My brother and I debated that for the millionth time this evening, only to finally realize that not only do I have a whole knuckle's worth longer fingers, but that I also hold the controller very differently. The Xbox controller's offset sticks conforms exactly to how I hold a controller - with the left side raised up…

The divide between subjectivity and objectivity is far wider than you are accommodating for. You'll have to define a lot of objective goods, which - while plausible - is very hard and requires much debate in establishing such criteria.

If there's not a $75 Platinum tier that blocks the Doritos-and-Dew advertising barrage, they can count me out.

I don't think anyone's denying that are loads of assholes at the top of the socioeconomic food chain, but there are a ton of reasons that just a fraction of CEOs, developers, and directors are women or minorities and that has way more to do with the socially regressive culture of the wealthy than it does with…

"went commie"? This is about as classically capitalist a move imaginable.

I keep reading that sentiment online lately, or something to the effect of 'society thinks women are like this' - but who - except for fringe throwbacks like maybe a grandparent, a born-again aunt, or a racist uncle - actually still thinks that? This isn't 1956. It's such a primitive, conservative, worldview that I…

Exactly - it's hard to tell if this is a truly dire situation, another story about the general woes across the game dev industry, or claims from a handful of employees being blown out of proportion for page hits.

In an article of good points about a difficult work environment, plugging this sex-shaming nonsense " the team once created a seductive image of one of the characters that was meant to be an internal joke, but when Stieglitz saw it, he released it to the public" just comes off as agenda-pushing. Unsurprising, I guess,…

Why is it so hard to get this level of aesthetics in an actual game?

It is likely, though, and that's relevant to this discussion. Cross-platform publishers aren't going to allow for a wide policy discrepancy.

Isn't that still rooted in what someone finds rewarding, though? If it's not your thing, that's cool (of course!), but I can't imagine not being riveted by the vast majority of the show's weighty conversations!

I read a great, really stretching it, argument for Tommen that I really liked:

http://gameofthronesandnorsemythology.blogspot.com/2013/05/jaime-…

I think you'll find that when you get a little older that most of the actually interesting stuff in a story is in the drama and talking, not the fights, chases and explosions. When that's all masterfully combined - such as in Game of Thrones - it's a pretty awesome thing to behold.

As a lover of the Souls games and a recent gaming PC owner, I'm pretty stoked to try this out on my computer.

Of course it's an homage - humanity's entire artistic history is filled with riffing off of preexisting ideas and compositions. Its how we build context through reference - the very language of visual communication. This is either ignorance of history, and art in general - 2chan's excuse - or fake scandal bullshit for…

1. N/A - The more the cloud is essential to the functioning of the device, the more dynamic uses game devs can make of it. Just because Sim City was a mess doesn't mean the idea is flawed. Since we're looking at ever-improving national broadband saturation and speeds, the already dropping number of people excluded…

First Sale doctrine clearly cannot reasonably apply to digital content, though - post-scarcity, infinitely reproducible media content was an impossibility only a couple decades ago, and modern copyright law isn't remotely capable of handling it. Much less streaming, dynamic content.

The answer is: when there are new retail units on the shelves, they can't mark down the digital versions below that price without angering the retailers - GameStop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc - they are currently dependent on. They sign contracts to move certain numbers of physical units in exchange for in-store…

Really? I'm near 2, and you're lucky if either of them them have a 6 month old sports game, but it's usually some Kinect thing.

Fingers fucking crossed!