I love the vague but not really descriptions they always put for games on the Gold Box stuff. Whoever did this one today was either just really tired or a minimalist auteur capable of distilling the complexity of video games down to their base element:

Yeah, that's interesting. I think that might be a scenario where the "win-lose" aspect is just folded away into the game. It's never really about winning/losing per say (in a strict sense) because you inevitably have to do lots of one in order to do the other. The aspect of "losing" just becomes a condition of running…

I think this is actually a pretty great point particularly in light of the recent discussion of "what is a game" which has resulted in people using the existence of a "fail state" as their definition. On one hand, that's certainly an understandable working definition of what makes a "game," but I think it also shows…

Should be noted this is basically how movie distribution works. Labels like Criterion pay for the rights to publish the film titles (sometimes in cases where no one else would publish it) and, in turn, get to profit off the release while also helping sustain the film world with classics and hidden gems that might be…

Yup. Nintendo also has their own FAQ on it: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp…

Have they confirmed they'll make a version for the Ouya though?

Depending on how much work you want to put into it, you can just build a Raspberry Pi to emulate that stuff. Works really well.

I think you're talking about a really idealized version of Instagram that doesn't wholly exist. Of course, there's the beautiful photos on Instagram that might give you a little inspiration in your day or give the urge to travel or try something new, but then there are also photos of someone's feet or the clouds or…

I wonder how this will work out for the store at large. I always felt like the Nook/digital stuff is what saved B&N from the fate of Borders. Neither were or are my favorite book store, but I've legitimately missed Borders in NYC (the store on the corner was one of the few public-ish spaces near my office). It would…

Ha, it's like a boy band thing that's huge. It's better not to know.

I don't think it's anymore damaging than the 'One Direction' image/meme floating around. That one was truly an "Ah, shit." for me.

The guy on the right in that magazine just looks like an Asian Keith Urban to me.

I thought that was what is was going to be as I was scrolling down. Just future Gabe carrying a crowbar.

So how am I supposed to even believe this DRM reversal doesn't come with some sort of crazy catch they just haven't mentioned yet?

Social networking seems so damn stressful these days. Everyone's always getting mad at someone for something.

I believe that last image is just a photograph of a model thus the massing of the neighboring builds are Styrofoam.

Eh, it goes both ways. The actual solar diagram that would dictate this form would look far more complex than the one shown above which doesn't discuss time of year which drastically alters azimuth and altitude. In a lot of cases, doing a quick easy to digest "diagram" is more a marketing and communication ploy (BIG…

Yeah, or even if they didn't adapt it 1:1 they could at least do it in spirit, you know? The Band of Brothers thing makes me think you could have a Saving Private Ryan style thing where a group of people are traveling on some mission or something but come across these episodic sub-stories that relate to the "war" at…

If you enjoyed Dredd, check out The Raid. One of the best pure genre, ass-kicking films I've seen in ages.

Yeah this has always been one of my favorites.