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This little Christmas stocking pattern is a festive way to hold gift cards, some treats, or any other small gift you want to dress-up a little. The great thing about this method though, is that you can blow-up the Christmas stocking pattern and make stockings as big as you want by following the same, easy process. (And who doesn't sometimes want new, hip stockings to impress Santa?)
So start by printing the stocking pattern (click here for template) -or designing one of your own. Fabric requirements need to be enough fabric to cut two stocking shapes from two different fabrics. For this size stocking you will need an 11″ x 14″ piece of fabric for front and back outside pieces and another 11″ x 14″ piece for front and back lining pieces. (1 Fat Quarter would be enough for all four pieces, but they would all be the same.)
With wrong sides together, cut TWO stocking shapes of both your outside fabric and your cuff/liner fabric. IMPORTANT: make sure your toe faces both directions for each fabric. (This is why matching wrong sides together will help you get pieces facing both directions.)
Now pair up one outside fabric with one lining/cuff fabric with the toes pointing the same direction like this. (See picture above.) Match the outside fabric and lining fabric from each set right sides together and sew a 1/4″ seam along the top of the two pieces. Open pieces up and press seam open. Repeat for back side.
Now match front and back pieced units right sides together with outside fabrics matched up and lining fabrics matched up. Center seams should match up too. Pin to hold two sides together. Leaving a space in the lining fabric for turning right side out, sew all the way around the outside edge of the stocking pieces (-where gray line is drawn.) Click on picture to see closer view.
I sewed a 1/4″ seam allowance around the outside [polka-dot fabric] and 3/8″ seam allowance around the green lining fabric, except the space left open for turning. This will help remove some of the bulk of the lining fabric. But if that's too confusing, just sew 1/4″ for all.
Before you turn everything right-side out, cut notches in the curves – especially the toe. This will help the toe look nicer when finished. Be careful not to clip through the seam.
On the liner side, clip the fabric close to the seam.
This will also help remove some bulk on the lining.
Now pull everything right-side out. Carefully shape the outside part until the curves look good and press. Tuck the open ends into the stocking and topstitch the opening closed.
Now carefully tuck the lining inside the stocking.
Optional: Top stitch around the top edge for a more finished look.
Fold cuff down and carefully shape stocking.
Optional: add decorative trim if you want.
I just used Elmer's Craft glue to put on some ric rac.
And you're Done with your Christmas stocking!
I suggest making a practice stocking just to see how it comes together and I guarantee each stocking you make after that will get faster and easier. You could easily make a bunch in one afternoon.


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At the weekend my friend Cristina and I went along to the Squires Kitchen '26th Annual Cake Decorating, Chocolate and Sugarcraft Exhibition' in Farnham. Cristina is a wonderful baker and she was looking to expand her cake decorating tool kit and I tagged along happy to look at the cakes with the motivating factor that there would probably be free cake.
There was a whole hall exhibiting cakes of all shapes and sizes including suitcase cakes, ring pillow cakes, birdcage cakes, lace cakes and any other shaped cake you'd care to imagine. It was awe-inspiring to see what can be done with a little patience and a lot of skill. There was also lots to buy; books, magazines, cake tools, moulds, cutters and a huge variety of paste, paints and glitters.
After my initial disappointment that there wasn't any free cake, I perked up when I saw there were free workshops run by some big names of the cake world. As it was a sell-out exhibition it was very difficult to get into any of the workshops. We couldn't get into Debbie Brown's mini class, but we did manage to have a chat with her afterwards and she gave us an overview of how to make these gorgeous sugarcraft babies out of Rice Krispie cakes and she made what looks very difficult, sound surprisingly easy. Her book Baby Cakes has some amazing recipes for any baby-related events you may have coming up.
Unfortunately we didn't get into Carlos Lischetti or Alan Dunn's workshops either as they were too full. However, for the last workshop of the day we arrived super early, queued for 45 minutes and managed to get ourselves a great view in Peggy Porschen's mini class 'Boutique Baking – Raspberry & Rose Dome Cake'.
Peggy made a beautiful dome cake by lining a dome mould with joconde sponge and filling with layers of fresh raspberries and German buttercream (a custard based buttercream). She then talked us through icing the finished cake and showed how to make sugar flowers and decorate the cake to perfection.The mini class was 45 minutes long but was very detailed and I was impressed with how much she covered. I was also impressed that we all got to taste the cake at the end which was utterly divine and convinced me to buy her new book. Alas, they had sold out so I will have to wait for the general release of Boutique Baking on 24th May.
For those of you who are serious cake makers, Peggy is running a full length workshop on how to make the same cake later in May. It's pricey at £385 but you get the book included and you will learn some fantastic skills. Or choose from a whole raft of other courses at her Academy.
For those of you who are serious eaters (I fit into this category) and would like to try some of Peggy's cakes, then pop along to her Parlour in Belgravia.
Until tickets go on sale for the '27th Annual Cake Decorating, Chocolate and Sugarcraft Exhibition' in 2013, have a look at Squires Kitchen's huge array of goodies and tools to help turn your cakes into works of art.

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Loyola at a Glance Faculty/Staff Newsletter
September 30, 2011 Issue
Biology department hosts career seminars
The Department of Biological Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans will host a series of career seminars featuring prominent regional scientists.
Loyola professors collaborate to publish book, launch website on air travel
When Loyola University New Orleans English professors Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich met for the first time, they started sharing stories about air travel. These stories became the basis of their new co-authored memoir, Checking In/Checking Out.
Alumna's new book takes on relationships and money
Loyola University New Orleans alumna Marlow Felton 89 has co-authored a new book with her husband Chris, tackling the challenges of maintaining financial stability while fostering a healthy relationship.
Loyola mourns loss of Archbishop Philip Hannan
The Loyola University New Orleans community mourns the loss of former Archbishop of New Orleans Philip Hannan, who died Thursday morning at the age of 98. Hannan served as the Catholic communitys spiritual leader for nearly a quarter of a century and was instrumental in creating entities that focused on serving the poor.
Law professor participates in environmental justice workshop
Robert Verchick, the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, was a featured speaker today at "Closing the Environmental Justice Gap: A Workshop on Advancing Evaluation Methods," in Los Angeles.
Law alumnus raises awareness for environmental restoration efforts
Whitford Whit Remer, J.D. 10, of Washington, D.C., is the policy analyst for Environmental Defense Funds Mississippi River Delta Restoration project.
Inaugural NolaLoyola 2011: Live to Eat celebrates the best of New Orleans cuisine
New Orleans is unlike any other city in the world, and for lovers of great food, it's a little slice of heaven. This is why Loyola University New Orleans is proud to celebrate the Crescent City's flair for food by presenting NolaLoyola 2011: Live to Eat.
Family Weekend begins today
Beginning today, Sept. 30, Loyola University New Orleans will open its doors to students family and friends for the universitys annual Family Weekend.
Thomas Hall opens doors to the community
Loyola University New Orleans opened the historic doors of Thomas Hall to the university community and the public last Tuesday to celebrate the completion of the buildings year-and-a-half renovation.
High school students learn swimming basics at Loyola
The Loyola University New Orleans Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Wellness has partnered with the New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School to provide swimming lessons at the high school.
Loyola Chorale to sing at Red Mass
The Loyola University New Orleans Chorale is scheduled to sing at Red Mass, the official opening of the judicial year for the State of Louisiana, on Monday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 a.m. in St. Louis Cathedral, with the procession of judges, lawyers and officials of all faiths beginning at 9:15 a.m.
First-Year Experience program presents seminar on human trafficking
Loyola University New Orleans Office of Academic Affairs presents Shamere McKenzie, a survivor of human trafficking in the U.S., in a lecture about her experience and the issue of modern day slavery on Oct. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 114 of Miller Hall.
Diboll Gallery exhibition benefits Greater New Orleans Foundation Oil Spill Fund
Loyola University New Orleans Collins C. Diboll Gallery recently presented Handmade Design: Fundraiser for the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, an exhibition that raised $1,500 for the Greater New Orleans Foundation Oil Spill Fund.
Loyola Theatre opens season with bold new version of classic tale
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at Loyola University New Orleans kicks off the 2011-12 season with In The Blood, Suzan-Lori Parks contemporary story based on the main character from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
LIM's First Tuesdays speaker series kicks off next week
The Loyola University New Orleans Institute for Ministry will kick off its annual First Tuesdays: Spirituality in the City free speaker series with an address by New Orleans culinary icon Leah Chase on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Chase will deliver the presentation I Just Pray and Keep On Going.
Loyola's Montage Series presents JeAnne Swinley and Jonathan Hays in "Living American Song"
Loyola University New Orleans presents Living American Song, an afternoon of selected works by modern American composers, on Sunday, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. in Roussel Performance Hall, located in the Communications/Music Complex on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Calhoun Street.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents seminar on Mayan calendar
Loyola University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents acclaimed author Gerardo Aldana, Ph.D., in Indigeneity, Classic Mayan Astronomy, and the Calendar, a seminar about Mayan philosophy, culture and science on Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall.
