I bought my regular edition for PC at Target, on release day, with no preorder. Free $10 gift card for buying it, even.

Plenty of games have crafting systems, which can be used essentially in that way. For some, it's so inventory intensive that people will make a character that does little else.

It only needs to cost $2000 less and it might stand a chance. Unless they put some Beats stickers on it or something.

It's not like this is just an ad. As has been pointed out, it's effectively a digital copy for that particular service. Like when Valve included a Steam copy of Portal 2 with the PS3 version. It's part of the retail package for the game that every retail store received (I bought the game at Target, and it had one).

FFXI came out before WoW, so it's only natural that it wouldn't have copied it. Instead, it copied Everquest, to a fair extent.

People do mod small PCs as well, and everything in between. They mod/build in general for plenty of different reasons.

Actually, some of that is off when it comes to GW2 (particularly).

The issue is that Steam handles game patching, and DLC available for the game must be sold through the Steam storefront.

Whatever you feel about -how- the characters are exaggerated, they point is simply that they are. Games are not presenting otherwise real life situations with ludicrously "enhanced" women. The men (and situations) are just as fabricated.

I dunno.

Fuu is hardly oversexualized, particularly for an anime girl. Compare her to characters in, say, High School of the Dead...

I dunno, I think the hairstyle that won + black hair nets one of the closer approximations to the real femShep that the poll choices allow for.

It may depend on the character(s) in question. Some of them were probably supposed to be 16/17 years old in the prior games. While, I'd agree, that'd realistically that'd mean a fair bit of development if they're now in their mid-30s, having them look as they do there for that age wouldn't be atypical for the style of…

Having alternatives is one thing. There are already alternatives to Steam, and that's not the issue.

I'd rather they beef up whatever handshaking or other issue the PS3 seems to have when running through a receiver. I've got two PS3s, a MGS4 bundle phat and a Slim, and both of them drop the video out for a second or two occasionally. My 360 doesn't do that. My HTPC doesn't do that. Just the PS3s. I've tried several…

I usually figure that it's more that Monster Hunter is intended more as a multiplayer game, and there aren't really good ways to do that outside of Japan. The PS2 servers were shut down, the PC/360 version was never released here, ad-hoc wireless play on the PSP would be a rarity, etc.

You should try it. You'll probably get used to it faster than you think.

What's even worse is that the advertising for the Sega CD as a whole made mention of the INXS on as being one of the hardware developer's favorite titles.

Not too surprising considering the PS3 supported remote play with the PSP pretty much since launch (Lair supported it at least, and that was an early game). Few PS3 titles actually have support...but the capability has been there for a while.

Gaming in general? Not really, no. No more so than reading or watching movies or whatever.