The year is irrelevant, it doesn’t represent our future, it’s the far future of an alternate history that diverged from our own decades before the start of the story, after WWII if anything.

She lives in far future Japan, it’s not strange that it might have become a little more multicultural by then!

Indeed! It could be addressed in the story! I don’t remember her mother even appearing in any of the previous versions (although it’s been a while since I read the manga and I barely remember Innocence)!

As far as I can tell, SAC, the movies, and the manga (and maybe the second series of manga) are in different continuities to each other. The live-action film is following the anime movies, but will be a fourth continuity anyway, so anything goes as far as her back-story is concerned.

I wouldn’t say it was likely... If she wanted to change her original body, why choose something similar to her original when she’d have a whole world of faces to choose from? Surely one completely different would be more likely, especially if she wanted to forget her former life, and the fact she never talks about it…

When did it ever say in the original manga or anime that Motoko was Japanese anyway? It’s even implied that her body and face are not the ones she originally had as a full human. Her Japanese grandfather could have married an foreigner, and their half-Japanese son could have done the same. She’d have a Japanese name…

Developers who don’t want reviews until day of release make janky games. It is known.

NOW he responds to emails and tweets?

That article felt like it could make a good creepypasta. As it is, I guess it’s just weird old pasta.

Does anyone want a go on mine for a paltry fiver? Actually, now I think about it, I’m only KIND OF joking! London area, cash only ;-)

It looks fine, but nothing about it suggests it couldn’t have been shown six months ago. Seriously, everything had pretty much leaked by then anyway, it’s exactly what we’ve been expecting (well, speaking for myself at least) based on those patents. I just don;t understand the secrecy!

I distinctly remember pre-ordering San Francisco Rush for the Gameboy colour at Electronics Boutique. No aspect of that worked out!

Amazing! Does she do all the screaming when Goku powers up as well? The screaming that made Goku’s US voice actor almost pass out a few times?

The big question is why would Sony force everyone to download a rating-changing patch, even if they don’t want the VR mode? There will probably be some young kids out there that will find they can no longer play their game if their parents have given them a rating-restricted account. For no reason.

Shouldn’t they have to prove that people actually do get confused and think Fox sponsor her, seeing as that’s the whole reasoning behind their demand for $150k?

Is it the move controllers that are causing the shaking, or the camera? I’ve never used the move controllers before, did they jitter at all in non-VR games or is this jittering new to the PSVR setup?

I’m hoping for a game where you play as a character in a wheelchair, while sitting in a chair. Oracle: Arkham VR perhaps? Or anything.

Ah strawberries. Those famously orange fruits...

Disgusting! I forgot she had lobster claw hands! At least they didn’t show her feet, they’re probably even worse based on the shape of her suit! I think I prefer the suit, a photo, and my imagination.

Whut? I played through the games wanting to end the ridiculous conflict between biological and technological life, and synthesis was the perfect end to my story. No genocide involved.