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Because Valve wants to avoid what happened to 3DFX. Direct2Drive is just the same. They have to sell at prices according to agreements with the publishers. Publishers don't want to upset retail outlets, which are still the primary avenue of sales, who will understock units in response. Competitive pricing from a platform that can undercut any price at all only pisses off the retail chains. It's unfair to them and they won't deal with it.

Old news. Everyone I know loves the guy. Even the Republicans.

If they wanted dead gods than they should have left that lamer Bane dead. If they kill Mystra off, they kill the weave. No weave, no magic. Sounds like they are trying to advance the FR setting into something else. They might as well just kill of the FR setting period. Bane is awesome. Who else to represent a tyrant? He's a perfect personality for the universe. Unlike Bhaal who was a lawful psychopath and Myrkul who was evil when the universe fits a neutral god of death more. They need to let Bane do some of the major changes to the universe. Cyric gets too much play despite Lawful Evil being the supposed frequently successful kind of evil.

I'm with Vol on this one.

That's how I'm approaching it, to be honest. How is Gears of War? Is it really worth getting? What about for those of us who don't have interest in the MP?

Holy crap! That's it, buying Crysis.

A lot of the time the devs don't even have the copyright to the games they make. The publisher does. Unlike musicians, developers aren't living out of mansions after a one-hit wonder. They're on a bit more of a leash.

Now installing: Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Pack

What the heck? The US version of that only seems to have 3 games. No Gothic 2 Expansion? Well, maybe the thing I read counted the expansion in with Gothic 2.

I've started doing "Daily Training"tm with Brain Age 2. It's kind of fun. My first Brain Age score put me at 51. :'( Most of the puzzles said I was walking yesterday (I guess that means I'm doing relatively poorly or average). Today seems to be better, as the piano game (I'm horrible at music despite having played the sax in high school, or should I say mimed playing it), put me at AIRPLANE speed. Then I did a change making game and a Sudoku puzzle, both put me at train speed. Maybe I just had an off day yesterday. *shrug* I'm getting kind of bored with The Witcher. The plot and stuff is neat, but I'm getting tired of this damned swamp that was in so much of last Act, but also appears in this new Act. If I see one more Drowned Dead! Maybe I'll switch over to playing Phantom Hourglass and POKEYMANZ!

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney I finished Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations last night. Let me tell you, it was pure awesome. Anyone who owns a DS needs to get this game (and the two Phoenix Wright games before it) right now. NOW. Okay, you can wait until the shops open, but then go. GO GO GO. Anyone who doesn't own a DS needs to buy one of those, then these games.

Eschalon Demo The Witcher Pool of Radiance Remastered

Since I'm going to spend several hours in the cold outside Circuit City waiting for it to open at 5 so I can my brother-in-law a $300 laptop, I'm going to be playing Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea.

You should give me a heads up on this kind of thing. I quite enjoy acting snooty!

It's from the UK. My local Fry's has it, PEGI rating and all.

You and I both know that there's a difference between passive movie watching and operant behaviour. You and I both also know that there's a difference between action and violence. Half-Life illicits different reactions than Manhunt. Just as True Lies illicits a different reaction from Saw.

And all of the game industry isn't focused on gruesome games. Most of the games to get M-ratings are as gruesome as your average Segal, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Van Damme, **** there's a lot of them movies.

I'm trying to decide what to play next. Finish FF 4? Finish Shadow Hearts? Katamari Damacy? Jagged Alliance 2? Golden Sun? Metroid Zero Mission? And many more options to choose from.

I like to tell people that Str/Con is the way to go.

Only for those absolutely must excuse their failure.

I think it means we've got spiders.

Studies have also shown that rock can cause aggressive driving. And that violent movies can cause aggressive behavior. Should we make an effort of policy on them? You have to be a right idiot to be of the opinion that the government's job is to police our emotions and exposure to stimulus. When a government decides what is appropriate for it's people to know, see, or feel, it stops having any chance of pretending to be a real Democracy or Republic. A government that controls its people does not answer to them.

Originally it was to one of your articles on the PC/Xbox-360.

hahaha Cut-paste get you? Guy's a bit of a nutter. One of his filings actually requested President Bush as a witness and another accused Penny-Arcade of being involved in a racket. Yet, he gets invited to news shows.

I was just getting excited that Sony finally opened a Playstation Store store.playstation.com that you can use with the PC to get games for your PSP (eliminating the need for a PS3 to do this). Only to look at the selection of old PSOne titles, demos, themes, and wallpapers and be completely underwhelmed. They need to ramp up that library. Pronto. Schnell.