Loyola's Jazz Underground series continues with popular drummer Herlin Riley
Master drummer Herlin Riley will lead a group of Loyola University New Orleans jazz majors in a program of standards and original compositions on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Satchmos, located in the basement of the Danna Student Center on the universitys main campus.
Immigration detention to be topic of two-day conference at Loyola
Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit Social Research Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice in the College of Law will come together for an event that will examine the realities of immigration detention in the southern United States.
Loyola to host inaugural conference of the Walker Percy Center
Loyola University New Orleans will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Walker Percys novel, The Moviegoer, by hosting a conference about the Southern writer Oct. 14-16 on its main campus.
Loyola hosts real estate forecasting conference
The Loyola University New Orleans College of Business, in conjunction with the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors, will host the 1st Annual Real Estate and Forecast Seminar in Roussel Hall in the Communications/Music Complex on Tuesday, Oct. 18, beginning at 8 a.m.
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Ponoko's recent prototyping party reminded me how important effective nesting of parts in laser cut files is. This tutorial is about optimising line work to achieve faster cuts and thereby saving money. Cutting time is generally the most expensive component when ordering from Ponoko. In the forums recently, people shared their methods of saving money, but I think nesting line work requires greater exploration...
This is my design - a bin. It is designed to take standard supermarket shopping bags. It was cut from 6mm thick double sided P3 corrogated carboard. My first prototype came out to be about $40, I thought that was a little steep for cardboard. However, after a few design changes I was able to reduce the cutting time by nearly half.
First, consider good design as being the minimum necessary. The phrase "more is less" is a good mantra to abide by. Clever designers will figure out the best way to maximise the use of materials and processes they undergo.
Look carefully at your design, is there anything that could be considered superfluous? Is there anything that if you took it away, nobody would miss it terribly?
Curved lines vs. Straight lines
In my experience lasers slow down dramatically on curves, ask yourself, are there any parts that you can take away curved sections without compromising the overall design? Several vector drawing programs allow you to either simplify linework down to straight lines. If not try to reduce the size of radiuses as shown in the image below.
Also if you have lots of long straight lines try to align them parallel with either the x or y axis - this means the laser's lens is only traveling in one direction at a time, it is slightly more efficient for the laser cutting.
Check the laser won't see double
There can be an issue with overlapping linework, the laser doesn't know this - it just thinks you want to cut the same line twice. It may sound obvious, but some vector drawing apps are more prone to this than others, it is often very easy to duplicate or copy and paste linework on top of each other.
You usually can't see this, but the laser definitely can. In extreme cases this will double your cutting time (and cost) and increases the chances of burning the material. Do weed though your line work.
The Fix: ungroup lines and drag the vertex points around to check you have no double ups.
Nesting files
Are there any parallel lines, or semi parallel lines you can join to one another to make one section? This will give you greater control over the order of laser cutting parts. Remember to delete any shared lines that may double up.
You can see this below I had 12 individual strips, I changed the design to make them parallel on both sides and placed them together. The laser splits them after it has cut around the outside with individual parallel lines.
Laser cutters don't necessarily cut sequentially where you logically think they should. Sometimes they will travel to the other side of the material for the next line despite other linework in closer proximity.
Also due to the slight unpredictablility of the cutting order I'd encourage you to upload several slightly differently nested files. Sometimes the placement of parts next to one another might help you save a few precious dollars or cents.
These are some general guidelines I've found useful in the past, however your millimeterage may vary. Different materials have different cutting speeds and characteristics. Feel free to post any tips you find on reducing cutting time on these support forums. I'm interested to hear other's experiences.
Remember it is unlikely your first design is going to be the best, prototyping is always an iterative process. Plan to make several variations of your design and do small tests so you don't waste time, money and materials. As my results show a little tweaking of the design can save you a lot.
David is an industrial designer from New Zealand. He contributes a weekly article on personal fabrication for Ponoko. You can follow him on Twitter @dizymac


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China rejects U.S. hacking claims
New Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dismissed hacking accusations against China as "groundless" on Sunday and said his government was committed to strong ties with Washington.
Referring to allegations that China's military was behind massive hacking attacks on U.S. entities, Li reiterated Beijing's statements that China is a major target of global hackers and opposes all such criminal activity.
"I think we should not make groundless accusations against each other but spend more time doing practical things that will contribute to cybersecurity," Li said in his first news conference in his new role.
Li is the highest-ranking official to comment on the hacking claims made by U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant that provided a detailed picture of alleged cyberspying carried out by a People's Liberation Army unit based in Shanghai.
Li said that despite their differences, conflict between the world's largest and second-largest economies is not inevitable as long as the countries respect each other's major concerns and manage their differences.
China's new leaders "attach great importance" to relations that meet the "fundamental interests of people in both countries and serves the global trend of peace and development," Li told reporters at the traditional premier's news conference that follows the close of the annual legislative session.
China-U.S. ties have weathered a series of crises over the past year over dissidents, Chinese trade practices, opposition to Chinese investment in the United States and, most recently, hacking accusations. While basically stable, political ties are seen as lagging behind the economic relationship, with two-way trade hitting almost $500 billion last year, and China's new president, Xi Jinping, isn't expected to meet President Barack Obama until an economic summit in Russia in September.
Following Xi's elevation, Li was appointed premier last week, with running China's economy his main responsibility.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled an updated Republican budget plan Tuesday that would slash $5.1 trillion in federal spending over coming decade and promises to balance the government's books with wide-ranging cuts in programs like food stamps and government-paid health care for the poor and working class.
Ryan's plan would also cut Pell Grants for low-income students and pensions for federal workers. The proposal would reprise a voucher-like Medicare program for future retirees that would be the basis for GOP claims that the measure would drive down government debt over the long term. It also relies on scorekeeping help from the Congressional Budget Office, reflecting the beneficial effects of deficit cuts on long-term economic growth and tax revenues.
The plan should skate through the Budget Committee on Wednesday but faces challenges on the floor next week since it endorses a bipartisan pact — negotiated by Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., in December — to increase agency operating budgets this year and next.
Many conservatives who opposed the pact last year would have to reverse course and embrace them as part of the GOP budget. Democrats who helped pass the Ryan-Murray pact in December will oppose the GOP plan.
The legislation promises to serve more as a political and policy statement by House Republicans than a realistic attempt to engage President Barack Obama and Democrats, who control the Senate, in any serious effort to further cut the deficit. Election-year politics are in play, for starters, as are entrenched differences over spending and taxes. Senate Democrats have already announced they will not advance a budget this year, but Ryan pitched his budget as a party-defining document on where Republicans would take the nation if they return to power.
"It is not just enough for us to be an opposition party," Ryan said. "We need to be a proposition party. We need to be the alternative party. And we need to show the country the right way forward to get this economy growing, to get our budget, our fiscal house in order."
At issue is the arcane congressional budget process, which employs a non-binding measure known as a budget resolution to set forth goals for future taxes, spending and deficits. But follow-up legislation is usually limited to one-year appropriations bills rather than more difficult measures to deal with the government's long-term fiscal challenges, which are fueled by spiraling health care costs and the retirement of the baby boom generation.
Ryan's budget brings back a now-familiar list of spending cuts to promise balance, including $2.1 trillion over 10 years in health care subsidies and coverage under the Affordable Care Act, $732 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs, and almost $1 trillion in cuts to other benefit programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and farm subsidies. While repealing the benefits of "Obamacare," Ryan would preserve its tax increases and cuts to providers, including cuts to private insurers under the Medicare Advantage program. Republicans have attacked Democrats for the Medicare cuts used to finance the new health care law.
The measure also promises deep, probably unrealistic cuts to domestic programs like education, health research and grants to local governments that are funded each year through annual appropriations bills.
As in the past, Ryan has steered clear of cuts to Social Security, and he promises steady increases for veterans and restoration of looming defense cuts. But he faced a more challenging task to promise to balance the budget by decade's end than he did last year because the CBO projects lagging revenue estimates.
Steep cuts to Medicaid, which Ryan proposes to turn into a block grant program managed by the states, could drive millions of people from the program, including seniors in nursing homes and children from low-income households. Ryan proposes to cut projected costs of Medicaid by 17 percent over the decade. It also contains sharp, unexplained cuts to a category including refundable income and child tax credits for the working poor and Supplemental Security Income for the elderly, disable and very poor.
"This dog-eat-dog budget is nothing short of an assault on Americans struggling to stay afloat economically," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
Ryan's budget claims balance by 2024, but relies on $74 billion in savings in that year from the macroeconomic effects of cutting deficits, which the CBO says would have a long-term positive effect because it would free up savings and investment capital. Democrats are sure to seize on the maneuver as phony math; without these projections, Ryan's budget plan would fall almost $70 billion short of balance.
