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Considering how great you claim BioShock, your elliptical review doesn’t make it clear why. Having few choices and being blatantly manipulated by situations, characters, and level design is hardly new - and usually frowned upon. The strength of reviewer Sean Molloy’s emotional reactions may say more about him than the game, for all I know. Two “surprisingly similar paths” with two endings, one ‘ unfulfilling?”

This is gaming greatness? What makes this so artistic?

Your BioShock review also assumes I’m already familiar with the game. Mostly, I’m not: I don’t have time to pore over previews and discussion boards, and I know from experience that what’s discussed in a preview often doesn’t match up with the final product. The review’s tiny pictures, obscure captions, and undefined references (”plasmids”?) leave me wondering just what BioShock is about and what it’s like to play it. It sounds like you’re preaching to the converted instead of helping a potential buyer decide whether to purchase the game.

Which tips me off to the fact that this is Computer Gaming World in a clever disguise! “These guys?!” I shriek.

Now I’m steamed, as Mr. Green rubs in the fact that I got tricked into buying a CGW mag with a new name. “To pite him,” I think, I will read this rag cover to cover then tell him what I think!”

So now, Jeff Green, I say to you.nice job. Can’t say I cared for CGW, but that hypnotic symbol of evil shining on the top-left of the cover must’ve made me love the new mag 1 would’ve already subscribed, but all the little subscription cards that are designed to fall out of the magazine fell out,..and I can’t find one! Keep up the good work, all. I’ll give you guys my money just like the little logo tells me to do!

“For the first time researchers have created a working prototype of a radical new chip design based on magnetism instead of electrical transistors. As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore’s Law, a group of electrical engineers at the University of Notre Dame has fabricated a chip that uses nanoscale magnetic “islands” to juggle the ones and zeroes of binary code. Wolfgang Perod and his colleagues turned to the process of magnetic patterning to produce a new chip that uses arrays of separate magnetic domains. Each island maintains its own magnetic field. Because the chip has no wires, its device density and processing power may eventually be much higher than transistor-based devices. And it won’t be nearly as power-hungry, which will translate to less heat emission and a cooler future for portable hardware like laptops.”