I wasn't referring to the online requirement. I was referring to Sony's very noncommittal response about having a similar system in place regarding playing used games. They have stopped well short of saying the PS4 will simply play used games the same way the PS3 does, and when pressed on the issue Sony's PR have…

I'm uncertain I get how it's nonsense. Obviously you're not entirely against the idea of "offline mode" and online checks, because Steam— which you admit to using— uses the same.

Sony hasn't exactly confirmed they aren't doing this, friend. They have, so far, danced around the issue in ways that specifically allow them space to spring this exact thing on people. I really, really doubt Microsoft did this for publishers out of the goodness of their hearts. Things like this happen, generally, as…

• Survey Question One: If the Xbox One must use the Internet but can run online, then I will accept an offline gaming mode that lasts as little as ________ hours/days/weeks/months. (Put N/A if you are sure you would simply never accept such a mode.) I've thought about it, and I'll buy the system anyway (just as I bought…

I don't really care so much about GameStop because, really, fuck them, but this puts a massive hurt on Redbox and GameFly. And that's too bad.

MicroCenter has a very, very weird price matching policy. They'll price match a reasonable number of online retailers— and do so in some instances preemptively (frequently against NewEgg)— but getting approval to do it is an extreme hassle. But they will not, ever, go below their "employee purchase price" on an item,…

Buy them an OLPC. Trolololol.

Plus, since Google announced they'd be selling an unlocked S4 running stock Android, it may be a great bet if you can't get your hands on a Nexus 4 (or your carrier is incompatible with it).

Almost every single nomination of the Galaxy Nexus in the original post was for the Verizon version... that much should've been obvious to you. Lifehacker is a primarily American website, and Verizon is the largest American carrier by subscription numbers, and the Galaxy Nexus is the only Nexus device available for…

I get that the divide between responsibility to the bottom and one's personal convictions is a wide one... it's just interesting how much Riccitiello seems like a guy we would—any of us— like to be gamer-friends with, and how little that was reflected in much of EA's business over the last few years.

It's funny— when people like this are outside the jobs we know them for performing (Peter Moore was a good example of this for a while, as well), they seem like such obviously right-headed people that we can't help but wonder why they didn't succeed. I can't find one thing in this article to disagree with, really— but…

The list will be, for some reason:

VOTE: Nexus 4.

Right after GATEFENCE, DAWNSET, and PAINOPENER.

...my xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian...

I agree that asymmetrical gameplay is awesome— in fact, it was the first moment when I GOT the console. It all made sense. The Miiverse, not so much. It's nice, but incredibly cutesy and I wonder how diluted it'll get once all the constituents have a larger number of diverse games to play, and thus less content on…

I'm not certain how much marketing you really have to do to traditional gamers starved for titles on a brand new console, but either way the results speak for themselves: for most of the Wii U's library the sales have been awful. Blame whoever you like.

But that's a point worth mentioning: yes, Sony did appear to mimic certain elements of the Wii U with the Vita/PS3 pairing, and yes, they'll almost certainly do nothing with it at all. But they don't need to, because it's just a bullet point. And if it mattered, if anyone cared, then they'd have the chance to make hay…

GT6 Pre-prologue coming to PS3 in late summer 2013, GT6 Prologue coming to PS4 at launch, GT6 itself coming to PS4 in 2015.

I want to see them do well, but sometimes it seems like they're uninterested in the Wii U. I know there will always be a little stream of quality first-party stuff to check out on it (well, by the end of this year, anyway) and I'm cool with that, as it's my companion console. But it bums me out to see Nintendo so…