I'd agree with that assessment. Seems like they're hitting a good balance of style and realism. At least in the concept stage.

From what I've seen of Life in Aggro it seems to have a sense of humor and an art style that's different enough from what's already in the sunday comic selection that it's probably going to be my vote, but I'm not sure yet.

Yeah, Smashing Avatar is exactly Penny Arcade. It's not that bad, at least in comparison to some of the others, but if you're going to copy Penny Arcade's formula you have to be consistently BETTER than Penny Arcade, and that's just not going to happen.

Or a musical duel! You should be able to challenge Mehrunes Dagon to a battle of the...lutes at the end of Oblivion. Yeah...

Ah yes, Mr. Frosty has been providing comical buttock-wiggling for quite some time.

It wasn't until "they could play a match of Quake 3" that I understood what was going on here. You clever devils...

So, first game to leave a backdoor for hackers get to sell the best out of all games! In the face of rampant piracy, too. Accolades will surely be heaped upon.

I wouldn't say "dealbreaker", but to me this is definitely the worst part of a very promising, no-nonsense handheld. I have no idea how this design got approved.

YATTAAAA!

Wouldn't they get more structural integrity from a diamond / triangular pattern?

I'm not sure how I feel about the blue. I think I'd prefer a transparent black, like you said, and the blue feels awfully Blu-ray to me. (On purpose?)

There's a professor at my university who has project where he and his students model sections of Pompeii in Unity engine to recreate what the city would've looked like and allow students and scholars to explore and hypothesize about it. From this he actually got into game design, and I've taken two game design…

Sounds like video games FTW to me. :P

"Oooh, new PSP hack! Wait, from Sony? That doesn't make any sense....Oh."

"Way Too Many Red Tabs v2.0.3"

Well now you've got me curious, Brian. If I were to pop this puppy into my rig what kind of sweet gaming action would spring forth? I think we need to track this down and get a Let's Play made.

First thing I saw too. Gotta have that all-important branding.

But then they wouldn't have anything to announce at the NEXT 3DS conference...

Well, you know about combat reporting, so that's a HUGE help to getting involved in such a project. Can you turn that experience into one that's engaging and fun for the player while being as true as you can to the subject matter? I think it's compromises like that that make good games.

Calm yourself, young one, all will be revealed in time. You speak as though you have waited five years for this game to be completed.