dredavis

Hey, guys, have you heard of this new blog?

https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/welcome-to-giant-bomb-dot-com/1100-14/

I don't know what the consensus on the date of the ten year anniversary is, but I've always thought that the birth of Giant Bomb came with the launch of the blog in March '08. The essence was right there. I never would had thought that I'd be following a gaming website, or anything for that matter, so closely and with such interest for ten years. With luck, maybe I'll be saying the same thing after ten more.

Thank you all for reminding me that life is terrible now. Also, remember written articles?

I miss the "more edited" stuff in general, it's still my favourite Giant Bomb content next to podcasts, but I understand why it's gone.

@fancyusername: Hey, are you going to upload more of those hot podcasts? Our civilization requires them.

260€/276€ for a decent, but small (26 m2/280ft2) single room apartment not far from downtown in Riga (Latvia). Plus about 90€ (in winter, less than half of that in summertime) for heating, electricity and water. 100mb/s (upload/download) internet connection costs me 14€.

For perspective - the minimum wage over here is 380€.

The Movies is one of the greatest games of all time. I stand by that.

Limbaži, Latvia

Public voice chat on Xbox Live is a wasteland. Before the party system was introduced there was regular communication (how good or bad it was, that's another question), now everyone is either in a party or has their headset in a drawer somewhere. The only people you can hear on, let's say, Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto are two french dudes talking to each other or some guy who left his Kinect on, so you can hear his baby crying in the next room.

Reviewing a console and giving a score is just plain dumb. In a couple of years those systems will be completely different, I mean, look at what the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 were at their launches and what they offer now. You can look at a systems pros and cons at the time of their release, but giving it a score isn't the smartest thing to do.

Some specific criteria from Microsoft would be really nice. This just seems extremely random.