Indeed, what a wonderful life it is to wake up and have access to the internet so I can keep up with the news while I drink a cup of hot tea before getting on with the rest of my day. What a life I have indeed.

9. To make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse or blame: The police charged him with car theft. Critics charged the writer with a lack of originality. [www.thefreedictionary.com]

You'd certainly be welcome, you'll certainly see a few familiar names over there. I think three years qualifies pretty well, I haven't been around here much longer myself. Either way, feel free to sign up, opinions flow freely over there so as long as you're not making things personal, you should get on fine. Just a…

Joel wasn't very happy with my comments on his article so he took my star away: [kotaku.com] href="http://kotaku.com/comments/">#comments

You really need to check your information before telling people they're wrong.

Management is Bredan McNamara, not Rockstar Games. Rockstar Games do not own Team Bondi, they merely published and lent a hand to the development of LA Noire.

I'm amazed people don't realise they waste as much time if not more on other games yet are still amazed that people spend time playing Minecraft.

What would possess someone? Fun. It comes in all shapes and sizes. Some people can have fun spending hundreds of hours catching every pokemon. Others can achieve the same constructing a simle computer in Minecraft.

You mean like every game ever created? Great wastes of time indeed.

My own 5770 seems to love Minecraft - with Misa's pack even. Are you sure it's your GPU that's being the bottleneck?

Minecart pushing is unskilled work. Let's throw the children back down the shafts. That'll teach 'em the value of a coin!

You forgot to mention more memory.

Dropping out of the game already, EA?

Yeah, totally! They know the truth!

Sure! Hey look! There's a starred commenter! Quick! Throw him to the troll and steal the star from his cold, dead hands!

Massive Only-Boy, Alone.

42 inch TV and a PC! But that's not possible!!! :D

Where is the part where you have to become impressed? Is something only worth pursuing and continuing if you're impressed by it?

Look up Project Reality. Look up how popular it was. Look up Counterstrike. Look up how popular it still is. Then STFU.

As Nethlem said, they only track NA sales so as an indicator of how weak retail sales and the PC market is in NA, they act as a good shot in the dark but that's all they'll ever be.