On several occasions, Apple has made iPod Touch owners pay for iOS upgrades, as well.

It's totally worth $10. Most people's reaction to the game were not nearly so scathing as the op's, especially for $10.

It's one editor's GOTY. Different editors have different viewpoints.

This is legitimately really compelling stuff.

According to Twin Galaxies rules, they reserve the right to drug test any marathon submission.

I'm glad to see that Minecraft won this. If their video game list follows the same logic as some of their other lists, then I read this not as a list of the "best" games, but rather, the most important. I think Minecraft absolutely deserves that much. Was there any game talked about so consistently for so long?

If he runs out of lives, his run is over. But he accrues so many hundreds (and thousands) of lives, that he can afford to lose some every so often.

It's not really about the Q*bert.

The XP rate is also halved.

It really is exceptional in that regard.

I think my favorite moment from all of this is when Josh Olin, former CoD community manager, asked @GEICO and @Allstate to sell him in 140 characters or less, on why he should purchase their insurance. To which Geico replied:

So by the Laws of Special Edition Purchasing, about 30% of those who preorder and buy it first day will receive this special gift, right?

I'm not even sure that's his real one anymore! I suspect somebody else took it over again after he switched names (again). His followers count is around 200 here; it was 20,000+ yesterday. There's no way he shed that many in a few hours, just from this. In fact, he was gaining followers, all through this fiasco, as…

Did...did we just become friends...?

That's a troll account. Not real.

Seriously.

How, exactly, does one get caught on a bad day over the course of days and weeks?

Because of that comment, and those like it, I try to never give Gizmodo any pageviews ever.