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There's a lesbian sexual encounter early in Fallout 1, though I think you had to be a female character.

Where's the power of the internets now? There has to be a page somewhere detailing gays in video games...

(hmmm... ctr-t, type in search box...)

Voila! Should have known it'd be a wikipedia entry. Take with the usual wiki grain of salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay,_lesbian,_bisexua l,_and_transgender_characters_in_video_and_compute r_games

Plus...

http://www.games.net/features/100321_1.shtml

And for just sex in general (though the first page might be "disturbing" to some...

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/sexual-games/10 .php

The PSP isn't being marketed enough and that pisses off EA. I know this is outdated, but it still counts as criticism: first weekend sales were slow. Back in December, no one cared about the PSP. More recently, people do not seem to know what to do with the PSP.

Wii is a stupid and weird name that is just a marketing gimmick and really is stupid in case you missed the first article. Developers aren't 'getting' the Wii.

On the flipside of your reasoning, let's take a look at the systems that you highlight as receiving bad press:

The XBox360 will have the most market share past the presidential election. The XBox360 is being sold for much less money than it costs to make it so I don't see how you can complain about the price. The XBox360 is also mostly backwards-compatible. The 360 has also redefined the market and what it means to be a console.

The PS3 will dominate market share through the midterm elections after the presidential election (I'm a poli-sci major, I think in terms of U.S. elections). The PS3 is region free for gaming. The PS3 might max out the FPS available on even nice TVs and has amazing NVIDIA graphics and is going to be upgradable. The PS3 is backwards compatible for games and memory cards.

In other words, the innovation is being praised, but expensive boxes that don't appear to have any substantial innovation are not. I don't think it's a matter of nerds will complain about anything. It's more a matter that nerds have little to praise at the moment. But generally, yes, there are still things being found to be "praiseworthy".

For any innovation there will be geeks who praise it and insult it. I will be insulted if I praise Linux or Microsoft, /. or Digg. Granted there are things that are constant sources of criticism (/. mod system, RIAA, SCO, RIAA, BSA, RIAA, RIAA, etc.) but they are the exception rather than the rule.

This concludes the most time and research intesive post I have ever written. If I weren't at work right now I would feel like I had wasted my time.

Sites like this make me sick. For the love of God, Turn Cold Fusion debugging off!!! Seriously, it's not that hard.

http://games.net/video/player.cfm?vId=100800;

Interestingly enough if you directly go to the SWF file, you can listen to the interview without actually having Flash Player 8.

The article somehow pushes FFVII into its so called Chief Offenders: lists for:
#3 Enough with the Epics
and
#5 Cinema is Sinful

I am surprised Sidney Shuman goes so far as to criticize an epic for being an epic! Its like saying, "Enough with the 3D games, chief offenders: Quake 2, Doom 3". I am amazed! If you are interested in blaming a game (specially a Final Fantasy) for being epic to the point of boring, please vent your ignorant, tasteless, obvious criticism towards FF-X which was nothing but an epic movie that you play linearly as your jaws drop watching Rikku in shorts and the amazing animation that went into the summonings. You have obviously missed out the fun in Final Fantasy 7, Sidney, which is why you spend your not-so-productive-time writing articles like "Ten Ambiguously Gay Game Characters on Games.net" . How come articles written by trolls find place on slashdot as news?

As an example: there is an article up there entitled "I hate Puppies, or how Nintendogs will ruin the world," the general gist of which being that Nintendogs is stupid, and I'll be over here playing real games. And then in the article linked in this Slashdot post, we get this: "Look at Nintendog's sales--they're they're spectacular. 'Nuff said. Games are games. Let's keep them that way." Granted, these are from two different writers, but I'm not trying to point out hypocrisy; I'm pointing out that many of these writers are know-nothing blowhards.

The writer makes some valid points, but her reputability is marred by that of her colleagues.