I actually got less than I expected for not being aghast as a leud comment as if it was a thing of truly horrific proportions. But there’s always tomorrow. There just seems to be something missing. This behavior is essentially what happens in bars every night. Now, I agree that we don’t want or expect bar behavior…

Yes, the floodgate has opened and the stories are coming out. We haven’t heard as many of them in the video game industry yet, but they’re coming. Kotaku is actively working on several investigations right now that will hopefully lead to more harassment getting exposed. (And of course, if anyone reading this has any…

There’s far too many gender issues in this story than one could unpack in ten lifetimes.

It makes total sense, from a business perspective, to create opportunities for recurring revenue streams rather than relying upon selling a one-shot product to a consumer and then funding a development team to put together another one-shot product with the funding derived from the sale of the first product.

That said,…

Speaking solely for myself; I ‘taint bothered by the violence one bit. The preview just didn’t really show me anything intriguing enough to justify continuing the series after the concise, well-resolved narrative of the first one.

I agree in concept, but it absolutely depends on the world design of the game. The main problem with minimaps, as I see it, is not so much the visual distraction as it is the fact that the assumption of their presence and use changes the way developers design their game worlds. The problem with playing Assassin’s…

Browsing through these videos, it makes me wish there were more let’s plays without commentary. The voiceover and face cams just take me out of the experience, especially with horror games.

You took the words from my heart and published them as an article. Thank you.

Fair enough, I’ve always felt if No Man’s Sky launched at $30 or below that a lot of the shitstorm of anger that followed it’s launch would have been muted, or at least not as noticeable.

“Cancerous YouTube Screamlords” is now my preferred insult for the comment section.

I’ve been trying to keep that in mind more and more when I play games, and also when I leave/respond to comments on articles here. Not everyone is 30 years old, with decades of life experience under their belt that they’re pouring into their comments. Not everyone I team with in something like Rocket League has the…

Interesting theory:

See, the problem is that many of the things we don’t associate with male sexuality can easily become sexualized if you change the genders. Madison crawling on all fours through broken glass and barbed wire? Madison being stuffed by a black man into a compactor? Madison being bound and thrown into a car in a lake? All…

A lot of commenters have suggested that in previous articles. A thick skin is necessary for online gaming, don’t get me wrong, but these commenters fail to understand that harassment in games is a reflection of a real-life culture that pays women less in the workplace, resists healthcare coverage of birth control (but…

Kind of just sounds like he wants to be able to drop F-bombs and generally be ~edgy~ without having to deal with the fact that his primary subscriber base is kids-to-teenagers playing a game he himself got into when he was a teenager. No problem with that, I feel; but let’s just call it what it is:

This’s kinda’ the point though, Steam is a private entity who are currently going through an identity crisis:

Are they a serious retailer of games with a level of quality control and curation?

Or

Are they a wild-west, Play Store type market where anything goes and buyer beware, there be dragons?

This $40 standalone version of Modern Warfare does not include the “variety map pack” that Activision sells separately for $15, so if you want everything, you’ll have to dish out even more.

All they need to fix is just create another refresh 6 month down the road called the Xbox One X Box. There, problem solved.