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Not to make a manga derail, but in those the characters tend to have the age of the target readers, that's why you have a bazillion of them set in high schools. Everything that targets teenage girls or young women will have youthful and feminine male characters (a very popular sub genre is love...

To be fair, it is bigger than the ticket sales for movies, but still a lot smaller than tickets+disk media+streaming+tv rights. Also, the video game industry is impressive when it comes to money, but no so much when it comes to units compared to movie ticket sales (for instance, more people have...

Some see dead people. Me, I hear a Voyce.

Fun fact: The original Shaq Fu was helmed by Paul Cuisset, better known for being the driving force behind titles such as Future Wars, Cruise for a Corpse and Flashback! Sadly no game of his really stood out after this 89 to 92 grace period.

It feel you guys are grasping at straws to see ways for this show to become what you thought it would be instead of what it is. It's about a rag tag team of agents, it will not become about a rag tag team of super heroes.

Note you did not provide much data with your claim. The onus is on you!

About Tretton, I guess it makes sense from a career point of view: He does not really have a way to climb up the ladder any further at Sony, so he might as well leave on the back of a huge success to become the CEO of some other company with a bigger paycheck. That or he wants to travel the...

All this burrito talk makes me think of the immortal words of Alf: "I will not eat something that looks like it's been eaten once before"

I assume that was the big news? 18:00 CET is more than an hour away though.

When the game design is only there to identify marks and maximize their spending through obfuscated ways, is it still a video game or just an elaborate digital scam? This reminds me of a pair of long articles by Tim Rogers on the Sims Social, dissecting the multiple currency and social...

Fun F2P stat of the day (of the other day really): On mobile phones, 0.15% of F2P games players account for 50% of the revenue. When your earning report looks like the one of a spammer, it's time for some soul searching.

My first thought was... why is this not in Other Games?

The main problem with the reveal is that, from the perspective of someone who does not read comic books, it felt like I was not getting something I was supposed to get. That's a problem even if in the end even the comic books reader are not too sure of what it was supposed to be. My assumption...

I think it's commendable in its radicalism, but I feel the movie had two option to be satisfying: the first was to manage to surprise us and take us places we did not expect, the second was to stretch and stylize it and make it a sensorial, almost mystical experience (something like the lost at...

In all fairness, the Xbox One numbers would be deemed very good if not for the fact the PS4 numbers are stellar. I must say the thing that impresses me the most is the share of current gen sales for multi-gen titles. For a game like Call of Duty: Ghosts, almost 20% of the Xbox and Playstation...

It's difficult to weight this piece of news until we know why she left and what she will do next. All I know is that if I was in the movie business, animated or otherwise, I would be interested to hire her before she goes no another game company considering her mimicking Hollywoodian...

Indian Wells draw is out. Nadal, Wawrinka, Murray and Federer are in the top half, Djokovic, Berdych, Del Potro and Gasquet in the bottom half. Amusingly, Dimitrov and Gulbis are likely to face each other for a third time in a month. It's 1-1 for now.

Wait... if Lebron's 61 is better than Kobe's 81 because of efficiency, doesn't that mean that Durant's recent 54 is better than Lebron's 61? I mean he even made 6 assists!

Since it reeks of drab teen-lit, I suspect she is a janitor because she has not yet realized her inner greatness. She will first deny it and then embrace it to save the day and become a marvelous little autocrat. How inspiring!

I am pretty sure a single stat counts when it comes to points scored in a match, and that's not the number of assists. Last I heard 62>61. Also 62 > 'could have been 64 but ended up being 61.'

Almost as good as Carmelo Anthony!

The problem with the PS2 is that it launched in Japan something like 8 months before the US and Europe so a global sales comparison is a bit skewed. That said, I checked some articles wrote during that time and it seems supply was scarce after all three launches, so I guess the comparison could...

Time to reach 6 millions global: PS4: 3.5 months Wii: 4.5 months XB1: ~ 8 or 9 months (not there yet) X360: 12 months PS3: 12 months Wii U: ~16 months (not there yet)

I have a number of issues with 12 years a slave, but the fact we can hardly perceive the passing of time is not one. I would even argue that it serves both the discourse (his life is put on hold, in a stasis) and the ending of the movie. An ending that I found very powerfulbecauseof its...

Edit generated a double post somehow...

I tried to check the years where there were nominated actors plying in movies related to gays and racism: So in 21 editions, 105 nominations, 5 for gay related movies for 3 wins (though all three wins also played the dramatic weight loss card), 4 for racism related movies for 1 win...

It also happens that The Wind Rises, while very original and with moments of pure cinematic grace, is a bit shit. The insufferable 'by mouth' soundscape and atrocious dubbing - and I mean the original dub: mumbled lines, no intent, horrible timing the whole way through - made it almost...

I only saw 5 of the 9 nominees for best pictures and I would have voted for 12 Years a Slave or Captain Phillips over Gravity, Wolf and Hustle. Captain Phillips probably should have won the adapted screenplay award.

For best actress, my personal pick was not even nominated: Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (not seen Philomena nor Osage County though).

For my money, Cuar?n should have been nominated and have won the best director award for Children of Men, not Gravity and McQueen should have won tonight (though I have yet to see Nebraska).

I have some problems with the movie, but if you think 12 Years A Slave is 'nothing special whatsoever' you must not have a great eye for film direction. That said, I would not have given the best supporting actress award to Lupita Nyong'o over Jennifer Lawrence.

I don't get the punchline...

Humiliate?

I have not followed this thread too closely as it's not really my cup of tea (for both genre and platform reasons), but what's the verdict at this point? Is there any truth to the following sarcastic quote?

Another week on the ATP before Indian Wells and there are some ups and downs: The big UP is Federer in Dubai who managed to beat Djokovic in the semi and Berdych in the final to claim the title. More than beating two opponents that had his number as of late, more than winning it's biggest...

Only 36% of it is beef.

I guess I am not too optimistic about ManU's ability to make it a contest. It could be a fun match though, provided the greeks don't score first.

Unless they forget to tell that market that the movie is out!

How much did Way of the Samurai 3 and 4 sold on PS3 though? I suspect the numbers are not very encouraging for Sega.

The previous medieval spin-off was easily one of the best PS3 game. In the whole serie the writing of the many side quest is regularly hilarious, tackling unusual subjects with a satirical angle, but the main story in Kenzan also had moments of pure classical brilliance (NB: the game is very...