Only one person can be player 1 at a time. Couch multiplayer means up to four players are using one PC, one TV, and one account. Say you're playing Street Fighter IV with two joysticks plugged into one computer. Why should you need to buy two copies of the game for a 2-player match that takes place on one computer? Likewise with the split screen mode in Left 4 Dead.

The DRM on the Nintendo DS has stopped people from playing Bob's Game because at the time, Nintendo didn't allow developers to operate out of a home office.

So how would a cross-platform side-scrolling platformer, something like Mario or Mega Man or Castlevania, be adapted to a controller like this? The player needs move left, move right, crouch, climb, jump, and fire commands. Those are already incredibly clunky on the multitouch screen of a phone or tablet.

You could always plug in a Nintendo 64 controller through an adapter. It has exactly the layout you ask for.

Because that way they can play a video game with you without necessarily having to buy their own gaming PCs and their own copies of the game.

KB+M is fine for single player. The problem comes when you have players 2, 3, and 4 visiting your home, and the APIs for accessing more than one mouse or more than one keyboard are far more obscure than the APIs for accessing more than one gamepad.

What's the difference between the HTTP and HTML on one hand and the web on the other?

Consider getUserMedia/Stream API, necessary for use of a camera or microphone from JavaScript. That's still prefixed everywhere and unavailable in IE, Safari, Android Browser, and Firefox for Android.

It's not $100; it's $100 per platform per year. If you buy a Java certificate, it won't work on any platform that isn't Java, and it'll self-destruct after 365 days.

Good luck with that if the feature you relies on shows up as (void)0 (that is, unimplemented) in the end user's browser. It's apparently easier to get end users to upgrade a Java plug-in than to switch to a different web browser.

From this page, Atom N450, Xubuntu 12.04, Xorg 1.11.3, Firefox 24: "Hmm. While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable. If possible, please ensure that you are running the latest drivers for your video card." This Mozilla page recommended looking in the "Additional Drivers" utility that came with the operating system, but all it showed me was the driver for a Broadcom NIC that I'm already using. The Mozilla page also referred me to Intel's driver update utility, but that's Windows-only.

Web developers can't count on users having Chrome available. When a web application detects that a required JavaScript object is unavailable, it displays an error message to the user. In such a case, whom does the user blame?

Did you try explaining this conflict of interest to the media in a letter to the editor? Did you try donating money to the campaign of the majority leader's opponent?

If the Tesla Motors saga is to be believed, this failure of local dealers to serve their respective markets is something that you should mention to your state legislators.

If you'd believe an Anonymous Coward's side of this story, then shipping with a gamepad and being marketed for use with a TV are remarkable because they are beyond the lowest common denominator for PC gaming. Is this AC right or just full of crap?