As long as I don't have to play as Budd Dwyer, I'm OK with dead, elected officials being featured like this.

@darkven: It's gaming news in the sense that people, after all these years, still try to explain crazy behavior by saying someone plays video games.

@Raso719: OK, so I'm paying a subscription for a genre/game I really enjoy. It's worth $65 a year to me.

@skt.smth: If you're American, you should have no beef with Kotick for building Activision's empire according to American capitalistic creed.

@Stealth_chill: Note to self ... buy one-way ticket to Helsinki. Now.

@Laser Beams: They're being coy because they want to sell this "new" console at a big price for a bit. They are in the business of making profit.

@Vultan: I've been waiting a long time to upgrade my HD (I have a 20GB!!!) and I think I can pull this off so that I actually pay less for an entirely new system with the big HD than I would for just the 250GB HD. So that's good.

@Jouen: I ain't hatin' on anyone ... but this doesn't sound like a "half assed" concert at all.

@Shinta: I agree. It's GTA4 set in the open frontier. I'm not a fan of RDR, but I won't hate on the people who love this type of game.

@doubtful: Exactly. At least I can grab the game and head to the cashier. I know the cashier will be there when I arrive. Best Buy gotta have that coin!

Shoppers still must flag down an employee to actually snag a free-standing copy of any game.

@Microshock: I tried BFBC2 and, at least in my experience, the general flow is worse than MW2. I spent game after game getting shot in the back ... standing 25 feet from the map's edge. I couldn't take it; I'm finished.

@Lincolnsbeard33: Still, James Gunn has seen Jenna Fischer naked and, as such, gets my undying respect.

Great author. Tasteless headline.

@Klaymen: Campaign? I guess I'm the only guy who buys Halo/CoD for multiplayer only.

The first words of the ad: "Strap on."

@henri1kk: Bless you for your optimism.

When I was (we were?) kids, I thought Activision was a really neat company. They made the most bitchin' 2600 cartridges — "Seaquest" made me its bitch — and seemed like the most innovative group out there.

@DietMrPibb: Eddie Van Halen knows how to rock, no?

@Chucklestyle: Rock Band, as Chuckles was discussing, is more about using DLC to create the playlists you want. If you want your face eaten, give the Metallica stuff a go on expert. That stuff is nasty. I like to go with the mainstream content. It's better for my wife and my friends, who don't know dick about playing…