It's useless until they fix it, so yeah, it's a brick.

Only in Japan. You can't Seekers of Adoulin on the PS2 outside Japan (and the 360 version is pretty difficult to find as well).

No, I'm pretty sure a lot of people lost. We've gone from ten licenses per $60 spent to one, we're likely losing access to our entire library from anywhere, any time, and we're losing instant game swapping for disc-based games.

With two games that have no release date? Hardly.

No, this is an X1 exclusive. The game you're (probably?) talking about is Quantic Dream, from the people who did Heavy Rain.

You also skipped over the day 1 digital release of all One games accompanying physical releases.

So they get eviscerated for not saying anything, and then lambasted for saying things?

It's a smartphone thing. Effectively, it will turn your phone into a wireless router (password protected and everything) and use the data from whatever plan you're on.

Guess you can't use your phone as a wireless access point for thirty seconds?

Except in this case it's like, imagine if your cellhpone had to be within tower range to... make a call.

The guide button starts flashing at 1/3 charge and the force feedback quits around 10% (1 bar left on the indicator in the Guide) I think. It'd be nice if the Guide button would start flashing a little later, or just turn a different colour, like at 20% or 10%, but some indicators do already exist.

I've burnt through four or five rechargeable battery packs since I got my 360 at Launch (admittedly, they get used a lot, and abused a lot). I'd rather not have to take the controller apart to replace them. As long as the profile of the battery pack is improved, I'd rather just keep the removable kind we have now, as…

So that instead of buying a ten dollar rechargeable battery pack when your current one hit the end of its limited life, you'd have to buy a new sixty (?) dollar controller?

I liked Superman Returns, and I thought Brandon Routh did a pretty good job as Clark Kent/Superman.

I am interested in this. I knew that Windows 8 partition on my laptop would come in handy.

I'm amused that the picture for this post is effectively the same one Josh Holmes got massive backlash for using in his GDC (I think that was the one?) presentation, but there is no rage here.

Q1) 1 week, for vacations and stuff. At home, my 360 is constantly connected to the internet anyway.

Nintendo also isn't having a conference at E3 like Microsoft and Sony will be. They've flat out stated that they will be continuing to use Nintendo Direct to unveil/talk about new games (why they choose to do this in what is effectively an echo chamber, I do not know).

Seems like an evolution of Spartan Ops. People weren't so high on the actual missions (which got much better in the second half of the season), but everyone loved the cinematics that came with each episode. It seems like instead of a second season of Spartan Ops, we'll be getting this TV series instead.

Can't believe NBA 2K12 made this list, but Tales of Vesperia, and Lost Odyssey didn't.