I think it's more that much of the gaming the press, Kotaku being among the ones guilty of it, are pointedly ignoring the fact that Templars have infiltrated both sides of the revolution in their coverage. A prime example being the headline of this very article. I doubt if the America-centric perspective is malicious…

I too was wondering when Blasto would show up.

For anyone who hasn't played both games there are spoilers ahead.

Yes. But the game suggests that they're rather picky about the process. Choosing to pick and choose the species they consume. Which actually makes sense, after all they've been around, presumably, for billions of years. In that time they have doubtless consumed countless species, and after a certain point the…

And by generic piece of fiction you mean that it has a plot? Characters? Some sort of authorial intent, even if that is just to entertain?

The whole Geth story arc is pretty incredible, and features, imho, the best writing in the core game.

I concur, the art style looks gorgeous to me. Then again I quite liked the Mural Art style present in the games as well, which seems to have been carried over in part.

I could honestly watch stuff like this for hours at a time and still feel the wide-eyed rapture at seeing the cosmos unfold as our little blue marble spins around. The fact that Bear McCreary wrote music to set it to is just delicious icing on the cake!

It's from Hyperdrive, a TV series that aired over here in Britain a couple of years back. I really enjoyed it, not least because it has a rather fantastic cast of comedy actors who turn the concept of "The British in Space" into something wonderfully hilarious.

Remember: Alien sex is danger sex.

If you've got a space ship you don't need Nukes to level a planet. All you need is a large enough rock to survive re-entry. If you're feeling like overkill you can find an asteroid in the same solar system and attach some rockets to it, then do the math to make sure it's going to hit the place you want it to.

Well they've already said that there will be other games set in the Mass Effect universe (I'm hoping for a Homeworld 2 style game personally), just that ME3 will end Shepherds story. It would be quite cool if different games in the franchise actually reacted to your savegames. At the least it could have aesthetic…

It's the only way to be sure.

The problem is that if they started changing the future the effects would occur almost instantaneously and it's also quite possible they'd not actually be noticed. Say for example that by some fluke chance the first settlers in Terra Nova were to step on a flower that billions of years later meant that Dandelions…

Every part of me wants to hate the Three Musketeers movie... but then Ray Stevenson shows up and I find myself thinking that the film might not be all that bad. Damn Pullo syndrome.

He's considered an ok guy by some simply because he managed to stop the constant and incredibly bloody civil wars. One of the reasons he was able to stop the civil wars was because he was very smart, pragmatic and had a sense of mercy that seemed to only be motivated by public perception. The difference between he and…

I had an odd thought a while back, where the Eyre Affair will only be commercially viable for film or television when commercial cloning is as well. Purely because the film would have to release alongside an advertising blitzkrieg which would include the giving out of "do it yourself" Dodo kits. Admittedly that idle…

I really, really loved Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. The story was... a bit meh. And I wasn't massively keen on the latter half. But the first bit was one of the few games that managed to perfectly capture the vastness of space and some of the intricacies of combat taking place in that great vast nothingness.

I suspect the real answer is that Torchwood and the Who universe also exist in the MiB universe and after every world shattering event everyone gets asked to look into the little red light.

Too slow though. Plus their shape and size makes them incredibly easy to spot on radar and via satellite imaging. Given that most modern navies are moving towards smaller, faster and harder to detect craft the battleships ability to both slow down and get it's battlegroup noticed would make it a liability, even if…