It’s like a giant middle finger to McIntosh and his Sark Puppet, I love it!

Definitely captures Bayonettas sass, confidence and personality there.

Nintendo just won all of 2014. All of it.

Oh i <3 you Nintendo

Incredible.

Now I can fap while playing vidya!

For anyone who is shocked by this Id like to remind you all, that back in the day Nintendo ran love motels. So this isnt there first venture into the risque side of life.

All I know is that Iwata’s ride ain’t got no brakes.

She is straight up gorgeous, pulls it off really well! Massive amounts of respect for Nintendo and Playboy for partnering to promote this game, main reason i’m buying a Wii U! Hoping this causes some people at Polygon and Kotaku to lose their fucking minds.

Now that is progress, Nintendo.

Good job.

But but… finding women sexy is problematic. It’s problematic dammit. I’ve got so many problems with this.

I wish I was a lesbian so I could be allowed to be attracted to women.

/le sigh

OH!!! SNAP!
Is Nintendo the only company that acknowledges that games are primarily made for ENTERTAINMENT?

Wasn’t that more of a problem with the localization work done by 8-4? You know… the same guys behind the hiring of Community Manager of the Year 2014.

Vita means life.

Oh look – a publisher that KNOWS who their target demographic is! I’m glad japanese devs/pubs aren’t drinking the western PC kool aid.

Ahahahaha! I love it. this is too fucking much. Brilliant. Anti-GG’ers are tearing their hair right now.

Pretty sure you meant to write DAT ASS!

Can you tell me more? If this isn’t Nintendo’s fault then great.

GG feels like it’s fighting a war when video games as a form of entertainment has adhered toward the sexualization and/or objectification of women as the status quo since the moment gender could be conveyed. This war has already been won.

That being said the idea of three chicks on the fringe who have zero effect on the AAA titles you will buy speaks to some reactionary fear or some need to bully somebody. Books, TV, film all have critics. But books, shows, and movies with the aforementioned sexualization and objectification are still made.

Personally I love hot female characters whether it’s using them, saving, them, whatever. I don’t see the need to act like this is a real movement when nothing will really change the games I like to play.

Look. I’m on Pol’s stream.

(current time of writing)

Nintendo has reached rarely explored levels of based.

the device itself is objectively a better handheld, but the software isn’t there at all.

they ran love motels in JAPAN, NOA wouldn’t normally touch this sort of promotional thing at all. actually MOJ is much more lax in what they allow to be on their consoles and in their games. only in the west did they treat sexuality like cooties, and shun anything to do with religion. the reason for that was because the original CEO on NOA was a staunch conservative and very anti religion.

The hardware is a lot more impressive, I’ll give it that.

yeah… they could have at least phtoshopped that.

Shove it in Polygon’s face.

Do you understand what objectification is? And adding to that, do you believe sexualization is bad?

Moreover, what is your criteria for saying this is the status quo? Are you dividing scantly girls and modestly dressed ones? Are you taking their characterization into account? their role in the games they’re involved?

Also, here’s a thought. I’m not sure what you consider fringe. But one of those ladies is not only winning gaming awards, she’s also very well known for her critiques in the western gaming hemisphere.

Another one of those girls also has many friends in the indie scene, within gaming journalism and currently has the narrative support of the media and is sustained by many people in the gaming scene.

They’re not nobodies. And we can all agree that no one deserves bullying. HOWEVER, if your definition of bullying consists of not putting up with false narratives and antagonistic attitudes, then I’m going to have to disagree with you.

And lastly, seems to me like you’re fine with just playing games. Cool, at least you can ignore this and no harm done. Some of us used these sites.

But some of us are not okay with silencing. Some of us are silenced through society enough and gaming is our refuge.

Some of us do not take kindly to gross misinterpretations and fear mongering. None of us are anti-women.

A lot of us are anti-agenda/ideologies shoved down our throats. You don’t have to like it. And you certainly shouldn’t stand for bullying and harassment to anyone/anywhere.

But at the very least understand where a lot of people come from.

I don’t recall Ninty ever taking an official stance about the FE censorship.
I haven’t checked through all of 8-4’s work but yeah, the whole Dina fiasco makes me think that they drank the Sexism&Diversity-flavored Kool-aid.

Slavs like the Japanese also don’t give a fuck

I actually scrutinised that last night, and I think they have elongated the legs a little. I’m not sure it’s enough, though.

When did Nintendo become so fucking based? Here I thought they were stuck in a loop of Mario Kart and Zelda. This shows some BALLS.

You know, looking at someone cosplaying as bayonetta makes me realize just how freakishly long her legs are in the games.

Hmm? Me givu a gutto fakku

idk what your talking about, but game grumps isn’t about all of that.

not shocked…just very happy.

I love Nintendo. :3 They always catered to true gamers. :3

There are some things money can’t buy, one of them is schadenfreude.

The sincere answer is two fold:
There is the clear goal of GamerGate: Stopping press collusion and out right lying. Like, when Patricia Hernandez or Nathan Grayson write hype pieces for their friends and lovers, that’s fraud If they are telling you to buy a product. It’s a serious abuse of trust.
And Nathan is actually terrible – if you ignore Zoe Quinn entirely, the guy has written over half a dozen favourable articles about people he’s either dated or is close intimate friends with, talking about their products and organizations in a favourable way – of course without disclosure.
The other thing that is going on is what Marx would have called “Cultural Hegemony”. Essentially, gaming is a counter culture and it’s being assaulted by the bourgeois monoculture (the idea that this is the mainstream culture is actually false). The people doing this seem to be completely unaware that their personal politics are detrimental to artistic expression.
I’ll give you a great example if you follow comics:
Frank Miller wrote one of my favourite graphic novels of all time, “The Dark Knight Returns”. I’m very liberal so the book itself is sometimes hard to read as it dwells a bit on fascist territory, but it’s also amazingly well done. In his personal life Frank Miller is an unrepentant islamaphobe and hard right winger.
Now, in comics today, it has been taken over by these followers of identity politics so thoroughly that they control the political and artistic dialogue of the industry. People who hold , personal opinions and politics that are outside of the norm of the monoculture (so called social justice) are shunned, just like how they are shunning GamerGate right now. In this type of environment, a guy like Frank Miller would never, ever, get a job.
So, for those of us who are political, that’s the reason why we are so passionate about it. Like I said, my personal politics are actually far left. I just reject identity politics because I believe it is a tool of the bourgeois to set the working class against itself After all, as Marx would say – what does it matter your race or gender, if you are still being oppressed by class? The idea that a politically powerful, socially and economically mobile white woman, guarded and protected by all of our political institutions and laws is somehow “oppressed” because of video games should be laughable. The fact that anyone can make this argument with a straight face, while ignoring actual real human suffering just goes to show how decadent our society has become.
I’m serious, I’ve gone from being Left/Libertarian, to re-reading Marx with a critical eye because, damn it, he’s not wrong at all about what’s happening now. The idea that you need to be a conservative to oppose cultural colonialism, especially pernicious ideology that dehumanizes people in the name of justice, is just mind boggling.

Vita a better handheld than what? 3DS? Not even close.

After a miserable weekend, this news made my day 😀

Well yeah, but that was 40 years ago.
Iwata wasn’t even born…right?
He looks like he’s 21

Gud.

Japanese don’t really age. Look at Nomura.

It’s OK to like this.

Just don’t call her a whore and threaten to rape and kill her.

you’re an idiot

She.

Look at Sakurai!

It’s an excellent game. I recommend it. Plus you’d be supporting Nintendo for going out their way to fund for a sequel, hopefully they’ll continue to be as spontaneous in the future

No problem.