"I'm not sure what else they could do to make an alligator in Where's My Water look like a female one. Real life female alligators are just as green and bland as the male ones."

We do let the free market decide what we can and can't have. That's the status quo. Were you under the impression that this woman with a YouTube show was made in charge of all videogames? Did you think legislation had been passed mandating equality in gender representation? Because it hasn't. Nothing has changed. All…

I love how you say "we've seen plenty of console MMOs" and then list basically the only two console MMOs ever.

Meanwhile, people continue to starve and be without shelter all over the world while others post futile, attention seeking, passive aggressive, pseudo-self-righteous comments on video game blogs.

It's not pointless. Pointing out the fact that a GoFundMe.com page is not the best way a civilization to pay for people's tragic accidents is going to help inform people who might not have considered the fact that universal healthcare coverage (not to mention heavily subsidized secondary education, or getting rid of…

It's a story about paying someone's medical bills and we're not supposed to talk about how people pay medical bills?

So? Is it biased or not? Should we read it or not?

What are you saying? You're comment's just vague allusions and "I wonder if..." statements. Can you be more concise/make an actual argument?

Nobody (except for that one time Roger Ebert said something) really argues that games can't be Art. And even Ebert was more accurately describing the fact that cinematic games will never be comparable to actual great cinema. But that's just an argument about genre and taste. It's not really an Art/Not Art dichotomy.…

Christmas is one of the top grossing dates for movies.

Fascinating!

It failed to create a human connection between this player and any of the NPCs. That's a failed artistic endeavor to me. I didn't buy it. Getting killed by Big Daddies over and over and then respawning over and over is dull and stupid. It wasn't well designed. It had some promise, but it ultimately failed.

I don't even think "important" vs "trash" is really informative. It's like the way people mistake "evolution" as a linear process that leads from amoeba through fish to monkeys and finally humans. Once you come up with a dividing line between "important" and "trash" you're playing a fascistic, philistine's game. It's…

I don't think that's entirely accurate. If you look at current and past exhibits on the MoMA website and their permanent collection, you'll see they still have a pretty strong interest in presenting classic modernist art from the early to mid 20th century. It's not MOCA in LA. They aren't exclusively curating the…

I think the framing devices you use are instructive. "Art" need not be capitalized and it's not a "level" that something should strive to attain. And it doesn't need to be full of highfalutin "metaphyiscal debates". It can just be pretty. Or ugly. Art vs. Not Art is really a red herring debate. It's about "Good Art"…

Bioshock represents the difference between "artsy" and "art". It's really just another shooter with fetch quests gussied up with references to Big Ideas and some pastiche of Art Deco architecture. It's like when rappers say polysyllabic rhymes really fast. It's a parlor trick. I went into Bioshock and was initially…

You're confusing the word "modern" with "contemporary" or "new". Modernism is a set of aesthetic principles and an ideology. Mirror's Edge (and particularly a screenshot of Mirror's Edge posted in the comments section of a blog) would fall under "Post-Modernism". Barnett Newman is straight up modernism.

I believe the term is "Murdered Out".

That's a bold stance, man. Way to stand up for "Not Censoring All Material To The Point It Offends Nobody". Really brave and necessary. If more people like you are out there, hopefully The Man will stop censoring 99.9% of games and we'll be able to play videogames with sex and violence and swear words FINALLY! Heck,…

The fact that people still get disappointed over other people's opinions never ceases to amuse me.