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Very likely. EA has heard our cries and is doing something about it.

Live NASA satellite launch on now!! http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Literally rocket-launched from the bottom of an L-1011 jumbo liner.

A must-have, no doubt. I'm convinced graphical fidelity will be nearly identical on a 7850 PC and PS4, at launch of DA:I ... so I'm opting for the wireless controller version on the bigger screen. Speaking of fidelity, I may have a crush on the interviewer in this E3 back-and-forth with Bioware's Jessica Merizan. Not many specifics about Inquisition, unless you follow her advice and go read the third book in the Dragon Age saga, which I have not.

Nice, very good. Good news, indeed. So long, Prop Hate. Many tears of cheer out here in CA streets.

MERPS ... Middle-earth Role Playing System. Wasn't my first, but might have been my favorite. Top Secret, I think it was called ... a spy RPG. GURPS ... Generic Universe. Didn't play that too much. AD&D was the main platform. The Forgotten Realms were well and truly remembered.

My brains are depleted after stumbling over the syntax in that peer review article rant. That level of indignation reads like a rejection letter. A rebuttal to a breakup. And the most "exciting period" in science is decidedly every new day we're here to see it. The most interesting part of the OP article was the "milliseconds" reaction time for feelings to manifest. I feel, faster than I think. Which likely means Rodin mislabeled his work. That sculptured Thinker isn't thinking, it's feeling, and then deciding how to interpret it. Hmmm ...

I wish I had a thousand dollars. You don't have to come up with a thousand dollars until November. Pre-orders are just promises to buy later. I can only promise for one console. The potential for a quick ebay sale later this year is good, I think, but I will also say that Amazon has four different guaranteed-launch-day-delivery PS4 bundles, available for the last ten days, all of which still listed in the top ten biggest sellers in video games, with Day One Xbox One also still available. In other words, it's relatively easy to reserve a new console right now, despite the fact pre-order totals for both consoles peaked at 2500 units per minute June 10-14. Also Gamestop told its managers to accept an unlimited amount of PS4 pre-orders for an indefinite amount of time, for now. I'm just saying, don't gamble on multiple pre-orders unless you can. Edit: Or not. You can always cancel it the day before it ships.

I have read your arguments carefully, and find you to be diligent. Maybe I took a different survey, but country of origin wouldn't matter. There are no accurate or inaccurate results from a subjective questionnaire about decision-making. Particularly when we don't know what relevance, if any, the data will have upon the greater thesis. You never know, double-blind, this could be a purely free-form experiment in psychology that has nothing whatever to do with video games and reviews. I kinda hope there is a psychiatric professor behind this--then maybe what's-his-name might get help and stop practically shouting his transference neurosis, cripes.

The prize of my blu-ray TV collection so far, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gradually finishing Season 3 now, until late next month when Season 4 comes out. CBS Digital has taken great pains to restore the series, frame by frame from the original 35mm. The fidelity is just ... it brings a tear to my eye. All new CG planets, digital FX, 7.1 DTS ... *sniff* Unrelated but equally endearing, Lucy Liu makes Elementary worthwhile, all on her own IMO. She has a natural stoic depth making up for Watson's kind of reticent dialogue. And I half-expect O-Ren Ishii to come out at any moment.

So I'll never get to play a Dragonlance game ... son of a gully dwarf. I won't give up hope. I'll just have to win Powerball and start my own studio.

The hardware isn't the only important factor here. By the time their library has grown to something semi interesting, their hardware will be pretty much outdated. And right now...well...it's like this and this VS. this and this. The only thing that has given the consoles such a long lifespan are the exclusive games, otherwise they would have long been in the dead book by now. With all that said, I still wouldn't mind having a PS4 once some good games are out for it. The dead book. I like it. It's where the movie, Children of Men, should stay and never come out. Comparing new game availability versus old, or just depth of library ... Sony said they plan to allow PS4 players to stream a library of PS, PS2, and PS3 games to the new console. I find that very convenient, as long as I can download and store each game, available for offline play. Talking to you, The Last of Us. And the number of surprisingly good indie titles coming up, make the platform equal in appeal to my PC. I think direct comparison is plausible now, what with shared x86 going around. Customization changes comparison, but so does a driver update. Whatever the experience is post-pipeline should be able to be measured, objectively enough to satisfy my hardware nerd jones. All I'm saying, is that it's a great time to be an enthusiast. Viable, durable, powerful choices are available.

