You’re welcome! For real, though, as with all games, you can expect our best coverage when Uncharted 4 is actually out and exists. We, like many gamers, are very sick of the preview hype cycle that dominates so much of video game coverage — games that are already out are so much more interesting!

RIGHT??! I cannot with this.

“Are Ugly Women More Likely To Be Gay?”

Articles like this really highlight how desperately Jezebel needs to hire an actual goddamn queer women writer.

There was a kind of total overhaul about a decade ago of all thier ratings and guidelines for all things.

Japan has weird and archaic censorship laws. For example, you can’t watch porn that depicts genitals, but you can watch an enormous, anatomically correct phallus being paraded down the road multiple times a year in multiple cities in front of children: http://tokyodesu.com/2013/04/09/pic…

Apparently if a cartoon, comic, or movie does it its less realistic and traumatizing than when a video game does it.

Because censorship laws can change over time. Change in laws, like weapon laws, is something Americans wouldn’t understand.

It’s less an issue of government censoring and more of an issue of a company wanting to restrict content to better sales. Ultraviolence in media is probably more common in Japan than here in the US but it’s an issue of a developer not wanting to shoot itself in the foot when it comes to potential sales. The Japanese…

Like Australia, they still think videogames are just for kids. It’s looked down on if you’re playing games when you’re wearing a business suit on your commute to and from work.

The Berserk anime got in a lot of trouble in Japan. Manga is fine, but anime and video games, big no-no. Even the One Piece anime gets censor changes in Japan, even minor things like flipping someone the bird.

Different ratings board. CERO are a lot more fussy whereas the people who rate video entertainment, not so much.

Probably has something to do with the interactive nature of games and the fact that they're still viewed by some portions of the population as toys.

This is my question too lol. I too watched Lesson of Evil a few weeks ago, and they are seemingly totally fine with watching 14 year olds have sex with a 35 year old, and get gunned down in a pretty graphic way. But a video game adult getting cut in half... nope.

I thought most of this violence censorship was recent. Didn’t know it effected games like this though.

Why are they very sensitive with their games? After watching Lesson of Evil & Battle Royale a few nights ago as well as seeing the bloody and gory violence the allow in their manga like Berserk and Trigun, censoring games like that seems odd.

That would be the exact week I stopped visiting Gamespot, yes.

If it’s anything like past MGS games you won’t understand what’s going on even if you have played the previous games.

Metal Gear games haven’t typically had multiple endings anyway to my knowledge (MGS1 notwithstanding, as it had the Escape with Otacon & Meryl dies/Escape with Meryl and Otacon lives endings), so I doubt it will impact outside of getting resources faster. I don’t recall MGS2-4 having various endings. Not sure about…

Well. Sort of. They also gave you the option of getting that it you had an iOS or Android device, through an app. Still a dick move at launch, though, I agree.