Even still, you're ponying up full price for what effectively becomes a game rental, and you only get that money back if you request it within 24 hours. Not a bad model, all things considered.

Generally, you don't keep beta progress in games, so those grants you have won't last once the game is officially released.

Flavored, carbonated sugar-water is flavored, carbonated sugar-water. I believe the only reason we're inclined to think different brands of the same flavor are really that different is due to their effective marketing. Once I stopped caring about Coke or Pepsi or generic, I stopped noticing.

Really, really wish that Clockwork Zelda fanart was a real thing.

Ditto. I loved Book 1 for the most part, even up until Korra got the Deus Ex Machina State to give her back her powers. I think, had they been able to leave the cliffhanger for Book 1, they would have had Korra start Book 2 as just an Airbender, with her tapping into the Spirit World to regain the other three…

He's leaning against the Wall, off screen.

ALL. OF. MY. MONEY.

I thought he was perfect for the movie. He was every shonen mecha manga stereotype played absolutely straight in a mecha movie inspired by those manga. If he wasn't over-the-top, he'd have been accused of mailing it in. You can't win with some people.

It occurs to me that there's an entire generation of teenage gamers who did not grow up playing fighting games because the genre became so niche in the late nineties and early 00s.

Damn near spit water all over my monitor.

Ever wonder what happened to all the wolves in Europe?

Extremely important. Ground Zeroes, the "prologue" of the game, takes place pretty much right after Peace Walker, and if you don't know what happens in that game, you're probably not going to understand what, exactly, is happening.

Microsoft got fucking annihilated. The PS4 looks leaps and bounds superior in every way.

I can't imagine that this doesn't eventually hit XBLA and Windows 7. The initial exclusivity seems to me to just be using the Halo franchise to push Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. As for Android and iOS? No chance in Hell.

Looks almost exactly like Homeworld. That can only be a good thing.

I'm all for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" in this case. It's a new developer taking over a widely enjoyed franchise. Arkham City was an enormously satisfying game to play and there's plenty of meat still on that bone for people to pick at. I only hope for minor additions like a more expansive, engaging world and a…

The really weird part is that they already have emulation up and running via the Wii channel. Seems to me if they just got that running on the Gamepad, they'd effectively have what this article is asking for. Stream Wii Virtual Console to Gamepad, have access to all the stuff already on the Wii. That solves the…

Wonder if rat dad eventually got so depressed at the loss of his family that he decided to just end it all and use the trap so he could see his family again.

Not all of it. I've seen some "I don't care" sentiments be just that - they believe someone's sexuality shouldn't matter in this day and age, which is true. In an ideal world, Collins coming out would get the same attention as someone saying "I like cats".

While patting other guys on the ass and taking group showers with teammates.