Henk Boom

I know that I love visiting the wrapup to see comics that I wouldn't have otherwise looked up. I (and, I suspect, many others) check Penny Arcade three times a week as it is, I don't see much of a point them being in the wrapup. Ditto about VGCats, though it's not as much a problem for them.

Super Smash Bros. Melee by far.

Kirby's Air Ride would be a favourite too, except that I can't find anyone else who shares my love for top ride mode.

I remember one of the plot elements in the Myst novels was that you wrote ages at the low level, dealing with the physical properties of the materials making up the age, and they were largely governed by the emergent behaviours that arose. It would be awesome if the tools were something like this; making the worlds would probably be more fun than playing them. In reality, the tools are probably going to be little more than simplified geometry editors though. . . =(

The first thing I think about this is: how will they leverage this to manipulate developers and publishers? I could just imagine their reply to the makers of Unreal Tournament 2004:

"Sorry, we can't give you the Games for Windows label unless you remove all unapproved software from your disk."

Read as:

"Get rid of the linux native version or else you don't get onto windows gaming shelves."