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I have to admit I was skeptical at first because I'd never assumed that anyone reporting on games was actually a journalist. Spun back to the 90's I remember reading nerd mags like Nintendo Power and Inquest Gaming and they never once pretended to be journalists. If people would write in asking...

On paper most people don't even have a problem with feminists, but then you get such wonderful credits to the movement and humanity in general as "Big Red" Chanty Binx (For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8vVYu0HE8) and other shrill individuals who want to tell you that urinals are...

The people who made dark souls 2 didn't really get what make demon / darksouls souls games. Marketers might have salivated at slapping everyone with the "this is so hard!" advertising gimmick but that was never the point- these were hard but it wasn't the point. The game wasn't bad but it...

Get off tumblr and get outside for a change. There's a difference between shut ins, introverts and the otaku. All three terms are mutually exclusive. A shut in isn't necessarily an introvert, let alone an otaku, nor an otaku an introvert and so on. Aside from the fact that Miyazaki is on...

There's nothing malicious about what Sarky did. It was purpose built based on known forces within the internet community to drive a funding project where she's push sophomoric research and present it as academic. Yet she's on the record as saying that she's both a gamer, and not one. She's going...

"Assault gun" isn't a thing. There's assault rifles, and bloviating liberals like to pretend that "assault style weapons" actually means something when really it's just civilian variants of commonly available weapons that are modified to look scary. So liberals then try to jam legislation...

It was originally pitched as THE otaku anime, and when Anno took the time to completely divert from your atypical Mecha formula, it pissed people off. Beyond that it really wasn't so much about pissing people off as it was an honest form of expression. A lot of the sexual overtones in the anime...

Now you see kids, this is what we call failing to read between the lines. As much as I love FMA it's also extremely formulaic. The evangellion angle is getting rehashed again. To reiterate that Shinji's an emotionally stunted character. Again. The joke isn't even funny and there's no actual...

Good game, enjoying the campaign so far. Multiplayer needs a bit of work. Nice to see Relic recover from it's DOW2 garbage.

Merchandizing, and the fact that the show's director said outright that a lot of the symbolism was intentionally shallow aside, it is still clear that you just don't get it. Evangellion is a reaction to the legions of shows that have some protagonist male who leaps out of the womb with...

When did Dragon's Crown become the face of objectified women? I mean, over-sexualized / objectified women are as old as the video game industry (Custer's Revenge anyone?) but Dragon's Crown? Really? Do we really need to lob one of the few games that actually tries to do something with it's...

BC wasn't a high water point. Stop drinking the koolaid. And the idea that an MMO almost a decade old that hasn't undergone any major change to it's core game play, is losing it's player base is not at all surprising. It's unusual in the modern game market of proverbial "fuck n' chuck"...

There's no controversy here. There's no deflection. For chrissake don't link Kotaku and actually do some journalistic work. Schreier is nothing but a sham for a journalist who's hungry for page views more than actually doing his job, so he'll say just about anything to anyone if it means he can...

It must be fun to represent the exact same groups who have said point blank that they want to destroy the current video game market, in no uncertain terms. They want your childhood. They want to eat it for breakfast. They complain about everything without the slightest grasp of things like...

Because all the good data suggests there's no market for it. These are businesses. They're not going to take a risk unless they feel their backs are to the wall. Even if women make up ~45% of the demographic for gamers, most won't go for the "core" gaming scene. They play world of...