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Hi guys, we would like to do a prune of inactive moderators. If you would like to continue to moderate you will need to a) have a forum account, and b) have wiki activity in the last 3 months. Prune will take place 1 May 2013. Happy moderating!

Yes this should be updated, will do so.

Last year Iron Wookie and I attended Rezzed 2012, a PC games expo arranged by RPS, which was a very cool experience. This year I'm planning to attend Rezzed 2013, which will be held June 22-23 2013 at the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham International. Birmingham is less than an hour train ride from London, UK. If anyone would like to attend with me, we can try to arrange press passes for those who are interested (who have been major contributors to the blog/wiki), and in rare cases we may purchase tickets for the day if cost is an issue. If you are interested in attending and meeting up, let's do it - and maybe we can have a drink together! I'm thinking of attending at least one of the two days, depending on what talks get announced at what time. I'll definitely have my 'games journalist' hat on when I'm there, and maybe we can get some scoops up onto The Port Report :).

Wow that sounds great. If you could link back when it's over we may pick out a few choice quotes for our blog.

Can we make STFU go to PCGW our motto? Not sure this is the right tone we want for our motto :D.

I would broadly agree that a title being 'crowdfunded' is not really integral to getting a game to work. However if there is a simple, future-proof way to create lists of games, then I would like for us to support this. Then we could create lists on the fly, e.g. low-end games, all games which use Steam, all games which have GFWL, etc. This really requires a rework of all of our templates to support SMW which would provide the best way of entering this type of data. Appreciate the work on the template Garrett. However the crowdfunding status/data is not necessarily that useful. We should find a more comprehensive way of doing this. I would if I had more time to delve into the best that is SMW..

I like this idea the most, manually doing data entry and removing parts from the page. It's time consuming but the best option for the future. It would also be helpful to just go and copy new templates based on the DRM definitions from SteamDRM, e.g. Legacy method (should be renamed CD check) Server side activation Account-based (although maybe this is covered in the 'Store unlock' column of the Availability table?) Inert (should be renamed 'removable') We could use templates to make these consistent across pages. We should be comprehensive in detailing which part of games require what DRM. e.g. BioShock 2 GFWL can be deactivated with a hack, but this removes the ability to use their DLC e.g. Minerva's Den. All this is useful information that might fit under the 'Availability table'. Also I think it might be helpful to have mouseover popup definitions of items.

Absolutely loved the game, finished it a few days ago. Some of the moment at the end were spine-tinglingly good. However I can't help but feel disappointed with weapons and gunplay of the game. Basically I only used two weapons, the carbine and the machinegun, which I upgraded fully. I also only used two vigors - Murder of Crows and Devil's Kiss (and occasionally Shock Jocky). For some reason the game seemed to encourage you to use fewer weapons - and I think it suffered for it. BioShock 1's gunplay was much strategic, and ammo was very scarce, it basically made you improvise and think harder about how to engage in combat. Also I felt the integration of Vigors into the story didn't really make sense. It is kind of explained at the end, but it didn't seem like it was 'integral' to the story. Whereas in BioShock 1, the plasmids/Adam were kind of the star of the show and they were part of the driving force of the plot and setting.

Hi all I'm looking to increase our revenue income from affiliate marketing by posting up interesting deals on the top Sitenotice. The idea is that increased income will be used to purchasing additional games for us to review and create pages for (we have really ramped up our purchases lately). We are currently using a script which converts links into affiliate links on our site. Any links following from our site with the following domains will append our affiliate information onto the link seamlessly: greenmangaming.com gamersgate.co.uk gamersgate.com gamefly.co.uk newegg.com amazon.com amazon.co.uk gog.com I hope that the Sitenotice link isn't too intrusive (as a single line of text) but I am happy to take feedback and to take it down if it's too much.

Sorry for the late reply, please go ahead and edit away :) I'll be putting more work into it closer to official release date.

Flibit tweet: https://twitter.com/steamdrm/status/320162770811228160 Thread on Steam forums: http://t.co/4eK8FCYPvp Source of SteamDRM: https://github.com/SteamList/SteamDRM Don't have time personally to look at this, might have a chance on Sunday or Monday. However I'd like to throw it out there to everyone to see what they think, how things could be best integrated.

Thanks for input. I'll be continuing my research for a feature here: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=162

I'll be keeping tabs on review codes and assignments in the new Assignments forum. Defiance key has been allocated, but if we get a spare we can shoot you one: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=159 What spec do you have? Maybe you can post it on your user page: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/User:Nicereddy

I think this thread has the info: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1330460 I'm not really sure how Mac directories work.

