"Syndicate in Review- Bifurcated Design" or why games shouldn't be split in half between SP and MP

Ostensibly, this is a review of the new Syndicate game (a game in which I have exactly zero interest, personally), but more than that it's an article about why it's kind of a bad idea to split resources between singleplayer and multiplayer components in the same game. Generally speaking, I agree with the guy. I'd rather have a game that is 100% purely singleplayer myself (*cough*Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2*cough*), rather than one that is 85-90% singleplayer with a completely separate, tacked on multiplayer component (*cough*Mass Effect 3*cough*). And I'm sure most of the people playing Call of Duty or whatever probably wish that the singleplayer part of that had just been removed altogether and more effort put into the multiplayer stuff.

( Yet another rant about Diablo 3 )

Found via The Penny Arcade Report.

"On 'Dated' Games"

Michael Lowell of The GhettoLearn to Counter knocks another one out of the park. (EDIT) For some reason, this one isn't on the new site, but I did at least find it in the Wayback Machine for the old site version. (/EDIT)