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haha. yes, unless your elephant is inflamed, it's elephantiasis, not elephantitis.

I work in the NYC emergency services and the newest thing on the street here are the Nissan Altima Hybrids for the police, and so far everyone likes them. The look good too, if you ask me. A real improvement over the chevys that they used after the crown vic was no longer available.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/New_York_City_Police_Department_Nissan_Altima_hybrid_5010.jpg/800px-New_York_City_Police_Department_Nissan_Altima_hybrid_5010.jpg

fixing the world economy is simple:

1. Linux
2. Kittens
3. ???????
4. Profit!

Oh wait, that was the internet that I was talking about.

pick me!

"The front side of the screen is viewable from 178 degrees. Whether the colors are correct or anything important like that... yeah who cares"

that said, I have the new 23" dell using these new high-res panels, and TN or not, it's a great screen for the price.

What about penny-arcade?

They are there and have posted an excellent comic:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

If it's truely wireless, then there's no way it'll be force feedback - an absolute sin against racing games. Once you've played GT4 or Live For Speed with a Logitech Driving Force Pro, you can't go back, no matter how good Forza is.

The problem with this ad is that it has no concept. I'm with Paul on this one - ad by numbers. I'm trying to think of ads with concepts, ads that tried to show you what was really different about their product, and my mind goes waaay back.

http://nostalgia.planethalflife.gamespy.com/halflife/artwork/runshootrun_ad.jpg

that was a fold out ad, the black part on the left was all you saw, then you openend it up for this amazing spread - keep in mind that those graphics were unheard of in the day. It captures exactly what makes the game different and amazing.

Oblivion is a game with such potential for almost anything, they really blew an opportunity here.

Edgore, while it is true that the Japanese use a lot of alternate connection devices, including the most ridiculous cellphones imaginable (I have one that has a Sharp Aquos LCD, 2 megapixel camera, Video camera, full pop-based e-mail system, TV Tuner with DVR functions, radio, motion sensor, compass, and also a phone) they jumped to there from a completely pervasive broadband infrastructure. Nearly the entire mainland (Kyushu) is wired for Fiber To The Home. The Nippon Telephone company runs fiber to any home for about 300 bucks. I live on a tiny island, population 9000, and I have 100 Megabit parallel fiber to my computer. Most people use 50 to 100 Megabit connections (for comparison, high speed cable in the states is 5, maybe 10). I download at 2-3 MegaBYTES per second within Japan, between 200 and 300 kb/s across the Pacific. I'm not surprised at Japan's number 1 status at all.

I'm no expert, but I've been living in super-rural Japan for about seven months now, and I agree with Jeff - What IGN is doing is like going to the biggest movie theater in New York City for the opening of Lord of the Rings, and finding big lines and no tickets, the walking to the next big theater and finding the same thing again, and reporting "New York Sold Out For LOTR" - It's not quite true.

The little first and second hand game store 20 minutes from my apartment has had a few DS's in stock through the whole "shortage" here. I am considering picking up a DS lite, I'll probably head down this weekend or something to see if they have one. I doubt the DeoDeo or Sofmap will have them in Hiroshima, but out in the boonies - my odds are pretty good.

There's a lot of negativity around this trailer, and I don't know why. I think it looks great, not bleeding edge, but really, I'd rather have solid performance, not to mention gameplay, over bleeding edge graphics any day. Especially if this is episodic, being slightly behind the curve will GREATLY decrease content creation times.

Beyond that though, the characters look great, and the gameplay looks fun, fast, over the top and something I'd gladly pay 20 dollars to play. In a heartbeat. If it doesn't interest you, don't play it, but if you liked the original Sin at all, this looks to be a great little follow-up, in a really cool (episodic) format.