That "while driving away more casual customers, like female gamers, who might be turned off by really dark trailers" quote really rubbed me the wrong way. Female gamers are not 'more casual customers', by virtue of their gender. Some girls casually play games, just like some guys. Many girls play 'hardcore' games,…

Logic suggests that everything you've heard about the shooting was gained from word of mouth and media reports. The media do not have a direct line to the police. The police do not write up a nice, tidy report on the names, ages, social status and life stories of all suspects and victims involved in crimes and then…

I am terrified of people like you.

No such thing as gun violence without guns, folks. He didn't say 'guns cause violence'. Yipes.

Sooo how humiliated is this guy?

I hate those gamers who hate on everything and can't be grateful for anything but... while I'd love some sexily colored PS3s, these color choices are seriously awful. The shades of red and blue are just... they're just plain bad. The kind of colors those ripoff portable consoles always seem to pick. Pigeonshit grey.…

If he'd toned it down, I think they'd be just another run of boring, understated vidya game clothes.

I LOVED The Dark Eye. Had a big box copy and desperately wish I still had it today. Poe is my favorite writer and this game was a perfect tribute to his stories. I played it when I was quite young - probably eight or nine (he was still my favorite author back then) - and I just adored the shit out of it. It gave me…

Because girls... aren't supposed to crouch.

If I had to base my entire judgement on the game based on that picture: I love the fuck out of it.

One of the best open letters I've ever read. Speaking as a female, I wasn't really insulted by the initial comment (I'm so used to reading ignorant comments online my eyes glaze right over them) but was disappointed when I read many of the comments on Kotaku's ensuing article. As some people aptly pointed out - when a…

Uh, I'm female and I've put way too many hours into Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion than I care to admit. I could give you the names of more than a DOZEN (no exaggeration) women I know who played Oblivion, and a good number of those played the prior games too. And I really don't know all that many people, so there…

Uhhh. Okay. I am perfectly capable of torrenting and installing Skyrim (I, like others here, occasionally torrent a game out of curiosity), but I chose to buy it instead, because it's worth my money. I don't have much money to spend, but despite the fact I could have got it for free, I paid for it.

As a woman, an anti-violence activist and an animal welfare activist, the notion that the act of drowning a kitten is not even comparable to the act of rape is horrific to me. In my opinion, the murder of an innocent, sentient being is as low as you can go, and rape too, belongs there on the same level. To say that…

@The Queen of Everything got a star!: Sounds like you need to get her onto adventure games. Puzzles and crime thrillers help to define that particular genre. An older game like Gabriel Knight (if she's open to supernatural/historical themes) would be great, or a slightly newer one like Still Life (the first, not the…

For my 20th birthday I got Disney's Sing It!: High School Musical. I've never seen High School Musical in my life. :|

@ZeroAnd09: As someone who spends a lot of time with a one year old, this made me laugh. And cringe, at the same time. Poor sister.

@Mr_Academic: Not many are aware of this particular issue, since it tends to only affect video gamers (the number of which are vastly smaller in Australia as compared to the US). But those who are aware, are indeed 'up in arms' and that's why this article is such a big deal. People have been lobbying for a change for…

@Kellen Dunkelberger: It can actually be a pretty big difference. While it's embarrassing that Australia that refuses to sell certain games, it would be a much bigger, more serious issue if the country tried to exert control on what people were doing and viewing in the privacy of their own homes.

It's painfully amusing to see all the PETA-hating bandwagoners rage on out of the woodwork. Dislike an organization as much as you want, in your efforts to seem witty and be 'part of the in crowd' you're just making it distressingly obvious that you have little social and environmental awareness, and a real lack of…