I can't be the only guy out there that never had any problems with the Dam level. No seriously, I never once recall ever dying going through that (barely getting touched for that matter), and yet whenever I would beat it in front of friends it would make their jaws drop.

Regardless of what it stands for, you have to put into consideration that Valve is advertising this game as "Dota 2". They couldn't trademark Defense of the Ancients because a counter-application was filed to block them by the original creators of DotA.

2GB more RAM and a stronger video card (555M vs 460M) make it slightly more expensive as well.

If you think that's loud, you should hear how loud Indian audiences get at the movie theatre...

The fact they've got Baby Geniuses in their Instant Queue should already speak volumes of their taste...

Not true anymore, the number was increased to 50 back in June:

Your lack of Johnny Yong Bosch, Crispin Freeman, Tara Strong, Vic Mignogna, Peter Cullen, and Frank FUCKING Welker disappoints me.

'Manic Monday' has as much lyrical similarities to this song as 'Friday I'm in Love' by The Cure.

Wait until any of the independent developers that used the PSN as their store of choice to launch any of their titles, or companies like Zipper interactive who had to eat at least three weeks of online time from their Socom 4 thanks to the outage. You'll get your financial impact numbers then.

So if Netflix or Amazon had their systems compromised, how would you react? This isn't some sort of special case that Sony was hit; I can very much assure you any major retailer with an online presence, regardless of their current security status, is double-checking their accounts due to the fact that so many people…

Most people didn't give Gawker their financial information.

DDoS attacks are a federal crime that fall under the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). It's not borderline, it hits it right on the head.

Obligatory hate post, since it's Friday!

I use Bedside for this. Puts my phone into silence mode after a specific time, while at the same time has a whitelist of phone numbers for people that I don't mind calling me in the late hours (ie when I'm on-call, I forward the company cell and use that number to ring through if necessary). You can find it here: [mark…

[Note: if you're unsure of how six days gets them to the 28th, so are we.]

1) I'd like to think something like the Tokimeki Memorial series way back when had a bit of a 'Coming of Age' feel to them, though 'Bully' is certainly a more modern-era take on it.

I'm pretty sure these guys are aware of their competition, the games they are playing seem more than in-line with people who spend more time creating games than playing them, really. Save for Red Dead Redemption, each of these games are 'pick up and play' variants.

You're talking about the same guy who helped develop the original Civilization games, the 'Age of' games, and Railroad Tycoon. If anything, it's natural to believe he'd like games like FrontierVille since they are a variant on the formula each of these games all share.

In all honesty, I fail to see how anyone could think this is a 'dick move' from Harmonix. In reality, they were the original creators of the series; had they not made a formal statement themselves, I'm pretty sure Kotaku or any other gaming source would have contacted them for their feelings on the end of their direct…

@azurianlight: Breath of Fire is a Capcom series, not Square Enix. Go knock on their door.