I’m not sure when this escape room craze started, but a buddy of mine took me and my wife to one in Indiana and it was pretty clever. There are like three different rooms you can do and it costs like $25 a person which isn’t horrible. We didn’t escape our room, but got to within a couple of puzzles of finishing.

Yeah, the pair I play in now were only $75 and have held up really well for over a year.

Depends. I’ve had regular Nike basketball shoes used daily last me a couple of years, but the one time I splurged and got a pair of LeBron’s, they started coming apart and squeaking after 6 months of heavy use.

Ninja Gaiden is the reason I owned an original Xbox. Long before I got into console shooters, I saw the opening trailer on G4 (back when it focused on games and technology) and I was blown away. Hell, Ninja Gaiden was the first game I ever pre-ordered. That game broke my spirit, but I’m forever grateful.

Yeah, I agree. The lack of Master Chief was a minor issue, but what irks me by Frank O’Connor’s comment was he put the issue on fans feeling connected to Chief. Well, of course they are. Halo 4's campaign was probably the best in the series and established this great connection between Cortana and Chief. So coming off…

Solid lineup. I’ve been meaning to pick up Abzu, but getting it for free is a good excuse.

Funny enough, I was just thinking about when the 2nd expansion was going to hit this game. I’ve been itching to jump back in, but beat all of the Blizzard Mountain challenges. This is coming at a very good time.

Amazon just needs to roll up their services and offer an “Ultimate Prime” subscription that includes Prime shipping, video, music, library, and anime strike. So instead of 3 or 4 different charges coming out, you just have one flat fee and maybe even discounted slightly to make it more enticing then signing up…

Very true, but luckily that’s what the PTR is for. Maybe they could introduce different versions of potential tiebreakers and see how they resonate.  

Well I can see going to a different map and changing the mode entirely being a pain, but my scenario just boils things down to the bare tacks of the game of killing your opponents just without the worry of securing/protecting an objective.

I think if they truly want to eliminate ties, they need to look to traditional sports. The NHL has overtime, but if it’s still tied after that, they go to a shootout. I think they could go to something similar where if the game is still tied after the extra attack period, go to a simple elimination match until one…

My typical routine when eating at my desk (at home and at work) is to find a nice lengthy video on YouTube or find a tournament/streamer on Twitch, move my keyboard out of the way and then eat. If I know something will be greasy or has a lot of cheesy dust, I won’t risk eating at my desk. My wife thought I was being…

It was never my car, but my dad bought a 1985 GMC Jimmy for my sister around 2003. She hated the car and never wanted to drive it and she somehow spilled a bunch of gas in the cab and she gave up on it. When I was about 17 years old, I got a summer job and needed a way to and from work so she happily gave me the keys…

From a few years ago, but the little dog still sleeps on the big dog the same way.

The real issue are that some of these people monsters are squeezing from the middle of the tube.

As a large guy (6'2", 400lbs) a lot of my shoes show a lot of lateral wear like my foot is trying to Hulk out of them. The only shoes that don’t show the same signs of wear are regular, medium width basketball shoes. I have to get a wide size for running/walking shoes. If I don’t, it feels like I’m going to roll my…

During the trial, Baez told the jury that “sometimes people get tattoos because they like a certain things,” adding that tattoos can often be “decorative.”

So I read through all of the Scorpio articles that Eurogamer put out and many reiterate the same points, the two big things that will determine its success will be price and games. They noted a few times that the Microsoft people called it a “premium console” which likely will come at a premium price. This is not an…

Exactly. There is plenty to enjoy in the game and one of it’s major selling points is the combat. It is much more fluid and allows you test out different abilities. If they can clean up the UI and inventory system as well give us a more compelling story (or at least one where the choices had more weight to them),…

Yeah, I learned of Jaal hours before I actually met him. I read a random email on the Tempest and it mentioned taking money from Jaal.