I'm not sure I understand your complaint. If you don't have the money to create an emergency fund, you don't have the money to worry about long-term planning. If that's the case, why are you complaining? The simple truth is that a solid emergency fund is the ROOT of a long-term financial strategy. If you can't create…

Noob. If he would've taken advantage of his PowerUp Rewards card he could've knocked ten percent off his sentence, AND had reading materials delivered to the pokey for the first twelve months.

Unfortunately it seems like they're putting the determined kabosh on all Star Wars fringe properties until at least the release of Episode VII— the Seth Green comedy being put on pause, the end of Clone Wars, the uncertain future of 1313. Seems like they want to re-invent not only the franchise on the big screen, but…

Ah, Wii U. You look pretty cute next to my 360. Unfortunately you've got a layer of dust a quarter-inch thick on you. After completing ZombiU and NSMBU, there is just about zero reason for you to ever turn on, save for using the GamePad to watch Netflix in bed.

I don't think that juxtaposing Fallon's enthusiasm with Hulst's comment makes the assertion you want it to, Jason. Admittedly there might be more, not-included commentary from the show that does specifically assert that graphics equalsign compelling characters, but Hulst's comment— and Fallon's excitement at, you…

Technically not $15/1 or $25/3. The $15 is for the 12"x18" poster of any one... if you buy TWO of that size, for $30, she'll throw in the third for free. For $25 you can get all three, on cardstock, at 8.5"x11"... but you can't buy those individually.

It has in my limited testing. Really only seems to struggle with live electronica (Underworld, Everything Everything), turntablists, and for some reason Will Oldham? Beyond that it's pretty rad.

That is excellent! I appreciate being able to launch it from anywhere just by swiping into Google Now. Widgets for spontaneously launching applications I'll only need for a second? Inconvenient, takes me OUT of the task at hand.

Considering the PS3's launch price (well, the entire pricing mechanism— the hugely expensive albatross that was the Cell, and the inflated sale price its development costs mandated) fucked up Sony for years, I think "cheaper launch price" would've been the first bullet point on Sony's whitesheet for this console.

Had me at Platinum Games.

I think previews are important. And, to me, the answer is simple: recognize early and often when a title is something that we should be skeptical of. Mention it loudly, frequently, in title AND body, and let that skepticism do battle with our unrestrained hope, that the finished product will be both GOOD and free of…

The article you've linked to is, itself, skeptical of GameStop's assertion. It MIGHT be true, and certainly GameStop present it as fact, but it's only fair to question the hand that's patting the back of its owner.

It wouldn't happen like that, though. Digital storefronts would lag well behind brick and mortar operations regarding price drops, but the mechanism behind retail pricing— competition, shelf space, and merchant returns— would still be in effect. So long as retailers have limited space to stock games and also the…

I am opposed to the plan, but not so much re used games. Really the only aspect of it that bothers me is that it would kill social sharing between friends, which I do sometimes, and it would murder GameFly, which I use periodically. GameStop's business model is untenable in the long term, and I'm not against the…

Except that GameStop is, quite usually, more expensive for used products than new-game retailers with some savvy work on CAG. The money part of the argument is the one I understand least. Not being able to resell my games, OK I understand the annoyance— I just traded a bunch of old 360 games for the black Wii U and…

Except for this: you're just as guilty of the same illogical thinking. It's irresponsible to suggest some kind of certainty wherein MOST people trade in used games to defray the cost of brand new titles. You can't possibly know what they're using that credit for— and in fact it stands to reason that people who want to…

I can't help but wonder: what would the world be like, if Activision carefully cultivated franchises and maintained them with the hope of developing them into long-term franchises instead of running every goddamned thing under the sun into the ground? Skylanders can't hold out forever, can it? The franchise isn't even…

If we're talking prolific via volume, then yeah: they're not in the same category as Activision and EA. It IS, however, very weird to see them in company that we tend to think of as small potatoes.

We should throw the contenders into a pit and have them battle for that dubious honor...

I kind of wonder exactly what will happen to Epic in the future.