“… the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” — Princess Leia<\/p>\n
When two completely unrelated yet read-by-me-and-well-respected blogs lambaste a game company for DRM in much the same terms, swearing holy oaths never to spend the money on the game of which they desperately have loved the previous versions and very much wanted to get the latest installment … then the game publisher is doing something, awfully, terribly wrong.<\/p>\n
Les<\/a> and Shamus<\/a> on Bioshock<\/a> — the print and TV ads for which look really cool. 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