@Gruntybreath: Actually it's just a publishing agreement. If they don't like how EA is doing things they can go elsewhere.

@RockyRan: I'd have thought the two top guys from Visceral games being bought by Activision last year to make a new studio proved the point. This certainly rams it home though.

@Culebra: There's always a group somewhere that doesn't want something.

I live in the US so this doesn't effect me at all but it still sounds like good news. Maybe politicians down there are just more eloquent bullshitters but I wish the ones here would at least take the time to dress up their crap that nicely. And if he really is openminded on the issue we could use a lot more people…

@ManekiNeko: Gotta agree with Thursday. If they wanted to say he was against it they would have, Anti R18+ would have worked just fine as the headline. Maybe if they hadn't already reported he was in favor of R18+ the statement would seem misleading but at this point it's just a correction.

Best news we've heard since this whole thing started. They're going to be an independent studio now, EA with be publishing through the Partners program (which has put out amazing games), and they've owned up and said fans didn't get treated right with MW2. I'm not seeing any downside to this.

@EternalStar: Honestly, most of the problems MW2 had are likely rooted in the problems with Activision. In the lawsuit they state that Activision forced them to get the game out faster than they wanted. I think they would have spent at least 2 1/2 years working on the game if it'd been in their control.

@LordMuzzy: More importantly, they didn't join EA, they made their own company. EA is just the publisher. This is just like DoubleFine, Valve, ID (before the Bethesda merger thing), Epic, etc. EA doesn't get to tell them what to do, EA doesn't own any of the rights.

@MyDirtySecretary: I don't agree, I think EA is pretty awesome these days, but that's too good an analogy not to promote

@doubtful: Blizzard will do whatever it wants, it always has. It's been owned by many companies over the years and it never let them get in the way of making a good game.

@andystep12: That's true but Gamefly still finds a way to be profitable. I would think the streamlining of the distribution process by Netflix would increase profitability enough to make it a solid investment.

I've never bought a batman action figure before but I'd buy this whole line sight unseen.

@shadowman90: Netflix already has multiple plans at different price points, seems like it'd be pretty easy to add a few more to offer some movie+game options. I'm having a hard time seeing how this could possibly be a bad idea for Netflix.

@Moonshadow101: This. If they'd done the previous games in this manner I'd have bought all of them instead of stopping at Red/Blue/Yellow.

They didn't call it a "Christian Rock" pack because many people would assume it was full of terrible music. This is because most "Christian Rock" sucks. That's not to say that music written by christians sucks or that music about the christian god or religious experiences a christian had sucks, just that the music…

There are a few big stories here. Firstly, Microsoft being so much lower than Sony. I think this is likely because Microsoft was so soft on new games last holiday season and fairly soft throughout the year making Microsoft primarily a hardware company whereas Nintendo and Sony were hardware and software.

@Leanid: Yeah, but if you move to either of those countries you'll get raped.

@NightMystic: Maybe a cheap ebay DS is the answer for you.

@Shrewsbury: Yeah, I do mean that. Fair enough.

@d4rlp3nc1l: Yeah, but it's hard to do. And even harder to find a working Atari. And the people who deserve to make money off the games/systems don't make any money that way, just the person who owned it last. Usually that's gamestop.