I wasn't paying much attention to this game until recently. Honestly I'm not a big fan of RTS. I'm an RPG guy, but I downloaded the demo for this and it just ROCKS! I can't wait for the release now. I love a good story and the demo has a tiny piece of a great story. The dialog is great and the combat is a lot of…

No one will agree with this but I would like to point out that NBC is doing EXACTLY the same thing Kotaku does. LaPierre (I am no fan of this idiot) does not talk... he "rambles". Prince Harry did not describe the operation of an attack helicopter similar to a video game. He said the war was a just a video game. …

I'm not sure this has anything to do with the simplicity or cleanliness of urban warfare. I find it preposterous that the Taliban are offended. They hide in villages full of women and children. They directly target little girls to intimidate other little girls so they won't try to go to school. Little girls are…

If there was a way to care even less what the Taliban thinks about anything at all, I would go out of my way to achieve it.

That is bizarre. I would love to hear the reasoning behind that. I would actually be more hesitant about a fighting game than Halo 4. They may both be fine but I submit that the fighting sim is probably "worse" than Halo 4 on the appropriateness scale.

I hear what you are saying. I agree that you don't assault small children with blood and guts thereby desensitizing them to horror. Halo is not like that in my opinion. There is nothing in that series that is properly connected with the real world in a way that would confuse my son. We had many conversations about…

I think you and I are on the same page. I submit to you that the rating system just means he can't buy it without my permission. Many M rated games are inappropriate. My son did not play any GTA type games until he was a teenager. Halo was always fine with me. I never needed any explanation on games I was…

That's pretty much my philosophy. I kept my son away from online play until he was a teenager because of the language of the turds on Xbox Live. When I did let him play online I told him that we better not be hearing that nasty name calling coming from him or he would be offline again. GTA was a NO until he was…

I am unclear on what the Entertainment Software Rating Board has to do with what games my children play. I'm their dad and as far as I know, I am the ratings board at this house. I believe the ESRB dictates which games they are allowed to buy at Walmart without my permission. This is actually zero around here. …

I personally think that the NRA's point of attack in order to defend itself is idiotic but I also think that media creators and gun owners should get on the same side of this debate following Sandy Hook rather than pointing fingers at each other. I'm telling you that Congress is going to say "You know what? You're…

I don't regularly visit this site. I only see the occasional article because it is featured at the bottom of a Kotaku article that I have perused. Therefore I can't really tell if this is Onion style sarcasm or if the author is serious. The article is so preposterous that it's hard to discern. Did we have a big…

Wow! The last paragraph is the most preposterous thing I have ever read on Kotaku. It's foolish to draw any conclusion where a mentally ill person might be persuaded to kill as a result of playing video games. It is a spineless and cowardly country that won't ban every citizen from owning a gun of any kind? That…

I remember being so frustrated by this box art as a kid. I couldn't afford to buy a lot of magazines with my $2 per week allowance. I went to the store when I had money to shop for a game and had no idea what I was buying. You really couldn't tell anything at all about the game from the box. The description was of…

Sadly, if it is decent, I will pay. I am ashamed of myself. I know I should vote with my dollars but it's Final Fantasy and I am only human. I am part of the problem, not the solution.

Your cosplay is simply fantastic. Had it not been noted, I would have believed that was an out-take snapped off set during filming. Very well done!

I certainly agree with you. Counting every illegal copy as a lost sale is a fallacy. There are a lot of people who just torrent tons of stuff all the time and play almost none of it. The game has no value to them because it's just one of a dozen they downloaded last Tuesday. I think all this fretting and trying to…

I don't know about women in general but this is just spectacular on the one pictured.

Thank you for the info. Rastervision mentioned the same thing. I did not know that and it works just like you said it would.

I've been using Windows 8 for a week and I don't see any show stoppers whatsoever. It works fine. The start menu is full screen instead of a menu. I don't think I care one way or the other. There's a few Metro apps in there that don't really matter to me. I've opened them to poke around and see what's in them. …

Do want! Right now! Shut up and take my money!