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That is very sad about MCA. On a happier and completely unrelated note: I just finished Diablo... the original... That freaking game was hard. I forgot how hard games used to be. It was fun.

I tried to make a good Scooby Doo game once and I would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.

Please heed these wise words, gentlemen. I have been married for 21 years. These are wise words. Trust me on this.

Please see this BBC report on the subject. I saw this a while back and it is the basis of my opinion on the matter although I hated reality TV prior to seeing this report.

This was the beginning of the end of quality television. Computer based animation led to computer based video editing. Fast, modern, cheap video editing gave rise to the reality television show. Reality TV ruined television. It's not even reality. It's a fabrication foisted on an audience by cutting together…

It's a fair point. I couldn't look past all transgressions to appreciate art. A certain amount of wackiness is quite common among the gifted, but there is clearly a line that can be crossed. I would say that Hitler and Phelps cross that line for me but Gibson does not. I do not condone Mel being a complete whack job…

I concur. I'm sure that all artistic people are not socially unacceptable. However, I would expect research on the subject to reveal that highly artistic people have a higher rate of batshit crazy than engineers for instance.

My extremely logical mind does not mesh well with gifted artistic people. They probably think the same thing of me. If we condemn or ignore the great works of gifted artists who are a little crazy, we will quickly run out of art to enjoy. The great ones always seem to have some sort of mental malfunction. I can…

I, Larry Bird, and Dr. J. salute Mr. Tramiel and all of my many hours of misspent youth trying to break the backboard so the janitor could curse me as he sweeps up the mess. Also, my untold hours typing in programs from Compute's Gazette just to play a crummy game for a couple of hours..

I recently bought my daughter a MacBook Air for college work. What a lovely piece of hardware running a very elegant OS! However, I'm an old school gamer so it will never work for me. With some of the very old PC ga,es I bet you can run them on a virtual machine on your Mac. Computers are so much faster now that even…

I think he's saying that he won't give you the game free and then make you buy coins/hats/character classes/etc. Assuming there are perpetual costs associated with making the multiplayer portion available, you have to monetize the game by charging everyone a scheduled fee or you have to make the game such that it…

Having possession of an amount of money large enough that half a million dollars is not missed right away is a very very good problem to have. Color me jealous. I'm pouring over my statement every month to make sure I didn't get screwed out of five bucks.

I suppose this is capitalism at work. They choose to offer a limited portion of the game for the price of a complete game. I choose to spend my money elsewhere. In theory, this would reduce the commercial success of the product and Capcom would learn a lesson about the value the consumer places on the product. …

Freddie Wong is awesome and he is right about the Wii and motion controls in general. I have a Wii in the house somewhere. It's probably stuffed under one of the beds along with a balance board. I don't really know where it is and I don't care.

You know, I liked Angry Birds as much as the next guy but there's just so many times I can fling pissed off birds at pigs before I'm pretty much done with that.

But I just bought the originals on GOG.com. Oh just shut up and take my money. Here! Just take it!

If it's complete on or before the date the game goes gold, it's not DLC. It's game content that you purposely withheld to charge extra money. If you want $79.99 for your game then charge $79.99. Do not insult my intelligence with this "DLC" crap.

I don't disagree that our American culture treats sexual themes with a certain amount of taboo while being completely fine with over the top violence. However, I think the reason love or relationship simulators are unsuccessful is because Americans have difficulty buying into simulated love portrayed at the other end…

Well, obviously is just an opinion but yes I feel that sixty dollars is outrageous for many games. For instance, I feel that Skyrim is worth every bit of sixty dollars. There are many games sitting in the glass case at Walmart right now for $59.99 that are really worth more like $29.99. I don't feel that sixty…