@RockyRan: PC gamers would absolutely rebel if Valve charged for such a "minor" content update. Each major TF2 update has a lot more content than this patch is offering, and none of it is old. And Valve's done several.

@1Mystic-G: Linux on the PS3 runs sluggishly because the PS3's cores are more suited for massively parallel tasks than general computing. They can be used to form powerful supercomputing clusters, but are less suitable as home PCs. Most Linux applications won't touch the additional cores of the PS3 simply because they…

@Snowknight: Oops, sorry guys, I didn't attribute the device score card right, thanks for the correction.

You guys want to know the real reason Sony included the ability to install Linux with the original PS3?

@Ryan Goldstein: Sync on my Android device shows up as "Mobile" usage in the account history.

@Curiously Flamboyant Sheep: Just a suspicion. I really hope it is free - I paid full price for Left 4 Dead 2, and still believe in the days of the free content patch, which, of course, Valve seems to have supported!

I wonder how much it will cost on Steam. With the DLC tab in Steam, it's easy to suspect that Valve will actually be (gasp) charging for this one.

@grewal12: It's quite excellent. I had a dead pixel on the OLED of my first one, which HTC graciously replaced (Fedex overnight for the win). 3G reception is not bad, but I've only had 3G since yesterday (switched to the AT&T variant).

Back in the days when consoles didn't have DLC capabilities, PC gamers would call this a content patch. A free content patch. Charging anything for content that wasn't game-changing (read: expansion pack) was unheard of. Offering free content increases community support, while paid DLC simply fragments the community…

In my opinion, if you haven't done so already, take that $10 you were going to spend on the MW2 map pack, and put it toward a BFBC2 purchase.

Speaking as a software developer myself: If DICE began to develop Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with female characters in mind from day one, I am certain they would have had no trouble fitting them into the technical constraints of the game. Adding the new models and animations in a patch or late in development is…

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@Fighter-of-the-Nightman: That is not the alternative. The alternative is to not lace your games with DRM, because that's only going to make the pirated version better.

@STiger: Woha, it's ranked even higher than MIT.

@zardoz555: Frankly, I don't think multiplayer games should depend on a master server being up. It sucks away one of the main benefits of dedicated servers.

@Scott D. Feldstein: Is your blog entry indexed on search engines yet? Maybe your blog's front page was scraped by Google, and the spider picked up a part of your article.

Mods are why I played BF2 right up to the day Bad Company 2 was released. I still frequent the excellent (and still well-supported) Project Reality once in a while.

@dsnoir, aka shadow_judge: One word: Eyefinity. That seems to be one of their unique technologies.

@orijimi: Didn't see the trademark beard of Dr. Breen, and his face was at a strange angle. Oops.

@Nudgenudge: Is that the G-Man Alyx is throwing the crowbar at? So the G-Man really is evil?