Watching Chell scratch her own back was worth the 8 minutes.

Hey Mike, not to burst your bubble, but your narrative writing isn't very good. I had flashbacks of really bad fan-fiction there. Stick to reporting games. :)

Another thing is that you also don't share resources between different departments either. It's a ass-saving procedure. Say Sony Financial did share that security system with Sony Online, and Sony Financial gets hacked. Then Sony Online gets hacked. Sony Online gets to SUE Sony Financial. They have 2 different CEOs, 2…

I'm guessing they weren't very good - or at least up to Valve's standards. When L4D was brought in front of Valve, Valve had to scrap a lot of things and re-focus the entire idea. Hopefully Turtle Rock gained a lot of Valve experience and becomes the next Gearbox.

Different company branches, and different management and IT support. I work for a company that has offices all over the United states. It'll be silly to share the same IT support. (If something broke down on the west coast, do we send the east coast IT guy? No way!)

Police shouldn't go around to Gang neighborhoods and threaten people. And they don't. How did they destroy the Mafia ring? They made friends. They found weak mafiosos and converted them into informants. They didn't go around threatening and challenging every gang ring there is.

Um, no? To use your analogy, they could ask how GeoHot found a way to steal their car, their weaknesses, and what they could improve on. Instead, they sued and acted better than thou. And also, a weakness to your analogy is that GeoHot didn't steal anything. Sony deactivated a feature that was originally on ALL PS3s.

And Sony, that's why you don't EVER poke any bears. Let that be a life lesson for anybody. Make fun of hackers, get hacked. Make fun of police, get arrested. Make fun of juggalos, watch them spraypaint your housecat.

Google says $1 BILLION, and that was from a report in 2007. But the difference is Microsoft planned to take a hit from defective systems. Sony was caught with their pants down.

Why Sonic 3 and not Sonic and Knuckles? Otherwise, this is almost the same as my list.

Kotaku isn't filled with dicks. Many gaming communities aren't dicks. Many of the websites I visit aren't dicks.

Wait. When did AOL have an air of professionalism about them? They haven't been in the limelight since early 2000. And the biggest thing that they're known for is how AOL would send billions of AOL CDs to people, if they had a computer or not.

Because most people on Xbox Live are dicks. It's what that culture has allowed them to be.

Gears. Just accept it and call it Gears 3.

Those black hat hackers will do anything for financial gain, regardless if it's Sony or Microsoft or Big Oil companies. It's Sony that's not doing very well in the security department. You can keep shouting for them to go to jail, but they're like the spam emailers. They keep making money off of stupid situations -…

And all you need is to input your credit card information, social security number, blood type, grandmother's favorite food, a photo of your dog's favorite napping spot, and the name of that girl you sat next to in 5th grade.

That's not how it works. It's not a pizza party, where if people leave, you get more pizza.

Scarily yes.

I don't think I can support line of thinking of 'when it works, it's brilliant.'

I heard that it was acceptable. Not suck, not great, but acceptable. I hope the updates keep coming. It was a full 2 years before I played TF2. I'm willing to wait 2 years for Brink to be good.