The mechanism is the same, the eye candy is different. In Assassin's Creed, you see your avatar "die", then you wake up for a couple of seconds, then reload at the point just before you screwed up. It's effectively the same thing.

Prince of Persia uses basically the same retry mechanism as Assassin's Creed. Actually, I think Prince of Persia uses a LOT of the same stuff as Assassin's Creed. It's the same game engine isn't it?

Yeah, real revolutionary.

Sky pirates sound cool, but it might not turn out the way you imagine.

HardOCP has recommended DX10 on Vista over DX9 on Vista or XP for only one game - FarCry 2. And that was on December 8, 2008.

I think his point stands.

Not everyone goes to college right after high school. My sister just finished her BS with the highest GPA in her graduating class at the age of 40.

Pirates and Ninjas will never "converge". They are completely separate on the Periodic Table of Awsomeness. It doesn't look like it would be easy to get them to chemically react either, given their placement on the table.

I agree that convergent evolution could sound confusing to lay people. Independent evolution doesn't sound much better, though. It's not quite descriptive enough. I mean, most things evolve independently, don't they?

How about analogous evolution? It's quite descriptive, and many lay people wouldn't confuse it with anything.

Like all instruments, the accordian must be properly used. See Atomik Harmonic: Turbo Polka and Turbo Angels: Gmajna

The subscription aspect of the game means it does attract a better clientele as a whole, which obviously doesn't say much for MMO players. What do you mean by better? The clientele are better how and better than who? Do you think the game's population would be 'worse' somehow if there were no subscription?