Van Hollen noted that Ryan's plan only achieves balance by claiming $2 trillion in Obamacare cuts and revenues over the decade — even as Republicans promise to repeal the law in its entirety.
"They've reduced the deficit by getting rid of the things that help people in the Affordable Care Act but they claim balance by keeping all of the revenues and the Medicare savings," Van Hollen said.
It also reprises a failed strategy from last year to cut domestic agency operating budgets and shift the money to the Pentagon after the Ryan-Murray deal expires next year. When Republicans tried that last year, the House was unable to pass the follow-up spending bills implementing the cuts.
Earlier versions of Ryan's plan have passed the House three times since the GOP seized control of the chamber following the 2010 midterm elections. This year's version may prove more controversial because it begins to implement cuts to future Medicare beneficiaries. Under the plan, people who enroll in Medicare in 2024 would be given a subsidy — dubbed "premium support" by Republicans, derided as a voucher system by Democrats — with which they would purchase health insurance on the open market.
Republicans say the system is required to prevent the budget from spiraling out of control as more and more baby boomers retire and the present system collapses and that the redesigned Medicare program would offer seniors more choices and curb costs. Critics, however, say the Medicare subsidies won't keep up with inflation and will require sharply higher out-of-pocket costs for future seniors.


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Risen Review
The Short Version: Risen is an incredibly long and boring RPG that is damn near torture for any sane person to play (on Xbox 360). Only Hardcore RPG'ers willing to forgive a list of bugs, glitches and poor design choices a mile long need apply. Why anyone would subjugate themselves to Navigating an unforgivably backward-ass Map & Quest Interface in this Grindfest – that on occasion looks as if it was developed in 1999, for little to no reward is beyond me. Especially when there are far superior RPG choices out there. Do yourself a favor and stay far away from this one! Or at least wait for a bargain bin price to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
The Video Review:
What you'll Like:
• Massive amount of Content, over 60+hours, but will you even want to play through it all?
• Surprising amount of Dialogue, and your main character has a voice, I like that fact.
• Some of the Spells are fun for a few minutes.
What you'll Hate:
• Its Incredibly Boring throughout the entire game – No real "Epic feeling moments".
• Awful Interface. Map & quest screens are nearly useless and buried under too many button presses.
• The game is filled with Broken Quests, Glitches, Bugs, and Framerate hitches (every time you kill an enemy). Unforgivable.
• Combat is underwhelming – Block, mash button, Push enemy up against wall, block, mash button. Rinse Repeat.
• Crude graphics and Pathetically Sloppy Textures.
Final Verdict:
Terrible Game!
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January 8, 2015 at 3:29 pm
This is actually one of my most beloved RPGs of all times. So I User rated it 10, because for my taste it really has no flaws and only one bad aspect: How addicted it can make you. I played through it now my 6th time.
April 25, 2014 at 10:25 am
I hear the xbox 360 version is terrible, the pc version so much better, its a crime for the xbox 360 version to be so bad
April 10, 2015 at 9:59 am
How is it a crime for the Xbox 360 version to be 'so bad'? The Xbox 360 itself is terrible; red rings of death? Scratching disks? Stupid menu layout? Backwards button layout? Needlessly having almost the exact same library as the superior Playstation 3?
It's not Risen that's terrible; it's the Xbox 360.
May 5, 2015 at 11:54 pm
PS3 Overheating red light says hi.
May 22, 2015 at 11:01 pm
I got a PS3 when they were new, and mine never overheated or had any problems, my 360 did start red ringing though, so I vote for PS3. At least I can still use it.
November 25, 2013 at 3:48 pm
risen is actually a pretty good game if you play on pc, that is.. metacritic user score says 8.1 for pc and 5.8 for xbox..
you should´ve really reviewed the pc version joe..
November 4, 2013 at 4:29 pm
1:18 – 1:35 Thats the new Tomb Raider lol
August 25, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Guild Wars music! Oh the memories!!!
August 12, 2013 at 11:23 am
I bought it too at humble bundle and i must say on pc most technical issues from xbox360 are gone. The game is very hard and quest rewards are very small but its a game from the makers of Gothic and this kind of games are always like this. Kill a dragon and you get a healing potion and 100 exp thats the deal.
But if you are into that kind of game its fun and i say on pc its a 5.5/10 for me. Its no Skyrim or Dragon Age but its ok and more fun than most todays Jap RPGs ^^
August 10, 2013 at 4:29 pm
I just got this game through the humble bundle this week. I really got the bundle for Saint's Row. Though as I'm playing through this cheap-as-free game, I don't think it's too too bad. I see Joe's points on all of it. Though now that I'm about 3/4 of the way through, I may as well finish it. it's mildly entertaining.
June 30, 2013 at 9:46 pm
remind never to become joe's cellmate
June 30, 2013 at 9:47 pm
March 29, 2013 at 4:51 am
Angry Joe rules! ;P
March 24, 2013 at 9:50 pm
Epic "sweeping" story-lines. Hah. Best part.
March 2, 2013 at 6:46 pm
I liked this game on the pc, maybe because I'm just a sucker for that atmosfere. After the dissapointment I got from Gothic 3 and Gothic 4 I longed for a game that resembles the atmosfere from the first 2 Gothic games. But that's just me I guess.. (btw I think Risen 2 just sucks balls in comparison to this one )
February 25, 2013 at 3:38 pm
"It's like the promise of cheese, just with no cheese!" lmfao!!
February 15, 2013 at 12:45 pm
At 1st YOU'RE into the game
January 29, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Joe, buddy, looks like your blood pressure got *puts on shades* Risen.
January 6, 2013 at 7:11 am
This game is just a poor version of Gothic. They just traveld in time back to 2004 and somehow maneged to create lesser game on the same ide. Do somethink new Pyranie Bytes!!
January 13, 2013 at 12:08 am
Now they made something new with risen 2 and ppl are whining for "back to the roots" and if they go back to the roots ppl want something new again.
You will never satisfie everybody…
October 21, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Well that was to bad, i liked the game and had no problems at all.
I got the xbox 360 version and personally would rate this game 6/10.
October 17, 2012 at 7:16 am
Yo Joe! I love your videos but watching them on youtube is much better because the buffering on your site is really bad! No offence bro…peace!
August 27, 2012 at 7:46 am
Should have played the bad-ass PC version!
August 17, 2012 at 5:26 am
I thought this would be like Skyrim…. till I saw the intro
August 16, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Glad I don't have risen it sounds like a piece of a chocolte covered pretzel trust me it is bad don't try one it might taste like shit like risen is
August 11, 2013 at 2:04 pm
I played the game and its very good in my opinion… i dont see why people hate this game so much.. i do think that a lot of commenters are copy-catting almost precisely what joe says.. its human..
August 6, 2012 at 4:48 am
idiot achievement: "you bought the game and actually played it. dumbass"
haha, great review joe 😉
July 6, 2012 at 8:43 pm
you know the amount of content and and spells and weapons makes me believe that this is what skyrim shits out every day maybe this is kinda like skyrim's mutant ugly grandma
June 1, 2012 at 5:59 am
I played this game on PC and i give it 1 out of 10 because i couldnt finish the game because of the bugs. Also the graphics was a problem if you have nvidia card. I hated the leveling system because it made little diffrence between level 1 character and level 10. The conversations very way too long i was skipping most of them. This game is worser than gothic 3 imo. This is a **** game not terrible.
May 28, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Hey guys, he reviewed this on the XBOX, not PC. If you like the PC fine, but the reason the game was given a 3 was because of the mistakes of the XBOX. Don't say this game should've gotten higher because it was better on the PC , I've played the XBOX version and it deserves this rating, if not less. Don't question the rating based on the system, but how the game performs on that system.
PS : On the XBOX, everything he says is TRUE
September 12, 2015 at 6:26 pm
I would give the xbox 1/10 even but the PC is more like 8/10
May 28, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Hey guys, he reviewed this on the XBOX, not PC. If you like the PC fine, but the reason the game was given a 3 was because of the mistakes of the XBOX. Don't say this game should've gotten higher because it was better on the PC , I've played the XBOX version and it deserves this rating, if not less. Don't question the rating based on the system, but how the game performs on that system.


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PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- An 82-year-old woman who accidentally crashed her car through the front window of a southwest Michigan salon stuck around afterward for an appointment to get her hair done.
Authorities said Marion Zock was parking her Ford Fusion on Thursday outside Classic Hair Design in Kent County's Plainfield Township, near Grand Rapids, when she stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.
Two people were injured, including an employee who returned to work after treatment and a girl with a bruised arm.
Zock told WOOD-TV her foot slipped from the brake. She's a regular customer and says she was "so embarrassed."
Stylist Kristi Dochod told WWMT-TV the crash sounded like an explosion. The salon stayed open as the car was removed, and is open during repairs.


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In light of revelations that NASCAR's Aaron Fike used heroin on competition days, NASCAR president went on record to defend NASCAR's drug testing policy based on "reasonable suspicion."
