"...from the imagination of From Software."

Whenever someone talks about character being important and how it is not usually a priority in comics, my buddy always says, "Concrete. Just go get Concrete."

Thanks for the recommendation - will have to check Turtle Beach's offerings. Every time I'm in a store looking at these things they seem to be for one system only. The packaging is sometimes pretty confusing, and will actually hide the compatibility (or incompatibility) with additional systems in fine print.

Always-online will seem fine... until the very first time you are unable to play a game because of a dropped connection. Then it will be the worst, most unnecessary thing ever.

I got a little auto-switching HDMI switch off ebay for literally a few dollars with free shipping; it even has a little remote in case I need to manually change the input (for example if I turn on my PS3 and then my home theatre and want to see the PS3 video signal). It saved my 50" Plasma from obsolescence (only has…

While I agree it's not ideal, the ability to be able to take this same headset to your PC sounds enticing (another poster had mentioned this, and it piqued my interest). If it means having remixed stereo into "virtual surround", then so be it!

I think it has virtual surround. Best Buy's (Canada) listing for the headset reads:

That look reminds me of the "Do not want" dog.

There is a joke in here somewhere about Xbox 360's self-immolating, with no Xbox 720 required.

Agreed - a quick glance over these lists has me pining to go down to the family room and fire these games up again. I always think the last 1-2 years of a console are its best years (not to mention the additional year[s] it might get titles after the next console releases).

Has there been any word on whether Sony is planning on locking all online functionality behind a pay-wall like Xbox Live? That will be a sad day.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens, in any case. It would be great to be a part of it, if the product offering is good. Right now I don't know how much is going to be gimmick after gimmick, trying to feel out what consumers might latch onto and possibly diluting the entire offering.

I suppose, but is it too much to ask MS & Sony to have consoles be a console gaming experience? PC's already do a superb job of PC gaming! I just don't see how consoles are to be marketed to consumers successfully (or rather, as successfully as they have been previously) if they become too PC-like.

We old curmudgeons have to stick together.

My aversion from consoles being always online is that when I play PC games I take that sort of requirement as part & parcel of the PC games experience, along with a host of other technical consideration such as drivers, hardware requirements, et al.

If for nothing else, I deeply appreciate these simulation games for the GiantBomb Quick Look videos they spawn.

I always thought they were going for the exaggerated "totally rad metal album / fantasy scene airbrushed onto the side of a panel van" look, and I think they completely nailed it. It's ludicrous, but in an interesting way.

Cannot agree more. I am not an electronic music fan at all,but the two songs on the Blood Dragon site and the Hotline Miami soundtrack have been rocking my socks all this week.

His comments definitely read as being written by a smug, smarmy arsehole. You can never tell how much is simply the written medium of Twitter and how much is the fact that he may, in fact, be a smug, smarmy arsehole.

"Deal with it"? Man, talk about not knowing your audience. People are going to scream about this for WEEKS.