I believe GawkerMedia sold off Fleshbot almost a year ago. I know because I remember us over at Crasstalk joking about trying to pool together enough money to buy it (we did not have enough money...or any money, actually).

"It could open a lot of doors."

Actually they are engaging in monopolistic behavior and also undermining competition by partnering with streaming tube sites that run their competitors' copyrighted content. There was a pretty good article on it in NYMag a few months ago. Oh, look, I found it! Isn't it much more fun to be smug on the Internet when…

Alright, if this doesn't get me that damn star, I don't know what will.

The fact that I literally cannot get enough of these kinds of games despite being fully aware of how crappy and one-dimensional they are is a pretty strong argument for pyschoanalytic concepts childhood imprinting. I don't think I played this one as a kid, but I did run through it during an emulator binge some years…

Goldman Sachs. Halliburton. Blackwater. Koch Industries. All of these have done bona fide evil things. Two have broken the law. One has outright murdered people. Bank of America, while 'evil' simply by virtue of being a major bank, does not even come close to Goldman Sachs, and I suspect the main reason they're on…

Yea, that bothered me too. And the books hint that Littlefinger was the one who originally leaked the information to Jon Arryn and Stannis, right?

I think the Claymore one was my favorite actually.

Part of me is inclined to go with the safe assumption and just believe that this is in fact only a blatant admission by Gawker media that they suck at account security and thus are just going to hand over the responsibility to people who supposedly know what they're doing. People that are bringing up the fiasco from a…

"If they can't play these used games on a console, then the console-makers and software makers both lose, because the consumer simply won't buy the console."

Actually setting it during the French Revolution would have been far more interesting.

Victorian London would have been amazing. A gentleman assassin felling ruffians with his trusty cane sword. Occult intrigues. Opium dens. Well, maybe they can do that for the next one.

Yea but who would wanna play a game where you cover yourself in filth and spend days crouching in an outhouse waiting for your target to take a dump?

Look, here's the thing. People log on to online games to have fun and to give a release to their violent and destructive tendencies. They do not come there to build a kinder, gentler world of peace and harmony, nor to be someone's therapist. Anyone who's familiar with the emo scene knows that for every person who's…

The specific examples you gave are good points, but I'm not sure female fighting game characters would serve this argument well...

I think this is true for the most part. I've been somewhat involved with Occupy and politics in general, and most other politically involved people I know are pretty dismissive of video games in general, often based on the narrow and cliched (though not entirely untrue) grievances that gamers are immature and…

It's not just China. Groups sponsored by the Israeli government mobilize people to post comments supporting Israeli policies on any news article critical of Israel. This isn't a "Zionist conspiracy" thing, by the way, they're more or less open about it. I went on Birthright a year ago and "internet advocacy" was one…

Here's a better one.

I can't believe I'm the first one to post this.

I'd be pretty interested in a game like that, actually.