"The [NASCAR] community polices the community," Helton added in an interview with The Associated Press. "The positiveness of all the drivers talking and everything, I think, echoes the responsibility that exists in this sport to avoid all that and to police all that. That's why we think that the reasonable suspicion policy works as an umbrella from a NASCAR perspective."
Commentator David Caraviello went a step farther, not only defending the "reasonable suspicion" drug testing policy, but also asserting that NASCAR does not have any type of problem with performance-enhancing drugs either ("Addressing a drug problem that is not a problem at all," April 16). [Read more…]


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'Ambassador' Guy Davis Takes Blues Around The Globe
So Guy Davis has been dubbed the ambassador of the blues. And while he initially followed in his famous parents' footsteps, and those are actors Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis, he has devoted much of his time to spreading the word about the blues. He travels the world with guitar and harmonica in hand, performing in places that are relatively untouched by the blues, from Denmark to Spain to the Galapagos Island. So blues musicians, we want to hear from you. Where do you play? And who comes to see your shows?
Our number is 800-989-8255. Our email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. And you can join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION. So Guy Davis is on tour in support of his new album. It's an audio play of sorts. It's called "The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed With The Blues." He's with us here in Studio 3A. Guy Davis, his latest album. And are you ready to give us a little something, or would you like to chat first?
GUY DAVIS MUSICIAN: Just before I start, I would like to say that this is the first I'm hearing that Levon Helm passed away.
DONVAN: It's the first we heard as well.
MUSICIAN: And he recorded with me a number of years ago, and I'm sorry to hear that. I would like to start out with a number from "The Adventures of Fishy Waters." This is called the "Railroad Story," and we're going to get it moving just like this.
MUSICIAN: (Singing) I was standing by the railroad track. I was waiting on a train. I heard the whistle blow. The train was highballing through the countryside. With that train going so fast, I couldn't get on board. And I feel it slow down making a turn. When it made it that turn, I ran alongside, hopped onboard, and I was highballing with it. That train passed on by a farm, had some chickens out there. They were having an egg-laying contest. They wanted to see who can lay the biggest and the most eggs.
(Singing) When that train passed on by the chain gang, had the prisoners standing up, they're shackled ankle to ankle. The sun made the sweat glisten on their backs as they held the picks up high and the shovel down low. They were building a road. When the guards had their backs turned, a couple of them escaped, ran off into the swamp. And they crossed that swamp with water up to their necks, past snakes, past alligators. When they got to the other side, they ran over to the road, trying to catch the train. But it didn't matter where those prisoners ran. Didn't matter how far, how fast they ran because they're turning the dogs loose on them. And you know those bloodhounds were hungry.
(Singing) Well, the train kept moving on down the track. The convicts were chasing after that train. The dogs were coming after the convicts. Now, the train track ran right through the middle of a pig farm. And then the pen over on the right-hand side of the track had some pigs running around out there. And then the pen on the left-hand side of the - well, now, those pigs weren't so lucky. They was having a barbecue over there and the smell wafted about there, blew back over the train, over the convicts, right into the dogs' nostrils, drove those bloodhounds crazy. Well, the train kept moving on down that track, the convicts take that train top speed and the dogs were gaining on them, getting closer and closer and the convicts ran. They leaped. They landed in the pen on the right-hand side. And the dogs chase them and chase them and chase them and leap. And the dogs landed in the pen on the left-hand side. Well, the train kept moving on down that track, nobody (unintelligible). And that's how I got here.
DONVAN: Guy Davis, I could see that.
GUY DAVIS: Good.
DONVAN: So Fishy Waters is the character that you've created, and you travel the world telling the stories of this guy in 1930s, bluesman and a hobo. Not a bum, you say, he's a hobo.
DAVIS: Correct. Not a bum. He's a hobo.
DONVAN: And his name is Fishy Waters. And so where does Fishy Waters come out of your experience in life? How did you find him?
DAVIS: Let's just say he comes from my need to release my inner Garrison Keillor.
DAVIS: Fishy Waters reflects the moments in my life when I've been the most stimulated, when I've been in front of people who told stories. And like you said, you could see it right in front of your eyes as it was happening. That means they're using just the right words and not too many of them and lets the mind see what's happening. And when I was, say, eight years old, I remember being down in front of an auditorium with big saucer-shaped eyes, looking up at a fellow with a guitar, singing and playing. I thought that was just the most magical thing ever, to have such a simple thing made out of wood and steel strings, making music. And that's - that is what has shaped my life.
DONVAN: Why the blues? Now, you didn't say that that man with the guitar you saw was a bluesman or was he?
DAVIS: As a matter of fact, he wasn't. He was a folk musician.
DONVAN: Mm-hmm. So how'd you find the blues?
DAVIS: Oh, you picked up some interesting questions there. First, people I saw playing the blues was some white college boys. And I didn't know - it wasn't my people's music, you know, I didn't know it was my people's music. I thought it belonged to them, you know. But something in it felt familiar, and I'm related to it. I found out years later, of course, that's us. That's us'n(ph) . That's us'n music, man. I love that stuff. But there was just something in it, and I can't explain.
DONVAN: And you're Fishy Waters. I mean, he's a Southerner. He's hopping freight trains. He's crossed the Memphis to Mobile. And you're a kid who grew up in New York City around Broadway. So when you fell in love with the blues, how did you go make that connection with the world that the blues actually came from?
DAVIS: I guess, I made it in my imagination. I made it while listening to old records, and I guess I was prompted by people like Taj Mahal many years ago to listen to the old-style blues. And from the Taj I got to hear people like Mississippi John Hurt and Reverend Gary Davis and Robert Johnson, and you know, so many other names. And I found the people who played this sound that felt familiar to my bones already.
DONVAN: It's just there. The feeling was just there.
DAVIS: Yes.
DONVAN: Let's - we've got a lot of people who - we've asked for musicians to call us, and we've got a lot of them lined up.
So let's go to Bob in Tulsa. Hi, Bob. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
BOB: Hello.
DONVAN: Hi, Bob. We can hear you fine.
BOB: Excellent. How are you doing this afternoon?
DONVAN: We're great.
DAVIS: Doing good.
BOB: Great. I just wanted to share my experience with the blues. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that's a city known for its musical talent. They're known for the blues, probably much - has been known to the rest of the country. But I really turned on to the blues one day at about age 17 and a friend of mine turn me on to Led Zeppelin One. And I realized, oh, wow, this is the blues. And it caught me and it held me in its grip and it's never let it go since then.
DAVIS: Yeah. Blues is like that.
DONVAN: Is it everywhere and you're finding it in places you don't expect it?
BOB: Yeah. Yes.
DONVAN: Yeah.
BOB: Certainly.
DAVIS: Yeah. I used to go to a summer camp in Vermont run by Pete Seger's brother, mostly folk music but occasionally we heard something called the blues.
DONVAN: Thanks for your call, Bob. I want to go Big Papa in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Hi, Big Papa. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
BIG PAPA: Hey, how are you all doing?
DONVAN: We're good.
DAVIS: Hey, Big Papa.
PAPA: Hey. I appreciate your help in keeping the blues alive.
DAVIS: Hey, the feeling is mutual.
DONVAN: Do you play...
PAPA: I play with a band called Brethren; we were just playing at the Juke Joint Festival over in Clarksdale, Mississippi this weekend. And we take on Mr. Cedell Davis as well. I don't know if you know who he is but...
DAVIS: Yes, sir. I've met Mr. Cedell Davis.
PAPA: He's not able to play his guitar anymore with his butter knife, but he sure can sing, man. He's got one of the strongest voices out there.
DONVAN: Hey, Big Papa. You just said I want to thank you for keeping the blues alive. Is that part of the story of the blues right now, that it needs to be kept alive? Is it fading on us, Guy Davis?
PAPA: I - oh, I'm sorry.
DONVAN: Oh, you go ahead. You go ahead, Big Papa, first.
PAPA: My opinion is, I think it's still going, it's strong, but it's following that tradition. It's like, you know, you take somebody like the Black Keys or the White Stripes or, you know, a variety of people it's rock. But it's still, down underneath there, that's still - that's Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton and Son House, and they're just trying to - they're trying to put their own little signature on, you know, what came before them. You know, they're trying to be honest.
DAVIS: Yeah, I hear you, Mr. Big Papa. I'm thinking of a blues that, though it does continue to survive today, it is still, to me, an endangered species, and it needs all the proponents it can, all the proponents who will stand up and play it in whatever form they play it. Meaning, the new style, the old style, the Chicago-style, the country style, it needs to be played and played and played.
DONVAN: Big Papa, thanks for your call.
PAPA: Oh, thank you.
