@Erode: agreed! Deal also broken. I was on the fence, but if I can't play the dozen games I have right now without buying them again, Sony can suck it.

When you've made the decision to whore out the memory of your dead husband for exorbitant amounts of money, you don't get to pretend to be indignant.

I spend 14 weeks every semester imploring students to write effective thesis statements.

@lvclix: That's not my point. I think the game's going to be great. I played both demos, I've got it preordered, and I'm super excited to play it. It likely _will_ make lots of games-of-the-year lists.

Did you have to guarantee a review score of 90% or higher to get on the show?

It's Mars. It's supposed to be brown and red, right?

@hardly_working: Hah! True. It bugs the shit out of me, though. I'm not sure why. OCD, maybe?

No shit! I had it to. Hell, still have it. Got it about 3 years ago. Never fully recovered. But it recovered enough so that it's not terribly noticeable unless I point out the ways that it makes the left side of my face different from the right.

This is the single greatest day of my life. I've made the big time.

Great article. I'm coming at this from the perspective of a college professor who thinks games are as meaningful a medium of expression as movies, film, and writing, and I have to say, I think this is a terrible idea.

"Ashton is just pointing out how the immediacy of modern-day technology can make an individual as powerful or more powerful as a media conglomerate."

I'll take public works over smiles right now. We had plenty of smiles for eight years, while we bombed two countries back to the stone age and bought more shit than we could afford. It's not a time for smiles. It's a time to get some work done.

Why do you need a "story" with a puzzle game?

No Android love?

Way to incorrectly spell "rout," third-rate EA copy-writing stooges.

@xAnarChisTx: An "apathetic" anarchist? That sounds, well, rather pathetic, if not an outright contradiction.

If I were any of you writers, I'd double check that my doors were locked at night.

I think you've hit the proverbial nail on the head, Crecente. This isn't just a canary in the coal mine for newspapers; it's indicative of larger trends that have been growing at least since the early 1980s. Maybe we can blame it on Reagan's celebrity presidency, or the eighties cult of wealth and fame, or Clinton's…

Three Maggie Greene obligatory "interesting" uses in one post! What did we do to deserve this?

@doubtful: @brokenscope: Good points! Fahey didn't make any of them.