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Greg, I agree 100%. Steve Jobs was a visionary and a great business man, but he was not an inventor. In fact, Apple invented very little of anything. Most of the innovations attributed to them were invented in the 70s and 80s by Xerox, but Apple was the first ones to really make use of it...

Thanks for the wonderful article! I agree that too many games have just taken to action without a cause; characters without a reason. They start off bland and end completely forgettable because there is nothing to be said; it's all an excuse for guns and explosions. Many great action games...

No! Bad headline, bad! Wii Fit did not tell a woman she had Parkinson's disease. It told here she couldn't keep an equal balance on both feet. Based on her assessment of this as an abnormality, she pursued further diagnosis from a professional and found out she had Parkinson's disease...

Wonderful comparison, Bob! My best friend is a big sports fan, complete with trivial knowledge of decades of sports, fantasy teams in several leagues, wearing jersey's on a regular basis, and even collecting hats from all of his favorite teams. The same guy hosts board game nights at his...

As somebody who games primarily on the PC, but also enjoys console gaming (so mostly, but not quite, unbiased), I must say that I read a lot of bias in this article against PC gamers. I believe that, because of this, you're missing what makes DICE's (or any company's) dedication to PC gamers...

I bought into the hype and bought this game as soon as it came out. I also found it disappointing. The start was wonderful. Not only did they do a great recreation of the famous Lone Pine Mall experiment, they really set you back in the feel of the original movies, with Marty's...

I think death is its own penalty. The goal of the game is to succeed, and the opposite of it is failure. The entire idea behind a game is that success is not easy, but it is achievable; it's just a matter of figuring out how to succeed. Our brains key in to this, rewarding us for the success...

Games worth the money: - The Orange Box (every game separately too, but the collection even more so) - Fallout 3 - Dragon Age: Origins - Civilization V (and likely every one before it; though upgrading isn't really worth it) - SimCity - Altitude - Machinarium - World of Warcraft...

I've never played a single one of these games. What does that say about how influential they are? Oh, sorry, I lied. I played Fable II. And it was no different from any other RPG before it, except maybe the minigame work-for-a-living thing, which I don't think caught on.

I'm glad to see a marketer who tries to perform his job honorably. Please believe me when I say that what's to follow is nothing personal and not directed at you, but at marketers (and the people who hire them) in general. I mean this as constructively as possible. Now, as a gamer, let me...

As another example, look at Braid. The entire theme of the consequences of controlling time tie directly into the core mechanic: controlling time. At first, it's just a mechanic -- you control time because that's how you solve the puzzle. But as the story unfolds, you being to realize that...

I mostly agree with this article, except on the social part. Considering I'm a nerd, a gamer, and an engineer, I'm surprisingly social. I like nothing better than to hang out with a group of my closest friends, talking, playing board and video games, and anything else we can do together as a...

Does Google even have a social networking site yet? Seems unfair to compare what already exists to what might be the gleam in an executive's eye. I think Facebook has shown themselves to be irresponsible and completely uninterested in their customers -- just look at how they handle privacy...

I strongly believe that RealID was a bad idea with good intentions. Blizzard insisted that they had the best of intentions with RealID. They wanted to quell the hijinx that their community had been known for. It's easy to understand why; just take a look at their forums. You regularly find...

I also definitely saw that. I can only hope it was a darkly humorous reference to the video game Fat Princess, but the context certainly didn't make any reference obvious. I find Russ manages to disparage several groups in this article through heavy uses of stereotypes. Racially-intolerant...