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On William Cain's  Apple vs. Sony vs. Nintendo: How the iPhone wins
"In my personal view, I can't ever take a smartphone - iphone, android, whatever - seriously as a gaming device for one very simple reason: they do not have a hardware interface. No touch screen will ever replace buttons, a d-pad and/or a joystick... it's essentially the same reason I believe the Kinect to be an utterly worthless device."
Friday, February 18, 2011
On Jonathan Engel's  Do Not Press the Red Button
"This is one of the most daft proposals I've seen from this institution - which is (in)famous for its daft proposals. I don't see this one going very far, however. Any company with any presence on the 'net is going to realize just how bad for business such an event would be - and lobby heavily against it. Not that I believe the gov't even has the capacity to completely "shut off" the internet to the entire country in the first place.

Furthermore, with the amount of servers and services that are run and hosted here in the 'States, the world-wide impact would also cause untold chaos. This idea has far too much potential to do so much more damage than good... that I can't see even the luddites on Capitol Hill getting this garbage pushed through."

Thursday, June 24, 2010
On Tim Jang's  When Games Go Multi-Platform
"I'll play Devil's Advocate with the exclusivity theme for a moment here. There is in my mind one very strong benefit of an exclusive title (well, for those who own the system to which it's exclusive anyway) and that is quality. I've noticed a trend lately with multi-platform games: they don't tend to reach their potential due to the technical differences between platforms.

The most egregious offenders are typically console games that get ported to the PC, but I'm sure many of us have seen screenies from, for example, Red Dead Redemption showing the lack of foliage density on the PS3 version - or the necessity to swap discs on the 360 version of FF13. When a developer can focus very specifically on one piece of hardware, they can wring the absolute best out of that particular platform. It's not limited to graphics or storage either, controls and interface are important too. Just look at all the 3rd party Wii games to get a good example of what I'm talking about there, or try playing an RTS on a console."

Thursday, May 27, 2010
On Mike Minotti's  Red Dead Redemption's Donkey Lady
"Most of the time, bugs are rather annoying (but unfortunately fairly common) occurrences in a game. Once in a while however, you find one - like this one - that has unintended and hilarious consequences."
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
On Jasmine Maleficent Rea's  The Devolution of Starter Pokémon
"Whilst I most certainly agree with the sad state of starter Pokemon, and do indeed find the first picture to be both hilarious and accurate... I must say it totally reeks of 4-chan. The "derp" and "hurr-durrs" give it away I think."
Sunday, May 16, 2010
On Lance Darnell's  The Real Facts of Bitmob
"I still can't stop conjuring metal images of a pornographic nature whilst chanting "Buttmob" repeatedly. Damn you all."
Friday, May 07, 2010
On Jeff Grubb's  The Roger Ebert Personality Test: What Type are You?
"Is there a column for "I don't care what Roger Ebert says because I think HE is the arrogant jackass?""
Friday, April 30, 2010
On Mike Minotti's  The History of Team Fortress 2
"Heck, with Activision on the path they are now, I wouldn't be surprised if they starting charging for functionality/bug fix patches."
Friday, April 30, 2010
On Brett Bates'  Bitmob Mailbag Extra: The "Top 10 Games of All Time" Game
"1. Half-Life
2. Super Mario 64
3. American McGee's Alice In Wonderland
4. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
5. Portal
6. Super Mario Bros. 3
7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
8. World of Warcraft
9. Super Metroid
10. Baldur's Gate 2

Restored!

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Friday, April 30, 2010
On Omar Yusuf's  Child's Play: Police Infiltrate 11-Year-Old Game Addict's Crime Ring
"When human ingenuity goes bad..."
Friday, April 30, 2010
On Omri Petitte's  News Blips: Activision/Bungie Partnership, PS3 OS Lawsuit, Alternative God of War 3 Endings, and More
"So, how long until Activision stabs Bungie in the back? If I led an independent studio I'd stay as far away from Activision as I could."
Thursday, April 29, 2010
On Cameron Pershall's  Good Games You Hate, Bad Games You Love
"GGIH: Bioshock. I'm not sure why so many people think this game was the best thing since sliced bread: the "story" is mostly told through tape recordings you pick up laying around on the ground, and it felt much more linear than everyone says it is. The atmosphere was great, but that's about the only praise I can lay upon it.

I can't bring to mind any bad games that I loved, but there sure were plenty of mediocre titles I enjoyed the crap out of... Titan Quest comes to mind."

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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