You chose to use the shortened version of the acronym, which is U.S., but the full acronym is U.S.A. The country is called the United States of America, and people often colloquially abbreviate that name to just America. When someone says America in reference to a particular country, they are talking about the only…

I live in San Mateo, CA right smack in the middle of Silicon Valley right now, but I grew up in Texas, and I can tell you that Austin, Dallas, and Houston have TONS of industry and technology innovation going on (particularly Austin). So much so that many people have referred to it as the "second Silicon Valley". …

I'm 29, so I've been around for a while. I totally get where you are coming from, and I think it's a sound philosophy in theory. However, I don't think this dreaded doomsday scenario the anti-digital crusaders like to talk about will ever actually transpire, or if it does, it won't matter.

Physically media isn't ever going to completely die. There will always be diehard collectors that want to collect the physical thing.

Old actors die all the time, but they don't all get mentioned on Kotaku. I'm pretty sure the only reason they have an article about him at all is because he was in the Mario movie. I agree that this site doesn't always have articles about games, but in this particular case his indirect association with games is…

The *real* reason many professional athletes act as nice as they do in public is because they will lose their endorsement deals and/or won't get their contract renewed if they generate bad press. Look at what happened to Tiger Woods when his scandal went public, for instance. His endorsers dropped him before he had…

I used to royally suck at RTS games for years. I would get my ass kicked by the AI during single player campaigns on normal difficulty. I'm still not great, but I can play through Starcraft 2 campaigns on hard difficulty now without too much trouble most of the time.

Silicon Valley is to Big Bang Theory what Curb Your Enthusiasm is to Seinfeld. If you took Big Bang Theory and HBO-ified it (no censorship, more adult, better production quality, no laugh track, more "hardcore" for lack of a better term, not network sitcom-y) then you'd probably wind up with something close to…

Of course women know they are at risk. This conversation is not about whether or not women know they are at risk. This conversation is about whether or not we (as a society) should encourage women to make decisions that give them the best chance of walking away from these kinds of situations unscathed, or should we…

People who play a lot of flight sims tend to invert the Y. Pull back to increase altitude (look up), push forward to decrease altitude (look down).

Ok, fine, I'll bite and keep playing this game.

The specs of the Xbox One are quite a bit higher than the 360, but graphics tech, in general, is starting to be affected by the law of diminishing returns. Technologically, the leaps are still big, but the practical visual difference doesn't appear to be as substantial as it used to be when we made technological…

Bullshit, there's nothing wrong with telling people advice to protect themselves, regardless of whether it's their fault. Doing so could possibly save lives, even if it's not politically correct. Either way, this article is over a month old, so I'm not sure why you decided to revive this conversation. GOOD DAY, SIR.

Your point about #2 makes sense from the perspective of a gamer who wants companies to release polished games from day 1. Your other points make sense from the perspective of an uninformed non-gamer buying a gift for a gamer.

You are picking nits. Let me make this simple. If the authors of Gawker articles start insulting their audience and we all leave and stop coming here, then their advertisers will cancel their contracts and they will go out of business. No, we don't pay them, but they are reliant upon our continued use of this site…

Thanks Captain Obvious. Welcome to yesterday.

Ok, fair enough. I actually misread a bunch of that paragraph. I will say that I still prefer the more open nature of Oculus. They aren't officially only supporting PC, they are just saying that PC is likely the only platform that will have enough horsepower to properly support VR for the foreseeable future. …

I miss a single word and you accuse me of reading a different article? Hyperbolic much?

You missed his point completely. Based on the article above, Sony primarily wants to use this thing for games made specifically for it. They don't want to port regular PS4 games to use it, and they don't want PC developers to use it. That means, as a developer, I'd have to make a game that only PS4 gamers with…

I don't think you understand what I was getting at. VR tech uses cellphone/tablet display technology for the screens, and that's why VR screens are as big as they are, and that's why the headsets are all bulky. Until a hardware manufacturer has a real incentive to make an ultra high res display the size of a…