Correction: WJFK is in _Washington, DC_.

@SnakeCL: Oh, please. The idea of private militaries is older than video games.

Best news ever.

@.endejas.: Yeah, Live Anywhere has always been at the top of my list of "promises Microsoft hasn't delivered on that I wish they would deliver on".

@Burzmali: Rare is owned by Microsoft. Why would Microsoft care? They don't have a competing handheld. Anything that sells more copies of VP2 and VP DS is likely to be OK with them.

@JakeDunn: IIRC, they dropped the "2" from the name of the game officially.

@Abriael: No, it's just that you obviously prefer Japanese writing and narration over the Western styles. That's not the same as them being innately better writers (am I the only one who thinks that sounds like racism?). I'm not sure why people seem to associate their preferences with absolute "better" or "worse".

@lordofsword: Take off those rose-colored glasses. Every console has always had masses of derivative games.

@Abriael: It's not that Japanese developers are better narrators - it's that JRPGs lend themselves more to narration.

Optional installs sound good - buy a game, play it, let it install overnight, and then get faster load times at basically no time cost. Bonus points for giving me an "install and then turn off my console" option.

@lionkitten: That was my favorite part, too. The combat reminds me of Assassin's Creed combat.

@stoneagedan: Big holiday releases are put out in November, not December. Most of the shopping is going on right after Thanksgiving, so you don't want to release too late.

If Crystal Chronicles doesn't make launch, I WILL COMPLAIN LOUDLY ON THE INTERNETS!

@wild_world_girl: That makes no sense whatsoever, given that GTA4 _is_ at the top of the chart.

@dirtygreek: 802.11x?

@Derek: How is that any worse than buying them at the store? The stuff has to get shipped from the port/factory to my house one way or the other. I always wind up reusing the boxes and packing material, too, I may add.

@RSevrinsky: Yeah, I keep Shabbos, too. There's a surprisingly large number of observant Jews reading blogs - or maybe they just like to comment more. *shrugs*

Seems like "overachiever" really means "doesn't work well with others". I've known a lot of really smart people who do fantastic work, but never really got anywhere because they would consistently piss off everyone around them.

@cipheroid: Exactly. The problem, though, is that spending is addictive for some people. When they splurge, it's just like an alcoholic taking that first drink in ten years - it can get really bad really fast.