Eventually the Vatican weighed in, declaring the games free of "harmful moral side effects." It's highly likely the Vatican's research did not include searching "Pikachu Porn" on Google. DO NOT DO THAT.

My problem with QTEs is that they bottleneck designer stupidity. If I have five ways to kill enemies, and one of them is hopelessly borked, I can use the other four. If I have one way to kill an enemy, and it's hopelessly borked, I have to borrow someone else's save file or just watch a Let's Play. (I'm looking at…

For a moment, I thought this was Tomer Hanuka. Compare:

My disappointment from the last Monster Hunter I played came from my expectation that I would be hunting monsters. In practice, it was more like I was playing target practice with monsters. Here a monster, there a monster, everywhere a monster, and even on the rare occasions I needed to track a monster down, the…

From the Awkward Zombie forums, courtesy of Alexander Krizak:

I think it comes down to information. When people who're openly anti-Gamergate get death threats, I see news reports about it. When people who in some way supported or were neutral about Gamergate get death threats, I find out about it through Youtube or comments. It seems like they're both things that should be…

Whatever happened to This Week in Business? I understand it was up briefly on Saturday . . .

Does anyone know what kind of contract Critical Miss has with The Escapist? They'd fit in well here, but I'm not sure if they have an exclusivity deal or not.

Apparently, it's called Princess Jellyfish.

I see it as a matter of character. Kratos kills people brutally because he's a brutal character, whereas the ninja from Mark of the Ninja kills people with finesse and no wasted movements because he's disciplined and cares only for success. For that matter, each character in Final Fantasy VIII has a different style…

Is marrying more than one person even shocking these days? I thought it had reached the same category as BDSM, where old people clutch their pearls about it and young people are basically okay with it.

You know how when movies or sitcoms depict D&D, people sit down and within 60 seconds they're being ambushed by goblins, panickedly figuring out who they are and what they're carrying? That's what the beginner box offers. Printed on the back of each character sheet are instructions on how to level up, especially…

In between the puzzle areas, I'd run into hologram videos and computer terminals with messages from other entities about the nature of life and my own existence. A disembodied voice from the skies spouted vaguely bilblical sounding proclamations at me. One computer terminal questioned whether I was even worthy to…

Japan in decay as people's weaknesses and failings become metaphysical threats to life and limb . . . That's a pretty hefty premise to live up to, considering.

I'm going to present this without comment, because it really has to be heard to be believed.

My problem with WRPGs is usually how all this interacts with the pregen characters who can't really be changed. I design a thief, who afterwards can't be made anything other than a thief, and then I recruit an awesome party member who's a thief, and I have to restart the game and play a new class to get much use out…

Not counting movies like Spirited Away, my introduction to anime was a fellow high school student who gave me a thumb drive with the first season of Darker Than Black. It's probably a good introduction for an American—in some ways, it's very reminiscent of Marvel comics.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this article is supposed to be, but I feel like I'm missing some major information here. I mean, if I'm reading an article about a movie where a robot punches people, I'd like a little more information about what happens in the movie and what kind of movie it is than "it's a movie where…

Freefall did it better.

I'm surprised no one else has posted this.