*finds his honesty the only valuable thing in his post stare*

*judgmental stare*

No guarantees.

Maybe it's just because I grew up with four much younger siblings who are all totally awesome, but I think the mix is awesome. And I actually can't tell who's a kid or an adult, frankly. You can't even use poor spelling/grammar/punctuation as a metric, these days.

I beat it in 25 hours with 20 survivors. Planning on doing Survival Mode.

Elias is correct (much appreciated, Elias).

Those people will always show up, no matter what happens. So there's no point paying attention to them.

People will say "the government should have done something." So this is them doing it. The other studies proved there wasn't a link, this one will likely prove the same, and will be more widely covered.

Seconded.

Yeah, all these kneejerk responses are getting me down. Actually look into the overall proposal, people, please, and have faith in science and the medium.

The title of the article is alarmist, as the research will cover media overall, although video games seem to be mentioned prominently:

"...to study the ties between violent images in the media and violent crimes."

We should start a petition.

As long as they can get really tiny and the portal is made up of six Pokeballs a la PokeCenter that I can put the figures in, I will be happy. And poor. And considered insane.

It's Persona 4 and certain PSOne/PS2 games that make me wish I had a Vita, so I'm patiently waiting until Fire Sale prices hit to get one. Probably not this year, though, because Pokemon X/Y is coming out and I'm going to have to get a fancy new 3DS XL.

Anyone else find it interesting that this announcement is coming well ahead of any potential Durango/Orbis (Thebes?) reveals?

Charging full-price for games worth an actual fraction is the business, my friend. The savvy gamer will shop elsewhere, hunting discounts, but without hard data, we won't know the size of the audience for digital downloads on the Wii U for some time.

I'm totally with you. I just know this hits me in all my manchild pleasure centers (collecting, Disney/Pixar, building, et cetera).

Don't dismiss retail downloads as if they're not going to be a factor. And indie devs appear to be excited about the eShop's potential. Neither PSN nor XBOX Live Arcade launched as strong as the eShop, and the inevitable Virtual Console integration and expansion is going to go a long way to bolster their online…

Minecraft-style building, Little Big Planet-style programming. With multiplayer modes and characters that many parents grew up with. It might actually have -more- all-ages appeal.