That makes me very sad. There is so much potential to affect gameplay with the advancement in physics since the thief games came out. If this turns out to be true, it will be a major lost opportunity.

Thief: the dark project had my favorite bow in a video game. Unlike a lot of games where the bow is just another weapon, the bow mechanics in Thief were integral to the gameplay. For example, you could shoot torches with water arrows to darken the hallway, allowing to sneak around without being seen, or you could…

I agree. I use both products. I boot Origin when I play Battlefield and the occasional game of Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and don't find it to be the major hassle that some people make it out to be. What I was talking about, but didn't explain very clearly, is that when a game is available on both platforms, right…

Like I said before, I don't hate Origin. I think there are plenty of things that it does perfectly fine and I recognize that EA as a company has the right to attempt to monetize their products however they think will make them the most money. That doesn't make them evil, it makes them a good company. I have found,…

Alyx, does play the damsel role periodically, but I think that is balanced out by the fact that she also plays the hero at other points in the story. Remember, the first time that you meet Alyx, she saves Gordon from a half-dozen combine thugs. Additionally, as the engineer of DOG, she indirectly saves Gordon a few…

But Origin isn't competing with the steam that existed 10 years ago when it first launched, Origin is competing with steam as it exists today. If I purchased a car from a new car company and produced a poor product, I wouldn't be giving it slack just because their vehicle is 10x better than the Model-T Ford. I'd be…

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I agree that it isn't Kotaku's fault. We've seen similar things over the past couple months related to video games and gun violence. If Kotaku were your only source of political news, you'd think that all of the politicians on capital hill spent all day discussing video games.

I'm happy to see that you wrote an article about this topic of "Kooky Japan". I remember the vending machine dress that you mention in the article and conversations I had about it with friends when it was making its rounds on the internet. Unfortunately, there is only so much that a single article from a two years…

The "Japan is crazy" stories really are overdone.

Same thing happened to me on the latest version of firefox.

You're right. I just looked up the law firm that represented West and Zampella. O'melveny & Myers llp seems to cater to corporate clients, rather than individuals, so the fees were probably charged on an hourly basis, to be deducted from the final award. Large law firm fees range from $250 an hour for low level…

I'd be perfectly happy with a Shenmue III with Dreamcast level graphics and I think most fans of the series (the ones most likely to fund a kickstarter) would be as well if it meant we finally got to see the end of the series.

30% is fairly standard for plaintiff lawyers fees. This of course could have been negotiated and may have been less considering the expected size of the payout, but when you hear stories about lawsuit payouts, you can usually make an assumption that the plaintiff keeps around 70% of the damage award.

I have it set as my homepage to make sure I don't miss a good doodle.

True, sushi is definitely a step up from fast food. I was primarily intending to respond to neko613's comment that sushi was "closer to a nice steak" and "not something people eat very often" in order to clarify that while there are some sushi places are incredibly high end and will cost a lot of money (check out the…

There is cheap sushi in Japan though, and it tastes better than a lot of the expensive stuff over here in the US. I know of one kaiten-zushi in Shizuoka where everything is 100 yen (or at least was the last time I was there) that is really good. You won't get the pricy fish, but the maguro, salmon, ebi, etc. are of…

Check out Chivalry. It's quite fun.

The original Unreal was the first game I remember following that got caught in development hell for years and years. Everyone expected it to be horrible by the time it was finished because it had gone through so many iterations. Then it finally got released a knocked the socks off of everyone that played it.

What problems were there exactly on the console? I played through the game twice on the PS3 without running into any issues? Did it only affect the Xbox360 version or did I just get lucky?