Best Buy: it's where you go if you want to get hands on first person experience with something you're looking to purchase - right before you go buy it somewhere else (probably online) for much much less.

The opening for Suikoden II is still one the most memorable for me. They managed to put a rise, fall, and crescendo into ~3 minutes, packed with symbolism and story in the animation, and all with no words. Hell, they put an entire orchestra behind it (the Warsaw Philharmonic); you can tell from the start the people…

The Secret of Mana games are great but a bit aged at this point. I wonder who is at the helm for that property these days...

One would hope. Usually digital versions have substantially better load times than their disc-based counterparts. This was one of the driving factors that eventually made me root my PSP, the UMD format had awful load times.

Much as I applaud myself in hindsight for buying a copy of this when it first came out, I'd still buy a digital copy. I loathe myself for it, but I've gotten to the point where waiting for disc load times make me go crazy.

This was posted in a comment over on the Lifehacker article, and clearly needs to be reposted here: http://puu.sh/3zVwu.swf

"If your $50 copy of SimCity is lying unused, would a $9 piece of DLC adding a few balloons get you playing again?"

Man it's like 88 degrees (probably a little cooler earlier in the day, but still...) and as the photo shows, hella sunny out. I feel sorry for Master Chief, probably boiling in his suit.

Translation: Plz blame this guy now if we continue to hemorrhage money and shed employees. It's not my fault any more woooooo!

I programmed on a Cell processor once as part of a small college project, and I can fully back what Mark discussed in the presentation - the hardware was incredibly powerful, but only if you could find a way to take the computing work you wanted to do and unravel it in such a way that would optimally take advantage of…

I just saw this: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-…

At least it was an analyst instead of a Microsoft rep, but this is bad messaging all around for Microsoft... basically signalling the consumer to not buy because that will force a price drop.

Organic evolution won over forced revolution. People liked things like the family share plan, take your library with you, etc. And people still like those things, they are still appealing and have value. But the DRM and other policies were too repulsive to make those features worthwhile.

"Because fuckheads on the internet bitched about something they didn't like" - Sorry, no matter how vulgar you want to be in your choice of words, those people are actually consumers as well. They disagreed with the decisions Microsoft made, and got them changed.

This will be a litmus test for how much Microsoft truly believes in their view of a digital future. Understandably they have to re-plan things to account for the change to their original plan, but if they truly are invested in it, they will find a way to recover the spirit of these ideas for sharing. If they don't,…

All I can say - it's about time. We can read it here and be happy (or not, fanboys on both sides will rage on I'm sure) but Microsoft has to get their house in order top to bottom in terms of messaging and marketing to clear this shit out of the pipe and get back on track.

"See I'm not your typical gamer, I would rather move on than sit cry and bitch about things I cannot change. I'm over it."

Both sides seemed to have very few pure console exclusives from what I saw. Most "must haves" were multiplatform over all 3, PS4, XBone and PC - which only makes sense from a business perspective. XBone could claim to have a lot more games coming to them and not the PS4 except most of those games are also coming to…

"So far the majority of people seem to not like being told what to do."

Article title made me think I could get Dragon's Crown for $20. I am disappoint =(