Every game will exchange different data. My favorite so far is Mario Kart 7, for which I'll get ghosts from the other players that do Time Trials; they're fun to try to beat, and it's a great way to pick up new strategies for the various tracks.

I wonder if they had to pay Nintendo royalties to use the design? I recall there being nasty patent wars with the original D-pad

Part of the reason the Wii sold so well is motion controls, true. The other part of that reason is that it launched with *The Legend of Zelda,* and I can think of no series that would sell a console better than Zelda. It is a nerdgasm in a clean white case for Nintendo fans.

I dunno. Nothing here screams autotune to me, this just sounds like normal pop-style falsetto. I'm actively trying to hear some sort of magical pitch correction, and it's just not there. Listen especially to the start of each note; there's a brief period during which he's off pitch, then he corrects it very quickly…

I feel this is appropriate. (I also sincerely hope this link works; it's Girl Genius)

This is an identity theft issue. If someone knows your exact street address, that's one more bit of information they can give to customer service people at xyz company to convince them that they are, in fact, *you.*

The most interesting gameplay aspect to me is the exploration factor. The entire world, quest chains, adventures, landscape, mobs... it's all procedural and different every playthrough. I'm a big fan of rogue likes (hello nethack) so this appeals to me.

I find it really interesting that half of the comments here lean one way (I never feel envious) and half of them lean the other way. (everyone feels envy; if they don't they're in denial)

Considering the expense of computing hardware at the time, this was actually really well designed; it needed to be affordable to the average consumer. The clever tricks were an unfortunate necessity if they wanted to essentially market this thing as a toy.

You really should give Black or White a whirl. Pay attention to the early game too; how it carefully holds your hand and guides you through the experience. Then pay attention to the villain, who's calling out just how wrong it all seems.

The main problem with Sonic's original transition to 3D was two-fold.

I know this is off topic, but maybe you can help: how on earth do you search in the 3DS shop for big games that are downloadable? Like, games that are also sold at retailers. I fiddled with it for like an hour yesterday trying to see if there were any good games I could download, and never figured that out. I can get…

I find this particularly aggravating on download sites. There are ads on the same page as the download button for what you want that say nothing other than [Download] and instead give you something else. It's madness.

Moo

A really nice, somewhat unknown Do-It-Yourself syncing option is Bittorrent Sync. It's surprisingly easy to set up, your computers tend to find themselves through strange voodoo magic (that I'm sure any proper network tech could explain) and sync without using a central server. It's great because there's never that…

This is to be expected. Windows uses the NTFS file system, which is fine for Windows, but doesn't implement a security model that lines up with how linux works underneath, which is why you can't install Linux to the same drive. There are many, *many* ways around it, but the easiest way is to create a separate…

This is a Printrbot Jr which is run entirely by the Raspberry Pi. (The pi itself is top-left, in a 3D printed case.) The Pi is an early Model B, connected to my network using ethernet.

Two words of warning.

I am nearly certain this can be fixed with a patch for all NTSC games, which would fix the Japan / USA region lock. PAL regions are a bit different; as those screens literally refresh at different rates, the game has to be recoded to some extent, which usually invokes a new QA pass and a new session of testing to…

I was about to be super excited that I could finally run IE10 with ad blocking on my tablet. Then I remembered that Metro IE10 doesn't load extensions.