Obama is an impressive campaigner to make you think he's a centrist (let me give you a hint: centrists don't use "Change" as their mantra). But this is neither here nor there.

As someone who always strives to be better, I appreciate you pushing me to comprehend the incomprehensible. That said, I'm a little behind on my bucket list, and I've got my hands full at the moment working on "assailing the unassailable" and "thinking the unthinkable."

NOOOO Silent Hill Downpour got mediocre reviews so far

For the gamer without any internet access

Oh come on now I could just be crazy (for suggesting that DVD and Blu-Ray discs are useless vestiges of archaic copyright laws, dwindling business models, and outdated technology)

Sorry, we're past that in a day and age where people shouldn't be ordering hard copies of video games in the first place.

So your point is that SOME DLC and ULC are used to try to get more money from gamers for the same amount of content? That's about as trite as telling me that SOME games are not worth $60 at launch. Or maybe you want to argue that either a Democrat or a Republican, but not both, will win the 2012 election?

No, I'm boycotting it because I shouldn't have to pay for content I never even wanted

What changed? Technology changed. Digital distribution and microtransactions became infinitely easier. What once had to be packaged monolithically and shipped to store shelves as a one-size-fits-all bundle can now be divided into different pieces for different customers. This is a classic pie-expanding strategy in…

Upon their victory at the negotiation table, Mojang's team ceremoniously declared "I've negotiated with Mud Crabs tougher than you"

Obviously you didn't read my post, shut up go away etc

Consumers do decide whether the game is worth $100 and not $60, and by demanding that other people jump on the bandwagon with you, you are actually trying to screw other consumers for your own benefit.

Also I would pay way more than $5 for the Morgan Freeman narrator pack, and my only regret is that it's not available in EVERY movie.

I have no idea what this means. I think you're talking about the First Sale Doctrine? Do you know where you are right now? Are you in need of assistance? Is there someone I can call who can help you?

It's not a bad thing for companies to be able to charge more than $60 per game - last I checked, you didn't feel entitled to pay the same for a Lexus as a Hyundai, but you feel entitled to spend $60 on a console video game at launch, only for the price to drop over time. In fact, the $60 a game price tag is actually…

Interesting, I remember it being $100, didn't realize it was $200 at launch. Even still, inflation isn't exactly a perfect benchmark for these things.

We need to get over on-the-disc DLC as a community. When you pay for a video game, you're not really paying for the distribution - you're paying for the development. Whether it's on the disc or "in the cloud," more content costs more money to develop. Putting it on the disc just means it costs less to distribute,…

No one is long EA like Gaston

True, but an NES was far less expensive, the rather prolific baby boomers all had kids of NES-playing age, and NES had virtually 100% market share, which made it less risky to buy a console (and also made you a total fucking nerd for not having one). I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure PC gaming was a less…

This is Ebert's take on John Carter, the first review currently displayed on the front page of his web site: