I see nothing wrong with a screenshot collage unless the collage itself was misleading (ie. deliberately stacking 4 screens so it looked like the game had co-op).  Nothing in the rules say the screens must be unedited, only that they must be representative.

Modern Warfare 2 comes out on November 10.  That game is going to eat up a lot of the XBox Live traffic for a bit, the same way that Halo ODST did.  Most of the time I wouldn't worry about the effect of AAA games, but I think MW2 is going to take a lot of peoples' attention away from other games at any level for a while.  If ...

If the game previously allowed the player to use any controller on that screen but no longer does, and there has been nothing communicated to the player that would indicate why it's the case, I would say it's a fail.  Arbitrarily changing the scenarios under which controllers work without communicating the change to the player is ...

It's working now, thanks for the help dudes.

I would like to vote in favour of this issue (though I wonder if there are technical or legal reasons why it can't be done).  Unfortunately, I get an error message when I click the Connect link.  In fact, I've gotten an error message every time I've ever clicked a Connect link on this site.  Has anyone else encountered ...

[quote user="Reggie S"] I think this latest issue is a very important one as to me, it seems that we're now failing for gameplay issues.  I think this is only going to increase the discussions on "what's failable" since people will now ask if they can fail because they shot a zombie but the hit detection seemed ...

I think this is one of those cases where the fact that MS has to write rules with a wide brush unfortunately catches a pretty inoffensive product.  But I really don't think there's much of a way around it without bringing a huge amount of subjectivity into things (and I'd actually say the "established work of art" ...

[quote user="BogTurtleCarl"]So does that mean I get to start failing for games that have no quit option? Because I'd like to and it seems reasonable to me but yet it is on the "no fail" list. So if I think for myself as a reviewer and start failing games based on a certain logic, there is potential conflict there in terms ...

[quote user="Jim Perry"][quote user="The Shape of Games to Come"]It's not that Garnett and John don't know where to find the games, it's that they feel as though Microsoft is telling people the games aren't worthwhile by seperating them from the rest of the content on the service.[/quote] That's ...

[quote user="Nick Gravelyn"][quote user="The Shape of Games to Come"]We have enough problems with XBox Live being as segmented as it is.  I've already heard plenty of people, including prominent journalists like Garnett Lee and John Davidson say that one of the reasons they don't take XBLIG seriously is because ...