Nobody but first parties launches new software exclusively on a brand-new platform, because, at launch, the new consoles will have no more than 5% of the installed user base of the older consoles.

So I played some PvZ2 this weekend. The free-to-play strategy is interesting. It seems like it's designed to induce payments from casual gamers who are conditioned to paying to unlock gates in freemium games, while still maintaining PopCap's credibility with gamers by not making the paid services obnoxious.

There's stuff in the store for the original PVZ which can technically be bought with coins, but the prices are so high that the cash store is really the only way to get them.

If a game is worth buying, I am happy to pay for it. I would prefer developers to sell games for money and design them to be worth buying, rather than developing free-to-play games designed with intentional inconveniences and time-locks to try to manipulate people into paying for microtransactions.

Look, the facts will be uncovered over the course of the litigation. If it turns out this guy is suing over natural variations in the size of a roll, then he'll probably lose or get an unfavorable settlement.

The rolls at Subway aren't made by hand. You think there's a bakery in the back of every Subway? These are industrial bread. All the rolls are the same size. And this isn't a case of a roll occasionally being smushed a little or something.

If people believe a foot-long sandwich is worth $5, and you sell them and 11-inch sandwich and tell them it is a foot long, then you have given them $4.58 worth of sandwich when they expected $5 worth, and you've enriched yourself unjustly by $0.42 by giving them less than you promised.

As any woman who has posted an online dating profile in New York can probably attest, this is very coherent and polished, compared with most written communications from finance guys. I'm really impressed that he's internalized the rules of English grammar to the point where he automatically employs proper punctuation…

Is she wearing some kind of shiny shirt, or is that dandruff all over her shoulder?

A month of WoW costs as much as a month of HBO. If you pay your cable company for HBO, you don't feel obligated to watch HBO every night to get your money's worth.

I thought you just bought Guild Wars once for retail price. Are there RMT features?

Free-to-Play is the biggest problem with every game genre it infects. The only exceptions are the few games that are monetized entirely by cosmetic customizations.

I really dislike Anita Sarkeesian. I think she is an incredibly shallow critic. She's collected $160,000 and done over an hour of these videos and all she seems to do is repeatedly complain that she doesn't like the fact that Super Mario is about rescuing the Princess.

I don't think Tyler is a great comedian or comedy writer, but she is a very good comedic actress. She really nails her lines on Archer, and she's every bit as good as the other stellar actors in that stellar cast.

Dude, that kid came out like a monster and owned Jeopardy so hard that his awesomeness caused Alex Trebek to grow a new mustache, and then blew that mustache right off his face.

I am so disappointed with the Vita that I am probably going to get an XBOne on launch day rather than a PS4.

It's a little bit revisionist to call ZombiU a "superb" launch title, isn't it?

Hardware is always scarce at a product launch. People line up outside stores for release, or pre-order months in advance, or else, they probably don't get their hardware until March or April after a November launch.

Every single one of those games did something different. Half-life 2 was one of the first games to integrate complex scripted events into shooter gameplay, and it was also the first to integrate a complex physics model into a shooter.

Well, the point is that the cheaper prices would only be for the downloadable games. The used-game restrictions matter a lot less if you stop buying disks.