For $40 I could buy a nine-year old PC and play the original Splinter Cell on it. Or a Gamecube and play Ocarina Of Time.

@ZZZYZZZ: Bollox. She didn't steal her stuff. Someone else did.

If someone uses one of these 3D printers to print another 3D printer, can I have it for less than $1 million? Hmmm?

WILL NOONE THINK OF THE MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN??

'Crunchtime' is one of the reasons I'm completely sick of the games industry these days. Every major studio spends more and more time tripping over their own dicks to get TEH BEST GAME EVAAARRR out and less and less time working on making a quality game.

@Ovr_9k: But... fat old christian clown is not hot.

Dear Dita Von Teese:

Americans need to lose their discomfort with sexuality.

@Norma Neufner Lady Officer: It seems to be one of those depressing universalities of this human species, doesn't it?

You know, there are games like the 'Heroes Of Might & Magic' series, 'The Longest Journey', 'American McGee's Alice', 'Unreal' and 'Unreal Tournament' and 'Machinarium' that have music so good you can just turn off the monitor and ignore the game.

As a PC gamer I feel it my duty to spend as much money as I can beg, borrow or steal to upgrade my system so I can play the newest games at the best possible settings.

I remember playing Wizardry 8 and experiencing that levelling-along-with-you crap and then when I saw it was in Oblivion too, a game made years later, I was like WTF??!!??

Stoopid stoopid console fanboys forget something fundamental about consoles.

It isn't just a problem with movies. Has anyone seen a *single* mainstream/primetime science or engineering documentary that demonstrates and explains the mathematical principles underlying physics or fractals or biology, or whatever?

No localised ads, no flash ads that follow you down the page, no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no fakee fakee chatboxes from teenage girls, no 'discreetly installing' spyware, no tiny URLs that send you to infinitely recursing porn sites, no cheery reminders from your local government internet monitoring office that the…

So for years when the elderly were saying it was all better in their day and the fun you could have with a piece of coal, etc., they weren't far wrong, were they?

@Torley: I've seen 'Triangle' and bluehinter is right that revealing that it's all a closed time loop thingy is a super-duper SPOILER.

@4thletter: Yeah but Kurtwood Smith's perfectly played eternal despair beats 'The Ring's' Samara's death-by-fear everytime. So probably not a film for the holiday season.

@ziffelbat: Wasn't exactly a rant, more of a... release :)

Please IO9, spare us the blatant hype!