If you don't like luck you shouldn't be playing anything involving cards.

Tumblr and a purely servile education system.

Nothing in the demo was cheap. They invest pretty heavily into every jump they throw out. Hell, it flat out warns you about the worst of them after building up to it for 5-6 rooms.

In terms of the question at hand, this isn't even a game. It's a targeted marketing tool; an extravagant reveal trailer designed to spawn discussion and forum threads in a way that a regular reveal trailer can't.

At best it proves that Silent Hill might finally regain some atmosphere, and that it'll be running on a significant engine, but other than that there isn't much to take away from it.

I'm sure younger gamers get a lot out of the science vs. religion conflict of Final Fantasy X HD.

Hm, browsing through there are some strange claims coming out here...

Physical attributes are irrelevant to success in gaming? Are we removing reflexes and reaction times from that category?

Some of the best gamers are female? Where are they? What tournaments are they winning?

Let me clarify by saying that there's no reason for eSports to be exclusionary, and in fact most of them are not. They should be (and for the most part they are) built around a meritocracy: the best players earn their spot and compete from there. But given the bulk of psychological and physiological evidence surrounding reflexes, we shouldn't be surprised that the field is generally dominated by 18-24 year old males, even as the competition continues to expand and the sample size continues to even out.

Age and gender are believed to be two of the biggest determinants of reflexes and reaction time. Looking at the League community is an interesting case study: professional League players are being replaced on teams as they hit their mid twenties at a startling rate. They continue to play and stream all day every day to bring in income, but they can't catch up to the 18 year old who replaced them. Very, very few professional gamers have been able to retain their ability to compete as they've aged. Doing well on Xbox Live is not a determinant of overall skill. There is no quality of competition there. The best gamers are the ones bringing in the dollars, and those always appear to be young men for now.

If you're one of the best FPS gamers on the planet, enter the tournaments and beat the guys. Prove everybody wrong. So far nobody has done that.

Weird how quickly this subject gets into ad hominem.

Interestingly enough, Quakecon was doing women's only tournaments back in 2002. By 2005 the prize pot for "Ms. Quakecon" as it was called was $30k. I knew both of the players in the finals that year and I can't say they were particularly offended.

Hm, I have a lot of games pre-ordered this year but I guess Smash is the only one in October. Maybe Guilty Gear will sneak in there?

Notice how GB's formal acknowledgment of the situation almost completely ignored any of the feminist criticism they received. The uproar that started everything was so misguided that there was no need for them to even bother defending their hires.

They have a logical argument that seems to stem from the idea of negative responsibility--Giant Bomb isn't actively being racist or sexist by hiring white males, but the belief is that by doing so they are nonetheless perpetuating the inequality in the industry. The theory tries to separate intent from ethical responsibility, and suggest that even if they aren't trying to be awful white demons, they're still just as accountable.

The issue with this is that most people who invoke negative responsibility when it comes to gender or ethnic issues can be proven to be hypocrites. As soon as we strip away intent from ethical responsibility most of us become murderers; it labels me morally responsible for people who starve to death when I don't donate to charity. But when I post about a video game on Twitter, I don't receive a barrage of tweets telling me that I'm an asshole for unwittingly contributing to famine in another country. Why'd I buy that game instead of donate the money? No one seems to care about that.

Quality characters and writing exist independent of gender.