Free marketing, "confirmed" or "denied" is very finite, while rumours just keep on going.
I just can't figure out why people keep confusing fanboys with fans/enthusiasts etc, they are per definition really not the same thing at all.
Yes, the "fanboy" mentality exists outside of video games, but it is all but human nature. Virtually any situation where it arises, it is forced/"encouraged", however subtly done. Who are the people who benefit from that mentality? Certainly not the fanboys themselves, but generally someone trying to sell something, be...
It's alright Mr. Frodo, EA won't ravage you ever again.
Care to explain why?
I'd buy it.
Makes perfect sense, then mister diablo, Satan (santa, for those who like anagrams), can deliever the game himself. All that on the single most destructive time of the year, where most houses burn down, most children are abused and taught the wonderful values of materalism and people are completely stressed out.
Yep, Blizzard nailed the timing.
A global multi-national corporation that has no moral or lawful obligations (lawsuits = pocket change), that exists purely to create money at any cost? No, Microsoft got that.
Let's see, fanatic followers that would buy anything as long as their name is on it? Wrong again.
Ah, I found it! "n" and "y" in their name, that's the secret differentiator, to which Microsoft retaliates with "m", "i", c", "r", "f&quo...
Brilliant, having their parents in jail will sure do wonders for those kids and their upbringing.
"The fear of getting caught shouldn't be the motivating factor for you obeying the laws.
It should be the pleasure in being able to sleep at night knowing that you have done the right thing by your kids. That should be the motivating factor."
The good old "if you're a honest person, you've got nothing to fear" line never fails at introduc...
More likely an attempt at stopping piracy.
I must say that this phrase kind of lands flat on it's face;
"If you're playing Halo 3, you might wind up playing against my 11 year-old son, and when he pulls up your profile, it needs to be appropriate."
If everything is to be so appropriate, why is his 11-year old son playing a mature rated game?
Is someone who does proper journalistic research and then writes about the findings on a blog, is that person a journalist or a blogger? Cause apparently people can't be more than one thing.
Personally, I don't consider most of the so-called "real journalists" journalists at all, they merely repeat a source, with none or little research of their own. Even if they wanted to do the proper research, they couldn't possible get time to do it in our instant-news world. Being ...
A ballista could come in handy some day I suppose.
I can see the news headlines though; "Games provide murderers-in-training with real weapons of mass destruction!"
"Common Sense Media"... what an ironic name.
Technically a Giant Enemy Scarab.
Last one is Thief 3.
Clearly propaganda, consoles don't smile! They are always grim, going about their serious business which requires the utmost obedience from their loyal followers.
"You give us money, we make something" sounds like pretty normal business fare to me, not really praise worthy or anything. But I guess the PR people got to earn their living somehow.
Fanboys would have a complete mental breakdown due to having to worship and despise something at the same time.
The future is already here then.
It's funny because it's true.