Friday Other Stuff (7-10-09)

[Steve_OS]

If any of these links interest you, talk about them.

• Images and Video: A robot rises over Tokyo
• Image: The next generation graduation tshirt
• No Fun League Bans In-Game Twittering
• The Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy
• How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck (Is this you?)
• Image: Have fun, quote the President (Hellooo...)
• Magnavox Blu-ray Player Only $98 After Wal-Mart Price Rollback
• Video: Once Upon a Pixel HD: Metal Gear Solid
• Images: The 20 Most Badass Video Game Cosplay Costumes Ever (Some of these are just "Badass")

QOTD: Would you like to see a 2 year cycle on sports games, or is 1 good enough for you?

Happy Birthday to the following OS'ers!

shon (36), elicoleman (24), the_EDJ (22), xxjgbxx (19)

[GreatScot]

A 2 year cycle would definitely be better. Games just seem too rushed in one year cycles. I'm not so sure that we even need roster updates every year with most sports games community support, but if having a $5 - $10 roster update helps push the dev cycle to 2 years, I'm all for it (doesn't mean I need to buy it).

[WatchdogXC]

I'd like to have a 2 year cycle. I'm not someone who buys the same sport every year anyways but I'd love to have a roster update and get a better game the following year. For some reason, the only sports games I've ever really bought back to back years are baseball games. I've gotten into a routine where I will get NCAA one year and Madden the next but I'm worn out on the football games as I don't think I've gotten much fun out of them since NCAA 2003.

[carlhungis]

I would love it but it isn't going to happen. What incentive is there for the gaming companies to push it out to two years? Madden is such a huge cash cow and the fans have shown that it doesn't really matter what they put out.... they will still buy it. Once sales decline, then maybe they would consider the 2 year cycle but I don't see it happening anytime soon.