Nothing against Vanagons here (my parents drove one as the family hauler for much of my childhood) but that price is straight-up crack pipe.

Basically any wired Xbox 360 controller should be plug-and-play to work on a PC. I've got a TE fightstick that took a little tweaking initially, but works great in MAME.

These days, I'd sat that at least half the Priuses on the road around here are fleet vehicles (mostly taxis.)

Not really a deal per se, but Hawken is giving everyone double XP this weekend through Monday.

Assuming the iPad 1 handles it OK, I'll have to go check it out. As far as I know, my jewel-encrusted Alpha subscription should still be good...

Considering that the game has been running for nearly a decade, I'd guess they have things figured out reasonably well.

Definitely better than my release notes... Then again, I work on boring things for finicky customers.

Just a couple of blocks from my apartment is the empty shell of what was (very briefly) a Fisker showroom in downtown Bellevue WA. Prior to being a Fisker dealership, this particular space had been occupied by one of those ripoff check cashing/payday loan places.

Half decent seems to be right about where they're aiming with these things generally.

And then uses the games to try to convince them that they're actually stupid and in denial.

For a second, I read that as "In the paraphilia E3 demo"...Sounds about right.

If only to see them spend thousands of hours modeling the most realistic rod-throwing simulation ever.

I haven't cared one bit about IndyCar since Tony George ran it into the ground. I remember there were some fairly decent CART sims back in the day, but I'm not sure they'd hold up to today's standards very well.

If I really wanted to get shot in Belltown, I'd just go there.

In spite of the circumstances, I thought MS actually did a pretty good job with their press conference (I'd put it around a 7 or so.) They did the best they could with what they had, but unfortunately their task was trying to sell the proverbial house built upon sand about six hours before a torrential rainstorm.

Something I posted elsewhere:

And yet, at the same time, it's still hard to forget how relentlessly arrogant Sony was during the Kaz and Ken era...

I can't stand Sony, but there's no way in heck anyone is buying an Xbox One at this point.

I think I'm the only person out there who just didn't like Sword and Sorcery. It looked interesting enough, but the pace was just plain glacial. This looks like more of the same.

One of the things I've heard about Point Roberts is that a fair number of its residents are members of the Witness Protection Program, mostly because it is a lot more difficult for malcontents to get there if they have to make two border crossings.