Kenroku-en. Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. By Brian Ashcraft | Twitter

Being gay isnt a culture. No more than anything else you’re born with. I was born with blue eyes but that isnt a culture, neither is being born to like the same sex or opposite one. Race, gender, sex are only issues because we turn them into issues. We would all just be people if we stopped trying to divide ourselves…

Ikoma Plateau. Kobayashi, Miyazaki. By Michael Markofski.

Exactly this.

Shinty Pixel is now a new choice phrase of mine.

I canNOT roll my eyes hard enough at this.

If you as a developer are really serious about challenging how we as a society and how the games industry specifically views violence, then just don’t have your game be violent. Stop making the player’s primary interaction with the game world violence. THAT would be a…

Agreed, this would be much better if it was like Fallout or GTA V where you had the option to play in either first or third person

The Spirit Of Nature. Tokyo, Japan. By Jessica Sandoval | Instagram 

Good move, Valve. A platform should be an agnostic canvas for artists, not a playing field for corporations to push their morals on others. 

Welcome to Rapture, Valve.

Bingo....

I think there is a lot of accuracy to your statement. It’s very rare that a game makes me feel guilt or shame for killing someone. Even the games that do make you feel bad, usually do it through some form of scripted storytelling, which usually dulls the impact for me.
If I was playing a war game and shot someone,…

Fallout: New California, a New Vegas mod that’s been in development for nine years, will finally come out this October. Its creators announced the news with a new trailer and said that in the meanwhile they’ll be adding more side quests to it as well as running a beta starting in July.