And then the bear takes off another arm...

I swear I saw that footage used to represent Elysium's dystopian and crappy Los Angeles.

You can say a lot about gameplay elements, storytelling, etc. in Rockstars games, but when it comes to crafting living modern world, there's no equal. Liberty City, Vice City, Los Santos (whatever generation) hooks you in immediately. Every corner they manage to make interesting.

Terraforming Venus is a long shot. It receives twice as much sunlight as Earth, which would require massive solar shades to block out. The day/night cycle is super slow (one-thirds), making it hard for most Earth animal/plant species to adapt. The solar shades might help get rid of the greenhouse effect, but if that's…

A shame that the animations are so very, very wooden. That being said, I'm glad mobile devs are trying to move away from virtual joysticks. Those don't work in any game. A game should be built around a platform's strengths. In the case of mobile, that's (multi-)touch, swiping and the accelerometer. The best mobile…

Humanity united only after first contact with Vulcans. At the time of the first warp flight the world was still very much united. When the Borg attack the First Contact movie, one of the 21st century humans at first thinks it's an attack by the Eastern Coalition. If anything WWIII probably exacerbated intercultural…

You don't need an actual external threat, just a perceived one. Take the US for example. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) have felt threatened by a host of other groups, such as African-Americans, Chinese immigrants, Catholics, etc. All of these Others were painted in ways that were disproportionate with the…

Something that destroys stuff is easier to make something that creates stuff...

(Near) perfect was also the feeling I had when I watched it a couple of months ago (really watched it). No superfluous scenes, no sudden dip in writing, nothing. Just great action, though-provoking ideas and a lovely 90s cyberworld to spend an hour or two in.

You've seen the pilot?

Come up with a better name and I'll help you introduce it. We went from Doom clone to FPS so it's not impossible.

The magic of this new Walking Dead show is that it somehow makes us like all the characters

are now cosplaying as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.

I wonder what strange things we'll find in that country once the Kims finally cause to crash and burn (completely).

I can't see the vid. What's the webseries about?

It doesn't always work on more modern versions of Windows. Haven't had any luck, but apparently it's different for everyone, with some getting it to work while others can never get it to work.

Got this for Christmas and I was over the moon. Like the others said, slow as hell but as a kid that's easily overlooked.

YouTuber Errant Signal said something interesting about this in one of his videos. He makes a comparison between game marketing and car marketing. And as this article shows, some devs/publishers market their games like they're cars. Technical specification this, technical advancement that.

I just don't get why the pixels are always so inconsistent. The sprites rarely need to be scaled, so keeping it at normal square pixels shouldn't be so hard.

The collision box surrounding the player.