Jesus! I wonder how much money they shelled out for all this Japanese VA talent. Getting all those VAs...it's like getting a royal flush in poker.

Ah, good 'ole Sims 2. Endless expansion packs, but at least they didn't fill the Buy Mode menu with stuff you had to drop real cash on.

This is Gawker Media in a nutshell:

Let us not forget the hypocrisy throughout the whole thing as well. After like 1000 articles about how harmful it is to treat women, even fictional ones, like sex objects Jezebel then runs this... (NSFW) http://jezebel.com/disney-dudes-d…

Oh yay, it's today's mandatory article about men being assholes in every form of media and women being victims in everything.

You don't realize how horrible 90% of cartoons are until you watch them as an adult. Popeye was full of violence and attempted rape. Tom & Jerry had murder. The Smurfs had a man who wanted to EAT the little blue buggers. Thank god for childhood innocence.

Nnnngggg.... EA.. Touched a nerve.. here I go!

This hyperbole isn't that far off from what gaming journalism has become of late

I really appreciate this post, Stephen.

What drove Gamergate is gamers feeling they found clear reasons for journalist and bloggers to lose the moral authority that they have been asserting for a few years now. Lots of people who support it feel some type of way about different things, but I think that's what drove it. Gamers have been given the impression…

It's cool though, as much as I ache for Final Fantasy XV the coming saviour of JRPGs will be actually be hitting next year.

That's hitting the nail on the head. It wasn't anything more than a concept and a trailer back in 2006. Nomura or other people connected to the project have basically said as much. You've got to wonder why he's making the same mistake with KH3.

If Final Fantasy XV doesn't do well, perhaps there's not much of a future for console games. It kind of really depends on how that goes.

I'm still convinced FF Versus XIII wasn't even a real game when it was first announced. I'm positive it was just a fancy concept trailer Square Enix threw together to satisfy their deal with Sony for a PS3-exclusive FF game.

I think you should just put the money toward a PS4 honestly, but yeah they'll probably be some kind of multi-game Black Friday Bundle.

I may duck this game now. I like fun shooters that have level options, but if its getting into endgame raid content it may not be for me. I played enough WOW to last a lifetime and I like games with endings now :)

Not sure why... but people are completely blinded with CS:GO... I have a friend that plays, actually a couple... and they've spent probably thousands on skins alone. They love the game so much (yet hate is so much more) that they'll spend money it for any reason possible. Even betting hundreds of dollars in skins on…

Maybe Valve will get around to actually fixing the Early Access system now instead of doing nothing apart from putting hats in TF2.

It's an issue with journalism. Journalists are supposed to be impartial, unbiased sources of information. Sleeping with someone you're reporting about is absolutely going to alter how you cover any news related to them.