It's a shame. There's talent in there, but these were all photo-sourced. Give us something that screen captures can't, and spend your time on the pre-drawing making sure the facial structure is on model.

So, just to argue the slippery slope, will light-sabers be banned when the anti-violence groups expand this nonsense to knives and swords?

That's an interesting point, considering the facial rigging is still essentially the same. You have a head mesh with a mouth and no eyes. The eyes are completely done in texture overlays, only they've added more in-betweens and the ability to auto-tween between them. Everything is exceptionally low-poly to make…

I went into Skyward skeptically, but found myself lost in its world. The narrative isn't anything new or special, but it's polished and deeply rooted in its own fiction. What first felt like a painfully slow beginning was washed away when I stopped wondering where the swordplay was and began interacting with the…

The Wii is NOT capable of patching. When you receive a title update on the Wii, you're replacing the operating system that appears when you first turn on your console. When you start up a game, you're running the version of the Wii operating system that was out when that game came out. Read the following story…

Nintendo, seriously, if you don't make the Wii-U capable of TITLE UPDATES you'll have forever lost me. You HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE TO ditch the ios system.

A commendable effort, but this really doesn't show us much. It looks like you guys have some modelling skill but the rigging/skinning really isn't there yet, hindering your ability to animate. Reworking that, I wouldn't let this work go to waste. I'd love to see you guys take this and create some cinematics with an…

Doesn't really matter how you feel about PETA. If you're an organization with a history that overshadows an attempt to joke around, it's time for a major image overhaul.

I won't defend FNC's awful coverage of perceived video game scandals, but why is Kotaku so hostile toward republicans? Every. Single. Time. I come here for games coverage, not to hear your politics.

I'll take less input delay over fancier graphics any day of the week. With the right artists, you can do amazing things with very limited assets.

I'm happy to see this getting some media attention. To all my friends and colleagues working on this right now, keep up the good work! You have something really good here.

Whatever, game reviewers. I'm both old AND young enough to have experienced both Sonics during formative years, and this new game plays like a dream. It's polished to the nth degree and has plenty of non-accidental difficulty. My only complaint is that it runs below 60fps, and I for one can really tell.

It really is more about the person than the device. I myself am much more accurate on a couple of joysticks than a mouse. I grew up on the consoles, you grew up on the PC. Make sure your entertainment center is good for gaming, because most of them aren't. Response time measurements are not the same as input delay…

Mirror's Edge + Tony Hawk. I want this.

Oh NO. Does this cover up the L and R shoulders? I thought that white space at the bottom were relocated buttons. :( :( :( :( :( ...... :(

Am I the only one excited over this? I don't even WANT Mario Kart. I've just been waiting forever for something to attach to the back so I can hold the system comfortably at all! If this comes stateside, I might finally buy a 3DS and get my fix of Starfox and Ocarina of Time.

Just saw the "screwdriver" image. Is this a major scene in the game? I would not expect them to dial back the actual texture resolution so far unless this set piece is somewhere off the beaten path.

This is only a guess, but seeing as how multiplayer maps exist in a contained space, you do not need to swap texture data in an out as a player progresses through it. HD pack most likely only affects the single player campaign for this reason.

Most of the difference is the lack of secondary maps. With exception to the player's handheld weapon, it appears the "SD" version foregoes normals and specularity maps entirely. The "HD" pack doesn't appear to increase the texture resolution itself (simply not enough RAM on this generation of consoles). If things…

(sorry lag)