You’re throwing around a lot of figures here that seem to be plucked straight from your imagination. “...games that will be played by maybe 50 people max”? I bought a turbografx game a couple weeks ago - there are 13 million consoles out there with the infrastructure in place to release additional games without much…

You could just report on this without the dripping condenscension. It costs Nintendo little to port already released games and I’m glad to see they’re still doing so.

Honestly, I heard female lead with a whip and got very excited. Then watched 30 seconds of gameplay. When I noticed the high heels I knew I would not purchase that game. Was she designed by a twelve year old boy?

I’ve been reading PA almost since the beginning and I’ve been debating just stopping reading it entire. It’s gotten incredibly lazy; pretty clear they’re running out of steam and way more interested in the business than the comic. But MAN, the comic was SO GOOD back in the day.

Man, sometimes, well a lot of times, it really feels like Penny Arcade doesnt care anymore.

If the creative people with whom Anita Sarkeesian meets have so little conviction in their work that they wilt to her whims the moment she talks about what she values in the depiction of women in games, that’s on them, no?

“Knuckle Sandwich is an RPG about day jobs and cults caught somewhere between Earthbound and Undertale. Need I say more?”

Don’t give up, skeleton!

And I don’t want to hear a voice that reminds me that the actor thinks my race is inherently violent and criminal.

I came here to say this. I mean come on. The original NES had nothing remotely close to that.

Has the definition of “8-bit” truly been lost?

Not all game reviews benefit from sharing personal stories, but this one certainly did.

How long before this anime girl’s racist politics are exposed?

This is a pretty relevant point, just in general.

Not sure I really “get” why the giant animals/dinos are suddenly shape shifting giants(?) but it looks pretty rad. Were there any other games in the “claymation fighting game” genre? Or was it just this and Clayfighter?

I agree with your sentiments... and disagree.

See, this is what I mean.

Gender separation of children’s toys demonstrably exists because executives want total market separation, not because kids inherently reject items coded for a stereotype of the opposite sex.

Long live katie’s mgs comics