DONVAN: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION on NPR News. Let's bring in Mike from San Antonio, Texas. Hi, Mike. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
MIKE: Yeah, how are you doing there? I got a band called the S.A. Blue Cats here in San Antonio, and my mantra when I started this band was that all forms of American music evolved from the blues, and we kind of like to do all of that. And I'll turn (unintelligible) Lester and Jimmy Reed songs to big fat horn songs - I run(ph) a six-piece band, three-piece horn section. Everybody kind of flips instruments, I play trombone or harmonica. And I was on the board of directors of the San Antonio Blues Society for 16 years and we (unintelligible) the effort to hang the historical marker for Robert Johnson's recordings at the Gunter Hotel here back in 1936.
DONVAN: Mike...
MIKE: But you don't think of San Antonio as a blues Mecca by any means. But there's a very - what I call a rabid culture here, small subculture of blues, very good musicians and a lot of history here. And I got to see Guy Davis about 10 years ago, the Kerrville Folk Festival.
DONVAN: Mike, who's the audience in San Antonio? Who's in that audience?
MIKE: Oh, it's mixed. And here in San Antonio, it's unique right now (unintelligible) the town's growing so fast because it's kind of one of the better shaped cities in this repression - recession that we're in, but the audience is very mixed. We play to all ages of people, from 10 on up to 90.
DONVAN: Hmm, that's good news.
MIKE: (Unintelligible) at the Olmos Bharmacy here in San Antonio every Friday for about the last two years, and it's just blowing and going. We're having a real good time, and the blues society here is doing very well. (Unintelligible) the Robert Johnson S.A. Sessions festival, which I help (unintelligible) that, and I also (unintelligible) we're in the middle - beginning of fiesta right now and the Fiesta Blues Heritage Series has become a very well-attended festival in San Antonio, that I also helped get that going. I was on the fiesta commission for five years. But in San Antonio, it's not bad. They have a lot of fun.
DONVAN: All right. That's good to hear. That's encouraging, it must be, Guy Davis, to hear that.
DAVIS: Blowing and going, I like that phrase.
DONVAN: Let's bring in Mick in Bend, Oregon. Hi, Mick. You're on TALK OF THE NATION.
MICK: Hey there.
DONVAN: Hey.
MICK: I lived in Europe for a long time. I got to play with Taj a few times over there, which is a pure pleasure.
DONVAN: Yeah.
MICK: And (unintelligible) days, played with some of the guys in the American Folk Blues Festival. But I found that in Europe the blues has a lot more cache to it. It seems to be more popular in Europe than it is here.
DONVAN: I just want ask Guy if he finds the same thing.
DAVIS: What I find is that it is not taken so for granted over around in Europe. Over here in the U.S., we got so doggone many channels on our TVs, you know. We have to live several lifetimes to watch all the entertainment that's on. So, yeah, I do feel a little - almost more cared for sometimes overseas.
DONVAN: Mick, thanks for your call. And, you know, this - the time flew on this segment, but we wanted to hear one more time from Guy Davis. So why don't you take us out to the end of the segment? Ladies and gentlemen, Guy Davis. Fishy Waters, as you should know him.
DAVIS: (Singing) Woke up this morning, feel around for my shoes. You could tell I heard me them old, old walking blues. I woke up this morning, I feel around, feeling around for my shoes. Well, you could right then, don't you? Babe, I had the walking blues. Some people say to worry. Old blues ain't bad. That's the worst old feeling I most, I most ever had, oh Lord(ph) . Some people can say the, say the word, old blues ain't bad. But that's the worst feeling, don't you, babe, I most ever had. Sometimes I feel like blowing our lonesome home. Well, this morning, everything I had was gone. Oh, Lord, sometimes I feel like blowing my lonesome home(ph) . (Unintelligible) gone...
DONVAN: Guy Davis, the ambassador of the blues. His new album is "The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues." He's next heading up to Lakewood, New Jersey, that's on April 20th, and he's back here in Washington, D.C. April 21st and 22nd. He joined us here in Studio 3A. Thank you very much, Guy Davis.
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We leave Ohio and I start to get those flashbacks of what it was like a handful of years ago when I didn't know anything and was just happy to be poor and in a van and seeing cities I hadn't ever seen, some cut rate Marco Polo of the Millennials, singing sad songs and drinking PBR in identical dive bars across a country that didn't much care one way or another.
I'm not delusional now either: I still know only one or two things, and mostly people still don't care that much. Poverty is relative. The van is the same van. But we've learned a lot about building better shows and we've built some regional word-of-mouth groundswell in the Midwest, and so it was strange to be on tour for two weeks in the familiarly warm middle of the country where we didn't really feel like we were on tour so much.
That changed pretty quickly in New York. Monday was a show at a theatre in Syracuse, smack dab between two empty college campuses with an 1100-person capacity. I told the venue we probably shouldn't take the date—we don't know anybody upstate—but they assured me it'd be fine if I booked some locals. I booked some locals. It wasn't fine. But Adam met a cool old vet on oxygen with braids in his beard and we got him on the list, we were making friends. We met a dude who worked there, Wes, who kindly offered his living room. His tortoise woke us bright and early, banging on his terrarium and making way more noise than you ever thought a tortoise was capable of.
Then Buffalo was a little better. Mohawk Place is a sweet dive bar on a good strip. I walked around the city watching the sun decline in the reflection of the buildings' windows and I'll be danged if I didn't run into that same old vet, sitting outside a different club in a different city with different oxygen tanks. He was sober and offered me cookies and I told him, you'll be on our list anywhere we play, Joe.
Buffalo to Philly was a haul. Adam and I explored the city by foot for a while. Ever since we quit smoking, it's weird to be at a venue in between loadin and show time—you feel like you should be doing something, but there's nothing to do. So I've taken to rambling around whatever boro, picking up vibes and watching the people in their respective urban lives, so different from my small town in south Florida and my not-really-a-college town in Indiana. There were some great bands on that bill, one that sounded like something straight out of True Detective and one that featured a pretty girl and a slide guitar. I got to drink a few beers with Kyle, the guy behind IndieOnTheMove, the site responsible for almost singlehandedly enabling our touring career. He bought them, which seemed very backward to me. Then we left the city, headed Brooklyn way, and found a quaint little copse of trees along Cooper River in Cherry Hill, NJ, where we slung hammocks and ate trail mix and slept to the sound of cicadas and woke to an eruption of polyphonic birdsong littering the canopy overhead.
It's not all romantic: we were equally as excited about the Taco Bell down the street. Then we sat in a cool little coffee roastery where I caught up on inboxes, the boys dutifully sent press releases, and Adam played with a little tyke who offered up his toy trucks in a steam of babble and trust that only children have and aren't allowed to keep very long.
I'll tell you where we didn't eat Taco Bell though: New York City. I once wrote a hateful little poem called, "To Every Empty Room in Brooklyn," and the sentiment still stands a little. I don't care how trendy the room is, I haven't played a good show in BK yet. But that might change next time, because we played with an excellent band called DizeeChroma with whom we're already scheming show trades for later in the year. My old pal from Florida days, Sarah, lives in Long Island City. I met her at an Assemblies of God church where I used to work when the pastor and his wife and actually just the whole church tried setting us up, but she's become a dear friend since, and that was reflected in the message she sent met after leaving for work in the morning: come anytime, use our towels, drink my whiskey, and adventure on.
The wooden floor in the little box of a living room wasn't the most comfortable ever, but what really killed us was the crushing humidity of late May in New York City with the windows open. About six in the morning, I left the boys sleeping on makeshift palettes in their underwear and set out to get my fix of the city. Bagel deli in one direction and coffeeshop in the other. Trying to find my way to the taller buildings and realizing they're farther than they look. Then I had a vision of every greasy homeless dude I'd ever seen on a subway platform, so I grabbed the Guild out of Old Lady Science and headed down to the E Train where I sat for over two hours, lazily singing Beatles covers or whatever else came to my head, watching the sleek shoes of businesspeople headed into Manhattan, old Indian ladies in traditional dress, little kids tossing in quarters, gorgeous girls in their own worlds, everything that makes me love New York even though it's hard. And I made enough money to buy some new jeans after ripping the crotch out of mine, climbing a tree the day before.
Today I got to show the boys how beautiful Vermont is. We've got the weekend in Burlington, where the people are what the people in Portland and Austin and Williamsburg are only pretending to be. They have old books because there are no new book chains. They wear flannel and beanies because it's cold. They live in cabins with no electricity, not because they're writing their new novel in an MFA program, but because, man, those particular mountains haven't been marred by power lines yet. We're pulling in to the bar now, and I'm complaining about Adam's music, and he's trying to push me out of the shotgun side of the car for it.
Come see us sometime this summer. That's all I've got.


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15 April 2009
The author of a landmark report on stopping genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity said Tuesday, April 14, at UCLA that the international community is coming to realize that "the sin is not intervention; the sin is indifference."
