The Escapist - Ten Things I Hate About You, Gaming.
While gamers complain about the monopoly of stores like GameStop, removing their ability to shop around for a title by buying in pre-order gimmicks only feeds the madness. And then there are those trinkets themselves - they used to just be useless plastic gimmicks, until they started becoming useless in-game items. How long before pre-order bonuses go the way of the worst kind of DLC - to wit, become things that would have been on the disc in a previous generation? Honestly, I would have thought gaming would have grown out of this way of doing business by now.

Ars Technica - #EAFail- the absolute worst (best-) PR campaign in gaming?
Like a reality show contestant, EA isn't here to make friends... it just wants to be talked about. The reaction to these stunts and promotions have have been overwhelmingly negative, but they're being written up, discussed, and the game's theme of hellish temptations is being preserved.

Outraged Christian bloggers, complaining female and LGBT gamers, editors being sent checks made out directly to them—all of this makes for delicious copy, and much of the gnashing of teeth seems to be centered on the fact that the gaming press continues to fall for the contrived controversy to give the company exactly what it wants: coverage. The campaign has been childish, daring, and borderline tasteless. Writing checks directly to game writers is cheaper than advertising on a site, with a much better result.

Test Freaks - Will The Cloud Make My Loaded Computer Obsolete? In Many Cases, Probably.
The numbers of cloud users are beginning to grow, but eventually I can see the advantages getting most, if not all, casual users on board. It’s often free. It works with many different classes of inexpensive machines. It removes the worry of lost computers and its files, and it works at both home and the office without lugging a laptop back and forth. I have seen other migrations to a solution with a much weaker advantage list.