The trouble with this is that the experience of asymmetric gaming isn't particularly unique. Any of us who have played handheld games know this; I can't see what's on my opponent's screen, and so his actions are hidden from me. I don't need a fancy GamePad for that experience. It's not novel.

Ooh, I'll have to start practicing my monotone voice. :D This'll be great!

GBs also had the ability to use more than 4 colors per sprite. Oh wait...

Ooh... that's interesting. I've never thought about transporting milk in bags; seems to me like it would me more likely to break and spill? Is that a big problem?

I had to figure out how to turn the trackpad gestures firmly *off* as they were driving me insane. I don't know what posessed the UI designer to tie an alt-tab to such an easy-to-input gesture, but it means that attempting to move the mouse to the right occasionally causes you to suddenly be looking at a different…

The network and sharing panel is simply unaware of the network name, and uses "Home" as a sensible default for a hardwired network. It did this because when you first connected (or set up the computer) you set the option to see network devices; otherwise the network would be called "Public."

As a B&M employee, I encounter this often enough. Usually I'll let them be, as they're easy to spot and on a busy day my time is better invested elsewhere. When I'm really lucky though and I can get a showroom shopper talking, I've found that they're often still a bit confused about which product best suits their…

I'll chime in here then: for the PC side of things, now is a horrible time to buy if you're buying Intel. Haswell has just been announced, which means that "outdated" 3rd gen tech is going to see a price cut soon, and 4th gen Core i5/i7 is really where you'll want to be for gaming. This is especially true for the…

This is going to be one of those weird console wars where Nintendo winds up on top again and no one realizes it until it's happened. They have the market advantage by sheer dumb luck: the economy is tough and they're the cheapest console, all their good games are going to come out this fall which will drive…

Not fair! That was never released. *pouts*

I played and enjoyed Secret Rings actually. It was a little... unpolished sure, but it was fun. I haven't played Colors yet, and everyone raves about it, so I'll make sure to pick it up at some point.

Oh, I see. Sonic the Hedgehog meets Super Mario Galaxy. Actually, this looks like a really fun concept, even if it's a bit unoriginal. Might there be a decent Sonic game for once?

There's a music notation editor called Noteworthy Composer. While I'm forcing myself to learn how to use the more popular Finale (I'm a music major; I really do need to know it) I've never found anything with a keyboard entry mode that works quite as well as NWC does. The editor is dated and barely supports enough…

No, they mentioned the *publishers*, which are the only entity that Microsoft directly deals with. Publishers are in charge of arranging payment for their developers. So long as the publisher gets their cut, theoretically the developers do too, though it depends on that dev's arrangement with a particular publisher.

I'd say my current rig cost me around $1200 as I built it. The main cost comes from the Ivy Bridge i7 and the board to support it. I'm running a GTX 560Ti that I purchased from a friend for around $100, and everything else on the system is pretty standard stuff, I'd say maybe around $250 on stuff like the mouse,…

My definition of a good is something that I purchase where the value comes from the materials, the workmanship, the physical product in my hands. With several things here (furniture, cars, toilet paper) this is true. I lack the resources to produce it myself, and I sure wouldn't resell my used toilet paper, so the…

Err... my bad there: I wasn't really disagreeing with *you,* I was actually disagreeing with the industry largely. Your argument is still quite valid: Microsoft is failing to properly create value for their new games, causing consumers to wait until it "goes on sale," something Microsoft has no control over (used…

The fundamental flaw in this argument is that, as a farmer, when you sell your cow to John, you're 100% out a cow. You would have to raise another calf all the way up to sell the second one to Joe. You can't just sell Joe another copy of the same cow, because you don't have it to sell anymore.

I'm about to move into an apartment, and I'm a vocalist so I'd ideally want to start recording my own voice. I'm concerned that performing in the apartment is going to upset the neighbors; I'm classically trained and I tend to be fairly loud. Is there a good way to soundproof a room from the *outside*, to minimize the…

What's really telling here is that I got burned out on playing Super Smash Bros. for about the opposite reason. My friends got *so very good* at Melee that it was nigh impossible to win; there wasn't enough entropy in the games to reliably throw the game my way at all. I got better as I went, but it just wasn't fun.