I've been using this for my Windows 8 start screen. Makes logging in feel a lot more epic.

Letting the monstrosities spout Miiverse comments at you is awesome. Should be pretty surreal.

Yeah yeah, microtransactions, always-online, etc. But I'm actually legitimately excited about this. DICE working on something like Battlefront (if that's what they're doing) is a dream come true.

I think the key to a good prequel is that you have to tell a story that the audience didn't even know it wanted to know. The Hobbit is probably a good example of this; I know these characters all eventually fight Sauron in LOTR, but I don't know how they defeat Smaug or if any of the Dwarves survive, so I'm still…

I haven't been following, but I'm curious about how ACIV is a prequel. Is it just because pirate times were earlier than Revolutionary War times, or is it about an earlier user of the Animus than Desmond? Or is it the story of Desmond's weekend off between AC1 and 2 when he decided to have some pirate adventures?

Remember all last year when Nintendo's stock would tank every time Iwata said anything other than "We're closing up shop and making iPhone games?" Nintendo's stockholders love smartphones and mobile apps more than they love Nintendo consoles. This might be a move to appease them, actually.

*Leans over PS2 in white void with weird floating symbols*

I think Nintendo has realized this, they have just also realized that you get more purchases by staggering the releases a bit to let each game have a week in the storefront. If a week had gone by with no new VC releases, I'd be worried. But we got Mega Man and Pac Man today, right on schedule. If Nintendo puts 2-4 VC…

I'm glad you were able to get such a great experience out of it. That's really cool. I remember my first time trying a 3DS in a Best Buy and seeing the little Pilotwings guy hover out of the screen in front of me. I was grinning the whole time. It was the strongest feeling of "It works!" I've ever gotten from a piece…

Mannnn. Well, I'll be willing to accept Diedrich Bader from Brave and the Bold, and maybe Bruce Greenwood. Your move, Warner Games.

I think it's the opposite, actually. 2K and Nintendo aren't bowing out of E3 because it's too expensive to feed the over-demanding hungry consumers; they're bowing out because they have found more effective ways than E3 to build excitement and keep their customers up to date.

I really loved being able to design and name my own ship and crew in Star Trek Online. I would get totally sucked in for like a weekend, realize that half the time (i.e. the ground half) I was really bored, quit for a few months, see Star Trek on tv, and get hooked for another weekend. It's been a while, though. The…

I agree, I was really annoyed about the RL delay too. Between that and Aliens CM sucking/getting cancelled, the Wii U didn't have a single notable release in February. The Challenge app is fantastic, though, and I'm sure RL itself will be in August. The good thing about slow launch windows is that they don't have to…

Getting it now! Between this and the Rayman Challenge app, My Wii U's back in business!

I've been really blown away by Nintendo's responsiveness to its fans in the past year. Bringing Earthbound and the Operation Rainfall games over, using Nintendo Directs to give us the exact news we wanted, fixing the most complained about Wii U problems with its first big update, it's all good. I appreciate it, I do.…

Woo! Aqua Blue and Pilotwings Day One! Woo!

So you play as the world's greatest barbed wire-maker. You're hanging out in your basement apartment in an abandoned asylum (barbed wire-making doesn't pay enough for much better) with your roommate Glass Guy, when suddenly you hear the landlord coming! And it's two days after the rent was due! He's really going to…

The Wii U's biggest problem this year is the 3DS. The Wii U's schedule has been totally barren, but there's no reason to think it always will be. The 3DS itself is a perfect example of a Nintendo console having a slow first year while the first-party studios ramp up and then absolutely killing it in its second and…

Quiet, human. From now on I am the one who makes the rules.