Great, now I'm hungry.

Including the eletronic components? I don't think so. Everytime they I hear someone saying that any 3D printer can "print itself", it strikes me as marketing speech.

Twitter is itself a digest of opinions, announcements and general information. There is no "best of twitter" just as there is no best of any social networking site. Especially because there is not a single way to use Twitter. Some use it as a RSS feed, providing links for news and articles, some use it as the microblogging service it's called, whether like a personal (but public) diary, for discussing specific topics, for jokes or social commentary. It is also often used as a way of leaving messages for your friends, without having to to contact them one by one, since you account broadcast your messages publicly or just to the people you allow to follow you, if you protect your account.

If you want to get into Twitter, see if there is someone who posts about matters you are interested into and follow them. Unfortunately, their recommendations aren't too good. They only start being barely useful when you already follow people.

Uninspired? What are you talking about. DJ Hero was far more interesting than just another rehash of the same plastic guitar thing.

Films are a passive medium with the narrative densely packed whithin 2 hours, often less. Games depend on player interaction and a standard AAA game is expected to have 10+ hour gameplay. While movies are usually finished in one sitting, games have to stay engaging so that the player will come back as many times is needed to finish it. They are very different media.

I would say games are more like TV series, but likening it to any non-interactive medium would be putting aside games' most important difference: the ability to act and make choices. Unfortunately, many games put this aside. While it doesn't stop the game from being engaging, it misses the point of delivering the narrative through a game. And that's not the only problem of narrative in games.

Separating chunks of gameplay from chunks of narrative, something that is often done, it's the worst possible way to create an engaging experience. Those interested only in the gameplay will skip cutscenes or be forced to watch them. Those interested only in the narrative will force themselves through the gameplay. Only those in the middle ground will enjoy it, as long as the game is compelling overall.

A car can be like any other car, because it's a tool with a specific function. Games are meant to entertain, novelty factors significantly. If every sci-fi book was like every other sci-fi book, it wouldn't work so well. The problem is that not only most games aren't trying to push the genres, they aren't even trying to nudge them.

It isn't so much "for the sake of art", either. When a game plays the same than a dozen others that you've played before, it playing gets dull.

Randomly generated content does work. Quite well, actually. See Spelunky, as an example. Not only that, but the entire genre of roguelikes is defined by randomly generated content and it has been for quite some time.

Of course Minecraft isn't like Mario or any other game, it has won its place due to its own merits. Although it isn't completely unlike Amnesia in the sense that many players can tell tales of silent tension and desperate flights, but I digress.

You have to remember that Minecraft isn't finished yet. It started as just lego pieces, but it greatly increased in complexity. It's still a sandbox, but it's more like a living (albeit simple graphically) world each new update. While it probably won't be as complex as Dwarf Fortress (which is also an astounding game based on randomly generated content), it is easier to get immersed into.

Minecraft is about exploring as well as creating. It isn't about platforming and probably wouldn't be better if it was. But if that's what you want, there is Terraria.

Copyright infringement claims are more often related to what they believe they should be earning rather than actual customer behavior and statistics.

Because they are one of the only 3 decent gaming consoles (2 if you only care about HD) and have quite a few good exclusives that dedicated gamers can't help but care about.

Besides, it is unreasonable to expect that the vast majority of uninformed customer will do anything about it. Even if every customer that feels bothered by this decision stop buying, it won't be more than a scratch to their deep pockets. Even then, since you don't buy from them anymore, they won't care about what you think either. Voting with dollars doesn't work against megacorps.

And then they will cry piracy.

While Xbox Live itself doesn't advertise good games, becoming a Kotaku pick, which is listed in the XBLIG interface, should greatly increase visibility and likely profitability too.

These measures are making the whole experience very unappealing. They might be avoiding some problems, but they are unlikely to attract anybody that didn't make their mind before playing this trial mode and they may even change the mind of the ones who did.

Whether the free gamers have "entitlement attitude" doesn't matter, because if the free mode fails to entice players, then it is pointless. No self-righteousness will make anybody buy/subscribe.

Among the changes, Google announced that it's new motto is "Be evil". The black bar marks its new corporative mentality, that involves new goals such as using it's privileged position to take over the world and kicking puppies.

You say that as if it doesn't happen already. Not only a lot of games have loads of purely cosmetical items, but MMOs and console online services sell them for real money.

If they believe even in a single deity, they can't be considered atheists. I see your point, but it's not entirely correct either.

I find that very hard to believe. Even if they wanted to do that, how can they be sure they will have the opportunity to do that. If they are bought before going out of business, the new management probably won't keep this promise. Unless they have this patch ready right now, it is not certain whether they will be able to develop it when they are going out of business.