What I love so much about the movie (besides the obvious roller coaster ride) is the use of cheap, practical effects. When you do something like this (by todays standards) using CGI, it just doesn’t feel the same. It’s not as viceral and nasty. I look at a lot of effects today and think “oh, that’s CG” and it totally…

God, I would love a The Thing game. First person survival, point and click ala I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Hell I enjoyed some of the Warcraft3/Starcraft 2 mods that focused on the subject.

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Here’s pixel artist Paul Conway with an excellent Lucasarts x The Thing mashup. Because SCUMM always needed the option to tie someone to that fucking couch.

It’s a problem for literally all of us, even those of us who traditionally produce family friendly content, ad revenue has just full on plummeted across the board. It’s the first time since I went full time a few years ago that I’ve started to struggle a little bit. Sure it’s worse for people with more mature content…

“criss cut”? jesus fucking christ. that is called waffle cut or gaufrette. The Fuck is a Criss?

Thanks Nintendo. Charge me for your online services so I can use my mobile phone for it’s intended purposes.. Yes, it feels good to pay you monthly to have the privilege to use your communication app instead of the actual phone functionality of my phone or the other dozens of free voice/messaging apps already on…

For all those a**holes who keeps telling people how to play the game.

“A third of the market” that didn’t seem to be handling players’ rights. The players will inevitably be making more money anyway for playing in the ESL, rather than dividing the community and tying players to a less popular league.

Behold the power of an organized, unified labour front!

If only the rest of the games industry—and the rest of America, frankly--would do the same things would be better off.

Track: Halloween Theme | Artist: John Carpenter | Album: Halloween Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

He said the controllers are “very comfortable”

I hope we kinda do loop back with SR5, because I really want to play SR2 again as another game.

I feel like 3 took it in the wrong direction and 4 just followed 3 to its logical conclusion, which was awesome, but not as memorable as anything in 2. I love SR2. I like SR4. SR3 is merely okay for me.

You sir are absolutely correct in every point you’ve made.

I remember finding the Carlos plot extremely jarring when I got to it, as I didn’t expect to care about the violence in the game, but (if I remember right) Jessica is the first person who you kill that wasn’t shooting at you. Which is maybe a nonexistent line being crossed in a game about a sociopath.

Thank you for mentioning “What I Got” in SR3. I know it’s a heavily scripted moment but it comes off so very natural and realistic. I believe my reaction when that happened was “OMFG NO WAYYYY!” and then I loudly sang along. :)

Great game. It was the perfect balance between serious and absurd. After this game the series became just overly absurd and lost it’s way.

The venn diagram between 50+ year-old Japanese businessmen, people on twitter, and people who don’t take themselves too seriously is 3 circles loosely held together by this one guy.

The Sony exec seems to have a good sense of humor about the whole thing, changing his Twitter profile to read “50-something year-old man” and include a still from the show of him playing Space Invaders.