I can't remember reading about what happened to the Iranian arms shipment to Yemeni rebels that the US was threathening to block, but couldn't this action just be a response to that? The US blocks weapons going from Iran to Yemen, then Iran blocks weapons going from a close US ally to UAE?

I think that a mod store would follow the same pattern as app stores for mobile devices. They quickly become so flooded with content that there is very little possibility of making good money even if you create the best app/mod the world has ever seen. And the more flooded they become, the worse the ratio between…

If studios like Bethesda really want to encourage modders, why not bundle a few of the very best mods together with the game in an installer, create an easy-to-use menu to switch individual mods on or off, and sell the game with a small premium (so, say, 40€ instead of the current price of 30€). Then pass the extra…

That's the thing. Maybe they will surpass this, but the reason why the 'human' style of giving directions works is because we can relate to each other. When I give you directions from the passenger seat, I know that you can see the Dunkin' Donuts sign from a far distance. I also know that there is no similar store…

That too. But conspiracy theories aside, the response to the last submarine sighting and the way information was released to the media was at the very least carefully planned from a PR perspective. And successfully so. Hardly anyone in Sweden mind spending more money on defense now.

Yup. The submarine scare got (understandably) worse after the Russian submarine U137 was stranded by the Swedish coast in 1981. For the following decade, there were almost constant submarine sightings, and eventually studies found that the vast majority could have been passed off as false alarms.

It would be a very Finnish thing to do.

I was expecting a very different kind of picture when I saw your comment amongst my notifications. We're conditioned against using the words 'big' and 'black' together, but I couldn't think of a better description of what a submarine and a humpback has in common.

Yes, I realize that. But at the same time, the navy in my country at least (Sweden) has a history of reacting extremely strongly to very weak sightings. In the 90's it was revealed that one of the sounds that had been used to trace and detect submarines was likely produced by minks...

As usual when these things happen, the navy is a bit brief when it comes to what information they give out (same thing in Sweden last time it happened). I don't know what kind of sightings started this, or what they mean by 'detected', but in the past month there have been several (usuallyvery rare) sightings of one…

It's exactly the MSRP, with two extra zeros. So someone copy-pasted '25285.00' in the wrong field somewhere, and it became '2528500'.

The next time someone complains about the amount of GTA material in Highlight Reel, just link to the full whale video and ask them to produce something similar in Mortal Kombat.

It's one of those questions where there is no limit to how much you can judge someone by the answer and still come out ok.

I nearly had a fight with my boss (middle-aged German man) about him not understanding how I could dislike the Panamera and the Cayenne. Poorly designed cars for trashy people who have no interest in owning sports cars, but who want cars with the Porsche brand simply because of some percieved status. 'Aah, but zey are…

This makes me want to go out, find a nice pothole, and spray paint a goatse around it.

hopefully whatever comes next from both the original Top Gear team and whatever the BBC is working on is total garbage

This gave me an idea about the opposite of Twitter. TL:DR-er, or something. You can write about anything, but your posts must be at least a 500-word essay.

I'm one of those people who don't have time to really do gaming as a serious hobby, but who still reads Kotaku to keep up to date with the gaming world. However, I've lost track on this soap now. Maybe there are enough readers like me for a kind of 'Here's everything that's been going on with Silent Hill' article?

So that's another good reason to be an italian cop, other than the cars and the uniforms.

Agreed, their cars have always been amazing.