@thedogandthecat: translation:

@Simpsons Rule: dont worry. i gave up mailing tips in over a year ago. the whole tips idea is a fake community-spirit oriented bit of bullshit now. the good stuff they ignore while posting cakes and porn... pretty galling.

@busboy33: thats us only. i demanded they send ME a box, in the uk, and they refused.

@YourAnthony: no they didnt. ive got one rrod'd in my living room as we speak. and they could make it significantly easier to repair as well; for example, providing a fucking box and packing would be a great start, or removing the demand you dont use the original box, which happens to fit it perfectly.

JALLARD! WE LOVE YOUUUUU

@Evangel: goonfleet head honchos were there. why they didnt bring penis copters or drive round reykjavik mooning is explained by the quote kotaku makes up there.

theres no more games now than ever. theres just less time to play them, for everyone child or adult. this is a recognised aspect of 21st century western life. everyone has more shit to do and despite more leisure options, we all have less leisure time. its not to do with getting older and having kids, etcetera. people…

thats fine. they can lose millions in sales if they want. hope theyre fans of piracy.

@LordMaim: Actually, though I'm not sure on whether or not what you say is the policy today, some games now have on the back of the 'Hard drive required' or something along those lines, I recall reading it on the back of a newer copy of oblivion. Though, yes, oblivion came out around the birth of the Xbox 360, so…

rubbish.

@CarsonB: you do know you could switch those off, right? first thing i did. dont want my games looking like a chaplin movie even if some art director thought it was cool. mass effects got to be the most colourful game ive played on the 360, not counting some of the wackier arcade titles.

@Darth Navster: forget it. he's a weeaboo. he'll fetishise japan until he dies, even if he moves there and the reality disappoints, he'll continue to consult the dream he built in his head using anime, porn and some asian chick he met in college.

@DutchOtaku: actually i could totally deal with ads like that if it meant i didnt pay, or paid little. provided they dont pop up in a window and require action to stop. might even make me buy some cillit bang instead of some other cleaning product when i was shopping.

@Atheist Jew: the community had more input into vengeance, in the form of thrax and kineticpoet, than they did into tribes 2. which wasnt much, and it didnt mater anyway. but dont say shit like 'the community had no input'. good job and all i say.

my 360 has been bust for some time now and ive been to busy to get it fixed, but i bought frontlines at launch, and the last time i played it there were plenty of full servers.

games are competitive. thats the entire point of them, any game, from checkers to halo. there's winners, and losers. shooting your way through a buncha bad guys faster, better, with more carnage, these are wins.

the capital city of whatever your country may be is always a wretched place for anyone not born there, with money, to visit for long let alone live. by its very nature its a thin veneer of photo ops and culture over a disgusting reality. even if its largely clean and the ghettos are out of sight, the PEOPLE will make…

its not a hugely complex question. theres just a small range of factors that skew the audience for, first, TF2, then, PC games, toward "maturity" (an amusing concept; maturity is more than not swearing. how many of these "mature" adults spent last weekend stumbling drunk, or have yet to have a serious relationship,…

im bored already. i think most people are, beyond childhood. they just spend their lives avoiding admitting it.

i was just in store half an hour ago looking at used ds'es for 90 quid. so tempted, based on how i could play any game for free on it. thats the sole reason id buy one.