"The landscape has been changing away from sovereignty as a license to kill," said Gareth Evans, former foreign minister of Australia and author of "The Responsibility to Protect," published in 2001 and signed by approximately 250 heads of state at the United Nations' world summit in 2005. ()
After decades characterized by lack of consensus at the UN on how to react to atrocities occurring in such places as Somalia and Kosovo, the "responsibility to protect" doctrine (R2P) established core principles on when to intervene. Evans said he believes that there was a turning point a year ago when international consensus as reached swiftly to intervene diplomatically in Kenya after an outbreak of post-election violence, including ethnic cleansing. ()
Evans said countries that perpetrate atrocities against their own people or who are incapable of preventing crimes of mass atrocity from occurring tend to be the same countries that harbor terrorists, permit the transfer of weapons of mass destruction, generate an outflow of refugees and generate drug and human trafficking problems.
According to the R2P doctrine, the duty to protect includes the responsibility to prevent atrocities by addressing the root and direct causes of internal conflicts and other manmade crises putting populations at risk; respond to situations of compelling human need with appropriate measures, which may include sanctions, international prosecution or, in extreme cases, military intervention; and rebuild by providing, particularly after military intervention, full assistance with recovery, reconstruction and reconciliation.
In response to a question about what has gone wrong with the international response to Darfur, Evans commented that the size and complexity of the situation in Darfur has made it inherently difficult to find a workable solution there. He added that international pressure has been limited, lackluster and not properly resourced.
Panels throughout the day at the conference brought together UN and U.S. State Department officials and academics from universities and think tanks across the nation, including UCLA Burkle Center senior fellow Gen. Wesley Clark; former foreign minister of Thailand and Burkle senior fellow Kantathi Suphamongkhon; Columbia University professor and UN special advisor for R2P Edward Luck; Nicole Willette of the U.S. State Department, and Georgette Gagnon of Human Rights Watch, among others.
Panelists discussed topics ranging from the origins and scope of the R2P doctrine; lessons learned from Kosovo, Rwanda and Bosnia; current challenges in Darfur, Myanmar and Zimbabwe; and prescriptions for the Obama Administration.
Source: http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/international-community-coming-88897.aspx
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BGR - I love all game consoles equally. My Xbox 360 is used equally as much as my PlayStation 3. The Wii — oh, I'll just leave it at that. The current generation of consoles is all but over — 10-year life cycle be damned — and new consoles are rumored to be coming next fall. If not next fall, then in 2014.
It's amazing how everyone consider's 70+ Million Sales a failure.
Anyway, Cannot wait for the PS4, will Pre-Order the day i they start taking it.
PS2 sold over 155+m unit !
Yea because the PS2 has the best catalog in the history of video games.
I was hoping Google and this articles author would get together and tell us what stocks to buy over the next year so we will all be billionaires. Since they are such experts on market forces and predicting the inevitable FAILURE of (insert product or company here.)
(To PS2 comment) But it also has the most crap of any system, to. Release enough games and you'll get some Gems. The best catalog by ratio of good to crap is N64 (to me.), although some people can't stand any games on the 64, heh.
could just as easily affect MS's next release as it did Sony. After all...this would be MS's 3rd console.
Nintendo is the only one to brave the 3rd console curse and bounce back with an even stronger 5th. Their 6th is the wii-u so there is still time to see how well it does against its previous systems.
Anyone who doesnt know, the 3rd console curse is an old wives tale about how a companies 3rd system (while superior) does not exceed the popularity of their 2nd. Atari, Sega, nintendo, sony have all felt that. MS is riding high on the popularity of their 2nd system.
It has nothing to do with the technical specs but more about the consumer acceptance and possible desire to switch to something else.
153m and that was over 11 years.
March 4th 2000 - March 31 2011.
The 360 btw has only sold around 73m so far and everyone considers it a massive success, despite the fact that it took it a full extra year over the PS3 to get that number.
Its typical hypocritical fanboy BS.
- The PS3 launched a full year after the 360 (360 already had nearly 10m sales at the release of the PS3)
- Sold at a price point $200 higher than the 360.
- Supposedly had no games for the first couple years.
- Far lower fail rate, which contributed to a large chunck of extra sales for the 360.
And despite all that is currently only around 3m behind. I hardly consider that a fail.
Quote from article:
"The PS3 screwed up too many times. At this point, the PS4 needs to be perfect out of the door."
The PS3 by all accounts outpaced the Xbox 360 for sales and they did it with a higher price tag for consumers and worse marketing. Yes they started off poorly but turned things around. Ask those who own the system and I'm sure they will tell you they are glad they bought it.
What is it with this mentality of winning and losing anyways? The media is doing a piss-poor job at treating gamers in a mature manner. No wonder we see such immaturity within the forums, it's fed to us daily in flamebait topic headers. This isn't a competition unless you work for these companies.
ps3 is not behind
where did you get your info from ??!! don't tell me vgchartes lol
both are tie in 2nd place now and that's coming from sony and MS
ps3 by now already passed the xbox numbers
@3GenGames Pretty sure the most crap software goes to the Wii or the DS.
Ps4 hardware power, features, exclusive games and psn will make it the best next gen.
I'll just illustrate one thing which is psn or ps plus. With free psn and then ps plus giving away free games all the time will make it the best. I've accumulated over 30 games for free off of ps plus already and nothing from xbox live other than a helmet for having xbox live. I don't want to lose all my games so ps4 is guaranteed for me first day and a lot of people.
The attitude Sony displays with ps3 having a lot of exclusive games, the console being the most powerful, ps plus and features will make Sony dominate next gen and not wishful thinking that can't be backed up by history or logic. The systems out now is an indicator how the next iteration of them will be and looking at ps vita with its social features along with ps3 is an indicator on how ps4 will be.
Wii had a gimmick and now Wii u has a gimmick. Xbox 360 mainly focus on Kinect so next gen they'll have little exclusive titles but a lot of Kinect games. Ps3 has a lot if exclusive with free online so I expect it to happen on ps4 with a lot of free games on ps plus
Good article overall but autor totally missed all the pros that Sony has to be a good contender for the Next Gen... I have strong faith in Gaikai and PSN services overall. Not to mention all the first party developers ready to launch their games into the next PS.
"The 360 btw has only sold around 73m so far and everyone considers it a massive success, despite the fact that it took it a full extra year over the PS3 to get that number."
While you may think your point is valid, you are only partially right. Expectations of the 360 were nowhere near as high as that of the PS3. Take into consideration when looking at comparatives and put them into the right perspective.
That being said, competition of a console isnt black and white when it comes to one vs another. you also have to look at the popularity of a previous system. case in point. Ps2 outpaced the PS1 by a significant margin. Therefore it is safe to assume that the logic behind the success of the PS3 should be equally successful. unfortunately...that wasnt the case.
PS3 may have sold to great numbers of 70mil but put that up against its siblings that both did triple digits and you will understand why sony themselves feel it is failing when it should be the runaway hit like traditions had shown.
Many reasons why that is. Most would say the obvious is price but they have countered that with a very competitive price point now. another reason is simply...lack of interest in their 3rd system. Surprisingly, there are many who still feel comfortable with the PS2 or had moved onto something else like the Wii because it offered a different style of gameplay. or even the 360 because of the massive marketing that MS put lost of $$$ into.
Whatever the cause, sony knows they will not match the sales of the ps2 let alone the ps1. Unless everything else on the market just stops selling and they are the only choice left.
Now looking at the 360, just compare it to the xbox and see that yeah...it exceeded all sales expectations of the previous system.
@hatsune: "I've accumulated over 30 games for free off of ps plus already and nothing from xbox live other than a helmet for having xbox live."
Really? you never got the free games of undertow, ageis wing, happy wars or even ones like dorito's crash course (an addictive wipeout type of game) or totemball, carcassonne...and a few more?
I wont say PS+ is a bad thing but the games i listed are free and by free that includes even silver members were able to get them and no membership required to play. the free PS+ games require you to be a paid PS+ member to play them otherwise they dont work.
the often confusing comparison between live and + is that live you are paying to play online. Something many arent interested in so therefore they arent live members. with PS+ you are paying for those free games so in essence you are paying to play...period.
To really be a free PSN user would be to actually buy all those "free" games. then you could play them anytime you want with no worry of expired membership and loss of play.
No matter how you try and spin it both services are after the same thing. Paid subscribers that get hooked and cant just easily walk away from what that paid membership offers.
Just take PS+ out of the equation and the fact still remains, no matter how you spin it (your words) that on the 360, you have to pay to play inline.
Wow, the Playstation hate usually starts when the console is released, but these articles about PS4 being doomed failure come out a year before the console release. Damn, that's a new record or something.
I know for a fact that a bunch of exclusive titles are in the last steps of production.
How do i know this? By logic of course.
Infamous devs are silent, so are Motorstorm devs, so is the seperate Santa Monica team (only a part of the devteam is working on God of war ascension), so are LittleBigplanet devs (littlebigkarting is basically a Littlebigplanet update), so are Killzone devs, so are Journey devs. I mean i could go on for ever. Uncharted devs already confirmed there are two seperate teams, one working for Last of us and the other on another project. I really doubt FFVersus will be a PS3 title.
