isn't that "Stone Cold" Steve Austen on the right?

Why is this difficult to understand for video game fans? If you're looking at things from a level of fiction, the only things in fiction that are really going to affect you aren't the pretend-realities of the fiction. You don't feel sad when a mario falls off a building and dies, just like you don't feel bad for…

Why is this difficult to understand for video game fans? If you're looking at things from a level of fiction, the only things in fiction that are really going to affect you aren't the pretend-realities of the fiction. You don't feel sad when a mario falls off a building and dies, just like you don't feel bad for…

Lots of engineers do shitty, worthless jobs. Just like lots of engineers are annoying and full of themselves with respect to other people's lives, likes and dislikes

Slight mistake in this article: you make it seem as if Hall just walked in off the street after playing tekken and got a shot at Ultimate Fighter. The reality is that he started training in martial arts at the age of 16.

Wow, that dude with the "massive beer gut" actually looks reasonably in shape. This is going to sound insane here on Jezebel, but you actually have a pretty perverted ideal view of what a "male" body should look like. Not everybody has the body type and 25 hours a week at the gym it takes to have the 3% body fat to…

That's absolutely wrong. If you don't choose the correct way to progress, the game absolutely forces you into grind after grind after grind. Either you spend the time grinding away to gain points to level up stats and weapons you need, or you spend the time randomly working your skill up to absurd levels.

And by "tailoring to player style", do they mean "there are only three or four truly successful builds, and if you pick wrong at level 10, you're boned at level 45", like in the two previous iterations of this game?

Hmm a crew full of interesting secondary characters, led by a charismatic but sometimes awkward captain, having blazing-gun adventures and fun soap opera antics in the wild frontier of space?

That's fair. I'm not saying the security is suspect. I'm pointing out that fiat currency has the entity of a country standing behind it, so attempts to manipulate it will be met with force. They should probably try to start dealing with governments to establish laws that allow countries to pursue bitcoin manipulation…

Thanks for being such a passive-aggressive dick about your response. Im glad i could make your day a little brighter. Seems like you needed to attack someone a little bit, and I'm happy I could be here for you.

You can't counterfeit them YET. The history of all currency is an increasing arms race to avoid counterfeiting. This is no different. Where there is significant money to be made, someone will pursue it.

The significant problem is that with no central authority to enforce tender so as to make it "legal tender", a bitcoin is only reliable as a medium of exchange up until the moment someone counterfeits one. And if someone made one, someone else will counterfeit it. It's just a matter of time. Then its value will…

Later I was describing that Portal moment to Ryan Green – this convergence of game and cinema and prose and autobiography – and just how meaningful that moment really was, and I said something like “it proves there really are some stories that can only be told through the medium of games.”

Not only are his arguments actually not reasoned in any way, his assertion that mass killers do it purely for attention actually lends credence to the theory that exposure to violent media makes people desire to kill! He's actually outlining a link between media attention to violence and the propensity for violence…

This is ridiculous beyond belief. A hodge podge of ideas that are related to each other by nothing except the author's assertion that they are. A huge draped cavalcade of nonsense about how we should ignore gun control, no matter how limited, because America's mental health system could be improved to the point where…

What made Homeworld amazing was the direction behind it: slow, paced, suspenseful and almost mystical with a HUGE emphasis on worldbuilding. When I unboxed homeworld one I saw an 80 page instruction book that was pretty much a long novel. I was enthralled. To this day one of the best game experiences of my life.

Two little things:

oh yes, how to "break away from the pack". Well step 1 is probably not to buy the single most ubiquituos and omnipresent device on the face of the earth. Once you have an iphone, are you particularly worried about "standing out"?

Just as an aside here, it's not airy-fairy that video games are addictive. The speed of the reward system enabled by digital/video technology makes Video Lottery Terminals by a HUGE MARGIN the most addictive things in any casino. Look it up. Any study will show you. It's a big reason why VLT's have been somewhat…