Towns is getting a lot of shit for being an inferior Dwarf Fortress rip-off, as well as: issues with functionality, flaky dev team and lack of timely updates.

Does Brave New World modify the road maintenance cost? It can be prohibitively expensive to maintain roads throughout a large empire, especially if you build a network of roads that covers the majority of your territory.

I just bought a copy three inutes and got a Paypal confirmation for one cent. After I purchased it, I tried to buy it again, and now it says "order sold out online." I think the deal is over.

Team Fortress 2 on a 32 player limit with 24/7 2fort. If it's a popular server, it will always be full and at least two-thirds of the players will be good-to-excellent.

I've got Torchlight II, and it runs great. Borderlands II is another new title that's graphically intensive that also runs well.

I picked up a Acer Aspire (V3-571g-6407) on a Christmas sale. I was looking for a budget laptop with a dedicated video card.

I agree to a point, at least to the sense where games and media in general give unrealistic, exaggerated depictions of warfare, and I absolutely believe it has an effect on the young, impressionable minds of those who join the military as "adults", yet they often have very little life experience.

Hatred is a pretty strong term itself, and in most cases, never needs an adjective to describe it.

Hold on a minute. As you say yourself, "But I've yet to hear someone deride something as being "gay" without sensing that they associated homosexuality with something negative or were at least pandering to that point of view."

It's not really a money issue. Ever since the Atari 2600, it's been about making money on the software. A new console costs as much as a handful of games.

You can get them for 5 bucks on Steam, and if you wait for a sale, for 1.25. It's a travesty and an awesome deal at the same time.

Have you ever played Freedom Force or Freedom Force vs The Third Reich? Don't believe the Bioshock hype...those are the two best games Ken Levine and Irrational ever made. And the customization options for the unique super powers were pretty good, especially for the engine being a decade old.

I'm out here in Denver. 1up and the new sister arcade, 2up, are decent venues if you want to drink and enjoy retro games (they also have table games and mega-Jenga or whatever).

Because Prassel's trying to do some reputation damage control, which will likely end up being a failure in the long term. His name will forever be linked to all the controversy with this project, and releasing an update to the game while trying to claim it is a sequel will do nothing to improve his credibility with…

It doesn't say that in the Kotaku story on the link to purchase the poster.

I don't see the Steel Battalion controller...or the Virtual Boy... or any of the various PC controllers, like the Wingman...hmmm...this list is suspect.

Hope it turns out better than my Windows 7 phone. I think the Windows interface is far cleaner than iOS or Android, but the third party app support is anemic. Microsoft is too far behind Apple and Google when it comes to apps.

So it's a Saturn with built-in online capabilities? Not really a new console, just an addition to the base model, but still pretty cool.

First two games I thought of when watching the trailer were Golden Axe and Metal Slug, in that order.

No, your downloads will stay on your hard drive if you uninstall and reinstall.