This applies to physical combat in general. Look at how MMA has altered the general perception of what denotes efficacy in a martial arts context.

I remember having much the same thoughts regarding Deus Ex: HR back when I worked for Cheat Code Central. It’s nice to get some vindication of sorts on those concepts.

The Action Comics Superman takes place afterward, as I understand it. His identity is known and his powers are diminished.

There is something relentlessly endearing about him.

This reminds me a lot less of Rebel Assault and a lot more of Star Wars Kinect. I am dubious, to say the least.

One doesn’t have to be knocked out to suffer a concussion. Hell, concussions can be asymptomatic, until the damage accrues to the point where things start to go wrong. Every solid hit he takes to the chin is a roll of the dice. It’s that way with all fighters, and one of the reasons frequent hard sparring is falling…

There’s no discounting the lack of ability to prepare on Mendes’ part, though it’s worth noting that he’s gassed similarly in matches he did know where coming far in advance. It’s one of the downsides to carrying as much muscle as he does into the octagon; terrific benefit for a grappler, who can use that extra…

Fair enough.

I’m okay with them. He looks like he’s aged a bit, and is maybe trying to cling to his youth. It also gives him a “sharper” appearance. To me, Ken has always felt in some way subordinate to Ryu, but this further distinguishes them and, in my opinion, helps turn Ken into the equal he’s intended to be, rather than a…

I really like this new look. I think it highlights the differences in focus between the two characters, from a storyline perspective.

To be fair, I’m okay with them stepping away from Samus Aran for a bit with the Metroid series, if only to give them some breathing room to try something different. The last time they tried something a little different, with Other M (and, to be fair, that was more or less a standard Metroid adventure cast through the…

It’s not entitlement to expect business practices to be fairly consistent within a market. In videogames today, the precedent has been set that financially supporting a developer by purchasing their product earlier, when it is less fully featured, is less expensive than purchasing it down the line when the…

But it’s not just the price-point in and of itself (though $50 is, and always has been, outside the realm of even extreme “expansion pack” pricing). It’s that the price point is the same regardless of whether or not one owns the base game, and there’s nothing in there to benefit people who’ve already paid for the base…

Or change the rules. Under the current ruleset, Mayweather has a dominant strategy. Like “rabbit-kicking” in Olympic TKD (a direct result of the e-hogu scoring devices), it works, so there’s no reason to be anything more than an extreme specialist in one strategy. It’s akin to camping.

Because his gameplan is making the sport that funds him increasingly irrelevant? Compare Mayweather, who games the timed nature of fights and the point system for safe victories to someone like Jon Jones, who holds almost an equal record (if one ignores a DQ loss for an illegal elbow that, frankly, shouldn’t be…

We’re living in a society in which sexuality is still a touchy subject, in which being gay can entail discrimination and disenfranchisement. Having a major production feature a gay character IS important. Having said production feature that character as more than just a stereotype, doubly so.

Laser sword duels? In space taverns? With space wenches? And asteroid territory wars?

Hell to the yes.

I view video games as an artistic medium. An experiential one, but still artistic nonetheless. If a lower framerate helps convey the intended vision, I'm all for that. How am I being restricted any more than by any other element of the game's programming?

Games have rules. It's part of what they are. Why is using…

GameStop actually held onto a few copies of both the Majora's Mask New 3DS XL and the collector's edition of the game so they could bundle them together and sell them online at launch.

You're confusing an artistic debate for a scientific one. Ever heard the phrase "reality is stranger than fiction"? There are things that happen in reality that generate cognitive dissonance. They don't fit with our assumptions about reality, our belief that everything that happens is more or less logical and beholden…