Christopher Grant

@Dizazter Yeah, it's the compete features, notably clan support, that would be extended. Also access to the programming, like tournaments, video shows, and stuff like that. Not for everyone, but if you're getting $60 worth of DLC for $50, it's a nice value add.

YES!

@Viiral

Derp? Those are the two I was talking about!

@Alex McKee

That call would be up to the actual rights holder, I'd think. In this case Square Enix. It works differently in these cases, when a Mac developer does the port – I don't know if they consider it the same "product" in the same way that Steam Play encourages.

@John Z

The original Mac release was for OS 9, and Aspyr never patched it to support OS X. In fact, the only way to get Deus Ex to run on the Mac is to run the PC version in Crossover or Bootcamp. :-/

@MassiveGG

The two largest, smartest, and most influential PC game publishers also ship 100% of their products day and date on Mac. Anyone want to tell Blizzard and Valve they're doing it wrong?

@Mmmmz

Well, I don't have a "mindless justification" for it ... because, well, that wouldn't be much of an justification, would it?

And games aren't linked to tags -- again, I have a hard time taking your criticism seriously when you can't be bothered to do any actual research yourself. Games are linked to game pages, which include the following information about most games in our database: 1) Description of the game 2) Release date of the game 3) Platforms 4) Developer / publisher 5) A list of posts related to the game 6) links to assets for the game, including screens / videos and lastly 7) REVIEW, if one is available, is right there.

Take this post from today, for example:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/07/madden-sells-1-4-million-copies -in-first-week/

Click on "Madden NFL 12" -- you get this: http://www.joystiq.com/game/madden-nfl-12

On that page you have news about the game and all of our coverage of it -- that seems helpful to me, no? We have platforms, release date (out now!), description, pub/dev, and a large module promoting the review, with a score for easy reference.

@smidget

Phew! We've been doing this for seven years, along with other major blogs like Engadget, Boing Boing, etc. Just seems wild to me that people don't notice and they actually keep trying the in-article links which, like you said, usually point to our own content.

Like JC said, why shouldn't they? We wrote it, it's the previous narrative thread that readers should and may already be familiar with. Not sure what we're talking about in a post? Why would we link you to a seven page interview in which a Nintendo exec casually mentions something instead of our own news post?

@Kamalot

That's a good idea – I'll look into getting an opt-out tag made for @mobile.

@HedonisticKai

Stay classy [and banned!] Kai!