Couldn't have possibly worded it better. Bingo.

Ah - whew. I have an almost unnatural paranoia when people talk about video games as art, mostly because I've heard so many smart people (lookin' at you, Ebert) say such stupid things.

Whoa - what?

Yeah - I'm real excited for this, but the costume looks atrocious in terms of actually being convincingly in-period. You'd know this guy was up to something from a mile away.

Would you say it leaves you feeling... Mellon Collie?

I (don't) hate to be that guy... But HD remakes kinda whisk away some of the charm of many of the games they remake - including the original PoP. I remember playing that original quite a few hours before giving up in my youthful frustration, and it's graphical simplicity still sticks with me. I know that people tend…

Thank you.

Where Joker = Carl, where Kelly = whatever-the-hell-that-girl-who-got-lost's-name-is. (It's the first half of Season 2 of Walking Dead.)

*SPOILER!* (Walking Dead spoilers - I don't know jack about ME3.)

Didn't see this until after I posted my response - the KKK's earliest rumblings come from the Reconstruction period in which newly freed slaves attempted to exercise their American freedoms (for the first time in their lives), and were promptly threatened by white supremacy bands. Eventually, this formalized into the…

I like the Revolutionary War concepts, but I do hope that hidden blades are still around. They more or less have use for stealth-based assassinations until people stop wearing jackets quite as regularly as they used to (which has been a development of the past three or four decades). I do agree on the cowl, though -…

Agreed on the architectural concerns. I like the colonial look - the plainness and the straightforwardness - but it's not very exciting compared to Italy or Constantinople. I'm just hoping that whatever gets lost in terms of any architectural grandeur is picked up by having better graphical quality for light and…

Why is Assassin's Creed solely defined by man-made-object climbing? I understand that the previous entries in the series have almost solely focused on urban exploration, but there's really nothing stopping a proficient natural/urban blend if they actually spend the time to refine the system.

I've never really liked Killzone's gameplay that much, but I always thought the Helghast designs were pretty cool... Except for that dress - well, not one in particular - almost all of them. Considering the conservative style and the period-esque armor and decorum, you'd think the dresses might look a little more…

I'm gonna call it now: hidden tomahawk.

I hope Ubisoft was smart enough to read the fiction of the post-colonial Romantic era when they put this idea together. While it's technically anachronistic, Hawthorne and the likes build an entire mythos of demons and devils hiding in the deep black forests of New York and the uncharted American East. It'd be pretty…

So, that's a no-go on Assassin's Creed: Era of Good Feelings, then? Or will that be DLC?

Part of the problem is that it was harder to communicate these sorts of things in the 80s and 90s. The internet's more or less magnified virtually every problem modern societies have, making it look like everything's going wrong all at the same time. (Which, to be fair, might be relatively accurate.)

Yikes. I can only imagine that there's a fair number of people out of that 600 who didn't see this coming at all. Best wishes to 'em all - it can be a tough time to be a worker.

Unless they've overlapped some of their departments (which is more than possible and would only make sense), the Wikipedia numbers seem a little funny to me. They claim that Activision has 4,000 employees, Blizzard (circa '09) has 4,600 - and Activision-Blizzard has 5,000.