Woh, Fahey, editorialize much?

Next weekend: a tally of how many articles Maggie Greene describes as either "interesting" or "nice."

@Calhoun:

Owen's suggestion is a good start. It's hilarious that it comes from someone employed by a website that regularly advertises College Humor's "Hot Girls Playing Videogames" site, but still a good start.

For a remarkably bright guy, Bogost's definition of politics is pretty poor. What he describes would better describe governing or government, not politics.

This would be fantastic if it didn't take nearly 7 GB of the precious few 20 that MS shipped the 360 with. Oh, well, we could bend over and spend exorbitantly for the 120 GB HDD. You know, loyalty and all.

What needs to come across more in these reviews is how fantastically Bethesda's been able to simulate the experience of living in a world in which you are one small, virtually insignificant part, yet where your actions clearly have unalterable consequences. The first time I walked into Megaton I spoke with the…

My suspicion is pages for reviews get some exponentially greater number of hits in the week straddling a game's release than they do weeks after a game's release. It's a financial question: reviews posted just prior to a game's release will draw a whole lot of traffic because it's the moment when hundreds of thousands…

"the ads do not present a true viewpoint or political message and would therefore not be protected"

So for whatever reason, USA Today decided to email me THREE different beta keys. I used one, it works. Might as well give out the other two: I'll forward the keys to the first two people to leave me a message with a legit email address.

@Chaoticevl: No, it doesn't. I was surprised because the last two TT Lego games did.

Bravo on both accounts!

Wow. AJ's a fantastic writer. I actually enjoyed reading that.

An excellent and well reasoned commentary... that says everything I said last week.

Maggie, that was a thoughtful and informed piece, and I'm glad I took the time to read all of it. Having some first-hand experience with this issue, it prompted a few ideas.

@justhesh: Picasso's Guernica was also an "attempt at being poignant by playing with the tragedy the dead." But you don't seem to think that was vain. Why not?

@Cogito: I wasn't telling you to grow up. I'm sure you're capable of behaving like an adult. I was addressing the child who wanted to "beat this motherfucker senseless," I believe.

@Ad-hominem: It doesn't say the war in Iraq. It says the "current war strategy." To many people around the world, especially in countries that don't have troops in Iraq, the "current war strategy" would refer not to Iraq but to the "Global War on Terror," of which Iraq is only an important component. The larger war…

@ffmusicdj: And that's why many of us pray for the day when your way of looking at the world fades to obsolescence.

That was kind of sophomoric, if not amateurish. There are a lot funnier satires of gamers out there. Boo, Owen, boo!