Videogame development in a big, harsh, rotten nutshell:

This just in: Software development is something only those who do it understand, but everyone that uses it loves to criticize.

We're enemies now.

See? Kanye is the new Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Well no, she's already in heaven, you're just trying to see if You Can Take Her Higher. To A Land Where Blind Men See.

The sexy characters themselves aren't a problem. It's part of the game's charm. It's that they're the focus of the game marketing, to the point where they define the franchise for non-players. In fact, one of the suggestions I make in the article is for Team Ninja not to change the current state of the characters.

Man, I should have just written "Dead or Alive shouldn't be a guilty pleasure" and then gone and got a sandwich.

As it only works in games, you'd have to have a game that showed a picture of you on the screen, and not many do, opting instead to show bodies in silhouette.

The PS4 isn't exactly swimming in exclusives, either.

Oops, I had no idea that wasn't a universal term, sorry!

Can't tell if trolling or not...but..the Xbox One has had video-capture from day one - it just hasn't had a screenshot function. Also...just going by reviews, the Xbox One has the far superior slate of exclusives.

Your dad's pretty awesome.

Yeah, I feel like there were a lot of quality movies in the 80s geared towards kids on the verge of being teenagers that didn't feel the need to pull a lot of punches in terms of drama, tension, etc. I mean, The Goonies is classic and has corpses all over the place, and The Monster Squad, while being charmingly goofy…

I loved The Gate. Maybe what I miss most about the '80s is how kids movies had mature themes and didn't treat children like sensitive morons. The Gate, The Boy Who Could Fly, Lucas, The Outsiders, The Manhattan Project, Better Off Dead, Stand By Me, no way that stuff could get made in 2015.

The Gate is fucking amazing! It took all those 80s fears that heavy metal music contained Satanic messages, mixed that liberally with Lovecraftian weirdness, and gave us a unique result.

It could also be a brand play... 7Up or Seven Seas Salad dressing. "Unite" could refer to 7 and 7, though Jason looks more like a single-malt kinda guy.

Of course you could. But come on man, if you want more people to build your stuff, are you going to give them LEGO or a pile of balsa wood and glue?

Ripley! Melted Hicks! all we need is robo-jones and a synthetic human made to look like corporal Hudson and my brain will explode!

It's already guaranteed that it won't be as bad as Prometheus. Although, Elysium wasn't that much better than Prometheus.