Yes it does. But blocking Skype from the iPhone in the future would help them sell Windows phones as it would be one more thing to help differentiate the products. That, and Skype is the primary means of communication back home among the foreign graduate students I've known and could sway people like them to choose a…

Wonder if the Skype purchase is in part to keep it off the iPhone. Might be for the next Xbox and its services too.

To be fair, I think the most any of the people there could have done is call the police if they didn't have a taser or something. That is one seriously large dude and not quite the Seinfeld "good Samaritan" scenario.

Quite obviously this $100 off coupon is due to the impending announcement of the PS4 at E3!

That's complete BS in terms of PayPal. They had a major f-up a couple years ago, and a simple google search will find you plenty of stories of how consistently unsecure their servers are.

Finished with Defiance I believe. There is room for maybe one more game based on how that ended.

<3 Digital Devil Saga. Some of the best voice work this side of the Legacy of Kain series!

I just wonder if this PSN delay goes beyond improvements in security. By that I mean when PSN finally does come back online if there will also be something like a redesign for the store front, or maybe cross game chat, etc. Kind of a "while it's down, we might as well do x" type of thing.

Off the top of my head:

The keyword in there is "original." New IPs are fine and if good enough can turn into a series we will follow as fans. But all too often new IPs are just derivative gaming experiences from established franchises. In which case it is better to just go with a series that has proven it is good at delivering a certain…

If we are just focusing on what was worse personally (ignoring the downside for publishers etc.) I have to go with the RROD. As said, at least with the PSN outage I can still play offline games (minus DRM issues). But given the huge backlog of games I have across multiple platforms, neither would/has really affected…

Kidding? Hardly. I was not stupid enough to put & save my credit/debit card information on PSN or any network (Amazon, Steam, etc). In short, the hackers would not have any useful information on me that a phone book wouldn't have. So yes, I would rather have free games than the ID protection program I would most…

I don't think it's far fetched to assume a 4th attack will occur after the website one mentioned in that link. The 4th attack being on PSN once it is restored to prove a point (not sure what their point would be... that a network will never be secure?)

Both, at least when you are talking about special editions.

I think the hero from DQVIII qualifies for that better: (2:13s in)

Despite saying I would finish it weeks ago, I still have a few more chapters of TWEWY left. So that.

That's what she said!

About what I would expect with my luck. Out of hundreds of models of HP laptops named in a class action lawsuit, mine was the only model not listed (even though it suffered the same problem as all the models listed in the lawsuit).

What happens if someone already owns all the games on that list of five, or four in the case of the PSP? Not that it matters since I'm on the NA PSN (would rather have the games than the ID protection thing).

My brother had the same kind of experience when he worked at WallyWorld years ago. The Playstation lanyard, gamecube pen, and a free GBA! Not that I'm complaining because he gave me that GBA, but I can see the subliminal fanboy encouragement argument.