I have been waiting for Google Voice to get the axe, and I don't get the feeling it'll stick around for much longer, now that Android seems to have benefited from it about as much as it is likely to. But maybe I'm wrong.

So, as a kid in the early 90s, 10 year old me anticipated Virtual Reality gaming equipment with excitement as I would see all kinds of great concepts and promises in TV and movies. To me, it always seemed to be right around the corner, but every time something was released it would fail horribly. It would cause issues…

This is, indeed, a bit of a simple view of the issue. A lot of what you said has often been seen as contributing factors to the game's failure. With an estimated 140,000 units sold in the US, the game would actually have been considered a success, if it weren't for the fact that they poured as much money into it as…

As a Mother series fan, and someone who has actively participated in supporting the English translation, as well as translations into other languages, I feel a particular connection to Mother 3. But I will say that, while the core fans of the series feel that the humor in Mother 3 were just right, and the plot twists…

The kid figured out how to sneak out of his room, pick a lock, and ninja his sister's toys. He probably picked up the clippers on the toddler black market during preschool and hid it in his sock.

I've been using Windows 8 since launch. I still haven't gotten rid of my Windows 7 partition yet, but I'll say, I haven't booted into Windows 7 once since installing 8. It's just been a better experience in several ways, especially in terms of speed.

Great article, though I personally have been happy to drop the Aero theme. I've enjoyed the "bland" windows because there is less going on in the UI, and fewer resources are being used. Aero was one of the best things to have lost, in my opinion.

I've been using Windows 8 for a while now, and I actually find it runs just as well, if not better than Windows 7. Add on top of that the enhancements that I have enjoyed (better file transfer UI, better task manager, better performance for my wireless card and SSD), I just don't know why I would go back to Windows 7…

These remind me of those gi joe Street Fighter action figures that were sold during the 90s.

Seems this is, indeed, very different from a lot of what we have seen and heard so far about ESO. I am confused why the game seems to now be much more like Skyrim and less than WoW when, whenever devs were asked about some of the mechanics before, they seemed to answer that it was decidedly like so many MMOs that…

Yeah, it's the lack of shading that really surprised me here. If you are going to upscale your graphics, you have to make them have a bit more depth, and these are suffering from some pretty bad HD blandness.

I used to work retail at a pretty big retail chain. We always asked for legal ID to buy M-rated games. The register brought up a prompt that basically asked the employee to verify that an ID was shown, and the transaction would not complete until the teller had verified that the person buying the game was 18 years or…

If only you can put post-it notes over the other audio channels :(

Yeah, exactly. This is what a lot of developers have been worried about in the beginning with the Ouya. It's really open, and it is Android, and put any skin you want over Android, it's still Android.

The thing has a web browser, so I would guess people aren't limited in the things they can download there. Once you open up that door, get a file browser running, the process to get this kind of content in the places where the apps will need them is really easy.

My favorite Final Fantasy was VI. I enjoyed VII, IX, and liked XII. And I guess I never got the feeling that X's battle system was particularly anti-button mashing. It was well paced and organized, and I actually enjoyed how it really made the battles much tighter, but that wasn't enough to really keep me going. In…

Well, the story to me became dull, and the characters were really hard for me to relate to. Maybe I just didn't get as hung up on Lulu and her eye-roll inducing outfit like all the other teenagers playing it at the time, I don't know.

I'd say there is some validity to the division of design causing more harm than it is worth. But at the same time, that same AAA game with a huge design team tends to have some pretty incredible polish.

Haha, exactly. And what's more, the people buying them secondhand probably would pay the same even knowing the battery is fried. The demand is pretty incredible. :P

Mac user looking at a PC: Wow, that looks complicated.