They mention in the Kickstarter that they will be coming up with their own ruleset. They want it to be reminiscent of Icewind Dale, but there are two reasons they wouldn't use any D&D ruleset — 1) it means they'd need to pay to license the rules and 2) they want to completely own everything about this game.

Given that half of the first incarnation of Pretenders died from drug use, I kinda doubt it.

For this color arrangement, take a look at any Windows logo from 3.1 to 7. As for why they chose the color scheme they did on Xbox, who knows?

Nothing universal, though a decent amount of the apps I tried were scrollable with the left/right arrow keys.

Hmm, yeah. I'm not sure what variant of Segoe they're using, I can't find similar kerning in their usual choices (Segoe UI, Segoe WP). Of course, none of them would have the linked f and t, either.

The font is Segoe, which they've been using prominently on all of their new products.

I loaded up the same app and checked; I can scroll from the far left to the far right of that panorama with less than one full scrollwheel rotation.

Also a good option. I had forgot that it was configurable. If I recall correctly, the way it works is that a short press does whatever option you've configured, while a long press will do the standard old "TURN IT OFF NOW" option.

Windows 8 (non-ARM) maintains 100% compatibility with programs that run on Windows 7.

Ways to shut down in Windows 8:

Sleep mode/hibernate works just as well on desktops, and a reasonably configured power option profile will automate that as well.

They're designing with the primary computing use case trending overwhelmingly towards laptops. Just shut the lid; hibernate mode uses effectively no power. Doing a complete shut down or restart should be rare operations.

Or, you can close them by opening up the metro app switcherv: move your mouse to one of the left screen corners and then towards the middle of the screen... like opening the Charms menu, just on the other side of the screen. Then right-click on the thumbnail of the app you want to close and select "Close".

I use Chrome as my daily driver browser, but wanted to mention a couple things about IE9/10... there's a menu option to split the tabs off onto their own "line" (right click near tabs -> show tabs on a separate row).

There are approximately 0 parts on the MBP Retina that are user-serviceable. The RAM and SSD are proprietary parts that are soldered to the motherboard.

They have a good mix of first and third party titles for their PS+ game library initiative. They certainly could find a good mix of PSone and PSP games to offer if they wanted to reward the early adopters. Right now they seem to be in head-in-the-sand mode about the PSVita's woes, though.

The games will come, but only if they have an install base to buy them. It's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing, and all that Sony can do is try to make sure as many people have chickens as possible. Then the egg publishers will be more apt to target the platform.

It's salvageable, but I've got no faith that Sony will be able to do so. They need to make bold moves with pricing and SKU configuration, now. Drop the price, include a decent sized memory stick. Throw some consolation at your dedicated early adopters. Follow Nintendo's lead. They saw that they screwed it up and made…

You'd probably turn yourself off of the whole series if you didn't just start with Persona 3. The first two are remakes of PS1 RPGs that have an interesting combat/conversation system but otherwise have aged terribly. P3 has pretty universal appeal, P1/P2 are best left to series diehards.

Pretty much anything that is compatible with Windows 7 is compatible with Windows 8. Some exceptions might occur for really, really old software. There aren't any major compatibility changes for existing software that'd break things, though.