Wait... people were taking this seriously?

Or better depending on your point of view.

It is my general thought that the people who are proud of their piracy are acting on a "its cool to break the law" mentality. That is, they are resisting authority for the sake of resisting authority. Pure speculation, but I think you would also find a high level of correlation between these overt pirates, overt…

Check out Myst Online: Uru Live. The major gameplay there is to make story lines or participate in the stories of others.

I notice a lot of people talking about self imposed challenges (No Grid FFX for instance). I'm not sure if that is what we are looking for here.

Sounds like it is time to fire up wordpress (or blog type thing of your choice) and make a competitor site. Servicing under-served niches worked pretty well for Gaygamer.com after all.

I for one welcome our new Pika overlords.

You can pick up/rent Confrontation really cheap. This will give you a really good idea of what SOCOM 4's MP gameplay is going to be like (give or take). If you don't enjoy the premise of the gameplay there, you wont enjoy it in 4 no matter what tweeks they give it.

You just kick those people. It isn't a big deal.

No. That makes the story, not the game, the art. The game is just something to do in between getting bits of the story in that context.

Good man realizing that the argument against games as art comes down to the gameplay. However, I would argue that game design itself can be artistic as you can set up game mechanics to lead a player to make certain decisions they otherwise would not make. For instance, there are a few instances in Silent Hill 2 where…

"I just wish it had a novel, comic book, or animated series as a companion so I wasn't required to sit there and cuss at snake monsters that are killing me for 40+ hours to get through it."

I think it is an attempt to make up for how under powered the shot guns were in Confrontation.

The best hugs probably come from hagfish, which can extrude microscopic filaments that convert a huge volume of water around them to slime in seconds. Instant cozy blanket!

What an apeeling work of art.

I don't know about iOS, but Android has a feature for developers that ties app activity into the alarm system. So, I could set up an alarm schedule so that every 15 minutes Android can wake my app without turning on the screen, pull the current location data, determine if it needs to alert the user to anything and…

I think Fahey is just a bit testy.

@Rob Martinez: What is the purpose of the goggles?

@godot: Ah, I see what you are getting at. My point is that if you were to ask basically anyone with even a passing knowledge of history, "Why are the NAZIs the bad guys of WW2?" Most would say, "Holocaust". The 'instead' bit is that game designers felt they could not include this and so had to come up with some other…

@Tuba1060: You forgot the "Frustrating Delay" phase of every product's development cycle.