As I have described previously, most of my friends these days get their Vitamin G [he means games -Jhawhlgh] from the console side of the spectrum. When the multiplayer options on those primitive machines were anemic, nasty little things, I would always nod knowingly, secure in the knowledge that they would be back (oh yes, they would be back). There's really no reason for them to come back, now. The transfer of PC gaming's richest, most vital blood to the console is almost complete.

If you told me that Pandemic, Irrational, Bioware, Raven, and Infinity Ward would be devoted to creating console entertainment years ago, I'd have pressed a button that sent you down to a kind of subterranean foyer where you could better acquaint yourself with my Rancor. [That's a Star Wars reference, TIMELY. -Jay Ho......ghsdfhfl]

It was Hellgate: London that hauled me back in [WHAT? -jhsdf]

More than anything else, I think it was installing Vista that made me hate PC gaming. [As Todd Barry once said, "you forgot........ to not do that."]

For mainstream games, I don't think you can beat today's consoles - and I'm prepared to call assertions to the contrary elitism.

Indeed, most developers can't afford - either in terms of lost sales, or in terms of resources - to create a game like Crysis that most computers can't run. I spent the weekend playing the weirdest shit: IGF winners, crazy card games, impenetrable strategy sims, and community darlings, remembering what made the platform so delicious in its danger and its daring. *adjusts glasses, scratches neckbeard, slowly and with passion gripping stiff shaft and stroking it tenderly up and down before giving it just the slightest squeeze and moaning in pleasure 10x greater than anything you will experience*

If you're a fan of Transformers I highly recommend the new animated series on Cartoon Network. Some people might be turned off by the look but I think it's incredible. It's got a very Teen Titans look which makes sense seeing as it's by the same people. Even in vehicle mode these transformers are expressive and full of character.