The Service, Web site, and the community tools featured herein are brought to you by GameSpot, a division of CBS Interactive Inc. ("CBS Interactive"). In addition to the general Terms of Use applicable to your use of any CBS Interactive site (the "CBS Interactive Terms of Use"), the following additional Terms of Use (the "Additional Terms of Use") will apply to your use of the Service. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your binding acceptance of these Additional Terms of Use, the CBS Interactive Terms of Use, CBS Interactive Privacy Policy, and any modifications made thereto.

GAMESPOT ADDITIONAL TERMS OF USE

1. Some General Rules

   • We reserve the right to remove, at any time and without notice, any content from the Service
   • You must read and follow the stickied forum rules threads at the top of each forum in which you post.
   • Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities.
   • You must be at least 13 years old to register for the Service. We do not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years of age, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will be blocked from using the site any further.
   • Cheating of any kind (including by exploiting any bug or error) is expressly prohibited, this includes exploiting any deficiency in our code or design, or in the code or design of any third party product or service used in connection with the Service, to gain an unfair advantage or to gain unearned or unauthorized privileges, access or abilities not clearly intended by the product's design. Communicating information about such activities to others will also be considered cheating.
   • We reserve the right to contact your ISP regarding any inappropriate activities by you on the Service.
   • Your subscription to the Service is intended for your individual and personal use only. You may not share, license, sub-license, sub-lease, parse, pass-on or in any other way attempt to share, extend or monetize your access to the Service.
   • We reserve the right to immediately terminate or suspend anyone who fails to abide by these Additional Terms of Use. The decision to suspend or terminate accounts will be made at the sole discretion of the site administrators. All account terminations (bannings) are final.

2. Subscription Terms of Service

   If you have subscribed to a paid service, then by so subscribing you are entering into a legal and binding agreement between yourself, as an end user (referred to herein as "you," "your," and/or "yourself") and CBS INTERACTIVE (also referred to herein as "our," "us," and "we"). If you do not wish to be bound by these Additional Terms of Use or by the CBS INTERACTIVE Terms of Use and/or the CBS INTERACTIVE Privacy Policy, then you must discontinue your use of the Service.

3. Payment Obligation and Credit Card Authorization

   When subscribing to a paid service, you must use a major credit card in order to register for the Service. You hereby authorize us to charge your credit card to pay for your initial Service subscription and for any automatic renewals. Until you cancel your subscription, we will renew it automatically, and we will charge your credit card each year or each month (depending on the subscription term that you selected when you registered) for the price of a then-current annual or monthly subscription (depending on the subscription term that you selected when you registered).

   All sales are final. You may cancel the renewal of your subscription not less than ten (10) days prior to its renewal date by using the cancellation Web page (https://secure.gamespot.com/rps/manage/cancel.php). Once subscription fees have been charged to your credit card, they are nonrefundable. Only in cases of demonstrated fraud will subscription payments be refunded.

   You agree to pay all fees and charges that you incur through your account, including, but not limited to, applicable taxes. You will also be responsible for charges for any products or services that you purchase that are offered for sale through the Service. In addition, you are also responsible for paying any amounts billed to your credit card by someone who uses your card without your permission, even if your credit card company does not cover such costs.

   If we do not receive payment from your credit card issuer or its agent, you agree to pay all amounts due upon our demand. Your credit card issuer agreement governs your use of your designated credit card in connection with the Service, and you must refer to that agreement and not these Additional Terms of Use to determine your rights and liabilities as a cardholder.

4. Promotional trial subscriptions

   We may occasionally offer promotional trial subscriptions to the Service for free or at special discounted prices. If you sign up for a trial subscription, your subscription will be either 1) automatically renewed at the normal subscription rate in effect at the end of the trial period, unless you cancel before the end of the trial period; or 2) terminated, unless you successfully sign up for a paid subscription, depending on the terms of your trial subscription.

5. Protection of Your Password; Unauthorized Access

   Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You are strongly encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site. Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to you without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for a permanent ban of all accounts from the site.

6. Registration Requirements

   In order to post messages on our message boards, view boards with level restrictions, and use other advanced services, you must register using a valid e-mail address and follow all required registration confirmation procedures. No posting privileges will be granted until the account is fully activated.

7. Community Rules

   The following conduct is not allowed on the Service unless otherwise noted. The decision to moderate such conduct will be made at the sole discretion of the site moderators and administrators.

