"On the surface investing so much into a PC title seems like an odd move"

I assume they mean $100 million for the entire series (Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void, Heart of the Swarm), making it ~33 per game? After all, they're selling them at full price, and mentioned several times that each installment could stand on it's own. Seeing as they're doing this to brag, it seems odd they wouldn't mention that it was just Wings of Liberty if that was the case.

"no they don't, they have no idea what is going on, and there is no legal avenue to find out."

What happened to Kennedy? and what "legal avenue" would you use to find out? The western world might be the lesser of two evils, but it's still that. You are implying it isn't as much as I was implying that China was somehow more admirable.

I'm sure what you meant to say was "to hell with any country that is open about censorship, and doesn't hide behind the media and state secrets".

Are you sure about this strategy? World of Warcraft is running out of ideas as fast as they are subscribers. Modern Warfare 2's PC version is already played by fewer people than Counter-Strike, an eleven year old fan mod. Starcraft 2 is not subscription based and don't get me started on Guitar Hero 40.

To beat money out of a PC franchise, it needs to be good. Ask EPIC about how well games that compete with Halo compete with Valve.

The idea of the game was to imitate what happened on screen I believe. Not much better, but yeah.

"Since when following Geneva conventions is considered anything but normal?"

Hitler said "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Likewise, the US will never be asked whether they followed the Geneva convention, and the disciplining of the source of this video is likely the only thing that's going to come out of this mess.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

If the EU doesn't uphold this, it's members will.

Blowing up innocent people, that'll teach those damn terrorists!

Self-serving schemers? What, Kotick was afraid of some competition?

Larry mentions his own, new, quote "more responsible" encyclopedia project in the first paragraph. How convenient.

It will have the same effect cars did on walking a dog

At 8 minutes 30 seconds you can hear the guy in the Apache, crosshair hovering over a gravely wounded individual that is clearly struggling to even get anywhere saying and I quote "Come on buddy all you gotta do is pick up a weapon".

I see civilians being shot, I hear officials on comms laughing about the truck driving in there to attempt to save those shot running over a corpse and I see us being told that Iraqi insurgents were responsible. How the fuck is this open to interpretation?