So as much as everyone hates F2P MMOs and thinks they're the downfall of online gaming, I have discovered one benefit to them this week.

For those confused why they didn't use SteamWorks, I imagine essentially PC gamers are going to be getting a port of the 360 version, so they'll use the equivalent system so they don't have to recode the entire multiplayer experience.

They originally wanted to do this with Biggie, but would have needed twice the computing power.

Man, people get defensive about their childhoods. I loved Goldeneye and have a blast playing Perfect Dark on my 360, but the fact is the game does not really stand up as well as other shooters from the time, especially PC shooters like Jedi Knight, Quake II and Half Life, and a lot of it does comes from the godawful…

I liked how iD's game Heretic made the Doom codes do the exact opposite. iddqd killed you instead of giving you God mode and idkfa took away all your weapons.

I think Pens and Preds, with the caveat that if the Flyers/Pens series goes as I expect it to, neither team will have enough men standing to win the second round. Preds are a long shot, but I like their trade deadline moves, and think Rinne is an understated ringer between the pipes.

I vote Megatron, but only if he's surrounded by other Decepticons.

I have not played D&D, but Turbine's other free to play MMO, Lord of the Rings Online, is pretty great. I spent a happy six months playing it (spent maybe $50 over that time, mostly for subs and the Moria expansion). That being said, I really ought to check it out some time...

Finally finished Mass Effect 2, but want to hit up any of the important DLC before I jump into the third game. From what I've read, Arrival isn't worth it, and Shadow Broker is a must. That leaves me enough for one other DLC pack with my 1600 Bioware points.

Asshole might not be the right word. Psychopath. You could still do fantastically dickish things in number one. But in ME1, the kill choices were usually, "Sorry, I can't let you live. You'll jeopardize the mission." ME2 is more, "I am going to kill you now, because I am crazy evil!"

It's going to be hard to avoid sexist assumptions here, but...

So I am playing through the Mass Effect series as a renegade, and I have to say that ME2 definitely lost some of the subtlety of the first in terms to choices. A lot of the Renegade choices in ME felt like a soldier making hard, cold decisions for the greater good (very utilitarian). I feel like ME2 offers far more…

I read some guy is actually trying to recreate Nurburgring near Las Vegas so that people can pay to drive on it. Which is exciting. Because it's one of my favorite tracks ever.

Well, it took almost 10 hours, but I am finally enjoying Mass Effect. It's got the same pacing issue as FFXIII though; the initial parts are soul suckingly boring. I quit the game before at the Citadel and never made it to the real meat of the game: exploring planets. I don't know why they don't get to that part…

But usually the paid DLC is outside the scope of the budget and original project. It's a choice between "Let go of the staff" or "Let them work on a new project that will cover the costs." They're not keeping the staff on without a project.

So the content that's finished after the game is sent to production should be included? Sure, but now production has to be delayed five weeks. But now if the dev team works on anything in that five weeks, it needs to be in the game. So let's bump back another five weeks. But then the team starts working and...

If you're willing to go to the AT $180 level, the 6870 is going to get you better bang over all. NVidia gets you added PhysX (which doesn't matter for that many games) and some people have trouble with AMD drivers, but I haven't had any problems with my 6870.

Zing! #snappyshortwordsneedhashtags

I understand the sentiment behind the EA votes ("If they win, we can make them change!"), but I am pretty sure at the end of the day, unless their bottom line is hurting, EA is not going to change. All this does is make the gaming community seem petty and out of touch with the far more pressing problems with American…

Or Big Old Fat Assholes, maybe?