If you guys are regulars, there's a good chance the employees of the store like you, like the guys in the article said. I work at Gamestop, and can attest to the fact that the arrival of friendly regulars can really turn around a crappy day!

While there are a LOT of ignorant customers in the store, I actually have a MUCH bigger problem with the company management. Especially lately, with the new store manager getting VERY little done around the store, work piling up (how would you like to stare a week's backlog of price changes in the face just because you haven't worked in as long?), and random crap in the back room booby-trapping break and bathroom space.

Plus, dealing with the fact that the store is so dang SMALL (a problem that increased exponentially with the release of Rock Band and like games) is a constant hassle I could do without.

I continue to work there because Costco didn't seem to care for my application, and because I do like working there for the way it keeps me in with the games, which are my life-long passion anyway. Plus, some of my coworkers (and the regular customers) are great friends I wouldn't like to leave.

"That Kingdom Hearts 3 is going to be on the Wii. Oh, and that it's going to feature Mario wielding a key blade."

Are you kidding me? I had a COWORKER who thought that until I corrected him! He's a serious gamer, too. Reason for it is in the April 2007 issue of Gamepro, I believe. An April Fool's joke article for "Mushroom Kingdom Hearts". The more you know, eh?

Beyond Good & Evil...in a bag of string cheese.
That's an INSULT to the game! On the other hand, it may help build the fanbase for the eventual success of the sequel. I hope.

Interesting article. I first heard of Sonic X-treme in Nintendo Power a couple months ago, and it keeps coming back ever since (especially on this site).

Even so, I must say that I don't like the looks of this game AT ALL! No disrespect to the people who worked their butts off to make this thing, but to me, it looks HORRIBLE! Navigation appears to be the absolute worst the series has ever encountered, and the 3D control looks even clunkier than some modern versions. Again, I stress that I don't want to devalue anybody's work, insult anyone, or anything like that, but this is my honest opinion on the matter.

I feel that all in all, Sonic should have never left 2D, period. But since he did (and I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for this one), I say that Sonic Unleashed is one of the best of the bunch. The night levels get a level of bashing they DO NOT deserve, and everybody can more or less agree that the day levels are awesome (any cheap deaths are caused by problems the series has had since game 1).

I'm not even a die-hard Sonic fanboy (grew up with Nintendo, and bought a Genesis on Ebay a few years ago), but I still think it's horrible how he's constantly attacked and ridiculed, when his games aren't even half as bad as people say (barring Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, whose demo I couldn't stand, and whose story looked NAUSEATING based on things I've seen on this site).

Sonic as a series deserves a good deal more respect than it's given lately (and Sonic IS better than real hedgehogs, thank you very much!). As with most things in this world, he's bashed so much that it's literally IMPOSSIBLE for his stuff to be as bad as people say.

Well, that's my crazy-butt long rant. I do ask that people don't go about flaming me TOO much. All I did is tell the truth, and a lot of you know it. Dozens of games have problems as bad as Sonic titles and worse every year, but his get the most negative talk, and for no good reason whatsoever.

I liked Blitzball enough, I was kinda hoping they'd make a stand-alone version with improvements including multiplayer (online, maybe also off if they could manage it)! That's obviously never going to happen, though.

I do fully agree about Pub Games, though. Well, except for the fact that I got it free with the reserve deal. The most annoying part was definitely the Achievements (which I do have all of, amazingly).