People have asked this about Nintendo seemingly every day since 2003, when everyone decided the GameCube was dead.

I strongly prefer GOG for precisely this reason. DRM is a disaster waiting to happen. I'm really hoping consoles don't start going this route.

Kotor 2 is amazing, but this is partially because it has some terrible Star Wars. It is sort of the Star Wars game that is the most anti-Star Wars. It's excellent, but it's the kind of excellent that is subverting the cliches of a more familiar (Star Warsy) excellence, if you take my meaning.

This is the sort of article someone who's never played an adventure game would write.

Even if the game intends the character to be Jewish, a lot of artistic power could be undermined by a PR rep coming out and flatly stating "Yeah he's Jewish." Let the text speak for itself.

This is the saddest part for me, too.

Oh, are these the Guild02 games?

"I know that Nintendo has something up their sleeve to help with sales"

So after being on the market barely a year and a half, we can expect to see The Old Republic shut down? Wow.

This has been happening for at least the past year. I've been reporting it, but no one's believed me.

I did not notice until I read this comment.

Sure, but I think that's a somewhat broader definition of science than is understood to be normally used by io9. In the past this site has mostly stuck to technology and the natural sciences (to the extent they are related to science fiction.) Broadening the criteria into the social sciences raises the question of:…

How is knowing more precisely the effects of not having an abortion a "scientific breakthrough?"

Yeah, I get it. My point was that, for most people, it's not actually cyclical, it's just the slow process of adding more and more people to the "permanently discouraged" category of non-employed. This is the category that grows dramatically during each recession and then never really goes away even as the economy…

Stages 5, 6 and 7 are a pleasant fiction. It's true that a talented few will survive and prosper in the transition. But for most people, losing your robot-job means you are now qualified to work at Wal-Mart.

Didn't Kotaku post this yesterday? Do you guys not cross-post like the other Gawker blogs?

Brilliant.

Yeah, seriously. It's kind of incredible this article even got published.

I'm pretty sure you can find a scientist who will swear that "Eating XXX will KILL you!" for just about any food these days. Is anything safe?

Maybe I'm nuts, but I think Hawkeye looks fine in most of those poses.