"The Muppets Attack Fox News"

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HAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha..... that's awesome. Seriously, FOX, when you've got the frickin' MUPPETS successfully calling you out on your BS, it's time to hang it up.

"Final Fantasy XIII-3 trilogy shock, DLC story fears"

Apparently, Final Fantasy XIII-2 ends on a cliffhanger, with a "To Be Continued" stinger. Seriously.

Could this be owsf2000's long-ago-made prediction of games that have had their endings cut out and sold separately as DLC coming true? Definitely seems like a possibility, sure enough. Well, whether it's DLC for XIII-2 or another actual game, it's still a dick move either way. (EDIT 2) And, indeed, it ended up being another game. A widely panned game that almost nobody that I know of actually liked at all. Oh, Square Enix... how the once mighty have fallen. (/EDIT 2)

Really, this kind of thing just blows. It wasn't okay when Soul Reaver did it. It wasn't okay when Shenmue did it. It wasn't okay when Dreamfall did it. It wasn't okay when Halo did it. Hell, it wasn't okay when Empire Strikes Back and Dead Man's Chest did it either, and it seems to be increasingly becoming a Thing™ nowadays to release one whole movie in two parts. (EDIT) Or in three. (/EDIT) So it's not just video games that are doing this kind of crap.

At any rate, I almost can't believe now that I was just telling Mord over the weekend about playing the demo for XIII-2 and actually considering getting it. Screw that. At best, I am going to take a wait-and-see approach now, if I end up getting it at all. Maybe I'll wait until both parts are released and available in a bundle of some sort for a more appropriate price (kind of like what I'm eventually planning to do for Starcraft II, assuming I ever bother to get that at all, either).

But then, as all those other examples above show, this can be done and has already been done. And, since most people just don't or won't have much of a problem with it, it will continue to be done. :(

"Rebel Fleet Surrenders to Gay Empire" Yes, that's the actual headline on the FRC site.

"Family Research Council says BioWare has 'gone to the dark side' with promise to include same-gender romance in MMO game."

Once again proving that it's increasingly difficult to tell the difference between parody and the real thing. In this case, sadly, it's the real thing, yet again.