Lumines. I know it's just one game, but it's exactly what you're talking about, and definitely worth playing on the Vita over any other system (and in general). There are plenty of titles on the DS that aren't brief snippets of gameplay, as there are on the Vita, but Sony seems to be trying harder with the Vita to try…

This right here. It seems that they oversaw the development, but I can't find any details on exactly what that includes. It seems — from what I've heard, seen, read, and played — to be a middling imitation of the console title.

Neither you nor I said anything about real-time multi-player over 3G, although perhaps it was implied. The page I linked to says exactly what the capabilities are, and many — but not all — of the game pages details how the title uses 3G. You're right, it's limited to turn-based play (which is, in the launch titles,…

@petethepanda Not all of the third-party games — but many — do support online play over 3G, as do the built-in applications. I think all of the first-party games do. I'm looking mostly at this: [us.playstation.com]

They don't do their own ad campaigns; the quality of the ads tends to vary widely depending on the agency they hire. This is by far the best; it was also added to the Clio Hall of Fame.

I didn't have that experience, personally.

I remember experiencing problems before with Chrome on Windows 7 where some Javascript refused to work at all — particularly on sites like OkCupid that are JS-heavy, where I couldn't send messages, ratings, etc. for some reason. I solved it by switching to Firefox...

I guess the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection for PS3 was supposed to tide gamers over until The Last Guardian comes out, but it just reminded me of how good those titles were (and still are), making the wait seem so much longer...

What platform are you on? I'm using Windows 7 x64 and I don't notice any of those problems with any of the Gawker blogs.

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There's something wonderful about how Totilo's hardware review mentions the result of trying to play online with Kirk, and then Kirk's review of the referenced game mentions the same incident.

Is there a 3G version there, and if so, is it a local carrier? I'm curious to know.

"With both phones and laptops creeping up on the traditional turf of the computer, the Vita feels uncomfortably without a place that makes sense, falling short of either side"

This is true; there are also hardware bugs I bet (there always are) but maybe also homebrew exploits that won't work past the first few revisions of software.

I was going to get the First Edition bundle since it came with a game, but I've since changed my mind because:

That's weird, in the United States, the first edition bundle includes the Wi-Fi/3G version of the system.

Where are they getting the .25 TFLOPS figure from? Microsoft and IBM say 1 TFLOPS, and the PS3 is theoretically 2 TFLOPS. Although 1. these are combined CPU FLOPS and 2. these seem to be outlandishly inaccurate.

The Roomba ad that loads before the article image does — but with the headline intact — was a startling combination of elements, to be sure.

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Won't they recover that money on sales of the proprietary memory required to store these games?