Oculus Rift!! I can't remember a more exciting bit of hardware. It's hard to get too excited for a 'share' button with this sort of tech on the horizon. Can't wait to see what it's doing a year from now!

For years now there's been an awfully persistent idea that Nintendo just needs one solid classic-IP 1st party game to make everything ok, and what we keep getting are recycled Mario Kart, recycled SSB, recycled NSMB, etc. There hasn't been a major Zelda release since (the totally-clunky) Twilight Princess, and the…

Cliff Bleszinski is awesome, and the more I've read and heard over the years, the more he's impressed me with his candor and earnest love for what he does.

So pumped this is finally coming out! Wish I had a platform that had it. I never find anime girls remotely 'hot' but this game's emphasis on curvy thighs is oddly arousing.

The biggest difference is the ability to meaningfully change the world map, and previous games included all sorts of interesting political elements to the gameplay. It's got a heavy touch of Civilization underneath the Heroes trappings.

That strikes me more as an argument for publishers being flexible for emulation to preserve games than for them to perpetually support legacy software through emulation (though the counterpoint to that would be to purchase old hardware or wait for it to be reissued). The physical medium doesn't have much bearing on it…

Genuinely curious - where does the idea that new technology has to support old technology come from, much less to the degree that not doing so invalidates the purchase? There's a multitude of technical reasons for it not being so, but just on an expectations level, why should a console be backwards compatible when so…

I'm mostly marveling at how little they've changed and evolved. There certainly is more two-tone hair now, I suppose.

Well, I was referring to the experience of immersion working, not exactly the technical specs. Obviously it has certain minimums to reach to be functional, and it certainly seems to have accomplished that already - the ludicrous level of hype online indicates a more-than-niche excitement about the device. Honestly, I…

Really? I'm the nerdiest of my friends, and all of them are totally eager for the commercial version of this. If it works half as well as advertised, this is going to be huge.

All ad-supported content is on the take to some extent - even if it's bumping a 6 up to a 7. Even beyond the obvious threat to advertising revenue, people lose jobs over low Metacritic scores, too, and they could be friends of industry writers.

As though it were immutable - I don't see you you guys clinging to Þ and æ

Dear next-gen console manufacurers,

Crazy talk - the Torque Bow from Gears of War is the obvious winner. It's so visceral!

Wow - nothing else really clarifies what a bunch of bullshit 'local' corporate news is. Now watch this ad for the hottest new pharmaceutical!

It's either the best CG ever, or it's not. I'm going with 'not.'

How are we not all fundamentally the same? Our differing ideologies are shaped by the borders that surround us, and it has everything to do with flags and soldiers.

That's just not true - in the US access to broadband is available to over 90% of households. Only 62% choose to subscribe to it, but I don't think it's a huge assumption to put that number much higher among people who would be playing new PC games in the first place.

Is it really better for a girl to not be catered to and just learn to accept things for how they are?

Imagine aFfC as an intermission - it's full of great stuff, but it's far less action-packed or main-story-focused than aDwD, much less aSoS. Book 5, and what I've read of 6, are amazing on the same scale, but the 4th book does slow the pace way down, and I'm not sure we'll really see the strength of that until the…