@Brodka: regrettably: I meant besides that.

I'm still working through Red Dead Redemption. Anyone know if the gold from the treasure hunts does anything or should I just sell it?

@SirTheGentleman: I used to use the "!" as my message tone but I found it was making me nervous every time since years of MGS have trained me to run. I replaced it with virgil from ODST.

@ZFK: Friends without Xboxes aren't really friends at all...

@lance11con: It's like achievements with some actual reward.

@JRock: Does the gold do anything or should you just sell it?

@#c23674426ddmeightball: I use winamp and the wave writer. You can download tons of old soundtracks from zophar.net and make a ringtone out of whatever you want. Then just clip the wave and convert to MP3 and load to your phone. It's kind of a long way to do it but you can make a ringtone out of anything. I have…

@GunFlame: The Second Coming: Coins. Bling Bling.

Props to Red Dead Redemption putting in Avatar Rewards. I really like the idea of achievements you can show off on your avatar. Here's hoping more games will follow suit(bah dum ching).

@adgeman: They sent me a free cable when I bought a 360 elite. They don't do that anymore?

@OCEntertainment: Haha, living in the past is the fate of all of us cheapassgamers.

What could possibly make this thing cost so much?

@jayc4life: There were a lot of computer science and engineering drop outs in the arts and technology school. It was good motivation for me to stick with engineering.

@mintycrys will Vanquish you!: I think it's the same as it was in the days of Disney animation. You've got the talent who you keep happy drawing the key frames and you've got the disposable in-betweeners who you work to death.

Don't they know LARPers don't have any money?

In college I took a game development class and all the developers who came and spoke to us from gearbox, EA and Ritual all said that in the last couple of months of a games development you're going to be working 60-80 hours. When there's such a supply of digital artists it's easy to see how they could be abused so…

Back in the SNES days all you had was the newest issue of Nintendo power and a hope that soon the game would be out. You had to imagine in your mind what the game looked like in motion. You never even had a release date to go by you just had to check the display case. I remember when Chrono Trigger was coming out…

There are so many game developers in the DFW area to feature. Gearbox, ID, even EA has some development here. Texas is where it's at if you're into game development.

@Tyrunn: I got paid for working at a boyscout camp and I rode my bike to Target and bought Time Crisis because my parents wouldn't buy it for me. They didn't like shooting games.

@royjones9: I hated that. I must have died 15 times. Lots of loading and dumb luck. Bringing medicine helps some.