I'm very used to console gaming, but I was sure I would like the vita. A lot of console gamers can't deal with the hit in graphics and controls, which is why handhelds skew much more towards casual gamers and kids. If you don't mind me asking what did you play on the Vita? And what made it feel hard to get into?

I'm not a mobile gamer either, because I don't have a smartphone anymore lol, but before that I only played triple town. The biggest thing keeping mobile gaming alive, is that it's the biggest install base ever, because everyone needs a phone. I don't think too highly of the market but I don't necessarily have a…

"It's saying that their are unintended consequences. "

STAT | 70% – Amount that iOS game revenue has risen in Q2 2014 compared to Q2 2013, according to analytics firm App Annie; Game revenue for handheld consoles fell 28% over the same time period."

Intention is a big deal when you are making assumptions about them being hateful people or people expressing hateful ideas. It's incredibly easy for you to say an artist intended whatever you want, if they aren't allowed to say what they actually intended. The truth is you don't know the reality of the development, or…

They are asking them to "consider what their art is saying/doing" to what end? Do you think they intend for developers to say "yeah okay got it!" and then go back to making the same stuff? Of course not they want certain things to stop, that's why they sometimes go as far as disrespecting the people who make them. Do…

I never said critique is censorship, I said the idea that certain works of art, or even certain "Trends" in art is so inherently dangerous that they need to be stopped and people need to be protected from them is the perspective and idea that drives censorship. Which is why people respond to it like censorship,…

I never challenged their journalistic integrity. I was attempting to express what drives gamergate.

Loving games that you love isn't enough for me to say that you respect games as a whole and art. To me it's how you talk about the games that you don't like, that don't necessarily agree with your perspective.

I disagree that the way many people talk about games, the lenses they look at them through, is from the place of an art critic. To me, being an art critic requires a level of respect and understanding for art. Many people who claim to be supporters of these social issues, have none.

I'm sure to many you have in the past. There are definitely people more equipped than I to provide you with examples though. Many definitely do feel Kotaku represents an agenda or particular perspective though, a perspective that people all over seem to think is immune to criticism.

What drove Gamergate is gamers feeling they found clear reasons for journalist and bloggers to lose the moral authority that they have been asserting for a few years now. Lots of people who support it feel some type of way about different things, but I think that's what drove it. Gamers have been given the impression…

You guys realize people say the things they do in order to bother people and hurt their feelings right? And that what they do and say is already socially unacceptable, which is why it's frequently done anonymously? Like when young white boys call people nigger on the internet, it's because they aren't allowed to say…

They really have fallen behind when it comes to developer relations. There's no way they can get the same AAA games as the other big two without having a more powerful console, which means pricing themselves out of the market for kids and families, but they easily could be getting a lot more support from smaller devs,…

QUOTE | “It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing.” - Legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto explaining why Nintendo isn't going to try to make games specifically for a casual audience like they used to on the Wii.

When I say "those that aren't as enlightened as you are" I don't mean she literally said that. She did however say that these games influence people, but plays them herself with no fear of being influenced by them. The only conclusion to be drawn is that while it affects the rest of us, she herself is unaffected for…

Except she's made it clear that the tropes themselves are the actual problems, when she expresses the message they send. If you say a certain trope sends the message that women are weak, and/or sexual objects, and that these tropes and games influence people to believe this, you are in fact saying that the trope is…

My answer isn't indicative of everyone's answer. The enthusiast measure up the exclusives, with the slightly less dedicated looking at an exclusive every now and then with their eye on the big multiplatforms. A lot of people bought Ps4's to play multiplatform games. PC is an inherently different platform for gaming…

"She's not calling for banning or restricting anything. " Of course not, she intends for people to internalize the idea that these "trends" or tropes are inherently bad, and to censor themselves. She's pointing out larger trends that she identifies as being sexist or misogynistic. It's tropes "vs." women. If the…

It is, but it's also robbing people of actual discussion and learning more about art and entertainment.