Nice.

Well, at least kids won't be able to see any guns until they... start the game.

That's really interesting.

This made me smile.

I've always felt that older games had stronger melodies precisely *because* they weren't orchestrated. Particularly in the 8-bit days, the tools were so primitive that chip music absolutely required a great melody to be even remotely interesting.

I love Zelda. Hell, my dog is named Link. I also love Zelda music, and the included soundtrack CD was fantastic (although way too short).

"If you can't get online, please log in and download the new patch that...

Homeworld still runs beautifully on newer versions of Windows, for those who haven't played it. Only annoyance is that the interface buttons can be rather tiny at modern resolutions, but the graphics themselves are rendered gorgeously.

Right — because that won't be cracked within a month of release.

Ridiculous. You can get 32GB SD cards for around $40. Sony takes the same amount of memory, puts in in a differently shaped shell for no good reason, and jacks the price to $100?

I actually don't have a big problem with Japanese character design. My problem is more with the characters themselves. They are invariably juvenile and whiny, and usually suffering through inscrutable plots made even more inscrutable by the fact that the writers have mistaken weirdness for poetry.

I still don't understand... the article doesn't say that they are setting up multiple steam accounts. It just says that they are getting extra Steam keys.

I'm not clear on how this is a scam... it's certainly cheap, and not particularly classy, but it's not a scam by any definition of the word.

Actually, SM3DL is pretty excellent. Otherwise, I only have Ocarina (which is great, but it's not like I haven't been there before) and StarFox (which... well, the same).

Boost Your Friend's Mood = Get Your Friend Drunk?

Damn... I wonder what he'd do for a console that actually has games.

Even if Nintendo does have a "definitive timeline" locked away somewhere, it clearly makes very little sense.

And visualize your dead self to remind yourself to spend it while you still can.

"And of course, the great irony is that so much of the amazing innovation that Apple pulled off over the past three decades can be traced back to its willingness to swipe ideas from Xerox. Steve jobs was fond of quoting Picasso, saying "good artists copy, great artists steal."

Sweet. Now war and genocide can be blamed on video games, too.