Its good, but sadly their crowdfunding efforts have been falling short.

I dunno, I was saddened watching him play against Robredo in the US Open. He looks nothing like his prime.

Quite a lot, from his recent play :(

I feel like he could've done a much better job just sitting on the line, or at least staying in the crease.

Yeah, well, I bet I can knock you out with my console. So there.

I figured as much, but I wasn't sure. I'm still on the fence about preordering it though. I'm already getting Forza 5 (XB1, obv), and I had my eye on The Crew, but a 3rd racing game seems almost excessive.

Agreed, though imho, Suter was too far away to do a lot of good besides pressure and maybe a lucky poke/deflection. And he probably thought there was another guy on Kane anyhow.

How far can you punt a fat person?

And isn't the goalie (name escapes me at the moment) waaay too far off the crease? I get being aggressive and taking away the angle, but that's what your defenders are for. He's way out of position.

NFS: Rivals has a release date of Nov 19 for current gen consoles and PC, and Dec 31 for next gen consoles.

Vote. Bought this when it was new for around $300 and got Crysis 3 and I think BioShock Infinite for free (and they were nice enough to add in FarCry: Blood Dragon when it was released shortly after), and its amazing. Everything you can think of (Skyrim, BF3, Bioshock: Infinite, Crysis 3, FC:BD, etc, etc) runs on the…

True, wider distribution and better production has all but eliminated the worry of "out of stock" but for consoles and, like you said, rarer releases.

"Trick people into preordering"

So? A hat, one way or another, isn't going to convince you to buy a game, preorder or otherwise. The way I see preorders now is offering a reward for confirming a purchase you have already decided to make.

Gasp, an announcement that had already been diced and sliced and reported in piecemeal months prior gets about half the number of articles of a brand new, relatively unheralded announcement!

False. Pay attention next time Google and Microsoft have reveal announcements. You'll have the major updating live (ish) blog, and then that'll spawn a bunch of smaller individual "feature" articles that go more in depth.

Probably to make a statement, as is usually done in these types of cases.

Nokia isn't considered big enough, I guess?

They do this for every major announcement by any of the big companies. This is not unusual.

True, but regardless, the number of botters (at least by this company) is a tiny fraction of active accounts.

There's at least double that number of active accounts.