Short answer: Yes. Long answer: No.

The Lenovo news blows my mind. I hope they're finished because of this.

That's true. I work in software so the nature of the game dev industry wasn't news to me, from reading Kotaku, anecdotes from friends, etc. Most of the people I know that worked in game dev made the leap to corporate software dev once they had kids and it became apparent that the long hours and lack of stability…

I'm confused by your comment. I was using "the world" to refer to their employers, the cost of education and healthcare, and I guess financial pressures in general. I'm not actually trying to defend the dev studios.

Victim-blaming? Expecting the world to accommodate your choice to have a massive family AND work at your dream job smacks of entitlement.

Kind of seems like most of the stress of the LucasArts story is from choosing to work in an industry known for precarity while also having a boatload of kids.

We're all familiar with the Canadian Prime Minister.

Who's ready for the Vale to tear it up?!

The biggest problem with most Monopoly adaptations is how much time you spend watching animations. Seeing the pieces hop around the board is cute the first time, but incredibly boring after a few turns. Which is a shame, because I like Monopoly. Maybe I'll have to pick up the NES version.

Yes! X-wing Alliance clan play really took over my life. Now please release Rebellion!

On the flip side, this is the best time to pick up last-gen games you missed at dirt-cheap prices. I for one missed a whole lot of good games due to time constraints and because I'm a cheapskate. Before too long, the classics will start to get hard to find, but for now retailers are still trying to offload their…

Then don't use the term 'censor', because that's not what they're doing. The developers are free to try and distribute their game by any number of other means.

Judging from other threads, you are one of those people drawing a false equivalency between censorship and a publisher choosing not to publish something. It would be great if Valve were more transparent about their actions, but it's not censorship for a publisher or distributor of any kind to decline to sell someone's…

I feel sorry for whoever has to develop and QA that software.

"Bug #11324: Greyish-green micropenis did not get recognized by filter."

Related question... do they sell NC-17 films at Target? I'm fairly certain they don't, at least in the US.

I'm not sure you've read anything I've written thus far, but I was pointing out that there is a wealth of information discussing gender in other forms of entertainment - movies, music, even comics. It is simply untrue that gaming is singled out.

To start, I would point out that gender equality in film is not an unusual topic in film studies or women's studies programs, which you can find at many state universities, which are partially (or wholly, depending on the country) funded by taxes.

It's not singled out, that was my point.

It's that simple eh? I had this crazy idea that people were upset about depictions of women in mainstream games for other reasons.

Did no one else critique and discuss films in middle school, high school, college? Analyzing gender roles is like literacy 101, and the games industry has grossed more annually than Hollywood for a few years now. Gaming has grown up. It's part of the culture. People are going to deconstruct it and write about it for…