As I recall (and boy this is foggy memory here) I don't think the 5200 was backwards compatible at all. The 7800 was backwards compatible as a last-ditch effort to lure back the old 2600 game owners (of which there were still bazillions even after the crash) that ignored the 5200. Another one that's kinda sorta…

I much prefer Civ V over Civ IV myself, but I have a couple big-time Civ dorks who are very much anti-Civ V. The both think it was over-simplified, but what they're REALLY saying is that they are upset that they can't just build up a big military, stack a ton of units atop each other & steamroll to a military…

Often, even after installation, game data is STILL compressed even when it's stored on your hard drive. Your PC or console decompresses the data on the fly even as it's access it. This of course means the CPU has to do more work. Larger install size = far more inflated data = less decompression when accessing data =…

Kudos for removing that last line, "Video games don't incite violence. End of story." My criticism was certainly harsh, probably overly harsh, but nevertheless I'm glad you edited the article a bit further.

As stupid as the idea that "Mass Effect causes school violence" is, that article is equally as inane. The end point "Video games don't incite violence. End of story", really is an inane conclusion given the body of the article. Such a conclusion should be codified by solid arguments in the body of the article. As it…

Sociopathy & Psychopathy are not the same thing...

The study says it relied on data from studies in 2009 & 2010, as well as a bunch of presidential biographers. Typically presidential biographies are written *after* a president has left office. If this study is revised after Obama leaves office, I'm sure it would include his name in this list as well. As it stands,…