If you're interested in a sociological examination of this subject in real-world terms (that would also apply to video games rather well) I would highly recommend "The God Virus", which examines how religions spread, mutate, and fight each other.

The QA salary says a lot about the buggyness of today's games.

4 player split-screen? Sweet new graphics? Just being Hydro Thunder? Hell yes. Day 1 purchase for me.

Let's face what we all already know: Activision is a horrible game publishing company and Bobby Kotick is possibly the biggest asshat in the games industry today.

I used FF67-QG7V-3LGK-P7PD

Chances are, if you have the hardware that can run this game anyway, you're not using Windows XP.

I played this (and kept coming back to play it) at PAX this past year. Incredibly fun, very tight controls. Preordered it on the spot.

Oh so THIS is what I won at PAX that is getting mailed to me. Cool.

@Meohfumado: No kidding. I think I'm going to play as that just because the opening sequence will piss me the fuck off and get me in character.

Or just preorder the game on Steam and you'll be in the beta right now.

That was a thing of beauty. I love the internet.