Yah, they had to be pricy. But I think the pricing of playing them is what was the hurdle (I assume you're talking manufacture cost). It was like $10 for a ten-minute game or somesuch - crazy expensive, and this was in mid-90s dollars.

Looks a lot like the old Virtual Worlds "Tesla Pod".

I bought a set of these a week or so ago, and have been happy with'em.

Huh huh huh you said "bone".

Err, ranger not rogue. Been so long I had the classes mixed up :(

Hi, Lum. :)

All your drone base are belong to us.

Noah's the Wired writer. Giz just republished the article. Not going to get his attention here. (Or rather, it's very unlikely you will.)

Well, the first chunk of the Metro map was all outdoors in a park setting, so there wasn't really any good structures to blow up. I suppose they could have made those small stone bridges damageable. The gazebo and stuff around it was kind of outside the main action areas anyhow. I did see lots of trees get taken down,…

Oh, I saw plenty of holes in walls in the beta (PS3). Whole chunks of building facades missing, massive gaping holes in walls where just a door used to be, etc.

There's another film, very similar to Avalon, titled "Assault Girls", a Japanese flick written/directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell). It's on Netflix streaming.

If there is a day one patch for BF3, likely it'll be across the board. It takes a bit to get the retail packages made (discs pressed, etc). and likely they'll have gone through an initial patch process in that timeframe.

Ding ding ding.

I have to wonder if your friends' complaining about dying isn't based on the experiences that I had - which was, tooling along and *bang* dead, as if I was one-shotted - yet, it was super-rare that I would pull off such a kill on someone else.

Likely those are constraints put upon developers by Sony and Microsoft.

"Has become"? It's been that way for years and years. :/

Well, it's about a hundred years too late for this guy.

I hadn't seen your edit when I posted. Curse you internet!

"Eventually, the technicians had to use a software tool called BCWipe to completely erase the GCS' internal hard drives. "That meant rebuilding them from scratch" - a time-consuming effort."

Saving that one for later. I will find many uses for that gif. Thanks :D