So many things point out that Sony will have a great exclusive lineup. And that makes all the difference when choosing a new console. WE know that they won't be too different techwise. Although i'm guessing Microsoft will go the casual route more than Sony, well because of Windows 8 and Kinect. It's no surprise they are going for the casual market, they wanna tap the great market that Apple gave birth to. Sony also wants this, but from what i can tell Microsoft more so.
Sony is already one foot in the grave. With 7 divisions providing loses and only the gaming division producing a profit the organization as a whole has to cut costs. And they sure as hell cant wait 4 years for the console to produce profit. Fuethermore they seem to have few studios working on next gen titles, and we all know what that means......a repeat of the ps3 launch lineup(insert tumbleweed rolling across the desert)
"That being said, competition of a console isnt black and white when it comes to one vs another. you also have to look at the popularity of a previous system. case in point. Ps2 outpaced the PS1 by a significant margin. Therefore it is safe to assume that the logic behind the success of the PS3 should be equally successful. unfortunately...that wasnt the case."
Not sure if you meant it this way, but from what you said, the measure of success for a console is its proportional sales compared to its predecessor (Mentioning the 'logic of success' right after the PS2's outpacing of the PS1). So by that logic the PS3 would have had to have sold 225 million consoles to be considered a success... I would speculate it would be impossible given the current economic state and the increased competition from handhelds, smartphones, etc.
Other than that, I'd say MS was the biggest winner this gen (sure I'll get agrees) because whether or not they outsold Sony or Nintendo, the blew away expectations. They're a household name and have made a strong foothold in the market. And they have gained something that maybe worth more than just sales themselves: Respect. They are no longer the joke in the gaming industry. Sony and Nintendo have to respect MS now. Which is good news for all of us because competition benefits the gamer!
Lastly, I can't wait to see what Valve's console is like. <3 can't wait for what the new competition will bring to the table.
the ps2 is the 1/3 of the price of a ps3
You can't just look at plain numbers without considering context. Imagine if Windows commanding over 90% market share, suddenly gets less than a third tying with Linux on desktop computers?
MS and Nintendo gained 3-5 the user base, will Sony lost half while dominating which means the Playstation brand weakened while Nintendo and Xbox significantly increased.
The exact reason doesn't matter, because I could have easily said the PS3 offers far more value for a fraction of the real cost of an Xbox 360.
Point being, now there is a third strong competitor and not the laughing stock MS was with the original Xbox.
So yes, PS3 is technically a massive failure for Sony compared to the previous generation.
I called it yesterday. It wouldnt take long before these kinds of articles to pop up.
Typical MS fanboy desperation.
@ Walker007: What is your point exactly? Are you saying that the PS3's success should be measured by the success of its predecessor, while simultaneously implying that it's acceptable to ignore the PS2's much longer market availability?
And should we expect Spain to win the Euro and World cups in football for the foreseeable future? I mean, considering they are the current champions and all...
I don't care how people spin it, to consider roughly 70 million Xbox 360 units sold in 7 years a massive success, and roughly 70 million PS3 units sold in 6 years a miserable failure is just completely ridiculous.
LOL the garbage logic used in this article almost made me piss myself.
Besides, the reason this console cycle hasn't resulted in PS2 sales, is because the PS2 fanbase has been divided, with one half buying 360's and the other buying PS3's. In October the 360 just hit 70 million, around the same time the PS3 hit the same mark. Microsoft did an unbelievable job dividing the market and spending billions on marketing and exclusive rights in order to do it.
Not every console sells 155+ million and neither every one of them can. By that definition all other consoles released in history are failures. The second thing is that the person on top (Sony) can only come down while the person on the bottom (XBOX) can only go up. That is why the roles reversed this generation. No company can continue to increase sales infinitely. It is impossible and unrealistic to expect such a thing. Finally what the hell is this!? PS4 hasn't even been announced yet and it is already DOOMED based on Google search results for unfinalized names!? This is an absurd and pure flamebait article just to get hits! Vote this site and article down guys!
Everyone knows why PS2 was so successful, it's not rocket science.
PS2 was the leading-end console. It was like the Wii in sales-success, yet PS2 'HAD' the god damn games, it HAD the library, it had the exclusives, it had the third-party support that weren't going to other consoles unlike this gen.
PS2 was the North American version of what is now the 360(NA simply speaking) Since everyone is like YO LET PLAY WITH MY FRIENDS . . . .They likely have a 360 over PS3... While last gen it was like, everyone knew that 'Everyone'(so to speak) had a PS2 in their home. It was the default console....
This gen? It's sorta, Scattered.... Everyone has 1 of them, 2 of them, or 3 of them, each of them have their Pros and cons and that's not including hardware differences but simply game-differences.
70+ Million is Good.
PSP's worldwide sales are Good.
Vita and PS4 just need to do similar, if it keeps getting lesser and lesser with each Gen, then a problem may be noticed. There is no clear indication at the time that anything BAD as a trend is happening with Sony, not enough information.(And no, Vitas' current sales are still not enough information since it's too early to judge it)
"Sony's PS4 Could Lose To The Next Xbox Before It's Even Released"
Could this and that..... One thing is sure. Once you own a PS3 there is no need for a xbox.
But if you own a 360 then you are so jealous at ps3.
I will not buy another xbox cause I can not play online for free!
ps2 is the best console ever made, on a completely different league to ps3 and xbox
It is funny that until today. Fanboy still deny that 360 is actually only popular in US. With that in mind, it comes back to the usual thing. Americans again always assume the whole world evolves around them. Majority of the 70mil units of 360s are sold in US than any other part of the world. I am not going say who is the winner. Only fanboy will do such a dumb and childish thing. We gamers just play the games on where we like as long as the actual game appeal us and end of story. But still I need to point out one thing. Not sure where most people or even certain articles attempt to pull those numbers. Ever since Sept 2012, the worldwide figure of both 360 and PS3 are already at 70mil sales. Let alone it is Dec now closing into 2013. And people still think that PS3 numbers are behind 360? Maybe just for US case yes. But as said US is not only the country that matters. Every part of the world is what that matters as a whole. Also seriously I feel that although this does not apply to everyone. But some people in the US actually aint very appreciative. It is obvious Sony have done a lot for them in terms of deliveries and services. But yet they bash it like a pile of dog poo. Imagine some other part of the world that actually gotten less privilege. And we complain less than the Americans. Sigh....
Don't remember PS2 costing 599 US DOLLARS either ...
This has all been said before about the PS3. It's always doom and gloom when it comes to anything Sony related these days...
Bearing in mind that the PS2 only sold around 100m units at the start of the next generation, though.
The latter 55m or so were sold after the 360 / PS3 released. What I'm saying is the PS3 will probably finish on over 100m units sold also. The PS3 will continue to sell well into next gen.
Common sense doesn't work here. Just play along. PS3 and Vita and PS4 are all DOOOMEDZZ!!!
I will be buying both like I did this gen and the last gen. They both have there own pro's this war between them both is getting old and boring now.
@darthv72: "I wont say PS+ is a bad thing but the games i listed are free and by free that includes even silver members were able to get them and no membership required to play. the free PS+ games require you to be a paid PS+ member to play them otherwise they dont work. "
When you go to the store and buy something and get something else for free. (buy 1 get one free) Would you consider that as free?
If you pay 49.99 and it last for a full year. And you get games that are worth over 100 dollars...Would you consider that as free?
For me...that's pretty much like free...Because the reality is that you will buy games one day. And the fact that you will get full games like Street Figher IV etc , wouldn't that balance out your 49.99?
Well, I would love to see the PS4 "perfect" and most powerful so I can stop reading stupid articles like this (claimind the PS3 has only 256MB RAM availible... lol! Everyone that checks wiki knows it 2x256MB).
Indeed. And I won't get a 720 because I will get the Steambox instead, which will play many games (even Scribblenauts Unlimited!!!)
I'll be getting both:D
But seriously, this generation has been a HUGE success for M$ and a hard pill to swallow for SONY. Yes, even tho they are tied. If PS3 beats 360 by 10 million this gen it's still a huge success for Microsoft.
Playstation has been the king of the last two generations, while Microsoft was a nobody in the console wars until a few years ago.
You can bet Sony will be looking to forget about the PS3 as quickly as possible and put all their attention to the PS4.
OMG... a new breed of fanbois... Steamboxers
lol, exactly.
like the author (comic fanboy) : " I love all game consoles equally"
enough said.
Statistically based on the games we've gotten this generation, it's hard to be more excited for an Xbox over a PlayStation again. The comparison is borderline comical if we're strictly speaking games.
The "before it's even released" bit goes to show how serious they want to be taken.
Kotaku lol
Sure a system with excellent exclusives will fail over a system that has depended on same 2-3 exclusives also if a full year ahead start couldn't keep ps3 down why would ps4 launching at the same time as next Xbox or even before means ps4 will fail?
