I don't see this as female objectification as I do a cheapening of the character to cater to a very specific market.

LOL! That little robot watching the two shag made my spit my drink.

Agreed. I worked for a crappy mobile company for about half a year and all they did was copy existing games and re-skin them. As a game designer, that made my job kind of moot (hence being laid off in less than a year). I don't want to be anywhere near that part of the industry when the bubble inevitably bursts.

Asian developers shamelessly ripping off someone else's work?! Inconceivable! Honestly, I was expecting a Chinese dev.

Wait. That's Christina Hendricks? Is it just me or does that not really look or sound like her? This is the actress that played Saffron on Firefly, right? If so, what did she do to herself? She looks VERY different from the voluptuous redhead from Madmen. /confused

That looks amazing! I hope there are other female characters than "Asian woman with odd eye and hair colours" though.

I still get a laugh out of this old meme:

Admittedly, I'm extremely biased against this game after being thoroughly underwhelmed by the beta and turned off by the cost of entry.

The thing is: I judge feminism on what it does and not what it says it does. Feminism has alienated the sexes in many regards and hasn't really done anything to establish a true equality. Here we are some 40+ years after the great burning bras of the late 60s and we still hear how terribly oppressed women are (some…

I played this in an arcade in Akihabara back in September. As much as the graphics are pretty, the game is just... Fun. The zero-G stuff is a nice twist.

Great - even more competition for employment. :(

Yeah, even the "journalists" are starting to abandon this industry. I'm not entirely sure what his "consulting" work will entail but I'm willing to bet it will diversify beyond "gaming."

No one owes anyone "comfort." The sad fact of the matter is, these kind of people deal in feelings instead of facts.

Wow. Talk about ahead of her time.

LOL! I was wondering when these articles would start cropping up again. Good April Fool's joke.

It's his gaming thumb.

LOL!

I think they really stepped up their game with the PS3 ads. ;)

1.) Because we're just supposed to take someone's word for it then? It's like a crazy person demanding that you acknowledge the sky is purple when you, and all of your friends plainly see a blue sky. Talk about perpetuating a victim class.

Leah, like many of the characters in the piss-poor writing that was Diablo III evoked apathy because she was so one-dimensional.