How did that happen? Well, by the looks of things, Wikipedia and about 90 seconds.

It depends what they want to do with the modern day bit. If it's about treasure hunting, maybe Quebec City would have been alright for its bleak historical tourist town atmosphere, but it'd be useless as a location that's believable for Abstergo. Montreal works, since it's got some suitably impressive modern office…

I don't know - maybe the writer was pressed for time and didn't watch the entirety of the second video. Even then, I would still expect every left-wing US writer in 2013 to immediately think of gerrymandering when identifying the problem, and then to be trumpeting its destruction as a solution.

No, it comes back to an illusion of democracy. Gerrymandering is illegal in better democracies. When a representative only needs to win one election and then, if he/she is crooked, can effectively self-elect by redrawing district boundaries, there is an election with only one person voting. That needs to end, before…

Anyone having problems viewing the videos outside the US - you need browser plugins, specifically Media Hint. Find it in the Firefox add ons, and add it manually to Chrome by following instructions at https://mediahint.com

Or rather, centuries.

Normally I'm no fan of censorship, but I still prefer the radio version in this particular case ("I am the greatest living creature that you're ever going to meet" maintains the trad crooner feeling more consistently!).

Yeah, it shouldn't be gimmicky, but it doesn't have to be. Leaning has been a popular mechanic in quite a few first-person games, most recently Dishonored. It could add to steering in a motorbike game when you shift physically in your seat in addition to the controller steering, and leave LB/RB as options to add the…

Well, if MS can beat the present situation and get K2 going, it can spread further than the XBox One. All it would take is one great first-person title where, for example, physically ducking or leaning created additional useful movement, and there would be plenty of potential to get PC owners interested in it in a way…

I think the question was much less "what can we do?" but rather "why should we?". The greater install base for Kinect2.0 could make things a lot more interesting.

That's not 3D. The camera is using facial detection at a very basic level to mark the edge points of your features, and then it's stretching a 2D image over them. It's simply a faster-moving version of that old internet site that let you turn your photo into a chimp face.

So many great lines: "Koch Brahs - Bros before HMOs"... but I'd already lost it over "gerbil reassignment surgery".

I think the world they've made strikes a very clever balance between AC and GTA, but most importantly between the classics of paranoid sci-fi (elements of Blade Runner for the older players, a touch of the Looper/Inception vibe for the younger ones). Just in terms of image, it's exquisitely well placed. All the game…

Tina Amini's "Rain" review was a really clear case of why the non-numeric system is better. There's no way that game can get a fair review on any site that uses scores.

Haha! Well done :) There's a lot more I could have said on this, but as you say these comments aren't the best place.

Hey now! Nature had nothing to do with this!

It's a very rare artist who can create this kind of amped tone with a well chosen palette alone. There are various tricks in digital painting that might help you. (From this point on, I'll be assuming you're using a Wacom or Wacom-like tablet and Photoshop, although you'll find similar features with different names in…

I seem to have fixed the display problems at least by turning Aero back on (Win7/64). It's not a performance thing; I just hate the way Aero looks, but after some advice I grudgingly allowed it to run. Amazingly, Chrome has now stopped doing things like suddenly refusing to display the next tab as I select it, and…

It's not a 13-year-old girl's word, at least not in this century. People said it a lot in the early 80s though.

Ah. I've been having those Publish problems too, but I thought it was part of Chrome's general terribleness recently.