It depends. If they want to, they can make something that no other manufacturer can touch outside of individuals making their own. The SF4 Tournament Edition stick is often heralded as the BEST stick you can buy, as it uses Sanwa parts and is laid out in a very logical manner... not to mention it's user moddable.

Clearly, or you wouldn't use such a retarded word that no one in the North or South American continents actually uses because they don't care one whit about the nomenclature and usage of the word "American". I stopped reading right there.

Actually it was. Sony pushed HARD for 3d games. You could definitely make 2d games, but that made it MUCH harder to get through the Sony approval process... so people just stopped trying. If you notice, lots of those games on the list are either established franchises with many fans, or are super Japanese (meaning it would have no appeal in other territories).

Yeah, nice job moderating me as 'flamebait' for distrusting a corporation.

That's proof right there that google has somehow gotten people to follow it with some kind of reverent attitude.

You're deluding yourself if you think "Don't Be Evil" is more than just a throwaway phrase. While it can be argued that Google started out altruistic, it's a corporation, and by nature all corporations are there for one thing - to make money. Don't Be Evil is just some vague guide they put out there that basically means "we'll try to not do things that would piss off the consumer but it's in no way a priority."

That said, I use google all the time. I just understand how much to trust them (read: not very much). It's ridiculous how many people fawn over Google as if they're holier than thou because of one phrase, but hey, it's working. If they were serious, they'd put together a Bill of Rights and stick hardcore to it - THEN I'd be willing to see them in a (slightly) different light.

Luddites? Libraries, and specifically the ALA, are usually on the forefront of trying to disseminate information as efficiently and freely as possible.

Jingoistic much? Creepy.

And I'm not even talking about paying talent. Let's just say he has a bunch of friends that will do everything (acting, CGI, basic crew work) for free. This isn't unheard of for something so short.

The software ALONE to generate CGI on that level is more than $300. You can't do that kind of work in something like Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion. Hell, animating something in Photoshop (painful) wouldn't look this good and it still costs more than $300. This requires something like Shake or IFF stuff... then you have to have the hardware to run it on.

Also there is NO way the camera he's using is some cheapo point and shoot DV or even HDV cam - the quality and frame rate look almost film like. I've seen high end DV and HDV cams, all of which are above $300, and they still don't look this good after proper lighting and post-production color matching/tweaking.

You can do plenty of stuff on shoe string budgets these days but I don't think it's scaled down to QUITE this level yet.

I didn't know F-Zero GX was so badly received - it appears to be fairly WELL received in fact. Are you talking about direct comparisons to the fun factor compared to the other versions, as if so, do you have any claims to back that up?

I find Sega's situation completely disheartening however. They used to be all about really cool, slightly off-beat games, or REALLY well done "more normal" type games. It's really sad to see them in their current state where maybe a handful of interesting games per year comes from them anymore (MadWorld, HotD: Overkill, Valkyria) when they used to pump out game after game of awesomeness and originality.

Big Brother may be inappropriate in this situation, but privacy matters are a huge concern with something like this. Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you shouldn't maintain your privacy, and to that end, I don't want people data mining my habits when I can avoid it.

While I respect your opinion, it seems an odd to me that you're not be bothered by wonton mindless destruction of random individuals versus wonton pointed destruction of random individuals.

Question - do you find it a moral quandary to run over people in the GTA games? Or play a thief stealing from people in any number of games?

I get the gist of the article - user flash content shouldn't be served from the same domain as your app.

But here's the thing - I know many, many people who run webservers just for the hell of it, and give free accounts to friends and such (the ubiquitous public_html subdirectory for a user, aka ~ ). So let's say the webserver at example.com has something like a secure login for webmail access or other stuff on there as well. It's not terribly vital, but it's still in place. One of the users maliciously uploads one of these flash files, has another person run it, and then that person logs in to another section of example.com - can the attacker then grab that data? It seems to be the case.

So what the hell are people in this situation supposed to do? Is the only solution to move all that user content to a subdomain as well? Seriously? At least javascript is confined mostly to a single PAGE - please tell me I'm reading this incorrectly.

Sigh, no, and only a troll would believe that. I suggest a reading comprehension class would be in order for you.

*shrug* so even if it scales up from 720p (I can find no evidence of this for Borderlands specifically or UE3 in general), you're still dwelling on a point of no contention - graphics are probably going to be better on a PC. The extension to that is while PC gamers consider graphics to be the end all, in reality, most of us have moved on to more pertinent aspects of what makes game playing just as if not more fun on consoles.