"There is no such thing as a My Little Cow."

I actually had to check the in-game character portraits to confirm that the swordswoman wasn't Lucina. (Apparently she's someone from LoL? LoL I dunno—I can't keep track of a hundred and ten characters.)

I remember when I first played Far Cry 2. Every time you're critically wounded in that game, you have to perform a first-aid action, which automatically brings you up to two blocks of health. Healing yourself beyond that can only be done with syringes, of which there are a limited supply. First-aid actions are always…

I don't think he actually did much different than Patricia would have. He's just male, so the people who read misandry into Patricia's writing don't read it into his.

I think you can learn a lot about a community from when it gets angry at calmly-written articles. Not only does Kotaku's readership blow up at any article about gender and gaming, even when the writers don't go out of their way to incite anger, a lot of commenters always respond as if the article had been written in…

Morgan can be born of any mother or to any father, so long as the PC is involved. Since Morgan was Donnel's son in my game, he and Lucina weren't siblings.

Better yet, MARRY Donnel. Morgan becomes a one-man army. (And it gets even more ridiculous since I married Morgan to Lucina—I don't think I've ever had them attack something and not had it be dead by the time they finished their action.)

Reported on Trollpatrol. (Which nobody's used in a month, BTW. Is it really that poorly publicized? It's at kotaku.com/trollpatrol/forum.)

So on a scale of one to three pi over root two, how Escher is Ariel's spine? (Then again, she could be a chordate.)

It's a rare artist who can give me the same feeling I got when I watched Castle in the Sky.

I'll say one thing for Alpha Protocol—it was an absolute TRIUMPH of player choice in narrative. There was always more than one way to deal with a problem, and how you handled it could have far-reaching effects.

So, one game heavily focuses on Bowser, and the next looks like it will heavily focus on Luigi . . . Think we can get a Peach-centric RPG if we ask nicely enough? (I'd be up for seeing her character explored in as much depth as Bowser's was, and the RPG format seems like a good fit for a squishy caster like Peach…

All of my regular characters somehow wound up ridiculously powerful (I'm still not sure exactly what I did—maybe the game's balanced for a higher difficulty than Normal?), so I figured I'd never bother using the child characters. I just recruited them as soon as possible, without bothering to power them up. Then I got…

I kind of hope they keep most of the changes from the third game. I know a lot of old fans didn't like them, but I thought they largely managed to make the game more accessible without sacrificing a respectful tone and a sense of realism.

I haven't even played Ni No Kuni, and I got Virtual Shackles' joke about it purely from Kotaku's coverage of the game.

So melee attack power and HP are tied to the same stat? That's certainly one way to incentivize players not to pump all their points into gun usage. (Also, calling it now—no one will ever want to build a character with low Coordination.)

Gameological seems to be down for the moment, so while we wait . . . Who's the coolest black character you can think of in a video game?

Let's set aside for the moment the question of whether or not the title is offensive.

How many universes has Superman led into fascist tyranny by now? (I know he did it in a parallel universe to the Justice League cartoon, and I think he did it in Superman: Red Son.)

If it's the [REDACTED] of [REDACTED and [REDACTED], that implies it's one of the child characters. (I haven't gotten that far yet, but Gamefaqs says Crom's child is the only plot-required one, so that's probably who it is.)