Someone earnign $100,000 a year is not 'working class'.

Yes. They were launching on the same day as Shadow of Mordor, too.

I mean this with the greatest respect- you say you want a guy to "approach you" and "take you on a date". Why not approach a guy, and ask him out on a date if you'd like?

Woodstock 99 was the defining moment of my youth. It was hell on earth.

Mike, do you get sent these chips or do you have to buy them like everyone else? Do snack companies have 'reviewer relations' or that side of PR like game companies?

Are we talking Hong Kong, Singapore, NY or London here?

There won't 'always be a place' for manned aircraft. I give them 15 years in Western armies. Perhaps 20 at most.

Actually they're releasing it for two of their OS's. The XBO OS, and Windows 8(.1).

"What did all these companies do for you?"

I look forward to a world of rich old men running things becoming a world of rich old women running things. You really think the nature of power would change if women were in charge? Because that's some pseudo-scientific "genetic differences" bullshit.

we are getting there very slowly. The fairies in maleficent looked real and they were all CGI for example. We are perhaps 2-4 years away from being able to render fully real-looking humans in the most expensive movies. Then probably another 8-10 years until that goes real time at 10k+ resolution and looks real.

The UK and the USA are by far the biggest English speaking gaming markets in the world.

HOLY JESUS YES.

Video games are way oversubscribed as a profession. Until millions of boys stop growing up wanting to be game designers, it will always be that way.

Bioware have way to much 'inbreeding' between their games. They'll bring a character in to do an hour for Dragon Age, an hour for Mass Effect and an hour for Star War The Old Republic at the same time, which while economically efficient makes all their games feel even more the same.

Not every game has to be realistic. Some overdone cops-and-robbers pew pew does not require a deep look into the nature of police militarisation in America.

My apologies. I thought the 2m estimate was for Berlin alone, and the 8m was for the whole country (or Russian sector anyway). Still, I think the point stands that this is not a new occurrence.

What upsurge? I would argue that there has been an upsurge in *reporting* on these incidents. The idea that violence against women is greater today than at other times is frankly ridiculous. The mass rapes during the Bosnian War by different ethnic groups, the rape of 8 million German women by Soviets after WW2,…

You genuinely think this horrible stuff in India didn't go on before there was porn? It went on, it was just considered so mundane they didn't even report onto it until feminism has reached them in the past few decades.

Sony has been making losses for a LONG time. It's not greedy short term capitalists' fault that their shares have been on a general decline for literally years now.