My parents were both gamers, and growing up I remember my parents having “Shining Force” nights. Our neighbor and his wife would come over, they’d bust out alcohol andone person would play Shining Force 2 while the others would talk about the story, characters or strategy - yelling at whatever the player was doing or…

There are already images of it horizontal online taken from the Japanese presentation. Looks like a stand is also used for laying horizontally.

As someone with a diagnosed mental illness who takes medication, I’m actually offended more by the nay sayers taking issue with the skin. I’d bet you most of the people (not all) speaking out against it don’t live with a mental illness themselves.

This moment was so awesome! I showed my wife his acceptance video yesterday - she’s not a gamer but she’s seen him before when I’ve watched his tournaments. After seeing it, her only response was “HES SO GODDAMN ADORABLE I’M GOING TO WATCH HIM NOW!”.

Super happy he won this - you could tell he was a nervous wreck and…

I like the points brought up - but I think there’s other reasons to consider for the backlash.

Right now, people who have been playing Diablo 3 have been asking for new content. Something - anything, instead of new season after season of the same stuff. I don’t think the reaction was that everyone was expecting Diablo…

God, just thinking about this makes me want a true sequel to Xenogears so much more.

After browsing Kotaku for years, I finally had to make an account to comment just due to this article.