Money grabbing bastards. If it wasn't for trade-ins and 2nd-hand game sales a lot of people wouldn't be able to afford games and with this mandate, prices of used games would go up and the value of trade-ins would go down. If they want more people buying new games, how about not making them cost £50 a pop for a new next-gen game?

If they want to make money off of used games, sell some worthwhile DLC. By that, I don't mean CliffyB's idea of selling the final boss to 2nd hand buyers, I mean add-ons to the main game. I doubt Harmonix worry about used-game sales of Rock Band because if they love the game, they will buy more songs.

The only way I want to see politics and games interact is with Sarah Palin being blown up in Mercenaries 2.

I don't know if the FA says what it is (restrictive webfilter here) but can we speculate? Russian flag? Area 51? His giant pet wooly mammoths?

It's a good thing that they're not using altered images anymore, but will this go for touched up photos of celebrities and the like? If not, that for me would be a double-standard.

I for one, welcome our ne.....

Damn you summary for stealing our memes!

I'd be surprised if they didn't, especially with a real Halo sequel from them not coming in some time.

Their relationship with the Halo community has been excellent and while I don't forsee them making a patch for HD loading speed improvements, I would be very surprised if there wasn't at least new maps in the future for Halo 3.

I'll just download Second Life, that'll show him!

Anything but Fred, since that's my dads name.....

*shudder*

My g/f was looking over my shoulder and proclaimed she already had a pet wooly mammoth and looked at me :(

Bungie already said in their comment from one of the linked FA's in the summary, that "The risks of [patching Halo 3 to make it faster when installed] and the resources required has to be carefully considered against what could really be a rather insignificant change to the player experience"

Probably UXE. ULTIMATE XE.

My god, someone at MS found the wonder of the alphabet!!!

Honestly, browsing to find DLC is now easy as you don't have to scroll through every game to find the game that you want, you just click on the letter then find the game. That, to me, is by far the NXE's best feature.

Yeah, Sports Interactive have said that their new Football Manager game can be sold second hand, because the activation code can be unlicensed and re-used.

They make a new iteration every year so they probably have the same idea of getting people hooked on the game

You can turn on a white dot for the centre of the screen which actually helps with the motion sickness by giving you something to focus on while you play.

On a side note, I'm surprised EA are taking chances with new IP and even gameplay mechanics now. Sure, they have their yearly sports franchises and they have announced that this and Dead Space are going to be trilogies, but it's surprising how EA have brought out some fairly original games instead of generic-army-FPS-2009, forcing Acti-Blizzard to step up to the plate to become the new evil, un-inspired publisher for gamers. As long as you stick to consoles, that is. No DRM here..... This generation.....

Same here, got one banned one from my old days of using un-stealthed discs and one that works perfect on live using only perfectly stealthed and checked discs.

I think a lot of people have been banned due to the recent influx of review copy games floating around.