It has truly become a ghetto for bad commenting.

Wha- I mean, do you know what Gamasutra is? It's the online component of 'Game Developer' magazine, which has been around since 1994 and is about as close as we've yet gotten to an academic journal for games. That site features very good design, tech and business-focused articles from actual game developers…

I heard they have an abundance of instruments.

It takes more effort to remove them from your repository than it does to leave them in (and you never know what might break when you screw with resources that no one's touched in years).

At the time, a lot of people were talking about how the cake may, in fact, have been a lie.

Good one, Owen.

I thought CoD 4 invented first person shooting?

Backbreaker, if I recall from another Owen Good post, uses a very tight third-person camera mode that simulates the perspective of actual football players without suffering the sort of artificially limited perspective imposed by a first person camera.

" 'More than any other media, these video games encourage active participation in violence," said Bartholow. "From a psychological perspective, video games are excellent teaching tools because they reward players for engaging in certain types of behavior. Unfortunately, in many popular video games, the behavior is…

"Get her home by 10", "Give her flowers", that sort of thing.

Film noire.

I agree that both Bioware's romance writing and retconning bisexuality into the games are stupid; my argument is simply that the latter is no stupider than the former, so it would fit right into the existing work.

Romance in Mass Effect essentially comes down to 'choose which sex partner you want'. There is no reason not to expand the viable range of sex partners and simply retcon bisexuality in there, since the premise is no sillier than the heterosexual romances we've already encountered and the continuity cannot be…

People are using the canon argument to defend homophobia, somewhat similarly to the black Heimdall in Thor thing.

Easy fix: In the future, everyone is bi.

Overly aggressive Photoshop, I would suggest.

But investors blindly chasing the next big thing is the definition of a 'bubble'.

Indeed, releasing an unsuccessful game might make you uniquely qualified to predict failure.

It is certainly the business model of their publisher.

I would tend to describe them as 'great but not quite good'.