Yet, the "Direct3D" on Xbox 360 already could do things that Direct3D 11 still can't.

Martin Pichlmair is not just "Marketing manager".

So what's your definition of "hacking" and does social engineering (i.e. using social tactics to obtain the information instead of doing electronic wizardry) also count?

If they use virtual sticks, then they kinda missed that there already were Zeldas with touchscreen controls that they could have gotten control scheme ideas from...

The console "wars" arent that fierce at the level of MIcrosoft and Sony. They dont "forbid" people wearing outfit that has the logo of a competitor. Hell, they wouldnt even forbid if a Microsoft employee wearing an Xbox promo outfit (like for trade shows) waiting in line. In fact, that would be even considered good…

A Link between Worlds comes out on November 22nd in EU too, though. It's just SM3DW that comes out a week later, but that's ok, I'll be busy with Zelda anyway :)

To be clear though, a Link to the Past and the Oracle games were excellent. They were innovative and had a great charming world and characters. But for some reason the atmosphere of A Link to the Past was never quite reached by them (also due to the limitations of the Gameboy), though they were still impressive feats…

I loved the game more than Ocarina of Time, at least on the N64. For some reason by the time Ocarina of Time 3D was released, I had grown accustomed to that style of Zelda and liked it, though never as much as the 2D games.

Axiomatically wrong.

The opposite. It was easy save for a few challenging boss fights and puzzles.

Singapore has some of the most extremely conservative evangelical churches...

There's new content in Latin too, simply because there are people interested in it. That's not holding on to the past (well ok, maybe it is), but it's mainly catering to the interests of an - admittedly small - niche.

Yes, and you do know that having Star Wars in Klingon would actually be kinda ironic, right?

In this case it's not holding on to the past rather than to preserve at least the knowledge of it.

Next: a Star Wars translation into Klingon.

I think it depends on whether it was intended as a reference/easter egg, or if it actually uses the complete assets from MW2...

My cat never ate poop.

And that's what I love about them. I hate obedient personalities...

Both film and digital camera use the same principle - catching photons on a photo-sensitive layer.

The thing is, both memories and emotions are carried by a physical thing, the brain. Without the hardware, the "software", so to say, can't exist.