Well it can't have been a complete failure or he'd be deep in the shit with investors. He could have said 'we were satisfied with sales', but instead he called the game an actual success.

Experience is valuable in our society, but only in senior roles. A 55 year old CEO- perfectly normal. A 55-year old junior analyst- almost unheard of.

Yes. Past 50 you've either ascended high enough the totem pole that you are in a management/executive role and are respected in your industry, or you've started your own company, or you're out. Employment is about a race to get as high as you can before you're about 45, and then move into boards/advisory/consulting…

You really have to check who's running them. For example, a panel on monetisation in the mobile space- is it an actual studio, or is it a 'gaming consultancy' that will just advertise itself? There are real gems in there, but it's all about looking up the speakers and seeing if they're interesting and talented.

I appreciate your attempt at humour but I think it was overdone and not particularly funny in my opinion.

I find GDC interesting as someone who has been there on the business side a number of times (I work in the media product group of a bank). I find it a real treat to bump into developers I love and to sneak into talks that have nothing to do with business but which I find immensely interesting. I definitely noticed a…

I hate shitty beer, but I hate craft beer snobs 1000x more. Wine or liquor snobs at least understand their pretentiousness, and can often take a joke. But beer snobs? They're just disgusting.

To be honest with you, I don't have a problem with this. While it isn't my kind of thing, a lot of research has shown that both men and women have these kind of 'rape fantasies', and this porn is obviously causing no one harm to produce.

Yes, stereotypical pink-haired butch girl. I'd almost say Blizz was mocking the opposition. Almost.

Would certainly sell hardware. If there are enough fans for whom HL3 really is the holy grail of gaming perfection it could well be a system seller.

I mean 'Steam VR' exclusive- ie you need the headset to play the game.

I've always been of the belief that despite the internet's endless bleating, the actual *number* of hardcore Half-Life fans is relatively small. It'll be interesting to see how many plump up the cash for a headset if it's platform exclusive.

It's a shame, because their dev blogs actually suggested they were taking a lot of fan feedback into account and building the game that's been wanted for a long time in terms of feature-set. To be honest, the main issues are with lighting/shadows. Most of that stuff can be automated these days anyway, doesn't even…

I also wrote a little about LA Noire here http://tay.kotaku.com/how-la-noire-c…

NOICE.

LA Noire remains, for me, one of the finest games of last generation.

THIS IS JOURNALISTIC DUTY, MAN!

Hardly. My Swiss grandparents live in a country with colossal government welfare expenditure and state-owned care homes are still absolutely shit. Same thing in Germany and Britain, and Scandinavian countries too. Nowhere on planet earth is government old-people care actually decent and dignified.

Exactly. How anyone ever thought the dress was gold and white is beyond me- it's clearly black and blue.

Windows Phone has 'swype' built in, and I find myself using it occasionally. It works best for one hand typing.