@Les Mikesell: you're shocked when a government agency lies to you? ;-) and of course, inflation would imply that Social Security payments need increasing

@d0minick: blame it on either growing global demand (energy companies are almost always transnationals) OPEC playing silly beggars with oil prices (which kerflooeys everything) or, my personal favourite ole fashioned coporate greed

@Suce-fleur: agreed, it's kinda lame ruining the mysteriousness of the character

@Manly McBeeferton: exactly, there's a different set of expectations for what's acceptable in each category...

@Bob_Malooga: It's true that a larger proportion of games (and related junk) sold twenty years ago was japanese, the overall market now is so much bigger that companies like Nintendo are stronger and have a greater brand awareness now then they ever did before

@Manly McBeeferton: RDR had a higher rating than ME2 though, didn't it? (I only ask, as we have different rating here in the UK)

@MSUHitman: and you had to make sexy-time to avois giong extinct 20yrs in... I fail to see how having fought an indepenence war predisposes a culture towards violence

@m_faustus: because it implies a active attempt at war/genocide, but without any evidence to back it up

@ManchuCandidate: I wanted to wear my "post-singularity toga" :-(

@Ceropegius: I missed the word "Sea" on my first read and subsequently coughed teea all over my laptop...

@TwistedLight: and to think when I was a wee boy I was concerned about "the Man in the Moon" being lonely, when now I know he has plenty of company (assuming he speaks German, and isn't Slavic or Jewish ;-)

@Gaucho85: unless you can attach the word "illegal" to the latter, then the Daily Mail will run it for approximately 1 kerjillion days ;-)

@MichaelPalin: like that French girl Zoe Renault, who lost the legal battle to stop a car having the same name as her

@-MasterDex-: but there's no noticeable difference, plus being as these are coming out a year apart most folks who own both consloes would get the 360 as you can do a complete play through from 1-2 and pick it up cheaper as it's been out for a while

@mrClint: you mean you dont video-record your gaming and play it back to count framerate and analyse shadow detail? clearly you ain't hardcore ;-)

@Skunky: yeah but Mass Kinect is just so much more intuituve

@johnnywashngo: Dudes running Linux know what "PC" means in the context of a gaming article. I mean Mac owners seem to be able to avoid the confusion, so someone with the tech know-how to run Linux should be able to handle it

@kitsuneconundrum: Preach it brother!

@SubSeeenix: a meh game is a meh game no matter how many pixels you cram down its pie hole. After all how high was the resoltion on ICO or FF7 or Planescape Torment?

@QuanikaEurynome: I'm going to risk a flame war and say "do we really need a FF7 remake?" I mean, it'd be fun and all, but in my mind part of the reason the series is stagnating is because they just keep trying to retread old ground, rather than innovate, so I wonder if putting a decade old game on such a high…