"So your options are send a letter, deal with it, cancel your PlayStation Network account, or wait until such a time as a judge deems this illegal or unenforceable, which I can't imagine will take too long."

Hey now, if I wanted top performance, I would play on my console at home. A handheld should have decent battery life, I would rather it trade in some of those specs for that.

I don't know—I don't always read these and I'm no expert on idols, but I would find it hard to say a 12-year-old would fully understand what they were getting into. If someone asked me if I wanted to be a celebrity when I was 12, I probably wouldn't have given much deep thought to it.

That's true I suppose. Nintendo prefers to cycle slowly through all their IPs...

That's pretty much an industry standard now. The only people who release games without already planned DLC, expansion packs, and/or sequels are indie developers, apparently, or unproven somewhat-dark-horse developers.

I think this is a respectable stance. Rather than clamoring for DLC for this, if you liked Bastion, you should look out for the next game by Supergiant Games.

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Possible, but I would still consider that "not real." As in, they aren't really playing Smash Bros.

I find myself not believing this is real, not because I'm any kind of photoshop expert but because I don't see how they could possibly get that into the ride. I'm not sure they could even get it into the park...

A Persona fighting game? Fighting games aren't normally my thing, but that has me a little curious at least. I wonder if it means just a fighting game with persona characters or if it will have RPG elements, particularly the sort of social simulation kind of stuff persona usually does.

Heh, writing an article on gaming PCs and mentioning Apple is like throwing a rock at a hornet's nest. Your entire premise will be overlooked because you're making comparisons to Apple, and everyone will focus on raging at that.

I love how this entire thing unfolds through the internal documents. Clearly, people who work for Gamestop don't care at all about putting stuff from their company up on the Internet.

Actually, I think both of those things are still gamification. Gamification doesn't necessarily require the reward to be a non-utilitarian one, it just requires some kind of point/goal structure. What you described isn't gamification replacing a reward system, it is taking the game and replacing the reward with…

Yeah, I suppose that's true. I just feel like with WoW it is more than that—WoW is such a juggernaut in the MMO space that you really can't get by without being compared to it. Partially because so much in the market at the moment borrows at least something from WoW—maybe not browser MMOs and stuff like EVE, but I…

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying that the scope of a lot of genres is a lot broader that there is usually a better branching off point that most gamers will recognize. It is a lot easier to compare Fallout 3 to Oblivion, for example, than to compare it to Final Fantasy. That isn't saying that Final…

I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with comparing MMOs to WoW, but I don't know about the broader assertion you seem to be imply: that every genre has a sort of exemplar that personifies it. Everything is compared to WoW because WoW is what lots of people are familiar with. It is nearly impossible to…

For the majority of the game, I agree. The only thing I would say is that the endings do matter. I think the idea was the Vincent was just being funneled along until you get to the end, and then he finally gets to decide what he really wants.

I'd like to see game critics say they didn't like a game more often. This seems like a game that would have people really divided, but on that graph the division is mostly in the upper ends of the score possible. I mean, if video games had a Rotten Tomatoes, what would this game have? A 90% (I'd be counting other…

You seem like a pretty-even headed guy, so I don't really want to pick a fight with you but is it really necessary to call anyone true gamers? Anyone who plays and enjoys video games is a true gamer to me, even if they just play Angry Birds 10 hours a day.

I'm in the same boat as you; I've been playing video games for as long as I can remember. Early video game memories I have include the NES Mario Brothers, Kriby, and Duck Hunt. Who knows which one of those, if any, was the very first?