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@HumanoidTyphoon: have you used it? I bet you still click "all programs" on the start bar too, instead of using the search field to find the programs you need quickly...

You're a dinosaur, the article you link to even says so... evolve or die.

LOVE that you came out to a game jam! The whole scene has been blowing up in the last few years, with Ludum Dare and the Global Game Jam growing explosively, and now a new Jam out of no where being bigger than either of those were only two years ago!

The industry is better for these types of events, and I agree that games journalism (and I think you are one of the few games journalists out there) would be made better by attending more of these too.

Thank you Klepek, both for writing this piece, and for being a part of the events inception. :D

This has been the most touching story in games I have heard in a long time. Not since the beginnings of Megaman Legends 3 and Megaman Universe (both which ended badly) have I felt so excited for this industry.

I really hope that more of these types of stories happen, but I worry that the stronger and more money hungry groups (Zynga for instance) try to capitalize on these new venues so quickly that many of the GOOD stories they are enabling won't get told.

I would even like to hear more of the stories of failure to be honest. I took two years to try and create a game on my own, and failed due to rough luck and a few bad decisions, and stories just like mine happen all the time... but no one hears them.

Wishing all the best for Tim and his crew, they are some of the best hearts and minds in gaming IMO!

@ThePickle: USA English made English dumb... well, to be more accurate, the melding of cultures and languages and the fact that English is the language of the most wealthy nations for a very long time has caused the rules that were in the written form of English to bend and break. But that just brings me back to USA English being the cause... :(

I want XCOM SO Badly right now! I do think its a smart move to get it away from Mass Effect 3, but I would have hoped they would have set a more firm date for it!

There are not many games that come out in that time frame, and having it somewhere in the Feb-May time frame with a good marketing push behind it could serve it well, but I trust THQ to do the right thing for a game that has as much potential as XCOM does! :D

@NekuCTR: I realize that 'realism' is the way people have framed GTA4 and why it wasn't as fun as the GTA3 trilogy, but in all fairness, the characters and story of GTA4 were just as unreal as the characters and story of Vice City. The technology brought the game towards more realistic visuals, true... but was it because the game looked less like a cartoon why it wasn't as fun to find ramps and jump them? I think there were a number of design changes that occurred that caused some of what made the GTA3 games fun was lost, not simply the visuals of it. Red Dead Redemption was more fun than GTA4, and yet it was more realistic visually than GTA4 was...

I say all this to simply say: GTA5 can still be realistic and no less fun than GTA3 parts 1,2 and 3.

@TheKing: You don't have to be 12 to prefer a high action film over more meaningful action drama. That said, I think this and Saints Row 3 will have a place on my shelf, and I will enjoy both for very different reasons! And lets be clear, NEITHER one will be able to be played in front of the wife.

I liked it.

Wished they showed more (something that would confirm the multiple player characters in the base game for instance), but it did everything I expected it would, and surprised me with how good the lighting was, and how impactful the poverty in the city visuals would be!

Plus GTA:SA was the most sandbox, and after IV's far more story driven direction, seeing that it's set in that much larger space makes me hopeful for more of the "game" type experience that was GTA:SA

Looking forward to the next 3 trailers for sure! :D

I think they are going to show off a 3DS that also works as a WiiU controller (hence the need for a second analog stick). I said I would wait for their first redesign, so I might just be buying a 3DS along with a WiiU in just over a year...

You will likely have a hard time finding work until you do something with your time that is more productive and shows initiative. A job isn't just a means to a paycheck, an employer is investing in you to perform at a task that you have convinced them you are the best qualified to do. So prove it somehow. Volunteer, take a course, do something that will give an employer reason to invest in you.