Well, if something is done on a gaming console into the wee hours, I don't think it's possible to argue that it made someone "more social". Everything may have become more addictive, marginally more expressive but don't make a mistake of thinking that it's more social than ever before.

In fact, I wish there was fewer of these reality substitutes. It's becoming progressively harder to find people who do things outside of their homes. The balance is important, people. If it takes more than an hour each day, it's no longer just a hobby. Go out and try to find other ways to be creative and expressive.

"intoxicating celebration of violence", "the focus is on the joy of murder"

This crosses the line.

When phrases like this begin to appear in reviews you know that people trying to have violent games banned or restricted have very good point, because it leads to statements like this actually being acceptible. And they are NOT. Under any context.

And in this case, it doesn't even have any game-realted context. These are not mentions of graphics or pixels, or even gameplay, the focus is quite explicitly on the actual concepts being the source of enjoyment. And these phrases are sickening to read.

Shame on GameSpot for allowing this to be posted. It is irresponsible and unnecessary even within a review. Everything could and should have been stated in a different language. And it reeks of hypocrisy, what's is the point of age-restricting videoes (there goes the shallow "it's just a videogame" argument") if you are going to allow anyone to read the things above? How is this any better for a child to read?

And this has absolutely nothing to do with censorship or freedom of speech (and people who believe otherwise are probably ones who would find a way to excuse absolutely anything) - things that never really implied being unable to critisize the things that are being said under the guise of free speech. There is a line somewhere and it crosses it.

And this is coming from a long time member of the site.

"Like Diablo II, Torchlight II improves on its predecessor in every way."

Letting the fact that the original game is actually arguably better than its sequel (and more stylish and atmospheric than the clickfest that followed), to claim that the second game improved on the first in *every* way is simply not correct.

That's a real shame that his talent is not used on making more fantastic games.

I still would like to see another MP game made by Remedy.

"At CES this year, it continued to show a complete disregard for consumer behavior with its proposal for a move to the 4K super-HD video format." This is, actually, really really cool.

I am assuming that this is nothing more than a thinly vieled ad for Portal by GameSpot. And if it's not, then it sure reads like one. Moving right along.

As great as Uematsu is, the sad thing is that most people would be hard pressed to name another video game composer.

Between Intel Core i7 and Windows 7, "7" is the new 2000. It does look cool though I wish I had better DOS support. Yes, you read that right ;) .

They should have compared it against i7 anyway.