Grendel Pr1me

I would say sometime after the merger with Valve, and their conversion of the StarCraft 2 business model to the much more successful, and viable episodic content vision that Valve has been so brilliant at.

Of course due to the merger, the one provision Blizzard has to make, due to manpower constraint, is StarCraft 2: Episode 2 cannot release until at least a year after Half Life 2: Episode 3.

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If it was anyone but Courtney Love, I would have expected this to come off like the Kevin Smith/Tim Burton story from An Evening With Kevin Smith, with Courtney Love looking at her twitter, asking "Where's the 'tee-hee-hee'?"

But it is Courtney Love after all, and she is probably just asking, "Where's the crack pipe? I had it here a second ago, and now there's this sting in my foot, and a blood trail back to the last place I saw it. Anyone?"

Agreed.

iTunes, while they keep improving the devices it supports, just keeps the whole experience locked somewhere between 2001, and 2002 from a design standpoint. If they can limit the bloat, while improving the functionality, I'm all for a redesign, maybe even add wireless sync support.

Not really a surprise - after all, I don't think I've ever read a headline anywhere that says "Turns Out Activision No Longer Likes Money."

While this is an obviously great fit for the social aspect on which the 360 has built itself, I can't help but feel the disjointedness that Microsoft is displaying in their own company.

After all, many would say (myself included) that Last.fm is exactly where Microsoft looked to when they began building "The Social" for their Zune network. It does seem a little odd, then, that Microsoft would not look internally to develop a cross promotion with one of their own products, instead to collaborate with what could arguably be called competition. Albeit, this gets them off the hook for any possible anti-trust yarns to be spun, Microsoft may be missing a bigger opportunity here to move more units in the aforementioned Zune division.

Of course it could also mean that even they (Micorosoft) have a hard time believing that people would actually buy a Zune, in which case, scrobble on.

*just a note, I do own a Zune, and am on the Social, I'm just speaking from a general perspective that seems to be dominated by Applebots.

Isn't it sad that I thought the exact same thing when I saw that pack?

Damn you Levine! Damn you!

Meanwhile in other unrelated news, Phil Harrison was seen on his knees yelling the words, "Please take me back," outside Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's headquarters.

I feel the same way, but I'm going to suspend reality and belief while playing this game, just the same as I did playing any of the Splinter Cell games.

After all, how many hallways just the right width for you to pull a Van Damme split leg stance really need to exist? Or even really exist?

Gargoyles are the new narrow hallway.

*checks date, sees it isn't April Fools*

That game, even if there is some repetitiveness to it looks like it will make me do the same thing I've done in the Splinter Cell games, which is go slow, and bide my time to get the cool takedown.

To echo Shimrra's sentiments, that is the Batman game I have been waiting for.