@Aeonitis: IMO clearing the HUD is less immersive if the information on it is still needed. Perfect example is Ridge Racer 3DS. I had to relearn how to play it, because in the past games, I'd glance up at the map in the corner to see how tight the next turn was. On the 3DS, there's no way to put it on the top screen,…

@KingOfSentinels: Their chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear! Ok, their TWO chief weapons are...

@Ossidiana: It's both. It's a deconstruction because instead of making up reasons to justify everything, it just applies natural cause and effect to them and shows exactly why an arrangement like that can't work.

Good - it looks like you're finally able to uninvert the control stick! I bought this game on the Wii and it was absolutely useless to me because I assumed it'd have the same basic options as the SNES game.

@Hunter.Wolf: How is it baseless? The article argues that if XCOM is a shooter, then so is ME. yhalothar argues ME2 was a shooter, and dracosummoner asserts that the mechanics were about the same in ME2 and ME, maybe implying that saves it from being a shooter?

@rockmace: For sure. I just have great respect for anyone who can work one of those while in an actual F1 race!

@mintycrys: cooler?

@rockmace: I think I'd use it a lot like an F1 steering wheel actually...

@Gamer4Iife: She can never seem to get ahead...

@Siege Devil: Have you ever seen someone freeze up in real life? I've even seen it happen for oven fires... Not everyone is a video game character.

@An Atheist Jew: Actually I don't think ME was a shooter OR an RPG; it was a shooter AND an RPG. Personally, it was too much shooter for me to enjoy, which is frustrating because I really wanted to get into the roleplay aspect of it since people have raved about it so much.

@dracosummoner: I really wanted to play the RPG elements of ME 1, but the combat was so much a shooter it turned me off of the game.

@Sugoi: Actually, I was thinking of SmartMedia, not SD, because it doesn't have a memory controller chip on the card. SD and MS both do.

@Char Aznable: That's good to know. I never used an app for managing the PSP, but software for MiniDisc, Clie handhelds, and their book readers is usable at best. Maybe the PSP software is made by their gaming divisions, as opposed to whichever branch handled the other three.

@UsernameOfTheDead: I feel like it may be more like Nintendo's 32x. Better indeed, but a half-generation stopgap, not as relevant as hoped.

@Akitsu: <- Here we see an instance of clairvoyant IT forensics. The practitioner is actually able to infer highly specific details of the hack, despite not even knowing how it was executed.

I'm not happy about it, but it makes sense. If they weren't absolutely reamed last time by people loading Memory Stick Pro Duos up with ISOs, they wouldn't have to police what goes in and out of the system as strictly. Now I kind of expect a media loader program on the PC for copying music and movies to the device…

@Sugoi: SD cards are also the simplest form of flash card on the market, so of course they're the cheapest. Besides, people often compare Sony or Sandisk Memory Sticks to brands like PNY for SD cards. When you compare the same brand, same capacity, and comparable transfer rates, there's not that much difference in MS…

@panama_chief: Awesome. Thanks for the link. I'll definitely have to pick this one up.

@panama_chief: I'd love to believe you... where did you get that info?