@XRFlip05: c'mon now, every mindful gamer worth their salt buys those for 30 bucks a year...that's like less than 3 bucks a month for reliable online functionality.

@Azukira: No. They're not.

@tsantsa: I totally agree about this and don't quite understand why it's not implemented. Are they avoiding it because it would seem like ripping off their competition? Are they just being contrary?

I figure this is a good enough place to post my own sony hate.

@ThursdayNext: I don't disagree with you, but isn't the notoriety-hunger you're describing one of the main driving forces behind hacker figureheads?

@freethegoldfish: I think it's one of the best things on TV and manages to continually surprise me, both with its plot mutations as well as its superb and unusual quieter moments.

He'll be Kobayashi forever to me, but he was a fantastic actor that will be sorely missed.

Unless I'm crazy, didn't Kotaku give Alan Wake a wet reviewy blowjob?

@terrybroadway: Yeah it was a mega-surprise. I feel like a giddy junior high kid given the keys to the city all over again...

@XODIS: I think you said it my friend. That and try to get some studio time in.

Snow. Fucking. Work. Day.

@p0lyph0nic: All SMB has is deals, the games been on constant sale.

God, Enslaved. Got it on the cheap on one of the last Kotaku moneysavers. What an absolutely meh-ful game, I doubt I'll even finish it.

Metro 2033 arrived from Goozex yesterday, and it was sent like two days ago! It's a secular miracle...

Did that say...nauseous dots?

I've always wanted to jump into Dwarf Fortress but I think I'm scared about how fucked up and involved the actual game is. I feel like I'd get lost in it and lose my job like some insane Korean obsessed gamer-mom newsclip.

I wrote an essay on tantalum back when i was till in school about 7 years ago so this shit is not cutting edge news. It's a fucked up story and it'd be great if we could find an alternate resource or even a synthetic replacement. It's really one of the more bizarre globalization tales.

@HYRUL3: can't you play as the big-titted hammer chick in it? if that's worth it to you goforit.

I think taking SMB apart by beating every last stick of it - all levels, light and dark and warp zones plus picking up all bandages - is a challenge that the majority of current gamers are not ready for.

@HighFlyer15: I kicked the living shit out of Super G&G back in the day...