Duke Togo

Well, some good news: "the entire credit card table was encrypted" and there is "no evidence that credit card data was taken" Outside of worrying about my spam-free e-commerce e-mail address getting spammed, this isn't too big of a deal for me. My address has changed during the outage, and my PSN password won't do anyone any good (outside of PSN).

^^^This

I don't quite understand why none of this information was encrypted on their servers. It's nonsensical.

There seems to be some question about whether the information was just exposed or flat out stolen. We also don't know exactly how many people were effected by this, or if any credit card or banking information was stolen.

Game Informer's Mass Effect 3 page has a ton of goodies on it, the best being 7 video interviews (that all together clock in at just under an hour). They cover everything from the origin of the game, to voice work and sound design, to character design, and how much attention that pay to feedback from the first two games. You'd be doing yourself a disservice if you are a ME fan and don't check it out. Game Informer: Mass Effect 3

That's not quite accurate.

Technically speaking, he was back as the Terminator in the last movie. I don't image any role he'd have in it would be much more than a CGI enhanced appearance.

The music rights issue with Macross 7 is cost prohibitive. This is one subject that has been covered here ad nauseam over the past decade. DYRL, as we all know, is in legal limbo; no one really knows who owns what. Plus and II are essentially being kept down by the company that holds the rights to it. It's a small crime that a high quality release of Plus has yet to happen. Frontier, I would think, should not be much of an issue. As far as games and publications go, I think Seto is expecting a wee bit too much. Only one game was ever planned to be released here, and there isn't a chance in hell--even if HG wasn't in the way--that any of those games would be localized and released here now. And I do not believe there is a big enough market outside of Japan to justify the kind of release of books and magazines that he is looking for.

Most of that would not happen, with or without HG in the way.

This is unlikely even if HG wasn't in the way.

PC Gamer: Mass Effect 3 first screens released

Who is actually having issues acquiring whatever Macross products they want?

It's reporting a "HTML/Agent.yupe" in "http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/public/style_images/mwf-v3/topicpreview.png" May be a false positive, but I just wanted to pass this along.

I thought my statement was pretty clear; I am talking about the stylistic design choices made in the new series. We've gone from fairly adult looking designs from the original series to that now-popular "Americanized" anime look. I'm not really digging it.

Avatar: The Last Thundercat? I'll watch, but I am not sure I dig the style of the new designs.

One thing to keep in mind: this is a totally optional DLC. That means whatever impact it has on ME3 will not be integral to the plot. It probably means little more than additional dialog/mail/news reports.

Some times there is no option. It's an impossible choice, but it had to be done. I found it more realistic than some neat, clear, little paragon option.

Arrival has arrived. Too bad I won't get to play it until tonight.

Arrival Trailer

If I recall correctly, neither Overlord or Shadow Broker had any new squad dialog. Your cohorts were essentially mute for both DLCs.

No, the character is named Dr Amanda Kenson. I wouldn't call this a spoiler, as Bioware hasn't hidden this and she isn't a previously existing character.

Strider 2?

Shocking, the movie is shite. Never saw that coming. A whopping 21% on Rotten Tomatoes. If you don't go to see it, they'll stop making crap like this.

Yes

So, what's going on here? Anything new? Same old? I think I've said this before (long, long time ago), but between the internet, p2p, and international shipping, HG's "rights" mean jack squat to Macross fans.