Look at vita and you can tell Sony understands it takes a good price point so don't expect anything over $400. Maybe as low as $349 at launch with uncharted 4,GT6, ans killzone 4
Gears of war IP belongs to epic so they can at any time start making gears games for other systems, fable is done
Halo is a excellent franchise
So is forza
Crackdown has potential but MS will never use it right same goes for Alan wake
Also Alan wake IP isn't owned by MS either
COD brand is slowing down so that's MS biggest card. I believe MS will have huge issues this gen because they seem to forgotten about the fact they are making a gaming system before any other home entertainment stuff or smart glass
no dude halo 4 is a excellent game and so is forza series, i am a GT fanboy but even i will admit it that Forza has done a lot right so hopefully Gt6 will look into doing that.
i want some great community features for GT6, also we don't need 600 generic cars, give us 300-400 excellent cars than 1000
Exactly!! The 360 isn't so far off to consider the PS3 a failure. If it were ahead like the ps2 was with the others then yea I would understand but that isn't the case. Doubt the next xbox will crush the next ps system.
"It's amazing how everyone consider's 70+ Million Sales a failure."
Ms did the same number. BUT..
xbox 360 - released nov 2005 (the hair)
ps3 - released nov 2006.. (the tortoise)
All sony needs is a good launch.
I just want ps4 cuz I need a reliable and long supported games machine. simple.
I refuse to buy a $400+ console then pay and extra $60 for multi-player.
ps4 = $400 + $60 gets me a game + multiplayer. Win!!
This needs to be said again.
xbox has 3 AAA exclusives and 61 kinect exclusives.
720? ha!
"Halo 5 Being Prototyped For Xbox 720"
"Don stated that it was Rare's versatility covering kids and adult games throughout the N64 and GameCube era that helped them stay relevant, but having a lot of their mature themed games shotdown created a negative atmosphere within the studio, causing a lot of key talent to part ways with the company."- ex Rare dev
Microsoft said "meh needs more kinect"
Rare hiring new developers for Kinect 2 and Xbox 720 games
I shall laugheth ones ass off.
ps4 day 1 sorry.
and You need banana chocoLax , and I need a PS4, who else needs something ?
I totally agree with you man, but you really gotta get your caps lock key fixed.
Haha Reverent you gave me a laugh. I was just getting really mad at the stupid comments on N4G and I guess I kinda pointed the finger a bit in it myself..
Well, it's no problem at all. What you said was spot on, so as long as the contents of your comment was well said, then it really doesn't matter that it appeared that you were shouting, lol.
Same bullshit articles, different decade.
Same here, why all the negativity already against the PS4? Geez everyone's becoming colder each year. I wouldn't be surprised to see people with robot-like personalitise...as a matter of fact, we're almost there! I have a 360 and a PS3 and like both equally.
I thought everyone considers the PS3 a failure because it'll most likely never make back all of the money that Sony dumped into the cell+selling at a loss for all those years. Numbers wise it's definitely not a flop.
It's already made it back through the selling of software.... they sold at a loss and sell software at a gain, every game sold they get a small cut from eventually that adds up, I suspect they are at least breaking even on the current price if not making a profit based on it's current pricing anyway...
I know the PS3 is selling for a profit now, and they do make money from games as well, but, from what I've heard, they haven't made enough money in the past 3 years to make up for their $4billion+ losses between 2006-2009.
It's kinda like how the Xbox 360 is believed to be in the green, but the XBOX brand as a whole is still in the red because of the colossal failure that was the original Xbox. Their recent profits are unable to offset the losses they took in the past.
It's incredible how people can still give examples of better performing games and list COD and Skyrim as examples... This is the capaility of the developers and not the console itself. Its a known and accepted fact that Games look better on PS3.
But let's Ignore power... How about the games themselves? The first party content is so original and varied it outpaces every other console. There is already two new IPs coming in 2013.
Value for money... Free online, blu-ray built in Wi-fi, HDMI... the 360 had to wait on its third iteration to match this.PS Plus gives you 2 games a month. Meaning you're paying less than $2. a game!
Yes the 360 has a better online, but you pay for it, yet you get ads. And lets not start about the lack of original 360 content.
The only good thing about it is that its cheaper in the store, and that it came a year earlier. And before people jump up and shout fan boy... I own all three consoles. I just prefer the PS3.
Well the PS3 is the worst selling Sony console ever. Sony made it to 50% of the PS2 sales by losing about 6 billion USD for it. They really had to push this in the market.
Now Sony is in trouble, so they can't afford to do this one more time.
MS is as healthy as ever and the Xbox 360 is making lots of money. The brand just grew massively over the past 6 years.
And MS has the most 1st party studios with Twisted Pixel, BlackTusk, 343i, MS Victoria, MS Soho, Press Play, etc. all bought or built in 2012.
If they manage to get the best 3rd party support again and offer the best online experience again, the Xbox 3 will be a much bigger threat to the PS4 than the Xbox 360 was for the PS3.
PS1 won
PS2 won
Wii Won
Microsoft lost all wars, yet he says Sony loses next war against microsoft? When we look at price PS3 and Xbox 360 when both were released, and Xbox 360 before, and right now Sony sold as many consoles Xbox 360, this means Microsoft lost all wars. So. PS4 will be my pick
This article is BS.
Fact 1.
PS3 has 512 MB of RAM. Same amount as Xbox 360. Its split into two pools instead of one general purpose pool of RAM.
Fact 2 bad ports from X360 are developers fault. Not Sony's. Its pretty clear that when there is an effort the ports to the system work out pretty well.
It doesn't matter when the console launches if day 1 side by side with Microsoft or a year later. It will still impress and be less likely to give us the red ring.
Sony knows the faults of the PS3. PS4 will make up for them and surpass them in every way possible.
i think google knows something we don't
im a sony kind of guy
for me to switch over MS must have something that appeals to me, something like free xbox live
Compared to the PS2 is is a failure, in terms of general sales its not.
Xbox was compared to last gen, which means it was a success, the next system will be compared to Xbox 360 sales if it doesn't surpass it will also be a failure.
Its like a Parent to a Child, you always want your children to do better than you did...not be on par or perform less.
There is no way Sony is releasing a console that isn't powerful, and offers more features than the PS3... not saying Xbox Wont be powerful, but for people to think either company is releasing a step up machine is ridiculous. Plus we haven't no real info on the 2 new consoles so the can stop with these articles. I for one just hope that my psn account transfers to the next Gen ps4, and that they keep plus.
70m PS3 in 6yrs 70m 360 in 7yrs. I guess the 360 us a huge disappointment.
In 7yrs the PS3 will most likely be at 85m. Sony said they want a 100m PS3s sold. Name any other console that has accomplished this on their 3rd console out.
Bull$hit article. It's not Sony's fault that developers don't use the full power of the PS3.
I think alot of people are gonna be in for a rude awakening at how quickly MS will exit the console business. My God even Vanity Fair had a 5 page article on all that is wrong with MS. "How MS lost it's mojo", look it up, Im sure you can find it. To sum up 5 pages into one sentence I'll just say that MS has become the PERSONIFICATION of corporate america. SLOW, FILLED WITH PETTY POLITICS AND NOT A FUN PLACE TO WORK. This is coming from their own former and current executives and managers.
I bet no one here has any idea that MS actually worked on the E-book reader concept back in the late 90's only to have management shoot it down because it "didn't look like windows". If Gates had one ounce of ability to think outside the box he would have jumped all over but instead folded the RD group into another part of the company where they had to show immediate profit. LOL
This kind of myopic arrogant thinking is what has kept them WAY BEHIND the competition when it comes to innovation. They used to be able to outmuscle you moneywise but that isn't even true anymore as now APPLE dwarfs MS in size. My oh my how times have changed.
isnt the ps3 even out for the 360 in numbers of sale right now? Last time Sony was behind by 2 million units..i dont know how they goin to say ps4 will be doom lol crazy 360 fanboys
This E3 should be the best ever. PS4, Next Box, ouya, steam box and hoping some Wii U games. Personally I am very excited for PS4 because of the GAMES.. That's why we buy consoles. I'm hoping everyone pulls out their best games in development this E3 and the result is amazing. Can't wait to see what every console maker has coming for their new systems... Especially Sony. Would also like to see an epic HD Zelda and Mario from Nintendo. Only then once we know wtf is going on can we make guesses at who will be on top but even then it's only a guess.
"well-informed Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku"
Stopped reading there when has Kotaku ever been well informed?
What a craptastic article with bad info to boot ps3 and 360 both have 512 mb ram. Using multiplatform games to determine the power of the machine when God of war 3,Uncharted 1,2,3 blow everything on 360 away.
Raymond Wong i wouldnt quit my day job at Taco Bell.


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1. Continue to use synthetic in my K bike and let the rear seal leak so it would drip on my garage floor and possibly get on my clutch.
Continue to use synthetic in my Airhead and let the pushrod tube seals continue to leak onto my garage floor and motorcycle.
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