@bowen13: Clever.

I know most people would like to think that everyone, deep down, loves video games, and if only Nintendo paid more attention to the non-traditional gamer, there would be a much bigger tent, but that is not the way it works.

Yes, sad but true, by virtue of the fact that people say it a lot.

@dragonfliet:

Really, controls are what we are complaining about with reference to a game that everyone loves but cannot articulate why?

@MayorBloomberg:

@SexCpotatoes:

@MayorBloomberg:

How did you people let this issue get so muddled? At this point no one even cares about whether what he is saying makes sense. The worst idea here is the conflation of free speech with net neutrality. Freedom of speech means you have the right to say what you want given your ability to do so. It does not mean that…

@Jellopnik:

@firefly:

There is nothing like a good boxed set. Honestly, I get some kind of perverse psychological pleasure out of these things. They are just so...orderly...and consistent...My Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection boxed set is my prized possession, and that is coming from someone who owns much rarer and more valuable…

And so we find that the Internet is not, in fact, a magical new medium immune to the misuse of concentrated power.

@MrVakarian:

I hope this is not too strong a topic for a light WTAY, but does anyone else find it unpleasant and unjust that in Mass Effect, not only are governments judged to be legitimate based on their representation of a species and not a philosophic principle with an attendant system of laws, but no one ever seems to find…

Better question: who cares?

These two would be my first pick for any consummate video game award. They are responsible for what I regard as the game development studio with the absolute highest output of game quality proportional to quantity. Now, if it were up to me, I would also add Drew Karpyshyn and Casey Hudson in some kind of secondary…

Jon Stewart's utterly contemptible display last night just about turned me off of the Daily Show for good. He has always been a malevolent presence on television, and not just due to his obvious embrace of statism. He is a proponent of the middle of the road, of pragmatism, of the unprincipled, but he was merely one…

This is good news. Demon's Souls is really an excellent game and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. I think the difficulty is exaggerated, though. It was challenging, of course, but people conflate the frequency of death with difficulty, and I think that has contributed to an inflated sense of its brutality.

@Soulblighter: