but i'm not your son, so i am minus a laser-tag filled day and a new mountain bike.

but at 28, my knees can't take all that running and squatting in laser tag. that's why i play halo. less active, same thrill. kinda.

* Beyond the initial 'wow' factor, that is.

trouble!

"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
and a dark wind blows..."

maybe that's why i liked that trailer so much.

yeah, a little over the top, and yeah, it's a trailer for a map pack.

but blizzard started it with the expansion-trailers and why not? it's to build excitement for a release.

worked for me, son.

'cause it would kiiiiinda make sense if it was a warthog.

but 'make sense' and 'funny' are far apart.

i rolled a 1 on saving vs being sad about this.

at least now i have an excuse to try to re-start the weekly gaming sessions. it's hard now that we're all lvl 30 Career Workers, but damn if i won't try...

oh, and what a Challenge it is...

each toe has it's own latex home.

ewwww!

i felt it was very awkward to say the least. I guess all the writers really got into games while on strike and had to show some love... a year and some change after its release.

(sorry. ok, not really.)

i never owned a dreamcast, but my roomies did in college, so forgive my fogged memories...

but i like how he said it will take you about a week to go through that 'massive' bottle of water. i drink like 2 of those a day. i guess it's hard to drink so much water what with all the 'Volt' he's consuming.

Digital distribution writes those factors out of the equation, as there's no difference between a 'new' and 'used' download, if it's certified un-altered. (code-wise)

since the current platform for distribution is relatively closed to outside tampering (XBL, PSN, Steam), the 'certification' of it being authentic is readily feasible.

if any kind of after-market trading goes on, i see it as an ebay-style bidding or like the faux-market in online games like FFXI, where supply and demand dictate how much you can re-sell it for.

Sometimes, it's directly the budgeting of the publisher that impacts color vs. b&w, and it seems to happen more often than not with games localized from other markets and the publishers not being sure if the game will be a success, so they cut the corners and go grayscale.

going cmyk can quad-up the production cost of the manuals and a lot of times it's just not at the forefront of the budget.

i think that, collector's editions aside, we're going to see less and less neat internal package components.

at least they're not including them as PDF's. (yet)

all 'round, it's a good one. and, well, currently at least, it's the highest APY.

i cried a little when it dropped from 5.25% mid-last year, tho.

and feb is so soon!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

0_0;

MUST HAVE.

(plus, how good is that remix of the theme?)

But, in Pop Culture's defense, they're not gamers like us and haven't known about it for years. I suppose I shall let them have their fun.

when you see 55-yr-old business dudes 'rocking out' at CES, combined with Ellen playing it, Conan, etc etc, i just want to say one thing:

"Next."

it seems like it will be more focused on the sessions next year, rather than the hardware/tech displays.

as gaming and hollywood come closer each year, the panels will (hopefully) continue in the right direction and allow some really interesting insight that can only come from combined viewpoints that originate outside the general videogame industry, and what we see at GDC.

theoretically.

Brilliant.

(tho dave's is pretty rad, too, but he's not playing rock band, so...)

A pistol, however..

Maybe that's why they gave it the really long clip.

I know i'm dwelling on a seemingly tiny point, but, can't help it.

Well, apparently, it's either completely mute and anonymous online gaming, or very vocal 13-year olds dropping f- and n-bombs, with gamertags.

someone let me know when the 'i just want to play games and discuss team strategies with like-minded dudes' online service comes along.

(until then i'll be on XBL getting called everything under the sun and loving it in a non-awesome way...)

also, if the sofa's a killer and can cause diabetes and joint pain, why not just get a better, softer couch?

duhhhhhh!

i mean, videogames have, over the last year or so, moved from a little sidebar in Daily Variety to a couple of cover stories. (This being a single example of how gaming in general has recently 'blown up' in the entertainment industry as a whole)

that means dollars, and from those dollars come suits with vices for parent companies' heads.

and thus the era of the Honest Videogame Review soon came to an end...

sad, if this is true.

sad, but not shocking in the slightest.