I wouldn't be surprised if the game suffers some massive delays, but as Kotaku said (obliquely) it isn't actually a delay if there has been no announcement about when the title is going to released in the first place.

I suppose the upside is that if the game really is still two years away, it is bound to be pretty special when it finally launches. The devs can't have had their hands on a PS3 SDK for that long and FF games always take an age to make. View

looks like it could have some depth on the customization front, but otherwise looks underwhelming. the worlds don't look very open, the particle effects with explosions and suchlike look very last gen and the visuals in general look like like top a tier xbox title rather than a 360 title. i wouldn't mind if the game hadn't been hyped so much but as it stands it just looks like a bit of a tired slash em up with some rpg aspects chucked in. roll on fallout 3. View

I had my first experience of the Oktoberfest last year (I am currently living in Munich) and I have to say I have never seen anything like it. Forget any music festivals you have ever been to, this place had more drunk people per square inch than anything I can imagine.

Great fun though. View

I reckon that GTA IV will sell more on the 360 simply because of the installed user base. I think the game will drive more fresh console sales in the PS3 camp however. View

I keep thinking to myself, maybe one day someone will take them on, maybe one day the supreme court will step in and shut them down, maybe one day all of America will wake up (instead of just under half of it) and realize that Fox is about as 'Fair and Balanced' as your average fascist political party.

It will never happen though, and as long as Fox news is around, the world will be a darker less pleasant place to be. View

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Ok when was the last time you actually played a mobile game seeing as you seem to be such an expert?

Why do you think companies like Sony, EA and THQ are investing millions in mobile game development?

The answer is simple; because mobile games have come a long way since Snake and anyone who is still clinging to the mobile games are 'garbage' argument probably hasn't played one since then.

Fair enough mobile games don't often allow you to fill the oversized metallic boots of Joey the space marine so you can set off to an alien planet to shoot the tentacles off of Jimmy the evil and very ugly space cretin + mates for fifteen levels, invariably using a pistol, a machine gun, a bigger machine gun, a shotgun and a rocket launcher before taking part in a protracted end of game boss battle where you have to continually nuke a giant monster in its soft bits until it shrivels into a slimy heap and you watch the credits roll with the inert beseeching submission of an unloved child. View

It's nice to see Microsoft taking the opportunity of a Keynote speech. The Xbox camp has been a bit quiet of late while SOny and Nintendo have had all manner of cool bits and pieces coming out (WiiFit, Dual Shock 3, Mario Galaxy, Uncharted etc).

Besides the games mentioned in the article I am hoping to hear something about the GTA IV exclusive content, Banjo Kazooie and maybe something about a price cut.

Still I am sure SOny and Nintendo will have plenty at their booths to impress too. View

If there is one thing that really pisses me off about the 360 it"s that it doesn' have built in wifi and you can't charge the controllers from the console straight out of the box. Actually that's two things but they are both equally annoying.

Even the DS which is a fraction of the price of a 360 has both of these features (sort of) so why could they not be standard in the 360 from the start?

For me if I was to buy a wireless adapter, a play and charge kit and another recharchable battery for my second controller I wold have spent over 100 euros.

I am a console agnostic through and through but if you ask me these very simple but absent features are very unnecessary and Microsoft should drop the price of the 360 by 80-100 euros to compensate the omission. View

I am just interested to know how Episode three is delivered for consoles when it is finally ready (god know when that will be).

A standalone download is possible but I would much prefer it if Valve released another bumper disc consisting of something like portal 2, Episode 3, a collection of the best HL2 mods and maybe the re-skinned version of Half life that was made with the HL2 engine.

No matter how it is released I will be getting it but it would be great if Valve pulled another great package out of their ass. View

To be honest I think that Resistance 2 is the game that will finally convince me to part with my cash for a PS3. If only the controller wasn't so rubbish for FPS games. View

I reckon the king of all cosmos probably already is a pron star in some other galaxy. View

I totally agree that there is an unnecessary gender bias in the piece and that the piece does tar all gamers with the same brush.

But lets not get all knee jerk about this, the woman has a point even if she is groping at it clumsily in the dark. There are plenty of us who know people that fit the descriptions made in the article.

People (irrespective of gender) are increasingly becoming more involved in the culture and products they consume and less involved in the world around them. Emile Durkheim predicted it and he was right, we can see it all around us and it is happening.

