Well, I’m a gamer who loves playing games, and I’m a writer who loves writing about games, and there’s something I’m increasingly self-conscious about. It’s the sense of desperation with which we cling to the faintest glimmer of maturity in our game content. Just look at the Mass Effect series. I’ve still got an article perculating in me about how it was the first game to give me a genuine sense of a relationship, with my self-generated-ish arc between Shepard and Garrus. But good heavens, in an industry now as large as the film business, I have one stinking example of that? In 2012 it stood out to me? How is it that I’m not brewing a feature about how disappointing the ME romances were, in light of the complexity with which other narrative-led games approach the matter?

You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan - they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!

The problem is that the audience for gaming has gotten very narrow-minded, narcissistic and empathy-challenged in recent years. And it isn’t just us! The whole society is becoming increasingly defective in this same way–Geek Culture is simply in the vanguard and ahead of the curve, as we are in all other things."

The trailer is surprising, because, Hitman games have always been about challenging players to commit stealthy murder and are a shade more sedate—and less fetish oriented—than that trailer.

I'm against violence against ANYONE in a game unless there's a point to it and it's part of the story/character.

If we have to find something to be annoyed about, I would say maybe the role of females in those games because, other than those nuns and a few main characters, I haven't seen many females in jobs other than waitress, nurse or stripper.

On the surface, Diablo 3 would seem to follow the same basic structure: see monster on screen, kill monster, receive reward in the form of an item. However, for a number of reasons – many of them having to do with the introduction of an Auction House – the rewards are designed to be much more rare, and much less satisfying.

?The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation. There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.