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Tom vs. Bruce #28: Gary Grigsby's World at War Two guys go head-to-head in the PC's most popular competitive games.By Tom and Bruce

Evidently not content being the champion of free downlodable content, Valve president Gabe Newell has now gone on record as a critic of stringent digital rights management too. Responding to a letter that was posted, of all places, on the "ih8evilstuff" LiveJournal page (via GamePolitics), Newell said that DRM strategies "are just dumb" because they only decrease the value of a game in the consumer's eyes.

Forget about any perceived similarities between Prince of Persiaand Ico -- they end at some base visual and thematic qualities and don't extend far into the realm of gameplay. More specifically, Princess Yorda's counterpart in Prince of Persia isn't merely a construct for a grand escort mission, but rather the embodiment of the time-manipulation mechanic from previous games -- a character who makes up for the Prince's shortcomings as opposed to enhancing them. Still, Prince of Persia shares some more distinct traits with a different Team Ico game, Shadow of the Colossus, in that each level's often your main enemy. The crux of the challenge falls upon your ability to complete a level using the Prince's acrobatic abilities to solve puzzles and bypass environmental hazards.

The Behemoth may finally be ready to release a patch for the game-breaking online bugs in Castle Crashers soon, reports Xbox 360 Fanboy. Asked about the status of the long-awaited patch, the company stated:

Conventionally speaking, platform holders in the videogames industry tend to lose money on their hardware (at least for the first couple of years) while making money through software. But if we've learned anything about the Wii by now, it's that it's far from conventional. According to an estimate by analysts at Macquarie Securities (via Forbes), Nintendo actually makes $6 in profit for every Wii they sell.