@MichaelPalin: Seems to me turning down the music volume is a PC gaming feature, so you can listen to your own music. With consoles, it's probably a lot more niche for people to do so. The only game I ever used this feature in was World of Warcraft... and that's obviously because with the repetitive grinding came…

@Cromwell: For the sake of debate, the trend seems to be to give less control over these things to the user. Most western games nowadays have an autosave feature, not many games let you fiddle with controls and games are even figuring out ways to forgo things like inventory screens (Mass Effect).

@MichaelPalin: I suppose it depends on the game. I like the idea of not having to deal with menus at all, being able to just jump in and stay in the game.

That's funny. I always thought the future of game menus was no menus.

@DocSeuss: That's just a bit vague.

@FullMetalPancake: I agree whole heartedly.

@SteamPunkJin: Are you kidding? I'd want my kids to play this. Far more effective than sex ed.

To be honest this article strikes me as the kind of egotistical game designer drabble that is all too prevalent on the internet. When was game designing ever about just coming up with ideas?

But will Squeenix be able to resist the temptation once that rumored PSP Sony Ericson with Google Android comes out? If it's real, it's going to take over the mobile phone / mobile gaming market.

@coolbho3000: Sorry, I thought you were referring to the Chrome Web Store.

When I was working on an overly-ambitious Alistair mod project called A Bond of Blood, I talked to Dragon Age: Origins writer David Gaider some on the issue of homosexuality in the game, Alistair as a gay character and homosexuality in Thedas, the world of Dragon Age.

@DominusSapientia: As a gay man, even as we're getting gay marriage in California, I still want my romantic interests to be appealed to in video games such as Mass Effect. It has nothing to do with recognition of my real relationships and everything to do with recognition of my romantic interests as legitimate and…

@MasterYong: He wasn't fired for that. Google divulged the same information, plus more, at [code.google.com]

@coolbho3000: "Google charges you a processing fee of 5% + $0.30 per transaction; there are no other transaction costs." from [code.google.com]

@surft: As far as I can tell, he didn't do anything wrong. Google itself announced the pricing model here: [code.google.com]

@whoamarcos: I used PCs in contrast to mobile phone, but it's for any system that runs Google Chrome, it seems.

@PissedPS3Fan: Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if Google figured out a way to get ads into games. There's already ads in YouTube videos.

Let's compare the competitors:

@ssh83: See: [code.google.com]

@cinnamonster: Apple's App Store is for mobile only. Google has the Android Market to compete with that, and they're very comparable. This is for PCs, meaning it's closer to Steam.