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I didn't understand this article for about 2 minutes. That's how wrong Capcom is for doing this.

Then I realized what it meant, and I was like.. what the f---?

Idiotic. Though I guess they are just getting ready for this sort of nonsense that's supposed to be the norm on PS4/Xbox3: Buy disc; Phone home to unlock it.

Can't wait for more TitS on the go!

Maybe if they had made the 3DS region-free, they could have repackaged and sold some of the US systems domestically. Probably not.

But I'll tell you what.

I didn't buy one because 3DS is region-locked, not because of games. They decided to give a big middle-finger to importers like myself for whom the currency conversion rate is in their favor.

Not to take the focus away from the poor guys getting laid off, but I'm spitefully satisfied that they're maiming this project further. One can only hope exactly those taking X-COM in this direction were those let go.

What I've seen so far is disgraceful to put it mildly. I thought everyone learned a lesson from Enforcer.

Sue-happy Blizzard is at it again, suing their own customers. How does making a product give you broadcast rights over other people using it? That's ridiculous.

Most hilarious quote, which makes me laugh even from a distance:

"There will be no incentive to do what Blizzard had done to balance the games for competition, which is a more difficult task than creating a normal game."

Like you need to balance games for competition anyway? Like that makes it "broadcastable"? Like post-launch balance is even welcome? Like strict balance is even entertaining? Like games shouldn't be balanced as part of being, you know, games that sell?

Like waving the nerf stick even constitutes real, original work that the players couldn't decide themselves?

Dummies.

I picked up a new Japanese 20GB on ebay for about $450 last month. I was thinking of selling it, but maybe I'll just hang onto it at this rate. Unless, that is, anyone wants to buy it for $617? :P

While I have no interest in Spore PC, Spore DS sounds fun. The PC game is trying to do too much. It's a gimmick. There's no logical transition from natural evolution to social evolution -- just stupid. They're two separate things, and it's short-sighted to integrate them into the same engine.

However, as Spore DS appears to be ONLY the natural evolution part, and has reasonable, focused goals to achieve, it sounds like it might actually be fun.

Sim City. Ugh. So bad. I kept trying to play it, but it was just a flat Sim City 3000 with fewer options. It made me wonder what I ever saw in the series.

I think they just plain made the game too easy -- too much income, and too easy to win.

Not interested in preordering that bad thanks to high CA tax. I'll just preorder online somewhere.

Maybe I'll swing by at 9 AM or so on the way to work, if I feel like it.

You're right. It was the coolest video I've seen all year.

Absolutely awesome.