Luke, I commented on your "In Defense of Sports Games" article but I do not hold the coveted star. I just wanted to reiterate my own reasons for disliking them. I don't understand them. I don't actively follow many sports and I don't have any reason to believe picking up Madden NFL for example, would TEACH me anything about football. First Person Shooters have tutorials that tell you how to do the most simple things like "walk" and "look". Why? Well because there is a chance it is someone's first game. Madden has tutorials that tell you HOW to do something but not what that something actually means. Give a copy of Madden to someone who has never ever played or watched or read about football and see how far they get. Then do the same with a FPS. I bet they have more fun with the FPS. I would love to learn about American Football in an interactive way, like say.. a video game. I will not be reading any wikis or attempt to make sense of my 15 friends all shouting over each other to "teach" me. I hope you can pass this comment or it's intent to the people who make these games. Let them know there is at least -1- and I would assume many more, potential fans who just need a little help in the form of interactive tools by which to learn the game. Thanks!

Matt "Positron" Miller, Lead Designer for City of Heroes, just posted a pair of screenshots on the official City of Heroes message boards, seemingly confirming that the next free expansion to the game (after the one currently in testing) will include the ability to customize your character's powers, or at least the colors of them. This is kind of a big deal, as the static powers have been a sticking point for many members of the community since launch.

[boards.cityofheroes.com]

The screenshots show a number of Fire powers, typically orange, in blue and purple.

hey, i seen your post on the generated city, and just thought you might wanna see this hand made city

[www.byhook.com]

You really should let people know about this. Lost 28hrs of progress....
[forums.steampowered.com]

Is this for real?
[gamingisstupid.com]

[news.bbc.co.uk]

3D Realms goes bust! The end of Duke Nukem Forever!?

Great find on the Blade Runner/5th Element screens, Luke. That really made my day, in a bittersweet fashion. Jobs had better be created because of that competition.

Nevermind, I see you posted it earlier. *feels sheepish* ^^;

Luke, leaked Red Steel 2 footage: [wii.nintendolife.com]

Thought you might want to know. :)

Oh F1.com has pictures of the game if you want to update the post with them.

[www.formula1.com]

hey luke
i got an interesting history you guys can check and help me at the same time, did you know that xbox live won´t allow you to download some content in countries with no xbox live support?? I've been trying to download the call of duty WAW map pack but it keeps telling me that the content is not available in my current location, (by the way, I'm living in Guatemala right now )i have my gold subscription in order i have enough Microsoft points and I'm able to download everything else but the map pack, please check it out, i think it could be a great post since i remember kotaku post something about xbox not blocking xbox live from countries with out xbox live support