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I still agree with Jeff’s initial sentiment at CGlVs relaunch: It’s the ease of use and connectivity in Vista that will really push PC gaming, and it’s just not there yet. The hardcore will always snub their noses at the idea that improved ease of use constitutes innovation, but everything from the iPod to WOW proves the contrary; let’s hope Microsoft at least makes good on rectifying the embarrassment that the current ideal online environment is a console one.

Personally I’m one of the traitorous legions on a MacBook Pro, but I still love getting GFW on a monthly basis. I do have a copy of XP that’s been sitting on my shelf for a month, yearning for dualboot, but the day that I need more gaming than the combined forces of WOW and Civilization 4 can provide will be…what’s Heilgate’s launch date again?

Could this have been more of a plug for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live? I understand the concept of simple games being fun and that graphics aren’t everything (ooh, water!), but did you really have to pick Microsoft’s latest darling? Did you have to do it with a platform title rather than a Flash game or freeware title?

I understand the fantastic joy of Pac-Man. And if I hadn’t already wasted hours of my youth with Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man and whatever other Poc-Spinoffs you could name (no cheating with Internet help), I might be willing to play this game you mention… if it [were] available to me on my PC, But since this remake of a quarter-century-old title is not available to Windows gamers - despite Microsoft’s claims that they fully support the PC platform I’ll just play Overlard, which covers much of what you speak of while still rendering very nice water.