I think that maybe Microsoft had the right idea only talking about products that would be available in 2007 last year. Less hype, more substance.

The way to get around it is to wander the college until you see a ton of characters in the open areas. Then you can start up free play without it locking up.

Hopefully they will patch that one. Lots of people are having this issue.

The puzzles are a bit harder in this one. The levels all look awesome. The weapons are great.

I only wish they had included the online multiplayer of "The Complete Saga" in this game. No idea why they decided to let that feature disappear.

Lego Star Wars was essentially a kids game that adults also found to be a hell of a lot of fun. Lego Indy is essentially the same. And kids will love it. But now the adults that liked LSW are complaining that Indy is more of the same. Well...no crap! What the hell did you expect? It is a great formula, and they did a great job converting these movies into a Lego game.

It's not true. My 360 got the RROD last November. I got it back in 2 weeks and it has been rock solid ever since.

However, those "crashes" in GT5 were about as lame as can be. They looked like billiard balls. I had no idea it was that bad. I know it doesn't have damage, and I know it is supposedly coming in an update, but the crashes don't have to be THAT unrealistic. They could at least model some measure of deceleration instead of having the cars use statics equations that I learned in physics 101.

Absolutely hilarious! :-D

And it just looks to me like they were trying to show some cool crashes. Both games should be identical with regard to the crash physics, regardless of which version had the more spectacular crash. It is just hard to get stuff like this identical on 2 different runs.

Nobody here has ever made a mistake?

All the ones I've seen have had the 175W power supply that indicates that it is a Falcon in the box.

Uhh, no. The current Falcon 360s have a 65nm CPU and an 80nm GPU. Both are shrunk from the launch CMOS technology of 90nm. These started appearing in stores around August last year.

Here are pictures of the smaller processors:
[www.anandtech.com]

I'm sure that MS is also in the process of shrinking their chips down to 45nm. It will be a while before you see 45nm chips out of either MS or Sony, however. Trust me.

[downloads.teamxbox.com]

Basically, you just browse to your desired photo and hit X to make it your dashboard wallpaper.

I have a custom gamertile on my system that I created using the XBox camera. Only my friends can see it, though.

As for the user created in game content, I think that Forza 2 and Halo 3 are great examples of how this is being done with relative ease on the 360. The web interface that is used to download new Halo 3 games, modified maps, and videos is just about perfect. The Forza 2 auction house is another innovative way to share in game content.

But basically, it is up to the game developer to create this stuff. I think that MS is currently at the forefront of easily accessible user created content. But other developers have to catch up, even on the 360.

And no, transferring one mod at a time to my PS3 for use in UT3, all the while hoping that one of the mods won't crash the game, is not easily accessible. :( I sure do wish they would fix that mod import system.

Is that what this is about? You need to go back and read my comment again. I never said that.

I said:
"No communication with players in other games."

"Other games" is the key, here.

Meaning that if you are in Motorstorm, you can't talk to someone playing Unreal Tournament III. So it makes getting games together a real pain. Better to use a phone than to try and use the PS3's communication.

GT5:P and Hot Shots Golf both have zero voice communication in game. Doesn't matter if you have a bluetooth headset or not.

MS forces developers to include voice communication in every game.

Sony does not, obviously. So whether or not a PS3 game has voice communication ends up depending on the developer and the game. This sort of inconsistency is not good for the user.

It is better to use a cell phone to set up a game on PSN than to use the console.

And every game has a completely different set of features that are supported. There are multiplayer PS3 games being launched that don't have any voice communication.

Sony doesn't force their developers to support these features by default. While that may be good for the developer, it sure isn't good for gamers. Hell, they don't even force game developers to use PSN (Metal Gear Online's 3 gamer IDs come to mind).

Pocketbike Racer, a $3.99 game from Burger King has better online communication than Gran Turismo 5: Prologue. That's just sad.

[www.xbox.com]

Look at that. Online multiplayer with leaderboards and voice support.

Regardless of whether you feel that Sony started their online stuff in the past generation or this generation, there is no excuse for Sony's service to be as bad as it is right now. 1.5 years after launch, 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through this generation, and Sony has done nothing to improve the online gameplay experience of the PS3. Nothing.

There have been lots of promises, but no results.

The PS2 was online, too. It has taken Sony an entire console generation to get where PSN is today, and it is pathetic.

It isn't Microsoft's fault that Sony made a horribly gimpy PS2 service.

In all, a really decent beat-em-up!

Last report I saw said that it could not.

And wow, 3 whole HD channels. :)

Most DVRs already have this feature, but it isn't tied to just one portable device. I can do this with my DirecTV DVR using a web page interface. Hell, I can even set up a recording using my mobile phone, which doesn't even require a wifi connection. Firewalls also won't get in the way with a web interface.

If you forget to bring your PSP with you (who totes their honkin' PSP everywhere, anyway?), or can't find a wifi access point, you're sunk.

But the average height of a 10 year old girl in 1963 was 4'7.5".
The average height of a 10 year old girl in 2002 was 4'8.4".

People are getting taller.

This girl is 4'9". So she is above the average for height. She should also be above the average for weight, as well.

You can't use a height and a weight to tell if someone is overweight.

A video game isn't going to make you "fit."

Nor can a video game tell you if you are overweight or not.

Nintendo is just selling their scale to be more than it actually is.

@Achenar: Well, you understood wrong. Silverlight is also available for XP.

Microsoft's failures may be more numerous, but at least they cover it for 3 years.

@slomo788: How are Blu Ray drive failures like the one that struck Mike Fahey the other day a firmware issue?

[kotaku.com]

They aren't a firmware issue.

As I posted in that thread, there are about 30 people on AVSForum that this has happened to.

The Blu Ray of Death? :)

Between that and the "Pole Position" cartoon I remembered a couple months ago (and sent into Kotaku, but never made it to the site), my childhood video game cartoon memories are now re-established.

The 360 version uses 2x anti-aliasing. The PS3 uses NO anti-aliasing. Instead, they used a blur filter over the whole image to hide the lower resolution and the lack of AA.

Personally, I'm slapping them on the back for letting Criterion update Burnout Paradise with new content for a full year for free.