Serious gamers do not like the Wii U hardware, but they still like Nintendo software. Eventually, the games will probably be tempting enough to convince a lot of gamers to buy the Wii U. It won't be a smashing success, but it will limp along for a few years. Anyone who calls himself a gamer that says he doesn't…

The game industry is not shifting onto phones and tablets. Touchscreen controls are mushy and imprecise, tablet and smart-phone memory is scarce, and the software on those platforms simply isn't what gamers want to play. I have an iPad, I am a gamer, and I don't care about that stuff.

The Ultimate Universe is not being reset. The whole Ultimate concept centers around the idea that anything can happen to the Ultimate versions of franchise characters who never face real jeopardy in the main continuity. So, Cyclops and Magneto and Wolverine and Peter Parker and numerous other characters have been…

The Ultimate Universe is not being reset. The whole Ultimate concept centers around the idea that anything can happen to the Ultimate versions of franchise characters who never face real jeopardy in the main continuity. So, Cyclops and Magneto and Wolverine and Peter Parker and numerous other characters have been…

These games are designed to trick people like my mom into authorizing in-app purchases.

What are 10,000 hits a day worth? A YouTube video that forces people to watch part of a video-ad generates about a dollar per thousand hits, but I think banner ads on a website generate less revenue, and probably only generate payment per click. Who is clicking ads on Lemonparty.com? How is there possibly $450,000…

The issue is that the tiny hard drive that comes with it is not large enough to download Wii U games on. Nintendo understands the E Store as a way to monetize its N64 back catalog, but it has not prepared for the possibility of digital distribution eclipsing retail.

If the free games continue for PS4 now that the PSN subscription is required for multiplayer, it will be a hell of a perk for PS4 owners that MS will have to match. But it doesn't compare to Steam sales. Steam presents as a better value than boxed products because almost every game you buy on it is significantly…

Most big new games are discounted to $39.99 two months after release and $19.99 within six months. Game publishers are extremely frustrated by how many sales they lose to used games through Gamestop, and I suspect they'd be willing to cut prices for digital distribution to kill the used market.

I think when Sony and Microsoft open their digital marketplaces, they'll be pricing at least some new games at $49.99 to get people to buy online instead of getting discs at retail.

I agree with him that no modern video game will exist in 100 years, but I think the cultural clout of chess is diminishing as well. Cold War international rivalries built up chess as a spectator sport and made professional matches more newsworthy, and the end of the Cold War has been as bad for chess as it has been…

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The rules of Mario are not governed by logic. Unless you read a manual that tells you what's going on before you play, you have to figure it out by trial and error. It's pretty easy to figure out that you're supposed to run to the right, because you cannot run to the left.

There are a couple of things that might be happening here:

If somebody calls the cops to report that something looks suspicious, the cops should clearly be all, like: "Shut up, nosy motherfucking snitch," and then hang up the phone.

Why is working in a shitty office with spreadsheets a more "real" gig than what this guy is doing?

Songwriters and performers have seen their revenues suffer in lots of ways over the past few years. If you use a song in your video and you are making money on it, you should have to pay to use the song.

For all the people talking about the glorious PC master race, do you not understand that the constraints of what games can be is dictated by the limitations of consoles?

If the packaged game feels like a complete product, I am not against DLC. I get that it's more efficient to build (and sell) more of an existing game than it is to make a new game, but I am not averse to getting some more of a game I like.

If there's a Lord Byron character class, I'm in.