 million dollars in SWTOR, but they can't spare 10 million to make a quality sequel.

It has a very strong progression component in it. Has cool magics and weapons, it is more fighting and adventure orientated than minecraft. Has a lot more RPG elements.

I personally prefer it to minecraft. I do acknowledge that it is more limited in terms of how you can employ your creativity.

Don't be cheap and buy it! NAO! Last I saw it was $2,50. Worse case scenario you can trade it for something else.

I do hope the game doesn't have those stupid quests... like getting 10 boars hearts.

You kill 300 and only one in thirty have a heart. God knows how they can live withouth them.

But really, i'm waiting for a good PvP and world PvP. The unbalance in WoW was getting on my nerves.

RAGE, BF3 and Crysis 2 where HUGE disappointments for me.

pelvist

Amen, brotha. No really good fps this year.

It's part of a long-term policy of food supply safety on their part. They are expanding their agicultural frontier to europe's backyard. The local governments are thrilled by those investments since they are generally made without any short-term political counter-part, unlike some Western aid that require several, some times even the governments to be democratic. In Sudan they even helped with their ethnical cleasing! Giving basic infra-structure in very poor places can have huge multiplier effects and lead to a large growth.

Imo it's a good thing, it's not like Western governments gives a crap about them. In fact they are probably actively working to make their almost infinite amount of problems worse. External aid has already helped to desorganize any market economy of food supplies in the worst hunger stricken countries; and it's not like Western countries (such as France) aren't covertly helping the some of the massacres out there.