It would be nice to hear a statement from Ubisoft themselves about the reason for revoking those keys. While I guess it's technically possible they were all stolen, a lot of the concerns are that this is more about preventing re-sellers selling off keys from legitimate e.g. Russian copies. AFAIK, as long as buyers are paying domestic sales taxes, that's perfectly legal, and it's definitely more in line with EU competition laws than trying to control all sale outlets and prices.

That sounds ball bouncingly fun. Can't wait for them to implement real currency speeding tickets.

Well that's kind of shitty. Unless these were stolen keys, does Ubisoft even have a legal precedent for doing what they're doing? I thought the company acknowledged the legitimacy of re-sale when they created their Uplay passport programme.

Above all, it's really poor handling of PR. These people weren't pirates or criminals; they were legitimate customers looking for a cheap, legal version of Ubisoft games. Rather than snatching back their product, and leaving consumers with a sour taste of Ubi business practices, why not take it up with the re-sellers/auction sites directly? G2A, for example, is a big company with its own reputation to worry about. If they're doing something illegal, they can take personal responsibility for that.

I can already stream games to a $200 baytrail tablet. There's nothing stopping me connecting that to my TV either. More cross platform titles would give me even less incentive to buy a console, since they're guaranteed to be better on PC.

What would be cool would be if MS gave me access to a title on both systems with just one purchase; getting my existing library of multiplat PC games essentially bundled with a new XB1... now, that might be really sweet. Even better would be the possibility of playing one game natively on both systems at the same time. Cross platform LAN party, anyone?

@adamosmaki: If you happen to live in Poland, It's 31 Euros direct from CDPR, or 33 Euros for the hard copy with free shipping. I wonder whether that would include the international language version... hmm...

Is this something that works differently in the US to Europe? Surely if AMD states its balance sheet date as the end of December in their annual report, then that's when their fiscal year ends.

Either way, it sounds like 20nm isn't on the cards for 2014.

Most games that don't kill you in stupid, unexpected ways. Skyrim's one of the worst offenders. Too many times I died by walking into cooking utensils.

You could be waiting a long time; it's currently listed at 50 Euros on Steam where I'm at.

GMG is definitely legit; I've bought four or five games from them in the past with no issues, and their servers are much better than they were. Same goes for Get Games Go and GOG... and likely any other seller with plenty of G's in their name. ;)

While there's still no other service even nearly as well run or comprehensive as Steam, I'm just not seeing any earth-shattering deals in the last year or two. It's well worth shopping around, especially when most non-publisher services offer Steam activation to boot.

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The screeching noise you're hearing is called coil whine. It's common on a lot of GPUs when frame rate is very high. It's nothing to worry about, but if it's getting to you, then capping FPS through Vsync, frame limiting options or triple buffering should solve the issue. There are some really good third party tools available for both Nvidia and AMD cards that give you a lot of control over these kinds of setting.

Re. the display banding: if the lines are horizontal, then, like nutcrackr mentioned, it's an FPS/refresh syncing problem. Before turning on Vsync or triple buffering, you might want to check your Windows display properties. In my case, Bumping up my monitor's native refresh from 60 to 75Hz fixed the tearing problem, while also giving games a much more fluid feel.

However If I understand you right, the bands are moving across your screen, from one side to the other. In this case, the problem probably lies elsewhere. Check whether adjusting your monitor's clock/pitch control doesn't improve things. I think this is only a factor with analog inputs, but it might be worth a shot anyway.