[Art] is usually the single biggest tripping point for Western devs hoping to reach Japan." - Shintaro Kanaoya, founder and CEO of Chorus Worldwide, giving tips on how to make Western games successful in Japan.

The problem about that problem is...That's what people want. Just look at all the articles and forum bitching about NEXT GEN GRAFFIX. People complaining that the new consoles aren't worth it because the next gen graphics aren't a step up, people outright buying them BECAUSE it's 'Next gen and games are going to look…

And I thought the cast looked androgynous before.

"I really have no sympathy for publishers that do away with B-Game pricing, who are then left scratching their heads as to why sales are suffering. And while it's true the rising costs of next-gen development are a huge culprit in both game pricing and the razor-thin margins separating a studio from profit or…

Huh. Borderlands sure does look different in Japan.

The phrase "entitled" implies to me that these companies DESERVE our money, and they certainly don't, which is why I personally hate its use in this context.

Well, you have to consider the size of the audience back during the SNES/NES days. It was a tiny fraction of what it is today. Thus, publishers don't need to charge as much in order to be profitable. Granted, the overall market is much more saturated... But there are still only a relative few proper AAA titles.

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QUOTE | "If you want to sell a game for $60, to the player it has to feel like $200...In 2014, $60 for a game is a little insane." - Creative director Adrian Chmielarz talking about the lessons of Bulletstorm and the problem with prices.

Well.. I think the graphics look kind of...dark.

"Is he going to come back with Doc Ock inside him?"

Is he going to come back with Doc Ock inside him?

Cyborg Archie will actually be Reggie, who was fused with Archie's DNA after a bizarre accident at the Chocklit Shoppe. Dilton Doiley was able to save Reggie in his science lab.

I wonder what convoluted and effed up backstory Cyborg Archie is going to get. But it's good as long as Elijah Wood can play him in the live-action adaptation:

I'm absolutely loving the mature alternate Archie comics they have. They know that the people who read them years ago are all grown up, so they're supplying more realistic and fun comics for the nostalgia fans. A zombie apocalypse, gay characters, Archie dying... and I read the Archie marries Betty/Archie marries…

This, of course, will be followed up by a Reign of the Archies series of comics, with a four different versions of Archie.

pretty fucked up way to go imo

The next day, he e-mailed me. He told me he'd had a conversation with his team about atrocities like rape and whether to include it in the game. They had determined that they would indeed exclude it from the game. "This War Of Mine paints the picture of war but it uses language of games to do so," he wrote to me. "The…

They're making a new Leprechaun movie?

I actually have a Shiny Gengar :P