Anyone else think that infected girl looks less like a zombie and more like some kind of troll or forest monster? She's too lively-looking, and not nearly decayed enough.

Anyone else think that infected girl looks less like a zombie and more like some kind of troll or forest monster? She's too lively-looking, and not nearly decayed enough.

Slightly off-topic, but I've always found it weird that Time Crisis and Carnevil have the same "Strong Violence" warning. Time Crisis is less violent than an old James Bond movie—there isn't even any blood! Carnevil has bloody body parts flying all over the place. Is there no violence warning stronger than "strong"?

Slightly off-topic, but I've always found it weird that Time Crisis and Carnevil have the same "Strong Violence" warning. Time Crisis is less violent than an old James Bond movie—there isn't even any blood! Carnevil has bloody body parts flying all over the place. Is there no violence warning stronger than "strong"?

Slightly off-topic, but I've always found it weird that Time Crisis and Carnevil have the same "Strong Violence" warning. Time Crisis is less violent than an old James Bond movie—there isn't even any blood! Carnevil has bloody body parts flying all over the place. Is there no violence warning stronger than "strong"?

I'm partial to strat-RPGs (of which it sounds like Trails in the Sky is one.) It's like playing a strategy game, only a): you can design your own units and upgrade them as you please, and b): once a fight starts, you can jump straight to killing baddies without having to dick around with minerals and vespene gas.

So how much heat does this thing radiate? http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20041208/laptop-computers-may-affect-male-fertility

I'm pretty sure Giga draws the lines in pencil. (Not artist's pencil, just pencil.)

I hear some of you saying Dark Souls is the test of a hardcore gamer. That might be true, but it depends on how you beat it.

How related is this crowd to the crowd who put up PVP videos for Dark Souls? I would never call them bros, but they seem to have some of the same traits. (Example:

I'd go the opposite route—games can't show you how things would differ if you approached a situation the way you wanted, only how the game designer thinks things would differ. In a book, if the hero makes what you think was the right decision, and fails, you can say it's because the hero went about it the wrong way…

Hey, I like Patricia. It's nice to have one or two writers who have a different style from everyone else on the site. (This is also why I'm a fan of John Cheese on Cracked.)

I hate Twilight, but I love Warm Bodies, and I'm glad the film adaptation of the former gave the latter enough currency to get adapted as well. I just hope it doesn't get the same audience as Twilight—Warm Bodies is very different in tone and structure from the standard paranormal romance, and I hope it isn't subject…

On the one hand, this is a reasonable and intelligent comment. On the other, this is Kotaku. Not even the writers can discuss rape here without apologists popping up to flame them.

Maybe this is just me being weird, but I consider They Bleed Pixels sort of uplifting. Here's this girl who by all rights should be completely defenseless, and here are these monsters beyond her comprehension, and she beats them on their own terms, turning their own dark magic against them. It's bloody, but I wouldn't…

I'm starting to reach the point where there isn't anything left I want. Nothing I've heard about Dishonored makes it sound like something worth spending more than $20 on, and I already own everything from Bioshock to Sine Mora. The only thing I've bought is Condemned: Criminal Origins ($5, and still a waste of…

I don't understand what you mean. If a story's message isn't understood by a reader, then the effect it has on the reader is no different than if it didn't have that message. The message doesn't matter to the writer, who already knows it, so who can it matter to other than the readers to whom it needs to be expressed…

I don't know how accurate this is, but Stephen Donaldson once said that the purpose of martial arts isn't necessarily to beat people up—often, it's to make a few flashy movements and make it LOOK like you could beat someone up, thus preventing them from fighting you in the first place. Against gun-wielding assailants,…

I dunno about Booker and how he thinks, but if I saw a dead body in a place full of creepy signs, I'd go back to the entrance and see what I could set on fire to flag down the next passing boat. (But then we wouldn't have a game, would we?)

I dunno about Sonic, but I was under the impression that the "flounderface" cheat was specifically invented as a shortcut to make it easier to draw mouths in anime. It doesn't really serve a purpose in a static medium. (See: http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333)