I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with <i>no volume control</i>.<p>I see this particular usability faux pas way too often. If you roll your own flash video player rather than host videos elsewhere or use one of the mainstream well-designed open/commercial flash video player apps, <i>let viewers control the volume</i>.<p>Binary On/Off sound toggles on flash apps are ridiculous. Furthermore, a custom flash video player app should remember the volume setting (per-domain) so viewers don't have to monkey with the volume every time that flash app appears.
Those are great numbers for PC gaming. I wonder what the ratio is for playing vs. bought.<p>Todd Howard, the game director at Bethesda Game Studios, has recently claimed that consoles make up about 90% of their overall game sales. If this is still true for Skyrim it means this game likely has massive sales #s for a single player RPG, or any other game for that matter.
On the subject of Steam can someone answer this question for me regarding Steam's pricing...<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229558" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229558</a>
I used to get around the problem in my country by using a VPN, but that no longer seems to work/
I was surprised to find people still go for the single player RPG genre. I've been playing Skyrim after its midnight release here in New Zealand.<p>On another note, I've also noticed the Mac App Store is selling the new Batman Game. Is the Mac App Store a viable competitor to Steam?
What does "online" mean when talking about a single player game?<p>I am thinking about playing oblivion on xbox360 and I can not understand what being "online" would mean.