Either deal with it, or root that guy out and DO something about it, goddamn it.

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." - John Stuart Mill

That's a bit presumptuous. We have no idea why those awards were left. For all we know the creditors had armed guards there preventing the employees from looting anything. Also, game studios have very high turnover rates, so it's possible that in those final years there was nobody left at the company that worked…

I'll make a broader statement about this: For many people, the ultimate destination for gaming is to be inside the game environment. Whether it's holograms in your living room, a jack that plugs into your brain matrix style, or a headset that you wear, the goal is to be in the game rather than watching the game…

Regarding #2, John Carmack didn't work for Zenimax directly (the parent company). He worked for id Software (a subsidiary of Zenimax), which is in Richardson, TX. I suspect that since these infractions that Carmack is being accused of would have happened in Texas, then that gives Texas jurisdiction over the case.

I see your point when it comes to Nintendo or Square Enix where they re-release the same game every few years on another platform and charge full price for it all over again.

Are you suggesting that companies who port a game to a new platform should give it away for free on that platform, and that anyone who would dare charge for the port is evil, greedy, and looking for a cashgrab?

I agree that taking care of one's stuff is a good thing to do, but I think you are missing the spirit of the article. This isn't an anti-physical media article. It's an article that's being philosophical and saying, "You know all those physical things we all covet? One day that stuff isn't going to work anymore. …

It could be one of the monsters from Dead Space, maybe.

I'm not quite sure what your point is. Are you saying that because both Sony and MS are losing money on their gaming divisions, then this means neither one will shut down or sell off? Or are you implying that jnemesh is a Sony fanboy and you somehow pwned him by saying Sony is just as bad?

The Wii wasn't mass market, really. It's success was, quite honestly, a fluke. It was just way cheaper than the other consoles at the time and was the first console ever to have motion controls, which was a big novelty at the time. Tons of people who don't normally play games bought a Wii for Wii Sports bowling and…

Between this and the new Xbox live service platform that was announced today, it sounds like MS is getting beaten like a red headed step child by Sony, and so their solution is to make their business model identical to Sony's. This is basically MS admitting defeat, and applying the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em"…

I was being facetious.

Simple: the epicenter of big budget North American filmmaking is in the U.S., and U.S. filmmakers, like most artists, prefer to create art that involves things they are familiar with.

Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but I think there's a difference between what people refer to themselves as, and what they refer to a country as. Everyone in North and South America is an American, but the only country that is commonly called "America" is the U.S.A. Mexicans don't refer to Mexico as America, but…

Many things in the universe *could be*, but are not. Colloquialisms only work if enough people use and understand them. To my knowledge nobody refers to the country of Brazil as "America". When people call the U.S.A. "America", they aren't implying that the rest of the countries in North and South America don't…

I'm not anti-gay marriage, but as of right now it is still a 2-sided issue. This is not something like slavery where the results were decided long ago and we've all moved on since then. This is still a very real and ongoing "hot button" political issue, which is probably the main reason why you made an article about…

Oh, that doesn't surprise me one bit. I suspected the OP might be one of them, which is why I posted the long-winded explanation.

You forgot about Superman.

My apologies for being pedantic. I wasn't sure if you were being funny or seriously complaining.