Recent content by MissAshley

There's absolutely no logically sound argument to be made against same-sex civil marriage. None. At. All. Religious appeals really come down to personal hang-ups. Appeals to nature fall flat in the face of homosexual behavior existing throughout the animal kingdom. Studies indicate gay couples...

No. If I see one person beating another person on the street with a stick for absolutely no rational reason, it is not intolerant of me to take away that person's stick. If I witness a person browbeating a group of people with hateful and illogical words, it is not intolerant of me to call...

If you respond to an insult with a punch in the face, then you are responding with excessive force. If you respond to insults to your endeavor not with a refutation of their claims or a clarification of your argument but by forcefully silencing your tormentors, again you are responding with...

Batman is loved because in theory anyone can be Batman. Anyone.

People claiming the world is falling apart in some way or other when it's slowly getting better and better. There are isolated issues which deserve attention, but as a whole the human race is doing fine. Really. Additionally: People who believe what they see/read daily on TV and online is an...

Is it just me, or does Yahtzee seemingly prefer games that have strong toy components over games that are purely goals and challenges?

Your State of the Industry piece still strikes me as the smartest and most necessary statement about the video game industry I've ever read. Good luck with wherever you go and whatever you do.

NES on my 7th birthday. I'm 30 now. If I recall correctly, my father never wanted to get an Atari because it looked too primitive compared to arcades. Rygar, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, and (of course) the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt pack-in were the first video games I ever played.

While I wondered what the point of 3D was for movies (i.e., Where's the draw in being a silent, omniscient bystander within the film?), I've always felt video games could somehow benefit from it. When my first experiences with 3DS kiosks left me cold and my eyes hot, I wondered if maybe I was...

Yeah, they did that not too long ago. It was called Gamecube, and it came in third that generation because it did nothing more than have "a basic controller and a bunch of kickass games." Reading this rumor, I have to ask myself: How often has stuff like this happened in game/console...

Now if more countries would get around to legalizing marijuana, we'd see a huge drop in free time. It's funny, though. I guess the religious folks were right with their "idle hands" jabber.

Your examples with Mario and Kratos help frame your argument, but they don't do much to substantiate it. Unless I missed something in God of War 3 (which I haven't played yet), Kratos's story was always blatantly about "counter[ing] a slight made against [him] personally." Each game had a...

Rumors aren't proof until they're truth.

Well, the first time for modern game enthusiasts who exclusively enjoy their games via legitimate means.

Concerning major developers, that was a time when games were much cheaper to make and people had less choices in entertainment. Smaller ones still obviously make the types of games they themselves would play because they have the luxury of doing so.