I sort of adore the gag that he feels contractually obligated to beat cancer.

There was a Battle Angel video game released in ‘98 for the PS1.
Gunnm: Martian Memory
The plot used for the game seems to be the basis for the plot of the other Battle Angel comics: Last Order and Mars Chronicle.

Hmm.  After sampling their online demo, they’ve got a ways to go.  Certainly they make one’s voice sound different... but the result isn’t yet believably human.

Not a place where I expected to see a Deception 4 pun?

I ran the Google Stream beta on a low end cable connection with old routing equipment. On the whole, it still worked really well. I was genuinely surprised.
That said, I’m still much faster than many rural connections, which I imagine won’t be able to take advantage.

If he’s still following the outline provided by Martian Memory, then there’s been a planned sequence of events for roughly 20 years.

I think it’s pretty clear there was a long term plan in place when the premature ending happened. A PS1 game was released in 1998, after the original series ended in ‘95, but before Last Order called Gunnm: Martian Memory.  I’ve only read a rough translation, but it went through the events of the original Manga, then…

It’s worth pointing out that the ending of the manga at vol.9 was forced by executive meddling and illness on the mangaka’s part.  The story continues (ignoring the original resolution) in the Last Order series and is now being concluded in Mars Chronicle.

I always remember seeing that in game and thinking how anomalously high resolution it seemed to be in comparison to the surrounding textures.
I wonder if I could recreate the effect with clever use of surrounding wallpaper or paint.

The article title makes it sound like the game’s characters are a bit flat.

It seems very strange to drop this a month before Full Body.

I rather hope there’s a port to a non-phone system because... I’ve got a really really old phone that couldn’t possibly run it.

I’m sad to hear that the column is ending. I have mark my weekend’s beginning by its sudden, reliable, presence on Kotaku Saturday Mornings. It brought articles to me that typically expanded on trends that other game blogs were covering, which I enjoyed.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

And this is why I always wait to buy their games.

I thought alternate universe hoppers were termed Sliders?

It’s a twist, certainly.
Cayde was one of my favorite bits of Destiny.  Uldren... not so much.

Maniacal Laughter intensifies.  Guess I don’t need to marathon the game afterall.

How so?  Assuming, I am, in fact, the poster you’re referencing?

Because it’s not food as health packs, it appears to be food as food. From the article, “I even once starved myself to death...” Also, “drinking water from my growing collection of bottle”. So there are multiple required resources you have to manage, a mechanic often used in “survival” games. I personally find such…

I was with you until “stay fed”.  Ah well.