User: Sir Unimaginative

This reads like an ad.

On: Dell's Quest For Gaming Cool

Gamers don't buy expensive flashy stuff because they want expensive flashy stuff. Gamers buy the stuff that can crank out the best graphics and smoothest gameplay; this TENDS to be the expensive flashy stuff, especially if you're going to whip it out at a LAN party... but then Dell bling won't help you get any "street cred" anyway.

From a game company boardroom

On: March Game Sales Trend Downward

"Hey, look at what the MUSIC INDUSTRY'S doing!"

"Dude, that's brilliant, blame PIRATES!"

"But wait, we already have ridiculous goat-choking copy protection in games!"

"But dude, PIRATES!"

(assorted "Oh, yes, pirates!"; "Of COURSE!"; "Brilliant!")

"But wait, couldn't it just be that our games all suck a-*THROTTLE* *CHOKE* *GAG*"

Re:The term "Gamer" doesn't need a discriptor

On: An Editorial Melee About Female Gamers

Here's where I get curious about this marketing buzz about catering to [insert random section of the market here] gamers. We clearly DID NOT need to cater to demographics to get people who don't "fit the profile" to play video games before - otherwise, female/senior/yeti/alien/whatever gamers would never have been around to be talked about in the FIRST PLACE. Are marketing teams simply so hard-up for something to do that they make up a need to tailor-make games for certain groups?

Why am I not surprised.

On: Government-Aided Phishing

Yeah, hello, Spain? You can have it back now.