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"It's disappointing when [Elizabeth's appearance] becomes a focus for conversation because that was never my intent and it's sort of a disincentive. I'd much rather talk about what she's going through as a person, but whatever."
Ken Levine, co-founder of Irrational Games, commenting on the internet’s reaction to Bioshock Infinite’s real stars: Elizabeth’s breasts.
Levine admits both Inifinite mains, Booker and Elizabeth, were purposely made easy on the eyes, “Generally, people in media are more attractive than the average person. People like looking at attractive people." But he’s disappointed you noticed, though.
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Marvel At the Most Pirated Games of 2011
Piracy isn’t stealing per se, right? Stealing is stealing. Think of piracy more along the lines of taking something you didn’t pay for, that everyone else usually has to pay for. We need a word for that.
Check out TorrentFreak’s I.O.U. tallies at the link above.
MercurySteam Molding Another Castlevania for 2012?
Rumblings suggest a sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow may be slated for the near future.
CVG posted a list of games it hoped would define the industry this year and name dropped Lords of Shadow 2. Tweeting a link to the same article, Konami honcho David Cox’s coy refusal to confirm or deny progress on a sequel most certainly affirms the game’s existence. Maybe.
Alan Wake's Night Springs Not 'Alan Wake 2' But Actually Just Alan Wake's Night Springs
Apparently the claim that Alan Wake’s Night Springs is a full fledged successor to Remedy’s 2010 original (albeit in downloadable form) has been greatly exaggerated.
Sony Teases PS3 Exclusive Dubbed "The Last of Us"
Just what the hell is The Last of Us? We apparently don’t deserve to know until Spike’s VGA show next weekend. In lieu of the upcoming announcement, we’re given no more than 45 seconds of real world stock footage depicting flashes of violence, dystopian narration, and the most chilling use of music in a video game commercial outside of a Just Dance release.
Last of Usis definitely making with...