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If you're curious, all of these filings are publicly available. For example, here's Walmart's latest annual report -- you can see that they release a sales figure for their "Entertainment" division in total, but nothing more specific than that...

It certainly brings to mind other connotations today. The author is using "cum" in the Latin sense, as in "summa cum laude". It's pronounced "coom", and means "with" or "also serving as".

1. Planescape: Torment 2. Batman: Arkham Asylum 3. Grim Fandango 4. Wasteland 5. Day of the Tentacle 6. System Shock 2 7. Half-Life 2 8. Thief II 9. Shadow of the Colossus 10. Alpha Centauri I'm soaked in nostalgia, apparently. There's a 21-year gap between my #2 and #4 votes! I...

It certainly isn't close to "sandbox" gameplay, but I remember putting tons of hours into Sierra's classic "Lords of the Realm II", and the real-time top-down siege battles were a real highlight. A well-upgraded castle was nearly impossible to take without overwhelming numbers and a good...