I wish Steam would let you opt out of showing what game you're playing and when, without your whole friends list being offline.

I disagree with Joe on a number of points. For example, I think he went into Battlefield: Hardline determined to be disappointed. But I have a lot of respect for him as a youtuber and a critic unafraid to voice his own opinions. That kind of honesty has been great for many youtubers, who are now seen as some of the…

I think more often than not, Battlefield games are no worse without singleplayer components. Sure, Bad Company/2’s campaign was a lot of fun, but with the possible exception of Bad Company 1 every game since could have shipped as multiplayer-only games no less successfully. And sure, Hardline is in hot water right…

Right move Obsidian. Massively cool that you actually consulted the backer in question. Although when I read the text I must admit i thought this was about the misspelling of “Lightbringer”. For bad spelling is a heinous offence indeed.

Has nobody else noticed that Youtube now has a Darude Sandstorm button on every video?

Especially since this is common in Japanese gaming art styles, from Tekken to Soulcalibur to Final Fantasy. You don’t see the Japanese characters with a lot of recognisable racial traits, so I’m sure any perceived flaws in her character design are not down to laziness of ethnic representation.

NCCA, not NCAA. That's college sports.

Business or not, timed exclusivity is a big "fuck you" to everyone who enjoys games.

My worry here is that the anti-video game violence lobbyists, when unable to damn violent games with age restrictions, will go hard and fast for underage users or their parents to be punished harshly, which, as Mr. Dransfield correctly observes, is missing the point entirely.

As long as she's open about it early in a relationship, it's not a problem. But I hope the guy she's inviting over to give her some oral attention knows exactly what the score is, even though he enjoys it, because otherwise it's reasonable to want the "arrangement" to evolve into something more.

I love this song, and Origin of Symmetry is my favourite Muse album. Citizen Erased may be my favourite modern song.

These guys are embarrassing.

Sad to see a cop game get done in by politics. This is only the singleplayer though.

This isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. A lot of JRPGs (Final Fantasy, Pokemon) are stuck deep in their own tropes, and Zestiria does not owe it to its fans to provide a traditional hero/heroine framework. Would Pokemon be a worse game if there were no gym badges or Elites Four? Would Final Fantasy…

This kind of error (and less benign ones) are near-daily occurrences on Origin for me.

It really is amazing that white supremacists live in America, isn't it?

She is a beautiful woman of Japanese nationality. That's clearly all that matters to the pageant selectors and the rest of the world, and hopefully it shows that Japan is realising it has an incredibly vibrant culture all of its own that is entirely separate from its ethnic makeup. I suspect (hope) that ten or twenty…

Smart guy. Maybe it means sportswriters will think twice before they jizz what they hear all over twitter pages in future.

They give birth, don't they? And therefore have a birth canal for... is it wrong to be even thinking about this? I bet ten years after he designed the asari, Derek Watts didn't think people would be debating about it on a discussion board.

There's no way around it: some people have very dark sexual fantasies and urges.