So I'll ask you what I asked Blizzard-Boy up there—what reason is there to require always-on requirement if not to protect the auction house, which will provide Blizzard with a hefty chunk of change?

Lag.

Congratulations, you know one variant of each tale.

Dude, if it can run Android or iOS or Windows, it's a goddamn smartphone. Or it's an iPod. And it's more expensive than most people can afford. If it's "just an MP3 player" with wi-fi... it's not "just" an MP3 player. And now it's required—unless you cough up another $6 (plus S&H I bet).

Please tell me you submitted that as a tip to Kotaku. If not, you should.

Wait, so to use the one feature that "required" everyone to be online at all times, even single-player, now requires a smartphone (that requires a data plan, natch) or another purchase of a keyfob? So now everyone MUST have always-on unrestricted-bandwidth high-speed internet AND an expensive phone, cellular phone…

Well, yeah. They're in my standard rotation. But it's borked on this side, so... yeah.

Well, having actually trained with some weapons (straight swords, katana—not saying you haven't, and I haven't trained in European swordplay, but I have trained in weapons/swords a bit), the same would apply. Having resistance wouldn't matter all that much—if your blade comes to a stop, it means it's stuck, which…

Agree, this should be put into an update for the above article.

Haptic feedback might be able to manage something.

Another season, another VG Cats comic. I look forward to the next one—it's usually three or four months between.

Could not bring myself to bookmark—that interface is terrible.

No. 41: I laughed out loud at "...and Embryo!"

I'm assuming you work on the site, so I'm gonna put this here: God bless, I hate it when people who make comic sites and think folks want to deal with a blog layout.

You guys borked "Manly Guys Doing Manly Things"—the "embiggened" pic is not big enough to read.

If you jellify water and build up the wall with that jellified water, you can lay lava on top of the water to turn it all to stone. A bit of a hack, but kinda cool.

"I don't want to go on the cart... I feel fine!"

So why in the hell do we call it a "Ponzi Scheme", if Ponzi didn't pull his off until 20 years later?

"I personally don't care what the next gen of consoles are because I'm not excited about consoles anymore."—John Romero

Wasn't "announced" by the team, it was leaked by an outside source.