What the article fails to address is how widespread this phenomenon is and that it doesn't just include gaming males in their 20s. It includes many men and women who are consistently looking towards disposable throwaway pastimes, relationships, jobs and lifestyles rather than invest time in things that take a bit more effort (such as marriage, a career etc).

To address you directly ElementsUnknown, I don't actually understand why you are taking offense personally. As a well educated man who has been married for most of his 20s you are specifically not part of the demographic being referred to in the piece. View

To be honest I don't see the gaming angle here any more so than other forms of culture. In fact the original article makes as much reference to other forms of disposable culture as gaming and I think that NPR have cynically emphasized that aspect but there are still some interesting points in the original piece.

The article does miss out a large demographic and it certainly doesn't reflect my life (I am a 26 year old married Scotsman, living and working independently in Germany as a freelance games journalist) but if I think about some of the young men I know, there is at least a decent percentage of them that have this so called Child Man syndrome.

To be honest I don't see the argument or the emergent phenomenon as anything new. Peter Pan syndrome anyone? Many generations of men have been refusing to grow up since the 60s. It is true that there are more pop culture distractions available to us now to fill the void of statutes like marriage, family, career and so on but then society is a very different place nowadays.

Why bother voting when you can watch the latest series of South Park, why bother reading a newspaper when you can go on N4G and read about how the cell processor can crush diamonds into powder just by looking at them. I am being facetious but the reason we have this rising cult of individualism in young men (and women too but in other ways) is because of an overwhelming sense of apathy towards anything that is really important.

The Child Men or Child Women are not the problem, they are a symptom of a society that has lost its way. It is little wonder people feel a more meaningful connection with facile aspects of culture than with world events or more long term life goals. If we continue to preach bigger better faster more through the media all the time then that is how people will live their lives. Patience is not a virtue our generation is taught and patience is pretty damn important if you want to get a career, get married have children etc.

So really I think the sneering tone of the article is way off but the ideas are pretty sound even if it does fail to mention that there is a demographic that is capable of involving itself in both sides of the coin. View

My prediction is a conspicuous absence for Killzone 2 at GDC with the gap being plugged by resistance 2 which for my money looks like it will be the a far better game (though probably a bit less pretty to look at).

I can't help but feel that Killzone 2 will be motorstorm all over again. I was playing said game last night and though it is definitely a great looking title, probably one of the best looking racers ever made, it is still a far cry from the 'target footage' that was shown in the beginning.

I think Killzone 2 will follow a similar pattern. If you ask me the most impressive looking fps game on the way is Project Offset, that is a game I want more info on. View

Just got here, scrolled to the bottom without reading. Here is my best guess.

The comments are made up of 75 percent PS3 fans, all of them saying 'we didn't want this game anyway' and slapping each other on the back.

Seriously, these fanboys give real gamers a bad name. I am looking forward to adding a PS3 and a Wii to my set up (along with my 360) but at this rate I think I am going to have to keep quiet about the PS3 purchase lest I be lumped in with the troglodytes that take it upon themselves to be spokesmen for the machine.

Pathetic. View

Sorry for the duplicate but in my defense nothing came up in the duplicate story section while I was submitting. Until I have the sort of giant clairvoyant brain that can detect these things automatically, duplicates like this one may continue to happen from time to time. And just for the record, PSP60 doesn't count as witty in my book, sorry. View

For the majority of you, what you know about how hardware impacts on game development could be written on the back of a postage stamp with a blunt crayon.

All this spouting of shiny rhetoric without the slightest understanding of what any of it means is so infuriating to read. I hate to say it (because most of the time I disagree with the following sentiment) but the internet really is responsible for the rising cult of the amateur.

You might think you know what the difference between the Cell and the 360 counterpart, you might think you understand what it takes to get a game running at 30, 60 or 100000000000000 god forsaken fps, you might know how much more storage a bluray has than a DVD9 but none of it has anything to do with an understanding of games development and the intricate processes involved.

As Mark Twain once said, 'It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt'.

A good few of N4G's readership could do with observing this maxim before letting fly yet more unsubstantiated, ill informed, poorly understood garbage. View

Yahtzee is a bona fide genius, though I imagine he is probably a bit of a cnut in person but then that's probably because I am a bit jealous of his purple prose spouting skills. View