I'd willing to bet that Diablo 3 and SimCity will have more commonality in player bases then The Sims and SimCity.

I think you are underestimating the shitty parenting of 2013. Half these first graders are shooting off the limbs of other human beings on a nightly basis.

Yay for virtual class warfare!

I was actually pumped for this game but this story is actually going to keep me from buying it. At least for the time being. I'm going to wait and look at some reviews and more information on how this dynamic works before I take the plunge. I had originally planned on downloading this on Steam tomorrow. Glad I read…

I'm a Cs fan but come on man. Sullinger was a tough loss but we stole Jordan Crawford from the Wizards for Barbosa with his blown ACL.

I think the OP is referring to an actual notepad. You know that thing that has a spiral binding with what is referred to as "paper" in which you write things on it with a "pencil".

Do you remember when you didn't have that stick so far up your ass I could see it poking out your mouth? Yeah, me neither.

Yes, I agree. It's like saying you've wasted years of your life reading. Well no shit but I like to do it so who gives a fuck.

If you're going to make some dick head comment at least be correct... UConn was never offered membership into the ACC.

Gamefly is $15.95 for one game out at a time. While you're keeping that 8 hour game for five months, I'll continue to rent my movies from Red Box for $1.20 and stream Netflix movies for $7.99.

"allowances for housing, uniforms and subsistence technically can be cut" Wrong.

The movies from my library aren't several years old. They get the "hot" new releases on DVD release day and don't provide video games.

Wait, what? You actually have a Blockbuster? I'm happy for you but where I live and like in most of the country we don't have one anymore so that comparison is null and void for most people. Also what you aren't taking into account is that you may not beat the game in the period of time you rented it for without…

Notice the "non-exempt" part? You know what IS exempt, all of our foreign wars and associated costs. I remain unimpressed.

He's trying to make himself feel superior. Considering he is on Kotaku with a user name like poop in ur mouth he must have a lot of friends.

What I find is the key to Civ 5 is to just build up science and then when you're "ages" ahead just beat everyone's ass. Even if someone else attacks you as long as you're more advanced you can usually take them out with less military units.

You come across as very intelligent in your own fictitious conversation. We all have all the answers in our own little bubble.

The Democrats would love to cut spending. It's called the defense budget. The Republicans are so conservative with their money unless you want to cut the most bloated piece of the budget. Considering we outspend the next biggest military power 6 to 1 (China, a country that has 1 billion more people that we do) I'd say…

It's clear we're talking about triple AAA games from big studios. The majority of this article revolves around EA with some Valve sprinkled in. EA or any other company isn't releasing a AAA game for $4.99. Great so you get 100 hours out of GW 2 so you're paying the equivalent to the movie rental (this is also ignoring…