Joe Smith

Where the heck does this guy find lawyers willing to pursue these things? What a useless waste of air this guy is.

You know, maybe I'll sue HBO for unnecessarily dragging out series to force me to watch (and pay) them longer.

Nope - you void your warranty, but that's it. All they look for is illegal game copies, hacked DVDs, etc... case mods are cool.

Pretty straight-forward. EULA says modding is bannable. Banning is at Microsoft's discretion. Period. If a user doesn't want to be banned and wants to get the full year's value form a subscription, they can simply not use a modded box.

Lawyers behind this one should be ashamed of themselves.

So far Cryptic has done nothing but bore me to tears with their games. They have great character creation tools (though the Champions one is full of really weird UI choices and limitations), but the games are a yawn. Given how lame Star Trek games tend to be anyway, I can't see this as a big exciting product. Hope I'm wrong, though.

I wanted very much to love the first game -- the idea of a super assassin in a real historic milieu was really appealing. BUT the game totally turned me off immediately with the lame ass meta story which completely ruined the immersion in teh fiction of hte past world (plus advnture game controls and mechanics have gone way beyond the crap they ladeled up and made you go through). The Meta story became a painful requirement to get through so you could go back to having fun.

Then in the real game, the missions were pretty much uninteresting --again taking what should have been an amazing experience and making it a chore.

Going to be hard pressed to spend money on the sequel. Especially with all the other good stuff coming out.

huh - Dyack is still around? Anyone really care what he says?

The Goatboy. Really!

Be nice to catch the flu about now. It is sitting there freshly delivered by UPS and I have to work.

No hardware is ever 'maxxed' it's the creativity level that plateaus long before the hardware does.

Still haven't bought a PS3 - too expensive for a long time, no interest in Blu Ray movies (the 8 track tape of the new millennium), and now that there is actually a game I want to play (Uncharted 2) I am too stubborn.

Maybe when the used ones get cheap enough.

When developers start paying their own dev costs and paying for the marketing, then they should have control of it. Of course, then they would probably be publishers, not developers.

Until the dev takes the risks associated with the cost of developer and marketing and distribution, and everything else, instead of taking up front advances to cover their risk, then they need to play be the rules of the ones that pay them.

If Infinity Ward is so bloody brilliant, and marketing is so easy, then they should quit working for publishers and create their products with their own money and do all the leg work of sales, distributions, marketing, returns, manufacture, warehousing, etc... Then they would be free to do whatever they want.