Chris

We're unlikely to get anything like that set up any time soon. You could get a new card and use it for the Kickstarter, then use the remaining funds on your other card to just buy other stuff when you need it?

Thanks so much to everyone who pitched into the Kickstarter or even linked it somewhere or mentioned it to a friend! We're enormously grateful.

Yeah I think you're out of luck. This is why people were saying to put a bit of extra money on the card.

As many or as few people can work on a team as one likes. As Forbin says, the groups are usually small.

They're insulting as a practice, because they are a clear and utter waste of time. If even the president of the ESRB publicly admits that anybody can simply lie to an age gate, it's a known fact that they are ultimately achieving nothing other than wasting time and being irritating. It's different to something that is irritating because it's just a necessary side effect of something useful, or because of an unfortunate technical limitation.

I agree, it's infuriating and insulting. Over the last several years I've become less and less interested in publisher-driven console gaming, and ESRB condescension is just one of many reasons why. I love that independent developers can release games on the PC and entirely ignore the ESRB because there's no major publisher or retailer forcing them to do otherwise.

There can be, if you want to organize it.

I'm one of the San Francisco organizers!

I'm super excited to announce that Idle Thumbs has been acquired by News International! Rupert Murdoch has assured us that he's probably all about video games as well, so this partnership is going to be a great thing for all parties involved. We can't wait to help bring back the cherished "News of the World" brand in a lasting and equitable partnership with Idle Thumbs. I think all of our readers are going to love it!

We're all Nick Breckon.

There's inflation (which makes Grim's budget around $4m), and also the fact that game assets need to be higher-fidelity than they did in 1998 so budgets aren't directly comparable, and also about $335k of this will go to Kickstarter and Amazon, and some amount will go to the documentary people, etc. It's a super incredible amount and clearly their plans will get to be a lot bigger than they originally intended, but don't infer that raising this much money in 2012 means they're working with a budget comparable to Grim Fandango's in 1998.

Your dad worked for some cool dudes, according to his Gamasutra bio.

Unless you were a PC gamer! (Like me!)

No keynotes this year! No big keynotes anyway, only track-specific keynotes. Hopefully it results in fewer examples of using keynotes as press conferences.

It was the then-home of Thumbs Ben Andac and Lawrence Bishop, in fact!

I feel exactly the same way, but it's ultimately a futile position as the series is intrinsically all of those things.

More succinct: And I'd prefer 100% more Nick Breckon More soiled: And I'd prefer 100% more Nick Breckon

No.

I think you're confusing the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was fought to establish sovereignty and break away from Great Britain; the Civil War was a century later and was fought to keep the Southern states from seceding from the union.

I want everyone to know that Benjamin Franklin was a goddamn incredible genius and I'm going to be severely disappointed, but not surprised, if he gets the same goofy James-Bond's-Q treatment the also-goddamn-incredible-genius Leonardo got in one of the other Assassin's Creed games.

I've never seen Weekend at Bernie's or its sequel

Too bad it wasn't mixed in stereo.

As with every historical setting chosen for an Assassin's Creed game, it still bums me out that the only way to get historical fiction in non-strategy games is to load them up with supernatural elements and near-superpowered killing machines.

I'm sure EA picked up funding it where Activision left off. Double Fine wouldn't have had that money just lying around.

I pretty much agree. SimCity is EA and always has been EA so obviously this one is also going to be EA and that's just how it is. So either you just don't pay attention to the game because you refuse to support EA, or you come to terms with it, and wait to see if something actually tangibly bad happens or is announced. The game hasn't even been officially unveiled yet.