It was back in the time that frontpaging reddit with a rage comic was acceptable (and probably the last time it would ever happen!)

I've begun to realize that these people are very interesting subjects, but I'm having a hard time coming up with questions as I don't know their specific subject areas :). Perhaps for each suggestion, you could also submit 5 questions to ask, and also contact information or website URL if you have it.

Things looked a bit different for PCGamingWiki in Feb 2012: http://web.archive.org/web/201202122203 ... /Main_Page

Who would make a good subject for an interview? I'm thinking of reaching out to various people that don't normally get interviewed - e.g. modders, tool creators, website owners. E.g. creator of SS2Tool, DSFix, UniWS, etc. Who would you like us to reach out to? Who would make an interesting interview subject?

Yes this sounds really interesting- can you show me a quick mockup of the structure that you'd use, and maybe an introduction/first section. I'd like to make sure it's on the right track before you write it (I don't want to disappoint contributors by rejecting articles once they've spent lots of time writing it!).

Have been working on some additional content for the blog- results are up there at the moment: http://blog.pcgamingwiki.com/ If you are interested in contributing, I am very happy to proofread and copyedit any submissions.

Hi guys, I have soft-launched a new blog for PCGamingWiki called The Port Report, which is now linked on the sidebar of the Forum, and I'll be placing a link on the Wiki when it's time to 'launch' for real. The basic concept of the site is to post news about PC game fixes. The idea is directly inspired and is designed to carry on the ideas of the Port Authority feature on the now defunct GameSpy. Examples: FarCry 3, Prototype 2, Aliens: Colonial Marines. You can see the large parallels between the Port Authority (analysis of PC game settings) and PCGamingWiki's goal. Why do this? -By producing regular 'news', the pcgamingwiki.com domain will get PageRanked higher on Google for all of its content, including Wiki pages. -It gives an opportunity to upload personal research somewhere, so that it can be referenced on the Wiki pages. -The content is more casual and personal to the particular author, with much more scope for opinions and impressions, which is useful in comparison to the 'clinical' feel of Wiki content. - Blog content has more scope for casual engagement with the ability to comment on articles and engage/agree/disagree with an author. Ideas for content - Report - Full 'impressions' of a new PC game's settings within 48hrs of a game's release (preferably within 24hrs) - heavily based on the Port Authority style. Main difference from a Wiki article will be 1) personal opinion, 2) focus on performance impressions, 3) graphics settings comparison (e.g. FOV 75 vs 90, no AA vs x16 AA, etc.) - Mini report - If there isn't enough time, we can push out shorter articles based on specific settings - e.g. specific FOV settings of Resident Evil 6. - Interviews - I would love to begin interviewing the 'unsung heroes' of PC gaming - fix makers, utility creators, mod makers (DSfix, SS2Tool, etc), community moderators, etc. there are interesting stories to tell, and no one else is telling them. - Features - How does GOG make their games work on modern OS's, what's their relationship with modders? Why do developers encrypt configuration files? Where are all the touchscreen Windows 8 games? Plenty of ideas, would love to hear more from you guys. What's next? I'm planning to 'launch' the site on Tuesday/Wednesday with a full report on BioShock Infinite. By then I hope to have the blog's styling completed and have everything ready to go. The next stage is all about community contributions. I've already begun to receive ideas and even a full article without even asking. I'd love to see more - if people would like to volunteer to receive free game code, I'll prioritise and supply it to those who would like to do both Blog and Wiki article writing. I think the beauty of the Blog in this early stage, is that reports are always useful no matter how short they are, and how much time an author has to write it. Therefore, a Report speed and release will be prioritized over how comprehensive it is (as this can be covered later in more detail in a Wiki article). Of course, for major releases like BioShock Infinite, I would like code to be given to those who have the time and commitment to submit a full comprehensive report within the 48hr timeframe. I'm also interested if anyone would like to help out with the Wordpress administration side. At the moment I'm planning to release articles for every major release, but I can see in the future that this could become a daily posting kind of site. If anyone is interesting in helping on this end please let me know. Interested in helping out? Read up on the Assignments forum.

I think this could be quite useful - as in principle, we want to make sure every assertion is referenced somewhere.

Happy to support Oculus Rift, even in its infancy. We need to think of a good way to manage these list. At the moment I've given it the 'Category:Hardware' - but maybe there is scope for 'Category:Oculus Rift' Stub is here: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Oculus_Rift

Wikipedia uses nice styling for keys which we might borrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_key

Sometimes names just stick and it's easier just to keep it the same :D.