When Alan Wake was in development, all the pre-release footage was on the PC and it was the poster child for Windows Vista, Direct X 11, and the next generation of rendering innovations by nVidia.

Around the early 2000's I went to stop by one and visit my cousin who worked as a cashier at a Blockbuster. An older conservative looking couple showed up with a boy who was around 7 or 8 years old. They slapped down copies of Grand Theft Auto III and State of Emergency to go.

In the case of Infamous, early concept art of Cole MacGrath depicted him as an Asian or Pacific Islander but he turned white.

You're surely picking at nits with a fine toothed comb, if you're saying Kratos doesn't fit the author's complaint about there being too many hyper-masculine dudebros just because he doesn't have the buzzcut used as an example as generic character design.

Exactly what I thought when I saw the head.

The N64 Trident Gamepad was revolutionary for the time.

The Insect Infestation mod for Half-Life 2/Source Engine. It's pretty fun, but nobody plays it!

The Penguin is seen in Arkham when the editor isn't doing his job and checking for that stuff. However, that's been duct taped explained as the Penguin feigning an insanity plea.

Literary SF is where original ideas are still formed because there is no concern over finding producers, budgets, and focus group testing. So prose is the essence of imagination.

I'm devoted follower of BioWare's work, but I've always felt an ambivalence towards sci-f space operas and sword and sorcery fantasy and you managed to touch every problem I've had with sci fi.

PABastien? Didn't you hear about how Fincher, Powell, and Blur mounted a successful Kickstarter for The Goon recently?

A library's resources are limited but there are cloud media services such as Onlive and Gaikai that can easily run on even ancient systems provided that there the bandwidth is sufficient. Also flash games that are shooters.

We constantly laugh at and gripe about Asians and their whacky "Engrish." But rarely do native English speakers and readers realize how often their depictions of Chinese characters are total nonsense.

@ Lex Stewther, I was also going to post the Lone Ranger.

YES! Animusic after all these years is my favorite tech demo.

"That three titted woman in Total Recall was kinda hot. However, can you hold them all with these two hands? No!"

I thought I was all for kids getting interrupted from CoD, or being prevented from playing it.

"18 barely legal type sex" is still porn. In fact probably the most popular porn category, seeing all the video uploads.

You love nearly everything about Valve.

People like justsaying1313 created Anita Sarkeesian.