You have to go into the options and check the box for offline mode. otherwise, by default, it doesn't give you the option for offline. This may have changed at some point because I'm guessing homernoy hadn't changed this.

Dang, I go on vacation and miss an awesome 'shop contest. Great job to everyone!

Actually it's funny how Japanese portions can vary. From my time there you either get smaller, more manageable portions (either tiny bits at a time like sushi or rolls or something that seems small at first when you're used to American sizes but as you grow accustomed it's fine like Mos Burger) or something just way…

Depending on the semi-auto weapon, you can get the parts to make it fully automatic. I remember it only takes some slight modification to an M-16A2 to take it from having a 3 round burst to fully auto.

Good job Kotaku! It'd be interesting if you eventually became "The New York Times: Kotaku Edition."

Same. I hope it does end up on Seam as well. I've bought a couple PC games that aren't steam, but I prefer not to do that. I like having all of my games on there so if I reformat or get a new computer it's not a problem getting things set up again.

In theory, you could actually go and unlock the BMW chip yourself, but it would void your warranty. In all honesty I can see WHY they did it, but I just don't agree with it.

Actually, you purchase the ability to have a copy of the data, whatever is on the disc. It's technically yours to do what you want with it as long as you don't attempt to make copies of it and sell it for your own personal gain or do anything else that prevents the copyright holder from getting money they should have…

This happens with games like Halo. The way that you fix it is have a required update patch. don't download the patch? can't play online. In the patch would be said characters so you could play online with whatever character you want even if the other person hasn't paid for the DLC.

I take on-disc DLC more like your car has an extra, say a backup camera. The camera, wiring, the dash (or wherever they put them) display are all in the car. Everything's in there to work, BUT you have to take it to the dealership to "pay" for this stuff that's already in your car and activate it. Obviously if this…

It's not a problem that it's on the disc. the problem is that they're making you pay to unlock something that's on the disc YOU PAID FOR ALREADY. If it was just a matter that part of the data was on the disc, like say the game was built to include them, but they weren't given time to complete the development before…

We got you your favorite thing - disappointment!

The best DLC, in my opinion, was the GTA 4 DLC - Lost & Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony. Both really were less of DLC and more of two short games that the entry price was also owning GTA 4. Both stood on their own as great stories that didn't have to be bloated with lots of extra missions or other needless stuff to make…

"Brony" derrives from the French "broniet", which came from the old French of "Broquniest" =X

Interestingly enough my last name isn't that difficult, but people often can't ever spell it correctly.

I'll just leave this right here.

I think we found a winner of the internets. Let's go home.

I don't know if I could do something that drastic if I had a kid and they completely obsessed about it like that. I would hope that I could find some way to channel that into something creative, like guide them into making a video or card game...

And all they had was hundreds of copies of "E.T." for atari?

A voting system could be kinda iffy. I can already imagine ways it could be used negatively and/or not work as intended.