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I have a question. Will a European Xbox 360 work with an American TV? There are options in the menu that suggest that it might, but I am curious to find anyone who has had a chance to test that idea. I have a European Xbox 360 and will be spending the next couple of months in the US. I am...

That only occurs in games with a fetish for "balancing" your offensive abilities, so that players can choose their preferred style. Of course, in the real world some weapons, abilities, attacks are categorically superior in almost every circumstance, which is why it is stupid, the real world, I...

I talk like a logician. The trick is simple, do not try and convince naysayers, do not plead with them to understand, do not try and "make it relevent". Instead, state what you think as though nobody would seriously doubt it, explain that people love the challenging adventures, interactive...

I thought this was worth sharing, a podcast about massively multiplayer online games and economics. If you are interested in economics, many of the other podcasts are very interesting, too. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/01/edward_castrono.html

Fortunately, the patch allows you to turn them off. Of course, they're still there, but simply do not function. I haven't played it through like that, but I imagine that Bioshock is a better game for it. The vita chambers are drama killers, and remove tension from conflict--there is nothing much...

Talking of Call of Duty 4. Just how many soldiers can squeeze into a small farmhouse? The respawning bad guys were a tad out of place, especially for a game preoccupied with authenticity.

The Playstation 3 is slightly more powerful than the Xbox 360. The problem is that the Playstation 3 is significantly more difficult to develop for. It is easy to get a PC game running well on the Xbox 360, or an Xbox 360 game running well on the PC, whereas porting any game to or from the...

The bow and arrow (or possibly crossbow). I like the challege provided by the slow "reload" and need to predict the arrows trajectory, not to mention the tactile feel and stealthy silence.

I think that Tomb Raider: Anniversary on the Playstation 2 was a very good. I am not particularly fond of such remakes, but I cannot deny that I enjoyed it thoroughly, even if they did ruin the T-Rex scene. It is unfortunate that its main audience will likely have been those who played the...

Yahtzee. Stop reviewing good games! You get paid for this, so you shouldn't enjoy it. I want you to suffer with crap, so that we might all be amused by your bitter outrage.

Ico did not receive very much hype with the exception of some hopeful previews, and it surpassed that hype quite magnificently, and then some. Shadow of the Colossus received more hype than Ico, a gawking anticipation if you will. I do not think that it surpassed its hype, but it certainly met...

The Gregory Horror Show Thief: Deadly Shadows Freedom Fighters Second Sight

I have never been able to sit through an entire episode of Dr. Who. I find it entirely uninteresting, bar the fact that so many people enjoy it.

I was disappointed by Bioshock, particularly the ending. I harvested two Litte Sisters at the beginning of my adventure, and thereafter none at all. In other words, once I realised who and what the Little Sisters were, I immediately stopped harvesting them and was the quintessential good guy for...

I doubt that anyone would claim that it is not possible, but this is not a question of possibility, but of actuality. Is it true (not "possible") that violent videogames caused, or at least contributed, to the vicious murder of this nurse? In regard to this question, to answer in the affirmative...