Yeah, me too. Especially since I know a whole two women who are gamers, compared to the dozens of dudes I know. I'm shocked it's not 50/50, especially since women use the "45% of all gamers are women now!" stat.

No matter how much gamers may hate on them publicly, 1 out of every 10 of them are silently voting with their wallets when it comes to MTX. Many of you may tell me I am ruining gaming by working as a monetization design consultant, but enough of you are buying MTX to continue justifying my existence. Games are both an…

Why do gamers buy MTX? "Microtransactions, when done properly, can help someone like me who has a steady job, a wife, and two kids to be able to enjoy a game that would normally be a very tough time sink," reported one respondent. As someone who feels like there is never enough time in the day to juggle work, family,…

I guess the question is "How can white people be supportive of the issue without seeming to demean or take over the issue? " If white people don't talk talk about what they do in the situation, then the narrative is that white people are ignoring the issue (which so many do). If white people talk about the issue,…

Resistance is futile in the year 20XX

I wish for once console developers would make an interface option that would be fast to use. Doesn't have to be pretty. :)

The modeling and rigging: thousands of dollars in workhours

The big dumb U-Play ping has ruined a lot of Assassin's Creed moments for me too.

I got to level 25 in this game and could not take the grind any longer. I don't understand how the carrot on a stick can be THAT compelling for anyone.

Ha - thank you Dr. Sensible (Iteration #3)! That's some solid advice, and I'll do my best to roll with it tomorrow. I seem to have the Kotaku force behind me here, and I really appreciate that.

as a slightly overweight dude with thinning hair who landed a hot asian-american wife, i can tell you this:

You can actually customize GTA's FPS mode to put you back into 3rd person in different situations. Supposedly down to the level of, "when I'm in cover, put my in 3rd, but not when I'm driving," that sort of thing.

Because by now, people are not playing the best version, not the best looking, nor one with all the vehicles. So when they go back to GTA Online to try the Heists on their old gen version, they start thinking "shit, I could just buy the new version and get a proper look".

It was ALL very intentional. They had the game…

I personally dropped it on the first season. I just thought it was so lame. The teases had such promise in them, but the actual episodes were just one big exercize on how to be as shallow and clichéd as possible considering anime/general action cartoon tropes. Seriously, the plot is just uninteresting, whole episodes…

I appear to be in a TINY minority in being completely unable to handle this show. I recognize that there are elements of its creation done with competence or even mastery, but so much more is completely mishandled. The animation is sometimes stomachable (the fight animations especially), but typically downright awful.…

My favorite activity is to take a helicopter to the max altitude, jump out, fall behind it, and try to grapple back in and restart it just before it hits the earth. My best attempt had the struts of the chopper hit a river surface as I started climbing back up to do it over again. Also you'll inevitably hit an…

Thanks for this neat idea. I already have a warcheif with 9 bodyguards wjich is hilarious when you send said warchief to fight a captain.

People need to chill on that stupid nontroversy. The reason their aren't any Female skins for the main character is because of the nature of the games persistent MP. Everyone plays as Arno. So it wouldn't make sense for other players to use anyone but Arno in their own games. I agree that they could have very easily…

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