@Aquasol: Seriously. The second installment has more issues than nearly anything I've ever played. No game-stopping bugs, but everything is half-assed. It even chugs in the start menu. It's a really fun game, but it runs like a piece of crap.

I think WP7S looks awesome. I'm sure it's buggy, but that's part of what we sign up for as early adopters. I'd love to jump in... but if I did, it would be to use Even More Plus to run to T-Mobile, except the HD7 isn't worth it because the first-gen Snapdragon they're using doesn't have support for 21.7Mb/s HSPA+,…

@Brian Ruppel: I truly can't recommend the Epic. It's pretty in photos, and the screen is nice, but for some reason it feels very cheap in the hand. The touchscreen is oddly unresponsive at times— at least compared to the screen on the iPhone, Evo, or any of the Droids— it's actually even less responsive than the…

@maythetechbewithyou: I'd actually love to see them approach it in the manner Miller intended in ASB&R... with the members of the Justice League viewing Batman as an incredibly smart, dangerous outsider. And Batman, for his part, viewing the Big Three of the JSA as bumbling fools without a clear understanding of what…

It looks OK, but I'm not expecting an Uncharted-to-Uncharted-2 leap here. I think of inFAMOUS as a second-tier title... and every time I pick it up to play for a little bit, I can't help but wish Sucker Punch would just give it up and make another Sly Cooper game. Nothing about inFAMOUS is all that compelling to me—…

Number one is super awesome. Number thirteen is also very awesome.

That was a very nicely filmed short. It's weird the way that removing some of the ambient noise involved in an expo makes you pay more attention to the actual act of people playing games. It can really be kind of beautiful. Anyway, very well done indeed.

I don't use PSN often enough to care about Plus— particularly when I'm already grudgingly paying for LIVE— but there are definitely enough benefits to Plus that I'd consider it if paid much attention to the online workings of my PS3. I just wish a beta wasn't one of those benefits— most of the betas I've been part of…

@Archaotic: I haven't exactly loved the Activision-spawned Marvel games, but let's not forget the last big, non-Activision Marvel game that wasn't in the MvC lineup... Marvel Nemesis, which was unspeakably awful. And brought to you by EA. I'm not in favor of letting Activision do all the work, but really who out there…

Ooh, both Blackberry options combined scored less than any other single device on the list. That's just not good.

@badasscat: I've used both... and I'd vote G2 ahead of Epic. TouchWiz (at least on the Epic) is definitely a bit sluggish, even just when doing UI customisations. The keyboard on the G2 is actually really, really good... so I'll call that one a wash. The G2 runs more-or-less stock Android, which I prefer... and HSPA+…

I'm interested in Kinect, but I generally enjoy playing games with the lights dimmed or off entirely. So I'm going to have to pass, dudes. At least until something fantastic comes out that I'll compromise my habits for— you hear me, Steel Battalion?

@bitslammer: Unfortunately, Ikea Hacker is running a bit low on well-performed hacks anymore. There are some cool enough ideas on there still, but the execution over the last year or two has been really poor. The exception to this observation is the staggeringly large number of awesome-looking, well-made cat litterbox…

@Andy Ryan: Jesus. Even with the commercials removed, a full season's got to take about seventeen hours, right? That is seriously hardcore.

@Blackflash: Wow. I think I've done close to that on SVU— and almost overdosed on ice cream in the process— but you've got my undying respect for that display of determination, my friend.

@Blackflash: There should be an achievement on the 360 for streaming all the seasons of SVU and CI. It's a seriously time-consuming gauntlet to run.

@kubevubin: I've never noticed that my stream is bad— except for when I maximise the window— but I do notice it's maddeningly inconsistent. It adjusts the quality of the stream constantly for me. I've got a decent package from Comcast (16Mb/s down, I think 2Mb/s up?) that is never fully utilised, so I shouldn't ever…

@NiGHTSSTUDiOdislikes2k: If I had to guess, the game is as good as canned. If they're going to launch it at all, they've got to confirm plans, and a date, prior to 2K11 dropping— or else the game's presumptive audience won't wait. And it's hard for me to imagine EA going from serious scramble mode (announcing the…

@sukha54: Sorry, but I'm blaming Gawker. Sometimes the sites just go a birk every now and then.

Aaaaaaand I'm never eating nuggets again. I get that it's all largely common, the ammonia bath and the dyes and everything, but there are some things that, once seen, cannot be unseen. And those things change your life forever, even in tiny, totally macabre ways.