@LemonMeringueTy: No, he's suggesting actually buying the copies to pocket the codes, then reselling the games for about $55 each, losing $5 on each copy... then reselling the bundle codes for another $50 or so apiece, making a tidy sum. Ace of Case's solution, however, wouldn't work at all.

@mile13: Very nice.

I'm not even sure what he's trying to say. Is Bungie, with their ten-year exclusive Activision partnership, more "independent" than BioWare and their EA publishing deal? Or Valve? Or Epic's limited Microsoft publishing partnership? Or the freshly divorced Insomniac (OK, yeah, Insomniac's not in the same league as the…

@dowingba: I've been well. Life is busy enough that it demands I spend less time following Kotaku than I'd like, certainly, but I can't complain. Hope yours is treating you just as fairly, my friend. Perhaps we'll have the chance to catch up on the channel soon.

@Erwin: You know I will do what I can to achieve the undue threepeat, old friend. I am as an echo, bouncing faintly off whatever.

@hatmantc: Yeah, they're faster than they used to be, but even five minutes is hugely longer than updates take on the 360. The PS3 is the better system in many ways, but the updates are just awful.

@d_r_e: The update process on the PS3 is pretty awful. And there's an update at least once a week— seems like you can't turn the thing on without some kind of update hitting. Considering how often Sony pushes out updates, you'd think they'd improve the process. The 360 updates far more infrequently, and the process is…

@Horst Tappert: I don't mind XMB— although it's a bit unintuitive— but I'm really tired of there being a damn firmware update every time I turn the PS3 on. I swear Sony's churning out at least two updates every week.

Demonbird, nicely done. I laughed up a bit of my root beer.

@dowingba: Hahaha. I didn't even realise I was in last week's Week In Comments. Tells you I really don't manage to check in as often as I once did. Nice to see you, Dow. It's been a while.

Very nicely played indeed.

@tungah: I'm not at all sure why Diego Maradona would be interested in bringing back Pioneer 10, but more power to him, I guess?

I can't imagine this will turn into anything memorable. Facebook simply doesn't have the assets to leverage into a full, compelling OS. If all Google possessed was Gmail, would Android be anything like as useful as it is today? I doubt it, and I can't imagine Facebook could do better.

@Yankton: Well, he's not only awesome in his own right— and more or less responsible for many of Dooku's best moments (not to mention those of Sora Bulq, Oppo Rancisis, and Tholme)— but he was the master who trained Aayla Secura, and that's just a preposterous bonus.

I'd really like to see a well-made Halo film, but I can't imagine how they'd pull it off. I don't care much for the further tales of Master Chief— I prefer the story of Reach to the original trilogy, for example— but I also appreciate that making a large-budget film without Chief on the one sheet would be fiscally…

@kevipants!: That's a script right out of Axe Cop. I can't argue with the premise at all.

$14.99 is really expensive for a comic book reader. I prefer ACV... it's free, works well, and has a wide compatibility list.

@Al Bundy: No way, man. Appalachian mountain children gain substenance almost solely from Mountain Dew. This helps to explain the infrequent occurrence of teeth in said children.

I'm nonplussed. While the fourth installment wasn't great, I didn't mind it much... and we're only one removed from a fantastically great episode. So what's with the sudden need for reinvention? I'd actually rather if Ninja Theory would've pursued a second, more focused Heavenly Sword title, and left Capcom to make…

Owen, the correct answer is: the Will Oldham. The best facial hair always has a little Kentucky in it, and you can't get more Kentucky than this unless you wore some suspenders made of flattened Mountain Dew bottles sewn together with goat pubes.