I'm OK with both the site redesign and the 360's UI. I just wish there were fewer ads. I'm cool with there being ads in the marketplace sections of the dashboard, but now the entire dashboard is the marketplace, and it's irritating.

@ranmisael: The IE9 beta is fantastic. I'd say at this point both Chrome and IE9 have passed Firefox on by... and Opera's still there, chugging along on a I'm awesome, but no-one considers me a threat path.

Welcome back, McWhertor. Glad to hear you had an enjoyable few days of relaxation.

My best friend and I have Evos, and we used Qik to keep in touch via video chat while she was in Norway for a couple months during the summer. No CDMA support in most of Europe meant no calls, but wifi worked fine when it was available. Qik saved our skins in that instance... but we don't use much, if ever, otherwise.

That is such a weird commercial. I've never seen the show, but I've never really liked so-bad-it's-good stuff... a lot of it makes me cringe.

@Xyberfaust: I don't know. Maguire had outgrown the role, physically, Kirsten Dunst looked totally uninterested by the end, and the third film was awful. I'm not sure there was any logical way to make a fourth film that could only serve to further damage the franchise in the longview.

@crizzyeyes: I never had any huge issues with the first game, honestly. I preferred both the combat and the general mechanics. I mostly felt irritated by all the stuff that I knew was supposed to be in Project Ego but ended up on the cutting room floor.

@Toshi: I can't wait until they reboot the Prince of Persia film franchise with Antonio Banderas as our intrepid shirtless hero.

@Befitzero: Redbox is incredibly good about offering free credits for damaged discs, though. I've had it happen two or three times, and each time it's a simple call and they hook you up with a code to enter for a free rental.

@BlockDodgeSHANK: No, I think he means the snow effects are somehow lacking, and that they're not at the level of expertise we find in Blizzard's cinematics for their products.

I'm looking forward to it— if only to see if they can fix all of the second game's bugginess. The first game was great, if severely limited by all the stuff they forgot to put into it... but the second just felt like an amateur production in the extreme. Wasn't polished at all. The content was OK— even great, at…

@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…