Jesus, that was hard to read.

Doesn't sound kosher. When my account was hacked, and someone spent a bunch of money, Microsoft fixed it immediately. Didn't require anything more than my console serial number or ID and they looked up my geographical location and compared it to where the hacker was located. Got an email twenty minutes later returning…

I can understand being frustrated. Unfortunately, the way I understand them, this doesn't violate ANY current unfair competition regulation. Primarily because it doesn't seek to muscle out any competitor— that is to say, to restrict the XBOX or PS4 from playing anything but XBOX and PS4 software.

First: jesus, your reply was dickish. Your point is taken, I guess, but man that was unpleasantly expressed. Kudos on that.

The problem is that the flip-side of that transaction, the RESALE of that used product, replaces a new copy sale that would bring revenue to the publisher. In that regard, the console manufacturers are completely correct... GameStop and its ilk are just a parallel economy that removes the workable business model in…

Hm. Not a huge fan of destroying the second-hand market, but really the bigger issue for me is that this would kill GameFly dead. Completely. They don't ship out any non-disc materials already, meaning no online pass for games that require it... so without the single-use code, NONE of these games would be playable.

Morrowind IS very hard to get into— that is, I think, part of why it is so revered. Its successors both dumbed down the game's systems and world in an effort to make them more accessible. Morrowind is, particularly at the outset, brutally unfair— the complete lack of level scaling makes everything a serious challenge…

Not counting the offshoot titles (Battlespire, Redguard) I'm OK with this list. Mine is more like...

If you're willing to jailbreak, there is a Swype build for the iPhone, I believe. Think it came out a while back.

Ah, right. They can't be returning players. My bad. But a lot of it is speculative, still... I mean, Lacy hasn't declared, has he?

Some of them (Denard Robinson, Braxton Miller, Johnny Manziel, Manti Te'o) seem obvious. But others (Alabama's entire team? Georgia's two stud running backs? Florida State's entire defense? Oregon's whole backfield?) are harder to pin down, just going from the pictures.

ZING.

Still heartbroken about the original breakup of Bixler-Zavala's other, better band. No offense, but in a perfect world The Mars Volta never exist. I kind of look at the entire band as making the (middling) best of a terrible (awful, horrible!) situation.

Whitson, welcome back! When you left us, it left a hole in the Force.

Looks totally wonderful. So happy to get to return to that world.

I'm beginning to feel the same way. Here in Houston it seems like violent crime is on the rise the last few months. I kind of assume at some point I'll be a gun violence statistic. I still oppose gun proliferation, though, and mostly for this reason: I DO believe that guns, utilised properly, can be a deterrent to…

A thousand times this. After Whitson said it, I signed up for the beta and got an invite and oh man Desktoppr is incredible.

PC gaming is great, and should definitely complement the console experience, just as consoles complement the PC. But lauding Steam's biannual sales is more than a bit myopic, because if you're aware of OTHER, awesome PC sales channels that frequently slash prices (Amazon PCDD, Gamefly On Demand, GOG, Green Man, etc.)…

It's not the best wording, but I'd call it more naive than passive aggressive. GameFly is still doing great business, though— when it comes to consoles it's sort of essential. Digital distribution is great, but on consoles it's unrelentingly expensive.

It's not the best wording, but I'd call it more naive than passive aggressive. GameFly is still doing great business, though— when it comes to consoles it's sort of essential. Digital distribution is great, but on consoles it's unrelentingly expensive.