It's 'running amok'

I've played this game on and off since it came out - it's not perfect (the water level comes way too early for its difficulty), and lining up the planes isn't always intuitive, but I don't think it's lost any of its initial luster. It remains a tight-controlling, surprisingly-deep, gorgeously animated experience.…

I was being facetious.

If publishers want to kill the used game market, just make the digital game stores more awesome. It's not that hard - lower prices to offset the secondary market value ~$5-$10, launch day availability, pre-downloading, and demos for everything. The next gen consoles seem to largely be on board with all that, so all…

Yes, let's stamp out human sexuality from all media.

If humor at the expense of fundamentalist literalism showcases the actual philosophical messages of the text, that can only be a good thing.

Of course that warrants ridicule. People are protesting the joy of fantasy with the false authority of the sanctimony of the 'true' fantasy, and that is totally mockable.

Fallout 3, by a mile. Even if you would ultimately like New Vegas better, perhaps for it's openness, it's not nearly as new-user-friendly (and I thought was decidedly more bland and meandering overall). I like all the Fallout games, but I'd argue that NV was the weakest of the main games by a long shot, though it does…

Everybody knows Tactics was the best. New Vegas is my least favorite, though it did have some cool moments, and the rest I loved interchangeably.

I wasn't a big Halo fan, but I love Borderlands and this is certainly the most enticing mega-game of the next-gen launch window.

Even if the are working on a new Crackdown, that's pretty clearly a placeholder where dashboard ads will go.

After reading your post I was really surprised by that trans murder rate - it seemed impossibly high, so I was doing a bit more research into it - while obviously every hate crime is deplorable, I found a pretty well-reasoned investigation into that particular statistic and it looks like even 1-in-12 is inflated (sort…

It wasn't knee-jerk anything - it was a simplest summation of my disagreement with your sweeping generalizations. If you can't support, for example, equality for transgendered people without policing individual expression, then your support is counter-productive to the cause you're supposedly championing. You can…

I'm certainly not talking about myself, and assuming that is both unproductive and a little facile. I'm talking about everybody.

And are straight, white, males not equally deserving of empathy? Yes, they have been born into a society that has a long history of deferring to them in many ways, but 'empathy towards' and 'catering to' are not the same thing, and are far too often conflated.

Empathy is a two-way street where equality is concerned.

I suppose the Internet is vast enough that anything mildly interesting is going to offend some group of individuals. It's certainly their right to not participate for whatever reason they choose, but the last few years - particularly promoted here by a few Kotaku writers - have seen a lot of supposedly 'progressive'…

I guess it's moot, as we may never know, but I can imagine it would work like the Section 8: Prejudice demo - an hour of access to the full game's multiplayer for free with the hope to get people hooked, using social pressure to reach where a demo might not, and making it count towards progress in that game like most…

Because no publisher is going to invest millions in a game that is only playable by a portion of the console's install base. If the game is designed to depend on cloud computing, or to have dynamic or streaming content, then only the always-online players can play it. Ultimately, we're probably just going to get a…

It could be, but it's certainly more plausible than nine other people getting free use of a single game purchase.