Also, because it didn't fit with my prior comment, just to add about "But by the time Gears of War rolled around the following year, consumers had embraced the $60 standard with nary a peep," : Gamers made a peep, in fact gamers are still peeping.. Industry doesn't care however, because they use their development costs as a way to justify the $60 price tag AND the costs/sale of DLC.. the Those who roll over and accept it, and mock those who don't, do so because they don't feel like they can really get the industry to change and be more flexible with us -- Yet they put their energies into less intelligent ventures, like trying to get the ending of a game changed....

Why do I get the feeling that at least parts of this article are completely missing the point that its not that we don't want to buy the DLC at all, but that we don't want it to be on the disc (IE Already paid for with the game, just to have us pay again to unlock it) or that some of us don't want to be told they need to get the first super-awesome DLC pack the same day they got the super-awesome game that its for, for another $5-$15. Waiting a few weeks (I suppose 3 weeks to a month is optimal) and making us download the entirety of the DLC isn't going to break their business model one bit. They can still nickle and dime us without making it seem like they're completely ripping us off.. In fact, what I just mentioned allows them to do that far better, and will stop people from complaining about this, while extending the life of their games by a few months more if people really care enough. In fact.. one of the things they should be working on most is making people care enough to keep playing the game past its ending at all -and I don't mean through a multiplayer experience.

A list of nitpicks that completely misses the point about the Sony's goals and the Vita's true nature, when both have been pretty apparent to any one paying even half the attention someone working for the game journalism industry should be from the get-go. Also, GTA3 plays like s**t on a touch screen. I don't care how classic the game is, or how cheap they've released it for as an app game, the game doesn't play right with this input style, so it is inferior.

I'm going to call it like I see it, and I too am far from being an expert in PC building these days: This is a pretty hefty, multifaceted, advertisement masquerading as an article. Face it, read the comments so far and see how people have said it would have been better to go with such and such part over this one part, save money and get a better one of these other parts with the cash. But the article is pointing out that the Intel Chip is the newest -obviously no one should really care. The article is plucking this one motherboard over a reported hundreds, but the guy admittedly doesn't know what most of the stuff on it even means -unless, of course, that is indeed a ruse. He buys countless corsair items when in many cases theres clear, cheaper, alternatives out there. He goes on to use memory Most of all, he goes with a PNY video card and oh, look, theres a giveaway for a PNY card on the last page. Also want to point out that he says that he helped build that greatest rig ever, last year.. But then he goes on to say he hasn't build one for himself in years and acting as if he has absolutely no clue what hes doing when he already stated his part in last years build -which is it? Because this is all contradictory.