What's with the big clunky boots? They don't strike me as something a lithe, agile cat burglar would wear.

Well, everyone can't afford to hire a studio full of people to make an ultra-realistic game. In fact, most indies can't, because most indies are a handful of people working on small projects with almost non-existant budgets and limited resources. Pixel art is vastly cheaper and easier than even simple 3D. So maybe…

lol, what exactly is "anti-societal" about retro game graphics?

I personally found that the main plot of the ME franchise got worse with each installment. What I would love to play is a game (and series of DLC) set in the ME universe a few years before Shepherd, where you go around and have lots of smaller scale adventures that have lots of small plots and endings but no big grand…

Wow, great interview. It's a little disturbing to find out that some of the black humor in Isaac is actually based on real experiences in the lives of McMillen and his family. Sounds like the guy faced an extremely troubled home life and childhood...I'm glad he was able to channel those experiences into his creative…

My question is, why is pretending sexual assault and violence doesn't exist less offensive than portraying it in an appropriately serious way? I'd say that scene is definitely invoking the threat of rape, but it's pretty subtle, and it's very much in context and makes total sense. It's used to try and build up the…

I love Gibson's books, and I'm really hoping Neuromancer happens, and is good.

I guess the review is trying hard to stay away from spoilers, but I could use some more concrete examples of the points it makes. The game tells a "considered, personal story"...that sounds pretty awesome I guess, but what do you mean by that? Supposedly it has "something to say about war" and it "step[s] out of that…

More like religious institutions sticking their greasy fingers in, funded by government money.

When he says LITERAL Scrooge McDuck towers full of ISK, I certainly hope he does mean literal.

The problem with modern shooters' concept of "difficulty" is that it usually just involves jacking up enemy health and damage, which I personally find makes the game more tedious than challenging. It's not hard to simply pour a bucket of bullets into a guy as he slogs towards you, hoping he dies before he gets to you…

Seriously, I don't think the average gamer has a grasp of what stuff like real-time global illumination even means. There are no current-gen games that do anything even approaching the lighting and particle effects in that demo, not in real-time.

I love how he stops halfway down and is all like "yeah, i can do this, no big deal".

I only have time to play in the evening, so I guess I should track down a local server that has it's clock set so that day and night are reversed. I like what they're going for with the darkness, but pitch black is a bit too much. It would be cool if you could at least get some visibility from m

I love survival horror, I love zombies and I love games that make you do stuff like collect food and water to keep thirst/hunger bars filled. But my experience with DayZ has been less than engrossing. So far I've spent a couple hours running through pitch-black wilderness and exploring empty houses for 30 to 45…

Oh, I don't think he was trying to assign blame or anything. I don't think he was trying to guilt trip white boys. I understand what his core point was, and it's very true - some people have an inherently easier or more difficult time in our society based on things like skin color and gender. And trying to get people…

And as gays, minorities, and others who struggle on the fringes of social acceptance struggle tirelessly against being reduced to broad stereotypes (which are used to dehumanize them), what the hell makes anyone think that reducing straight, white males to a broad stereotype is going to do anything to move us forward?…

The foundation of institutionalized religion is that no one trusts anyone else to actually be moral or make moral decisions.

Pretty slanted view to assume the cop was just an "asshole throwing his weight around". He went into a home where there was obviously violence going on and which appeared to him to be filthy. It's not his job to investigate whether the kitchen is a mess because the poor mother is overwhelmed or because she's lazy and…

holy goddamn awesome. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who forges anything in their garage is a total badass.