Kojima once again proves the auteur still exists.
You just have to love how he doesn't restrict himself

Agreed 100%

Sales for this will be dramatically lower than 4. They really destroyed the core values of multiplayer that Halo had, and I think most of the audience noticed.

Children as pets/toys is bad thinking. There's nothing noble or cool about naming your children after video game characters. It just shows you up as an idiot.

Well, the rampancy of software piracy and lack of respect for IP in China kind of gets in the way of AAA game development there. It's going to be a while for any real changes to happen, but it will...

Majority of the revenue actually comes from pay-to-advance or pay-to-win type of schemes.
China people's gaming tastes are still young and very much susceptible to this kind of monetization schemes. However, as the quality of games and journalism in China improves, expect better quality games to come about.

Typo in title, fix it quick. Government"

Not even China is safe.

Kotaku is not banned in China. It's occasionally blocked on some service providers and occasionally experiences outages.

Shouldn't you also check your use of anecdotal evidence before overruling other people's generalizations?

Bull. Shit.

Bullshit.

I see their argument for gamers "growing out of games" (although it needs to be said, people don't tend to grow out of games, life tends to take more of their time), however surely on the flipside the more aged population have more expendable income.

Pretty much. I'll never understand the blind fanboyism for Valve.

So the funny part of the situation is that two things have come from this.

Funny thing is I went on earlier not knowing if it was up yet. And won that little picture match game on the Wii U eShop loading screen for the first time. So when it launched it almost seemed like winning brought it back.

Valve's store goes down when they offered a free game, they're the saviour of PC gaming. Nintendo's store goes down because there are too many people accessing it for games, Nintendo is doomed and will drop out of the console market in two weeks.

I'm not surprised, Nintendo posted on their Facebook page that Wii U sales were better than expected. They were selling out all through December.

http://imgur.com/J4SVzNO

And the bank?

Interesting, the creatures seem to be able to use complex tools. We are not sure if this shows a higher intelligence, or if they are mimicking our actions.