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Three questions: 1) When do you think the next generation of consoles will be released? 2) When do you think the next generation of consoles should be released? 3) What features do you think Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo need to add to their future consoles? Thanks.

One isssue I had with the alerts: It seems that the alert is just a one-shot deal. In other words, once you get an alert for a game, you don't get any more. Sometimes I don't want to buy a game right away even if it falls below my price. Is there any way to set it so that I continue to get...

Hey Cheapy, In the last episode, you said that you would recommend Street Fighter IV for $60. Here is a related question: Which is a better buy: Street Fighter IV for $60 or Street Fighter II HD Remix for $15? Some background: I own Street Fighter: Championship Edition for the SNES, and...

My hope is that the Elites are of higher quality than the initial batch of 360's, which were apparently made of crap.

My 20GB 360 that was purchased in Nov 2006 just RROD'd on me (I know, I can't imagine it lasted that long either, which is pretty sad). Anyway, my wife was smart enough (although I thought it was dumb at the time, before I knew about all the RROD problems) to buy the 2-yr protection plan from...

For me, it's Portal. I thought this was a throw-in game to pad the number of games included in the Orange Box. Little did I know that this would be one of the best games I have ever played.

I do not understand the incentive that a game company would have for doing this. Consider Nintendo. With the Virtual Console, they are making a lot of money on old NES games. Why would they want to add these games to a free gaming library? Or worse, be charged by the library for adding these...

One of the differences for me is that when I see a political ad on TV, I can fast forward through it if I DVR'd the show or I can just switch to another channel and go back to it in 30 seconds. I can't do that when I see a political ad in a video game though - it's much harder to simply ignore.

I don't agree with the idea that just because somebody paid for an ad, it's OK to add it to a game. What if somebody paid for an ad promoting a certain religion? Would that be OK to put in a game? My point is, If the line is not politics (and I think it is), then where is that line?

Unfortunately I already bought the game a while ago so that's not really an option. I like the idea of sending Criterion a message about this stuff though. Thanks for the link.

In what type of game do you think it would be appropriate to show political ads?

I just saw this news item that Barack Obama is advertising on billboards within Burnout Paradise: http://gigaom.com/2008/10/13/confirmed-obama-is-campaigning-on-xbox-360/ What do CAG's think about this? Should political ads be added to games? If you are an Obama supporter, consider if you...

What happened to the Cheap Thrills segment that you guys were doing for a while? I thought that this segment had a lot of potential in that it can help point me and other CAG's in the direction of some really nice cheap games that have been out for over 6 months or so. The discussion of...

Hey Cheapy, Recently, I was in Akihabara and was struck by how large and how crowded the arcades are. And there weren't just teenagers playing - there were plenty of people in their 20's and 30's playing fighters like Street Fighter IV and old-school Ikaruga-style shooters in the middle of the...

OK I didn't watch the Sony press conference, but I read the Joystiq notes. For those who saw it, did Jack Tretton really say this in the beginning of the presentation? He recounts Jack Palance's one handed pushup: "And thanks to my job and my bi-annual workout regiment, you're not likely to see...