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Not surprising, they also indicated that there was no region locking on PS4, turns out that it's just like the 360 and PS3, region locking is per title and at the discretion of the publisher (Ubisoft and Microsoft games generally weren't locked on 360, EA and Activision generally were).

I've also heard a lot of media types indicating that the Xbox stuff is worse than steam. Steam's DRM scheme is pretty damn intrusive if you use more than one device. If you go on vacation or something it is really easy to find yourself locked out of your games on your laptop, and there has always been the option for publishers to layer additional DRM stuff on top of Steam's (Ubisoft in particular, but there are games with GFW Live in them too from Take2 and Warner).

Right now we have the Headline lies from both groups, in the next week we'll get the retractions and clarifications.

Looks like Engadget just posted this description too:

@max_cherry said:

Legendary: The Box, take an axe to it.

Does anyone know if the PS4 at $399 has a controller in the box?

I'm remembering back to the old days when consoles might not even include one controller (late model systems).

What is $399 getting you? What are they cutting out? I think we're all assuming no camera in the box, but what else is missing to hit that price point?

The core system *should* cost more than the XBone's components.

The Microsoft pre-E3 conference that was aimed quite obviously at investors (I guess most of the gaming media didn't pick up on this, but investors really only know about four games: CoD, Halo, Madden, FIFA, and they know about the biggest sports brand (NFL), it was 100% clearly for investors, not for gamers, not for the gaming media, not even for the regular media or casual gamers).

After that conference, I was thinking, ok, I can see how this could fit into my home. Replaces the BD player, and has the advantage that it just goes between the FIOS box and the TV, simplifies everything for my girlfriend and her technologically challenged mother and my newborn daughter will be big enough in a couple years to enjoy dancing games in no fail mode or something.

At $500 I can still see it fitting into my life...when it goes down to $300 or less.

The PS4 doesn't fit into my life. I already don't have a console hooked up to my main television, I've switched pretty much all my AAA gaming to PC because this console cycle was so long, I still play "console style" games, but I do it on a PC with a 360 controller. I'm not going to hook up a PS4 to my main TV and further complicate the family situation (I might get a bigger display for my "office," but why would I pay $400 for a game console when I already have a PC that is pretty close to that level of power), and I'm sure not going to pay extra to get a camera for motion gaming for my daughter and girlfriend without the advantage of the kind of single-stream media that XBone was offering.

I wasn't super thrilled about anything Microsoft was saying, but there are some interesting ideas there about social gaming in terms of sharing games with online friends (good for, um, adults whose friends are all over the country). Having skype in there is great too because when my daughter's grandma is at home overseas we do a hell of a lot of video chatting.

PS4 seems to be shooting for an audience that's short on money or that plays games on a very short timeline. You have to think that rental is going to be figured out on XBone, that's a no-brainer that just has to be arranged with Redbox somehow (they already produce for rental only DVDs and BDs for Netflix etc that haven't got any extra content on them, I can see them doing something similar for games as well). I guess I'm just disappointed at both offerings. Going to PS4 was always going to be a long shot for me, because I HATE the Playstation controller with the passion of a thousand exploding suns, but now I just feel like I've been walked away from by the console industry.

Patrick, overtime rules are set by law and vary from country to country.  Bondi wasn't even in the US, but let's assume that you intended to talk about US overtime laws. Being a salaried employee alone is not enough to be exempt from the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
 
In Australia there are different sets of rules that covered Bondi during the time LA Noire was being developed (one up to December 31, 2009 and one starting from January 1, 2010).
 
Anyway, glossing over, thought I'd point it out.

Approved.

Oh, and if you could get him into Sara's wonder woman costume...nah.

I wonder if this is just a downloadable console game using the Stormreach engine. 
 
My understanding is that's a multiplayer instanced online game...I haven't played it, I guess it's free now?  Maybe I should check it out?

I was disappointed when I just heard the name, but once I get past the name, I'm really looking forward to this.

So nice to see that they're making good on the ending cinema of Borderlands :)