Bag of Bees

I doubt there's any catch. It seems like Capcom and Nintendo are pushing this title to help cement Monster Hunter as a lucrative franchise in the West. By offering free online play, many more people will be willing to pick the game up since it will not come with a new monthly bill attached.

Conversely, in Japan the game is already part of an extremely successful franchise and will be purchased en masse whether online play is free or not. Capcom is basically investing in the future of this franchise in the West.

Well, OK, I suppose the catch is that many Western gamers may pick up the title, develop an unhealthy addiction to it and then be unable to resist Monster Hunter 4 when it's released with a subscription based model.

I've been nice... mostly.

I generally only pre-order games I'm afraid I won't be able to get ahold of on release day. I'm obviously a poor judge of popularity though since I pre-oredered Okami for the PS2 and got a strange look from the cashier in the process. But really, I would have been pretty upset if I didn't have it on release day.

I really like to support my local game shop so I do most purchasing there. I've been doing a bit on Steam lately too.

Usually a local shop called Gamerz. Sometimes Best Buy.

I get most of my stuff from a local shop called Gamers (no, not the one Dejiko works at).

Picross has held my interest for sometime. It's possible that I just haven't tried enough DS games out yet, but there's something really fun about swapping picture puzzles with friends.