A little further down in that article: The 7870 is $200 on a good day, which would be half of the PS4's cost alone. Of course, you would also have to add a physical case to your system, plus input devices, a blu-ray drive, and an operating system--all of which are included with the console. Not to mention the PS4 finally comes bundled with an HDMI cable. Yay! By now you're up to at least $800 for a similarly spec'd PC. Anand has some good write-ups on the new hardware, even though he's resolutely a CPU champion.

No, the custom chip in new consoles is not "one quarter" strength of even Haswell. You cannot build a 7870/660 system with an input device for $400.

Next-gen consoles are stupid cheap, for what you get. This is truly the apex in the history of price-to-performance. I can understand why that nutty MS exec claimed to be delivering "thousands of dollars in value," if you compare the power and price of the newest hardware to even just the last generation: the PS4 will have 600% more power than the PS3, at a cost of only +33%. And that's including a wireless input device. The new Xbox is still a good value, too, it just comes with an unavoidable camera caveat that I don't want anything to do with. If you guys find value in your 680's and 7970's ... kudos on the multiple monitor setups.

Finished Bioshock: Infinite this morning, for the first time, after three months or whatever. Had to have it explained to me ... guess I'm too thick to see through such a convoluted reach-around.

Okay, so there have been some development leaps since the Rift's debut. This month at E3, the device was shown using Epic's Unreal Engine 4 tech demo in HD 1080p. Until now, I have been totally ambivalent and ignorant of the potential of the Rift. I assumed it was merely a monitor that sits on my face. Turns out, I was wrong. Some quotes from this article ... Imagine the depth of immersion at being able to move your head view independently of forward control ...

I love it, this makes me feel like one of those journos invited behind closed doors for a preview ... except I already have a reliable source at the developer who updates about every two weeks. Can't wait to visit that bay city and the dungeons thereunder.

That looks fun. I do prefer shaders dressed in black, however. Maybe a nice red for Tomb Raider 2 bundles in 2015. This interview with Bioware's Jessica Merizan is a fun tap to the gaming vein if you're collecting for Dragon Age and Mass Effect, but more importantly, a new IP. I love being teased like that, but I'm hoping it's for an Episode VII Star Wars single-player open world on Frostbite 3. If you watch Jessica carefully, you can almost read her mind when she mentions the new IP ... *STAR WARS* No, but seriously, at the end, she mentions SWTOR and, "giving back to the fans." Also, one of the questions specifically alludes (if that's possible) to Project: Eternity, as far as Kickstarter, new-old games, and their influence, if any, on the new DA. Speaking of Tomb Raider, if you haven't seen Chloe, the interviewer, cosplay as Lara Croft ... she nailed it, and I mean with a hammer.

I call Monday night at midnight, July 8, after Friday's July 4th launch party weekend. There will be booze. And hot dogs. I am totally going to buy P:E at launch, even though I pledged for digital and hard copies. I'll gift the other code and lovingly caress the boxed version--er, I mean, you know, put it on display with KOTOR2, et. al. I like physical media.

Yes. That's what happened. Furtive, wordless glances in the darkened hallways of Obsidian. Executives and writers together, thinking as one. Delay--at least for 45 minutes while we decide on Wasa, or Wahoo's. April was always a placeholder. Next summer would be great. If not, I'll wait longer.

Super fly photo for Mirror's Edge 2. Just got the original game on Origin ... can't wait to play. The HD version of this image is just stunning. Big propositions to the artists at DICE.

Bioware Montreal director today posted a photo of the Design Document (not the contents, just the binder) for ME4 and said it will use the same engine and "core features" as DAIII. An open-world Mass Effect RPG? Yes, thank you, I'll take two, one for my PC, one for my PS4.

I would love to know exactly how large corporations "read comments and listen to feedback." Do they have dedicated research teams (like the ones EA just pink-slipped) or do project directors et. al read reddit (readdit?) and Shacknews ... but then what. Do they call a meeting, talk about options ... who makes the final decision. What I am certain of, however, is that a potential loss of revenue is the only thing that makes a company change anything. Still not loving the mandatory Kinect. When gaming, I prefer to remain as still as possible ... having to wave my whole hand around, using my entire forearm, lifting my upper arm, rotating my shoulder cuff ... gads I'm tired, I just want to play and relax.

Gads I was set on starting with a monk character. Now I know it was a paladin all along. Thanks for doing this, by the way.

I'm seriously almost wanting to buy a PS3 just to play The Last of Us.