From what I recall, yes you pay a subscription and get some content, then pay extra for premium games, a per use charge if I recall. As far as the bandwidth goes, I don't think it's mega hungry, that was the beauty of it, though if it really worked that well, they'd be minted from selling the algorithms, let alone the console.

They knew all along that it would right itself as soon as midnight passed. The outage therefore lasted exactly 24 hours, or less if you were online at midnight GMT last night as it didn't sign you out just wouldn't let you sign in if you signed yourself out. They now have four years to work out how to fix it without compromising the machines security. Or they just accept that downtime ratio of 1 in 1461 is to them acceptable

What a retarded idea? The photography in the game is fine. What will a film adaptation actually add, pretty much nothing. If they really want to make a game/film crossover malarkey they need look no further than this http://stickmenpictures.com/interactive.html shameless plug as a mate's in it

I meant The Flintstones and then The Simpsons, the two longest running animated series. Prior to Flintstones cartoons were for kids, WB, Looney Tunes and that arty-farty Disney bloke. Flintstones by being in a sit-com format made it palatable for adults. No Flintstones, no South Park. The games industrry has been dumbing down forever, this is why CoD and FIFA are always top of the charts. That doesn't mean it can't produce anything of artistic merit. But I didn't mean that games would be dumbed down, but that their place within the sphere of entertainment was being misrepresented so the non game playing public could put them in some sort of frame of reference. My earlier post below states this better

For the same reason that the two longest running pieces of animation are both sit-coms. People don't understand new media, so if it can be sanitised and squeezed into a format that they are used to they can accept it and then others can start pushing the boundaries of what the medium can actually do.