PC Gaming

[Vader AL]

Amazon has Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition for $8.99 for the PC.

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BATMAN ARKHAM CITY: GAME of the YEAR EDITION DESCRIPTION

Batman Arkham City Game of the Year includes the following DLC: Catwoman Pack, Nightwing Bundle Pack, Robin Bundle Pack, Harley Quinn’s Revenge, Challenge Map Pack and Arkham City Skins Pack. Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition packages new gameplay content, seven maps, three playable characters, and 12 skins beyond the original retail release:

Or the GOTY editions for the Arkham City and Asylum for $11.49.

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[Vader AL]

Oh the horor.

https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugg...p-worth-9-000-destroyed-ambush-190533986.html

Video game starship worth $9,000 destroyed in ambush
By Chris Morris | Plugged In – 18 hours ago

Imagine spending years devoting your time and your finances to acquiring an impressive video game spaceship, one of the biggest and most valuable the gaming world has ever seen.
Now imagine all of that work being destroyed in minutes.
One player of the long-running online game EVE Online experienced that horror Sunday, when an ambush destroyed his supercarrier valued at a whopping $9,000.

The massive world of EVE Online is all about buying, piloting and blowing up spaceships. It’s not for the faint at heart, in part because its in-game currency, called ISK (Interstellar Kredits), carries a real-world value. The Revenant -- one of only three ships that big in existence -- carries a value of 309 billion ISK, making it among the priciest bits of code in the game.

That also made it quite the target.

The ambush played out with plenty of intrigue. Players in the Pandemic Legion received an SOS and assumed it was a player in distress. It turns out the player they had put in charge of leading their fleet was actually a spy for an opposing group, who led them directly into a bunch of dreadnaughts and supercarriers. The owner of the Revenant, a player named TSID, could do little to stop the virtual bloodbath, and the rest is EVE Online history.

The economy in EVE Online is a living thing. CCP, the game's developer, actually has an economist in-house who monitors the virtual world, working to curb inflation or introducing new types of technology to absorb currency. It’s like a virtual Federal Reserve, selling bonds to shrink the money supply.

Technically, players cannot exchange ISK for real-world cash, but CCP does let them use that in-game currency to buy real-world objects (such as graphics cards) and 30-day game time codes.

This isn't the first time the game has seen major losses. Eight months ago, a ship carrying valuable blueprints worth $6,000 in real-world money was destroyed by other players. And while losing a $9,000 spaceship is a serious bummer, the Revenant is still a far cry from the most expensive video game object, an honor held by a $350,000 space station in fellow online world Project Entropia.

 

[mistermadhouse]

Oh the horor.

The ambush played out with plenty of intrigue. Players in the Pandemic Legion received an SOS and assumed it was a player in distress. It turns out the player they had put in charge of leading their fleet was actually a spy for an opposing group, who led them directly into a bunch of dreadnaughts and supercarriers. The owner of the Revenant, a player named TSID, could do little to stop the virtual bloodbath, and the rest is EVE Online history.

That is GOLD.

 

[Vader AL]

That is GOLD.
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I was thinking the same thing.

 

[FQRizzo]

Steam summer sale approaches...

 

[Kibagami]

Steam summer sale approaches...

There goes my money.

 

[Something Sexy]

There goes my money.

https://lab.xpaw.ru/summersale-countdown.html?1

 

[Mr. Green]

lost a 24 paragon monk hours ago on hardcore........
Diablo 3 froze on me.....lousy game.

 

[Drakul]

I honestly love EVE because of these stories and I've always wanted to try it out but the game scares me and I feel I missed the timeslot of me being a student with nothing better to do than sink hours in this game.

 

[Goonsack Steve]

Just thought I would post some pics of my set up here.

 

[Solidus]

That's some nice water cooling. What kind of processor do you have?

 

[Goonsack Steve]

That's some nice water cooling. What kind of processor do you have?

I have an Intel i7 3770K

 

[Drakul]

Nice watercooling indeed! I never took that step when building my PCs.

 

[darthviper107]

If you want water cooling but are afraid of messing with that type of thing there are self-contained water coolers you can get. They just go on just like a regular heatsink and fan but all the components are connected already.

 

[Drakul]

If you want water cooling but are afraid of messing with that type of thing there are self-contained water coolers you can get. They just go on just like a regular heatsink and fan but all the components are connected already.

That's good to know but is it really worth it anymore considering I don't even overclock my gear these days...

 

[darthviper107]

If you don't overclock then it doesn't matter. But for things like the socket 2011 processors they don't come with a heatsink and fan so you have to buy your own cooling solution separately.

 

[Something Sexy]

Even then, if you don't piece it together yourself I wouldn't waste your time on those prebuilt systems. They are usually garbage.

 

[Vader AL]

The liquid coolers look awesome but the risk of leakage scares the heck out of me so I am air only. I overclock my cpu and gpu just a little bit and my temps are good so I stick with air.

 

[darthviper107]

Even then, if you don't piece it together yourself I wouldn't waste your time on those prebuilt systems. They are usually garbage.

I've got the Corsair H100 which works just fine

 

[Centurion]

Awesome rig Steve and great job managing the wires.