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I understand the argument for 'DRM column' but I think DRM is better left in the notes section, and keeping the account unlock column. The Availability table is really for glancing and helping to guide a purchasing decision, and seeing if a game is available on your preferred 'account' or client. People don't like opening new accounts or using new clients - the first question most people ask is: does it unlock on Steam? Can I get a DRM-free exe to download? DRM belongs in the notes because each DRM is almost always implemented differently - SecuROM has different activation limits, GFWL has different types of activation requirements, etc. It would also mean not having to make individual DRM icons which are not informative (SecuROM icon doesn't really tell you anything unless you know which kind it is). It also gets us out of argument of whether Steam is or isn't DRM. Obviously it is DRM, but to list it in this quick-glance type table would be meaningless - most people are interested in what third party DRM is being implemented and how obstructive it is. GOG do actually get sold elsewhere, for example you can redeem your Steam version of Witcher and Witcher 2 on GOG. Future CD Projekt games will probably redeem on GOG as well.

Just wanted to announce that I will be working on this in the coming week or so. One intention is to move it out of OS headers and make a general header. This is so that you can easily refer to it to know exactly where a game unlocks, including which OS's as well. I'll be including new account unlocks such as Ubuntu Software Centre, and also a method for adding accounts and stores more easily.

Have you tried deleting your cookie for pcgamingwiki.com and trying again?

http://tera.enmasse.com/free Might give this a try :)

I'll be putting some work into the layout, administration and templates for this site very soon.

Did this break the CAPTCHA for anonymous editing?

I have an implementation of this here: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home/Steam But I may wait for a Home page redesign (again!) before putting it in.

I set $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = false; Which should stop the errors with having to confirm an email address if you are anonymous.

Where is it available? http://www.gog.com/forum/general/future_cop_lapd - it's on the GOG wishlist. I might have to 'acquire' a copy for testing. A german forum thread detailing how it works: http://forum.chip.de/rund-um-spiele/fut ... 42997.html Here is the stub for a PCGW article: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Future_Cop:_LAPD

Whoah extremely cool, how does it work?

http://www.gog.com/games/all##price=free

For everyone's information, I've added the BBcode for Youtube videos so you can add them in like so: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1Nmm6rjho[/youtube]

Thanks for the feedback. hungry_eyes is doing some general concept work for the home page - the main barrier to implementing this is having a good css person to help with coding it. I'd also love to find ways to add new features, such as Top 10 Steam games. The 'social' and 'did you know' sections are both kind of filler and repetitions of other areas, and I would go one step further and say they can be removed in the next redesign. The Kickstarter I am quite proud of. I'd like to keep it on as a badge of honour like they do on FTL's website: http://www.ftlgame.com/ The 'recent changes' box - this has been on the front page since the beginning pretty much, and it would be a bit weird to see it go. But I'm happy to open it up to opinions from other people. Maybe we can open it up to a poll in the future.

I have an enormous backlog (I haven't even finished New Vegas or Mass Effect 3 yet), but I'm looking forward to: Zeno Clash II Loved the art style and world of the first game, even though the gameplay was difficult and the controls weren't great. South Park - The Stick of Truth Obsidian game. Trailer looks awesome. I hope it stays on track for early this year (dependent on THQ's financial status) Bioshock Infinite Obviously :).

Quote from hungry_eyes: This is a very interesting idea - would absolutely love to have this functionality on our site. Steam has an official feed which only contains the top weekly sellers: http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/wee ... ellers.xml Options: 1) We'd need a way of parsing this feed and redirecting it to our pages. However, it's beyond my technical expertise. 2) Get someone to customise a crawler for us to scrape Steam's homepage and produce a top 10 list which links to our articles 3) Do it by hand on a set period, e.g. once a week.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ ... ded_gamer/ Anyone had any experience with one-handed gaming, or disabled gaming?

I've trialled the logged in/out states for ads for a few days. What I've found is that the change in revenue has not been enough for us to warrant the change. Therefore, logged in will now disable ads. Enjoy!

I will probably revert a bunch of the sidebar changes later today - the large sidebar is annoying me :D.

These are excellent fixes - we should make a stutter article which includes these and also address microstutter in dual-sli rigs.

I adjusted the logo size to accommodate a 160x600 banner on the left. I'll be making some more spacing adjustments with the sidebar to make it more compact. I've fixed the white spacing as well I think.

Thanks so much for this, I am stupid and missed this in the PHPBB documentation I was looking at. Edit: feed is updated now to show most recently updated threads.

Wooo!

This is very cool: http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/4/4f/TestTwitterfeed.png as is this http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/6/63/Tes ... topics.png However we have a problem in that the format of what we get is hugely dependent on the way RSS feeds are parsed on MediaWiki. For example on the PHPBB feed - the current implementation is very basic - we use a third party RSS embedding tool to parse the feed and insert it into MediaWiki - there's no way to seperate the title/forum name/author out of the feed unless we build our own RSS feed parser which is beyond my ability. For example the feed for PHPBB is here: feed.php?mode=topics - it doesn't even update or push up when there is a reply unfortunately. I have a feeling that we will need to look at the tech and programming side before we can make this homepage look better.

I am happy to expand all of our categories tom include DOS and other operating systems as necessary. I was hoping to get a more holistic approach to getting all new categories put in, and to have these built into our templates. For example, having 'Steam' in our availability table could also include the Steam category. We could include all stores and unlocks like GamersGate, Greenmangaming, Amazon.com, etc. I'm not exactly sure where to draw the line. There's also the suggestion to include issues unresolved as a category as well (built into a new Fixbox template). Interested in hearing what you guys think about how many categories we should have.

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