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Ok, this is really frustrating, because it should be easy. But it's not. I can't find any of the Half Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2 sound files using GCFScape, to extract some of the voiceover files. I've looked in all the .gcfs I can think of and they're ... just not there. And googling doesn't...

I know it's an old game, but with The Witcher 2 fast approaching, and having brought The Witcher in the Steam sale and given it a whirl, there's something I really need to ask. Am I the only one who thought that The Witcher has far and away the worst writing in an RPG ever? It's literally...

Rather bored of just listening to the Joystiq guys, but they're the only ones I've found who put out a regular Podcast. What podcasts do you guys listen to?

For you, what's the most powerful moment of video game narrative you've ever played? Been doing a lot of thinking about the relationship between story and gameplay experiences, and I'm interested to hear what everyone elses are. Mass Effect's Virmire mission is one of the more recent...

I'm the first person to get into a bit of a rage when scaremongering mass media outlets attempt to pin anything and everything on violent games, but something happened recently which made me think. I work at my university part-time helping to run school educational visits and such, mostly...

Given that the rumoured release date is February 2011 (that's 15 months after the release of the first one) ... what's the feeling about this game? I can't see it having any improvements at all over the first one in that kind of timeframe. They'll have to put all their development effort into...

Having not had a chance to play the latter, could somebody explain what the difference actually is between these two games (apart from plot and such, obviously). Heavy Rain seems to be pretty much the same game, mechanics and style wise, apart from the fact that it looks a lot prettier. Are...

Without going into boring artsy-fartsy detail, my final-year dissertation is about sexual content in video games. Namely why there isn't any, when films can go as far as full-on unsimulated sex and have it deemed to be "art". Seriously, this is video games. Potentially we've got the tools to...

(I refuse to call it "F.3.A.R.") Also read that John Carpenter (of The Thing and Halloween) has been advising on the plot. After FEAR 2, it needed it. Someone was just talking in another thread about how some games should and shouldn't be co-op ... I'm undecided here. On one hand...

Since Borderlands is on sale, I pose the question to those who have had it for the last few months: Is it worth getting? I'm tempted, but I'm concerned that the novelty of it will wear off fairly quickly and I'll be left with a rather empty and repetitive game. Is this justified? Opinions?

Just read it on CVG: I think it's obvious we're not getting it this month anyway, but seriously ... "this Spring" is a bit of a vague target. How reliable is this, d'you think?

Heard nothing about this game until it was released on Steam ... I knew that these guys were working on a new UFO game, but it crept up on me. Anybody played it? Is it any good?

I'm liking the challenge of playing the game on Expert mode, and I'm up to the task ... except that doing it with pubs is just an impossible mission. So, I thought a fun challenge would be to get the achievement for beating all campaigns on Expert, and doing it with people from HL2.net sounds...

Hasn't been a thread on this in a while, and the Alpha release is out, so the question asks itself ... How can a game be so friggin' confusing AND simultaneously awesome sounding at the same time? An RTS where both players can travel in time and effect each others moves in the past and...

I've been creating a simple level, but run into a problem. Some props that I've put into the level are simply vanishing completely when I compile the map. Ignore the part in the title where it says static props ... they're not static props anymore. Here's an example: Here is the Compile Log...

Obviously I'm extremely jealous of Americans ... they get newegg, which from what I hear is Jesus reincarnated as an online shop. For the UK crowd, where do you get your parts from? I did what may have been the slightly stupid move of checking out user reviews of websites. As such, I've now...

So at the moment I'm looking at these parts ... Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard [GA-P55-US3L] ATI HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel...

As a newb at this, I have a few confusions that I would be grateful for being cleared up ... 1. What should I look for in a motherboard, beyond compatibility with my CPU/GPU? What makes one motherboard better than another? 2. Is RAM basically RAM, regardless of brand? Should I just be...

No, this isn't a "I don't know what to put in where" post. This is a post for someone who's confused about components. Does anyone know anywhere I could get clued up on what components offer the best bang for my buck, or what components are compatible with each other and such? I'm clueless...

The popularity of achievements has been bugging me for a while. I don't understand them, personally. What is this obsession that developers are capitalising on for people to acquire all the possible achievements? You can't tell me that getting them all is fun ... I've tried it, and playing...