   • Advertising Messages or links to material that clearly advertises a service or product is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, the selling of in-game characters, items, or other forms of currency if expressly prohibited in the game's terms of use; modded hardware; drugs; pyramid schemes; "Make Money Fast" scams; or any referrer-ID based "free-item" marketing sites. This rule set will not be enforced on GameSpot Fuse or any blogs and unions within GameSpot, unless the conduct would otherwise violate the rules regarding Offensive Material and Illegal Activity.

   • Illegal Activity Communications that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to asking for or providing illegal copies of copyrighted software; methods of circumventing copyright protection; or illegal copies of all types of media. Acts of wagering money or items of material value on an uncertain outcome with the intent of winning additional money and or material goods is strictly prohibited.

   • Offensive Material Users may not transmit, encourage others to transmit, material or links to content considered patently offensive in nature. This includes, but is not limited to, using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language in reference to race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; violent material; using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, linking to, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech. Failing to abide by a warning that material or terms are offensive or prohibited is a violation.

   • Flooding, Invading, Disruptive Behavior Behavior that disrupts the Service for other users, intentional or not, is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: messages or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally; large blank or content-free messages; "rick rolls" (posting misleading or disruptive links); posting identical or near-identical messages or topics; or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics. Flooding a board as a group with topics or messages; instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a message board or any other online service; announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board. Posting a link to a third-party site where an invasion is even remotely will be considered an invasion. This rule set will not be enforced on GameSpot Fuse or any blogs and unions within GameSpot, unless the conduct would otherwise violate the rules regarding Offensive Material and Illegal Activity.

   • Plot Spoilers Posting critical plot details about games, movies, time-delayed broadcast events, or other media in the title of a topic or in a message without a clear notice is prohibited. The decision to moderate such content will be made at the sole discretion of the site administrators. This rule set will not be enforced on GameSpot Fuse or blogs and unions within GameSpot, unless the conduct would otherwise violate the rules regarding Offensive Material and Illegal Activity.

   • Impersonation Impersonating other users by creating and/or using a user account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, copying another user's profile information and/or signature, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another member is strictly prohibited.

   • Harassment/Stalking/Privacy Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group by another individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the Service, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats, is strictly prohibited. Posting contact or other private information of any person (Service user or not) is also prohibited.

8. Rules for GameSpot Fuse and Blogs and Union within GameSpot

   Certain rule sets in Section 7 will not be enforced on GameSpot Fuse or blogs and unions within GameSpot, unless the conduct would otherwise violate the rules regarding Offensive Material and Illegal Activity. These include the rule sets regarding:

   • Advertising
   • Disruptive Behavior

   Unless otherwise noted, all other rules sets in Section 7 will be enforced on GameSpot Fuse and blogs and unions within GameSpot.

   By opting-in to follow a user through GameSpot Fuse or become a member in a GameSpot union, you acknowledge that you are requesting to receive content from the user or GameSpot union that may not otherwise be allowed on other areas of the Service. You can choose to unfollow a user or GameSpot union by going to the front page of the profile or GameSpot union page.

   By using GameSpot Fuse or blogs and unions within GameSpot, you are responsible for the content you publish. Even if the content you publish does not violate the GameSpot Fuse rules, it could result in other users deciding to unfollow you or leaving a GameSpot union.

9. Multiple Accounts

   While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts, we do track all accounts used on the same computer(s) and consider them one account for the purpose of monitoring violations of these Additional Terms of Use. If these Additional Terms of Use are violated severely enough to warrant the termination of one account, all known accounts held by that user and/or all accounts using the same computer(s) may also be considered for termination at the administrators' discretion.

10. Violations and Penalties

    Topics and messages that violate these Additional Terms of Use will be deleted from the boards and additional penalties may be applied at our moderators' discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.

    Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our editors and designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of our editors and our designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by our editors and moderators.

    Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP. In such event, we also reserve the right to contact your ISP concerning your activities.

11. Contacting You

    We may contact you via e-mail or postal mail to provide you with information about the Service or your account or to provide you with information about special offers available only to Service subscribers.

12. No Warranty; Limitation of Liability

    The Service, any software we may provide for the purpose of interacting with the Service (the "Software") and all related documentation are being provided to you "as is" and without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the Software or on Service will meet your requirements. We do not warrant that the Service or the Software will be uninterrupted, error free or free of viruses or other harmful components. We are not responsible for content posted by our users. No oral or written information or advice given by us or any of our authorized representatives shall create a warranty or in any way increase the scope of this warranty. The above exclusions will not apply in any jurisdiction that does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties.

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