It was loads of little mistakes that seem have caused the problems.

In regards to your first paragraph...

What's your view on the argument that trade ins allow people to get credit in order to purchase new games and that the above would make trade in prices lower thereby directly affecting the purchasing of new games. Which is one argument that is banded around... and to be honest is how I purchase most of my new games.

But she might enjoy writing the stories, she might love working at Bioware, she might find the office a great atmosphere.

When discussing how Lyrics take on a whole different life when added to music I always like to think of "Sweet Child o' Mine"

Although it's more movie related then game related I would reccomend googling for the Neil Gaiman interview on Hollywood Gothique regarding working on the english translation of Princess Mononoke (If you've not read it before)

Just to mention, the reason that they were suing Geohot was not because he hacked the PS3 to install Linux but because he put the rootkey to sign software to prove it's genuine, on line... and that the rootkey classes under law as IP.

Sorry mate, but your buddy sounds like a bit of a muppet.. Trying to prove someones a jerk by being a bigger jerk will never teach that person a lesson.

Ahh, but you have to look at the clues acording to Rob Ager...when you do it's blatant I tell you... blatant! (end sarcasm)

I saw something this guy did before on the Shining called "MAZES, MIRRORS, DECEPTION AND DENIAL" (I think it might have been io9 that linked to it).

It's one of those phrases that's a little hard to put in context the way it's written

See what your saying, but in regards to the sports examples, doesn't football (the american kind) also have an association with cheerleaders and racing in real life generally has pit girls before the race.

This is why in the UK most people my age refer to this newspaper as the Daily Fail

I like the "10 years after patch" idea... Of course that will mean patches realeased at 9 years 11 months which change the default text colour from white to off-white ;-)

Surprised no ones said it so far...

But you see, that's part of my point.. When I had a decent gaming PC (many moons ago) I used to buy boxed copies of games (Half Life Episodes etc).

While I might not like the idea, I assume it would just be a console version of a Steam like service.

In this particular case, Megaupload had copyright material on their servers, when asked to remove they removed links but kept the material knowing full well other links existed which pointed to this material.

Just to mention, part of the accusations seem to be that when Megaupload removed a file which infinged copyright, they didn't actually remove the file but the link, and considering there would be several links to the same file this isn;t really "Deleting the copyright material"

I usually do my first play through on "normal" difficulty.