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If there was EVER a picture begging for the 'shop content, gentlemen this is it. Read more

No, give it to bigfoot12911. Thanks for asking though! Read more

*crickets* :P Read more

I finally broke down and preordered Forza 4 overnight last night to get the $10 amazon credit. I'm sure it will be down to $35 during the black friday/xmas sales but I'll pay the $15 premium to have it 2 months early. Between Forza 4 and NBA Jam On Fire Edition I think I'm breaking out of the funk brought on by too… Read more

I've noticed the rubber-banding AI. It was the same with the previous on-disk release. No matter how great I'm doing, in the 3rd quarter without fail I get blocked and the ball stolen constantly. Dunks and alley-oops clank and won't go in, and the opponents 3's rain down. It's not so awful that it can't be overcome… Read more

I really enjoyed Forza 3 however with all the major releases coming out around now I was on the fence about picking this up. But DAMN! Reviews like those listed above sure are powerful 'get off the fence' forces. Read more

I have enjoyed multiplayer overall, however to me many of the modes feel more like a novelty than something that will keep me coming back for me. Read more

Well, I can't really do that because I'm not on facebook/twitter etc. I feel like I'm giving away too much personal info just doing regular browsing and using gmail ;) Read more

Is anyone concerned that some random marketing group can ask for and receive such narrowly targeted credit card purchasing data from our purchases? I'm sure it was all provided to them anonymously, but it goes back to an interesting point from a documentary I watched recently: in the US we have a right to privacy, but… Read more

Yeah, I'm on board as well, hoping it sticks around as it's own platform and doesn't just migrate into actionscript/flex compiling into HTML5. Bit by bit apple comes closer to supporting flash; I keep hoping the wall will come down at some point. Read more

Yep, I've been really torn about what to stick with of the upcoming games. I have been enjoying Gears 3 but that added to all the other 'grimness' in the upcoming releases (battlefield, MW3, rage, dark souls, arkham city, even skyrim) has made me decide that Forza will be what gets most of my time. Read more

The Cole Train runs on whole grain baby! Whoooooo! Read more

I tend to feel that way when initially starting a new mutliplayer fps as well (disclaimer, I just turned 39 so I may have old-fogey syndrome as well). However muscling through that initial learning curve where it seems like you just die over and over I can usually bring my level up to the decent-to-respectable range.… Read more

I think my playthrough clocks in around 10-12 hours; about standard (or even a little longer than other shooters). But then you have to hook up with friends to do a co-op playthrough on 'Insane'! Read more

Pretty much. I came to see what tortured conditions they put on the data sets to get the numbers and trends they wanted to show. I was not disappointed! Read more

And the sega saturn game Solar Eclipse! Read more

Any Gears3 players having trouble getting multiplayer matches going? I couldn't get into a single game last night. Tried waiting to get into Beast Mode for about 15 minutes before I gave up. Also tried regular team deathmatch and even casual mode - couldn't get into a single thing. Hadn't had any problems up until… Read more

Yeah that happened to me a few nights ago (Mad World). It happened right as I really started doing terribly - I thought maybe it was due to dying a certain number of times in a row without getting any kills or something ;) Read more

Wow, looks really nice. Does it come like that out of the box or is it all just unpainted plastic and you have to paint and detail all the units and terrain and stuff? Read more

How do you know you can't? I mean, since that's all the editors of the site do all day long, there must be money in it somewhere. Get out there and make it happen! Who knows, maybe we'll all come to your site someday and make insightful comments about the job you're doing! Read more