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What the...........? I am assuming because these are underaged children that aren't physically and mentally fully developed a parent makes those decisions for them? Call me whatever but that **** just shouldn't be allowed.

Even though the sentiment of that interview isn't without reason. You just don't say crap like that out loud.

Not to approve what's going on but religious freaks of all types need to be kept away from power.

This was likely done to funnel opposition's energy into an issue that's has little relevance to most Russians. Common tactic.

It bothers me to see more and more underhanded or overt calls to police the internet.

The overwhelming majority of victims of violence are male. Men are 3 times more likely to be murdered than women. Why is it women get such emphasis? The male protagonist of FEAR 2 gets tied to a chair and raped in first person view. Anyone raised a issue out of that? No.

Movies have shown rape I don't see why a game can't. I know someone will say "You can control the protagonist in a game" which is a distinction that's been made into a mountain out of a molehill. Interactivity does not add what people like to pretend it does. All just fiction, and you always know that it is, no matter the medium of choice. You don't get some magical punch from interactivity that will melt your brain anymore than you would from a book or a video. Somewhere along the line people forgot the simple truth. Just like games as murder simulators nonsense.

I'm just amazed to see just how gigantically Microsoft messed up to still be backpedalling. It's got to be such a huge waste of effort and resources.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9J2oJjjd4

For the average Russian gay rights are somewhere at the bottom of the list of priorities.

They named a character 'Lev Abramovich Isakovich'... And after this they claim historical accuracy? *facepalm* Couldn't even get a Russian name right.

Origin is rather stingy with the sales. I recall the time they had the CE of a game on sale but not the regular edition. Who does that? Stingier than Steam, nevertheless I got ME2 for 5 euros.

Not to mention USSR didn't just fight the Germans. There were the Romanians, Japanese, etc. And even insurrection in some of its own republics. Vlasov's collaborators. I didn't play CoH2. But I can imagine it's another 'Enemy at the Gates' type bull****.

He is an eccentric crazy artist. If he'd be a character in a movie people would like him

I would have thought the only reason to hype up a game is because of its quality. Not a back and forth exchange of favours. That's what games journalists do, report on games. A developer doesn't owe them anything for doing their job. Though of course having a good relationship is beneficial to both and Fish isn't helping himself by being so unstable.

Replaying Dishonored. Seeing so many paths and options I didn't see the first time. But it seems so easy the second time.

That's more than PC isn't it...

Ambassadors to the ignorant by choice journalists nothing more. They are a minority, as in most gamers are not like that. Period. If someone forms their opinion by listening to the loudest person in the room then they are stupid. This will never ever change in any environment or in any mass culture where speech is completely free. People say 'ignore it' because everything that needs to be said has been said many times ad nauseum. And everyone knows it. The opinion on shrill internet trolls is known without unnecessary words. You want to go 'deal' with them fine. But don't paint everyone with the same brush.

If you have the intelligence to know what vocal minority means you should not generalize. It's done for the sake of a provocative headline and not objectivity. Regular gamers speak up all the time in the thousands of gaming message boards. But no one will make an article about that, would rather post a few tweets form angry 12 year olds and claim gaming culture is "racist/fascist/sexist".

Is this one of those things where they saw a handful of loud idiots and generalized that onto "gamers"?

Indeed.

LOL. People actually pay money for trading cards? Sold a few of mine within a minute of putting them up.

That probably depends on quality and not the number of hours.

I got Mark of the Ninja, Deadlight, and original Crysis.

Next time you hear a sap story about how evil Russians did this or that to some poor totally innocent Chechens, remember this woman and have some healthy scepticism. Because this story is completely typical, we see it all the time.