I know all about Duke Nukem. I played the original and Duke Nukem 3D when they came out. I'm just not particularly impressed (truthfully, I don't know that I was ever that impressed; besides the chance to see boobs in a game in the 90's).

It's funny that people jump to the conclusion that if you don't like Duke Nukem then you must not have played the first one/been too young to play it (especially since I'm probably older than most commenters on Kotaku). I played the first game when it came out, and, like everyone else I was in awe about seeing…

I dunno. I feel like the point of watching b-movies is that they aren't good and so you get to make fun of their shortcomings. That experience doesn't really translate in video games (from my experience anyway). On the other hand you have stuff like Grindhouse or Machete (which I haven't gotten a chance to see any…

Misogyny, machismo, and immaturity aren't ironic or funny unless you do something to undermine them in their presentation. That's why the "jokes" in Duke Nukem/Bulletstorm/etc. get shrugs instead of laughs.

Calling someone else a nazi at the same time you say you want to see your views pushed on them in a way that will make them uncomfortable... Mkay.

Space Marine is a 3rd person shooter with a lot of RPG/customization elements. It sort of tries to simulate the level of customization you can have in the original tabletop wargame but focused down to a single character.

Individuals are about their survival first and foremost, but there are a lot of mitigating factors in the behavior of even the most cold-hearted individual (unless they are sociopathic). A corporation, on the other hand, is the manifest will to survive of all of its thousands of employees and, therefore, its…

*Sorry for the extra long response, but I felt like just saying my piece about this Anonymous stuff and being done with it. Two or three days of disagreeing responses, often far less positive than your own have tired me of this discussion.*

Sometimes people have conversations on the internet...

I don't believe I said it was, but the more you are building from the ground up, the more effect such a change would have. If you are building a car or a washing machine, even if you are implementing new systems, aspects of your goals are predefined and clear. As a result, the differences in the creative process are…

Again, the laws go deeper than whether you want to homebrew on your PS3 or not. Giving corporations total control of how their products are to be used and allowing them to litigate as they see fit in a way that will economically cripple those they target (win, lose, or settle) seems like a terrible idea to me.

I'm hardly what I'd call a Britney Spears fan, but what the heck happened to her music? I remember songs like Toxic actually being surprisingly catchy and enjoyable but this just sort of sounds like it's trying to copy that Lady Gaga, Ke$sha sound and the result is even less appealing to me than the stuff it is…

Interestingly I've read that cockroaches aren't all that radiation resistant in the grand scheme of things. You do have to appreciate how impending apocalypse tends to make people at least look at the leather items in their closet. Bomber jacket, I've got my eye on.

It's odd that he seems to want to turn away from the fantastic in a movie about gods. That alone makes me want to check it out and see how things play out.

I can't say anything for sure because I am speaking from outside the games industry, but it seems like it really depends on how those things are employed. Valve, for instance, seems to be all about using these very tools and it only makes their creativity more effective.

Too true, but since the games industry is, one way or another, about group art creation, stifling or changing a creative group's culture very directly affects the final product.

While I see things differently from your first paragraph, I don't have any issue you with you taking that opinion since it's perfectly fair. However, in response to the second paragraph, Anon is challenging the laws which illegalize what George Hotz did (which could potentially allow for others to pirate but isn't…

Not that they are going about things perfectly, but the reason for Anon's involvement in all this has more to do with the injustice of laws which permit Sony to persecute people who aren't directly infringing on intellectual property or directly causing damage to the company alongside the legalized witch hunt for…

"They're not built on facts, but fantasy."

Well the really nasty truth is we live in a misogynist society (on a largely misogynist planet). It's easy to single out certain mediums for misogyny (games, rap music, pornography to name the obvious ones) but they aren't generating the misogyny, they are reflecting it (although culture is more complex than this…