Whenever I hear someone mention the ZX Spectrum, I'm reminded of Tim Follin, who composed music for some of the games. I'm still blown away by the sounds he could pull out of a 1-channel motherboard beeper.

It's not that far-fetched.

Now if only we could get Streets of SimCity and SimCopter to go along with it.

That's kind of how Final Wars felt to me.

Im not seeing a penalty.

Well, the Dragon Age universe tends to suck for everyone. I would think that a Hogwarts-style solution would be a good compromise. Young mages go to boarding school (Hogwarts was effectively a prison that allowed summer breaks: students couldn't really leave, they went there to learn how not to be a danger to others,…

That's the narrative they're trying to push: that the mages get desperate and are forced to turn to banned magic. But that ignored the issue of Tevinter, where the mages are free and basically run the show, and everything is even worse off than than elsewhere because of it.

Looks like 10 day old Domo-kun roadkill.

FF games have always had extravagant cutscenes that are far beyond what a normal engine could do.

Wii U Deluxe = $349.99

So it went from solving a challenging puzzle to simply completing a set of mindless instructions that you repeat a random number of times until you get the item you want. This is why I hate raid culture in MMOs.

My black launch-day 3DS is still going strong (although I did replace the battery with a high-capacity Nyko PowerPak). It's been 3 1/2 years now. Probably 4 full years before this comes stateside. I'd say I'm about due for an upgrade.

Good question. I'm thinking Metro: Last Light or maybe The Witcher 2.

"Son, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him." - Dr. Albert Marconi, John Dies at the End

Consulting firms exist to tell their clients what they want to hear.

Didn't the owner force them to pick him in the draft, while the GM and coaches wouldn't have done it?

It's a decent remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. But it's not Godzilla.

It's coming. The updates have been incrementally leading up to it. It's a major technical challenge, because of how Wii emulation works.

They were a prize item in the original SNES game.

That's fine for streaming media, where a little bit of inaccuracy (with RLNC there's the possibility of re-constructing the data from a missing packet wrongly) doesn't really hurt anything. But for files (downloading an app or web page), you need 100% accuracy or you get errors.