IcyStorm

@goochnapkin I believe he's in the game, yeah. So is Vincent Kartheiser (and obviously Aaron Staton).

Friends and I are Nuzlocke running our first playthroughs.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze Already got mine pre-ordered. ANY DAY NOW...

Ehh, I wouldn't call Steam a "game engine." It's a digital distribution platform and multiplayer gaming platform.

Consoles will hardly be replaced in the near future. You can't do multiplayer gaming with things like OnLive at a reasonable pace, and not everyone wants to play (or develop) casual titles. Imagine playing a game like StarCraft where milliseconds matter. Going through multiple servers (your computer to OnLive or some offsite server to Battle.net and then all the way back to you) would be a horrible mess.

And with games being more expensive products as well as more frequently used products (in that you usually watch a movie once and you play a game for several hours, if not more), people, especially gamers, won't take kindly to the fact that they may not be able to actually own their games and play whenever they want. OnLive should never used as an example for success when it hasn't proven to be a commercial success.

@Shatter You make it sound as though someone would buy an iPhone and an iPad JUST to use it as an SNES.

@guitarkid So... a laptop? Or a netbook?

@NYYstateofmind Because it's hardly breaking news. It's not industry-changing, a highly anticipated product announcement, or even industry-related. The iPhone OS 4 dev jailbreak wasn't breaking news, and this isn't either.

@KeegdnaB There is an iTunes panel included.

@Newwales Considering how the iPhone probably outsells webOS, Android, and WinMo devices combined and features no home screen technology, I don't think it matters all that much to most consumers. There's a greater number of consumers they can take than they might lose.