Losing GFW Radio AND Magazine was worse enough for me, but this is further devastating. The 1up yours show and podcast and the new LAN party were certainly weekly traditions for me, especially the 1up Yours Show which I've listened to from the start. A LAST 1upyours show would be excellent or better yet, have these guys make a podcast and keep moving forward with the crew.

laptop gaming is best out there, by far. As you get older, the Laptop becomes not only a business and life tool, but a gaming machine all in one. There's a whole new crop of gaming capable laptops coming from Gateway right now that are amazing, nevermind what Asus is doing too and many others. In fact, I'm on one right now, that cost about $1100, 17" Screen and it comes with a 8800GTS mobile GPU...runs everything out there well above my console counterparts, and works amazingly well for everything else a PC does.

It is about perception. People that don't know wtf they're talking about and are negative about anything besides Console gaming have absolutely no clue how easy and rewarding it is to game on a PC. I still love having a Desktop PC as well, for the Home Office, to compliment my static consoles that are stuck at home on my 50". There's something to be said about portability, and laptop gaming as well as portable gaming like the DS and PSP which rock, is going to be the future, as if it isn't heading that way already.

Many companies are waking up and offering GPU's that aren't integrated and still cheap to sell to the mainstream. This is the important thing. Dell's new lineup will offer much cheaper laptops that are gaming capable and offer far more than what a single console can offer. This isn't to take away from consoles , I love 'em , but the PC is still king in my eyes.

You obviously aren't a regular STEAM user, if at all. Every week there's the "Deal of the Week" that offers prices that can't be found at retail. Secondly, go look at this:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/26/steams-holiday-sale-boasts-10-75-off-e...

10 to 75 percent off until Jan 2nd....give me a break on "not offering something over high street". The major reason why STEAM CANNOT offer cheaper games is that Retail will NOT allow it. It's up the publishers that put their games on STEAM as to what they want to charge for, not STEAM(Valve). As time moves forward, retail is losing power, and we will see cheaper and more affordable pricing, especially in this economy.

As for the PS3, it's a PAIN IN THE ASS for developers, not just for Valve, but for just about ALL developers that have spoken out about it. The 360 is basically a PC, and that's where most Devs are coming from in the West, from the PC, so the 360 tends to be an overall easy machine to work with by comparison.

yep. I don't think people realize how easy it is.

To the story, The big difference is that most 360 owners aren't tech savy (taking a guess worth betting on), so this is one reason we don't see the same numbers as we do on PC. They're probably intimidated in doing so, when everyone could do it. Secondly, there's a lot more people that play games on PC vs. the 360, so the PC's filesharing numbers will always be higher. In the end, people are either going to buy the game like usual, or pirate it as usual.

Very true. As a PC gamer first, I still own every console and handheld. It is troubling to hear some people literally "hate" a platform, it's ridiculous. What's bad for the PC image is the constant BS "4000 dollar PC needed to run game X" kinda post.