My play stats are goofy because there was a glitch in GTA IV where the stupid Rock Star Social Club thing kept running 24/7 after you ended your play session, so I show over 90 hours when it's more like 1-2 hours on PC. (Put in 60 hours on X360.) This also doesn't count non-Steam gaming, like Battlefield 3, etc.

Another site is this - http://steamplaytime.appspot.com/ - which will tell you how long you've played each Steam game and how far you have to go based on average "get through it" and "find everything" play styles. It's not complete, but it's another way of looking at your backlog.

I haven't bought anything* from the last three Steam sales going back a year because their prices are terrible compared to the deals Amazon PC Digital Downloads and Green Man Gaming have had constantly, not to mention Humble Bundles and the Humble Weekly deals like when both Alan Wake games could've been bought for $1…

Bioshock Infinite is $30 right now (Thurs., 7/11/2013).

Ah, another reason to mourn the passing of physical media. I've still got both NOLF games, though I never finished either of them and I'd probably cry at the circa-2000 visuals. I still have "We've got Death Star" lodged in my mind as the indicator you'd properly entered one of the cheat codes.

It's a sad commentary on just how pernicious the toxins of liberalism are when simple puns are declared hate crimes by terminally aggrieved groups hunting for the next thing to be upset over and demand money and advantage from.

My mom used to marvel at how Mean Gene Okerland would stand there with a straight face while these freakshows were doing their shtick.

Oh, Beaks at AICN torched his credibility the other night by spooging so hard over it, raving about how "it has characters that you give a sh*t about" and blah-blah-woof-woof; it was embarrassing and so beyond mere fanboyism or paid shilling, it sounded like his family was being held hostage.

I'm not as sold on del Toro as most - my friend is in the "del Toro can do no wrong, so shut your whore mouth" camp and refuses to listen to my dissatisfaction with PR - but I was genuinely looking forward to this and was sorely disappointed by how awful anything that wasn't monsters and robot was, not that they were…

I saw it Tuesday night at an advance screening. It's not that the story and characters aren't great, it's that they are aggressively lame and terrible, predictable and banal. You will not be surprised by a single story beat. But if you want to be a cheap date for some CGIbot on CGIgu, then knock yourself out. I'm just…

When they announced Henry Cavill was going to be Superman, this conversation happened:

The action in that GIF is better than 90% of the action in Pacific Rim. Not kidding. It's going to be sad to watch otakus sell themselves so cheaply to this dull film.

I didn't think the action was all that impressive, but it was the paper-thin caricatures and by-the-numbers ultra-predictable plot that wrecked the film. They should've called it Specific Tropes.

You're exactly the type of person whom I refer to in my comment: Someone who loves GDT so much that you will accept whatever he hands you and love it and pet it and hug and squeeze it and name it George.

I saw Pacific Rim Tuesday night and it was a massive disappointment. I know the otakus and del Toro fanboys are going to refuse to hear the inconvenient truth, but it's a lackluster, dull, predictable, unfun mess.

North has a recurring role on Pretty Little Liars as Spencer Hasting's shifty lawyer father and whenever he shows up, I say, "Shouldn't you be raiding a tomb or something, Nathan?"

The Cell Processor was a paper tiger. People who claimed the PS3 was superior because of that probably think a car with a 600-horsepower engine is the best even if the car itself immediately lurches into oncoming traffic, killing the driver. That pretty much only Naughty Dog was able to make something that looked good…

I know PS3 is a better machine than 360

I bought MGS4 for $40 new shortly after it came out. Since I'd never played the other games, I picked up the MGS Trilogy for $30 since I had a BC PS3. I got perhaps a third of the way into MGS1, the eye-searing visuals and fixed camera angles bumming me out the whole way. (When your first stealth espionage game was…

You obviously don't have a PS3 because the idea of updating one in "2 minutes" is a joke. The most major updates on my Xbox 360, like when they overhaul the dashboard, take perhaps 5-7 minutes including the reboots and downloading. Every PS3 update is a minimum of 5-10 minutes just to download and then another long…