If I were to buy the Xbone, I'd rather save $100 than have this feature.

I think CEOs like to siphon money into their pockets while running companies into the ground, then move onto the next...

The Xbone claims another victim. Why would you go from the pinnacle of software development in the US to one of the lowliest bottom feeding gaming companies unless you were desperate for work (i.e. FIRED)?!?! Moving to EA I could see...he was pratically a mole for them anyways.

Why does Nintendo need to own www.wiiu.com anyways? Can't they get another alternative like www.nintendo.wiiu.com or www.wiiu.net or whatever? Nintendo is obviously a trademark, so putting it in their site names precludes anyone else from squatting on it.

If they'd have called the Wii = Revolution, then the Wii U = Evolution.

I want a Mass Effect 2 DLC sale so I can finally play that game. As a matter of fact, I can buy physical games cheaper than any MS digital game sale. Its the cursed DLC that I need you to put on sale already.

I'll probably buy Civ 5 when they release a complete edition. Since Civ 2, I haven't enjoyed Sid Meier's Civ games, with the exception of Civilization Revolution (CR). CR was a little simple, but it streamlined all those dull, boring micromanagement tasks and brought fun back to the equation. The specialties of each nation seemed to require you to use different playstyles to be successful.

Civ 3 was ruined by the crucial need for resources, which invariably you never had in the latter game and the crushing corruption that prevented you from holding onto cities far from your capital. Civ 4 seemed way too unbalanced in favor of the computer to me. Even on medium/low settings, I never seemed to get ahead of the computer curve. They outbuilt and outnumbered me. There was undoubtedly something wrong with my playstyle...but it just didn't hold my interest like CR, so I never really cared to learn the way to win it.

Is Civ 5 worth getting or is it more of an extension of Civ 4, with hex maps and unit limits?

They lost me at "a live service."

But I'm sure your friends would enjoy hearing your wife berating you for gaming all the time and neglected the chores she assigned to you.

BGII ended with a satisfying conclusion...I'm not looking for anything more. Besides, I've lost interest in D&D since Wizards screwed up the game I loved. I prefer the second edition ruleset and I don't want to play another D&D game until their return to their old school roots.