I understand where you're coming from here, but let me explain why I think that happens:

Mojang might not be as open to modding as they could be, but it's worth noting that they're not hostile to it either; where the oft beleaguered API is concerned, huge steps have been made recently, as players can now add their own sounds, graphics, and models.

Let's not forget about Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, though it's laid back character might not be for everyone:

Thanks!

Updates to the visual interface, primarily switching to rounded UI elements in the phone dialer and power off features.

I see what you did there, you monster; bravo.

Winner.
Panzer Dragoon is criminally underrepresented in these orchestrations.
(Besides, I'm kinda sick to death of OWA by now; at least go with FF7AC's Tenrai.)

Bokurano, mostly felt like suffering for suffering's sake to me, though maybe you'll fare better; I liked Kino's setting, but it ended up feeling a bit stilted as Kino would visit these towns, but I never really saw her character progress with them, leaving the whole thing feeling a little bit hollow to me; I wouldn't…

This bugs me too, though I can understand why they do it: with a large number of friends, it's plain to see how the news feed could effectively become a blur.

Same here.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the article, but props for Snake Rattle 'n Roll.

*psst psst*
http://kotaku.com/youre-gonna-ca…

You're gonna carry that weight.

This. This right here.

And Ghibli itself derives from the Arabic qiblī; it's anyone's guess as to why it was ever romanized as 'Ghi', but that goes way further back than our plucky little studio-that-could.

Not wanting to get too off topic here, but it's been a year now and I still don't have this layout; are they really dragging their feet that much?

He's... friendly:

Pictured: The normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area.

And yes, I was inspired by this.

Going another direction, there's Code Writer.
(And I don't think I even really need to tell you, but TextWrangler for OSX.)