Yes, ok, step in the right direction but let me ask ... Why you no just kill GFWL? Like, with fire. Nuked from orbit, etc.?

It was Ultima VII that I fell in love with first, but IV, V and VI all are excellent. I'll just leave this here ... http://tjwebb.kinja.com/the-road-goes-…

Average, run-of-the-mill old man sounds amazing.

Screw this day. I'm going back to bed and hoping this was a shitty dream. R.I.P.

This. A thousand times this.

I've been a huge fan of Bioware for a long time. When this game came out, I gave it a pretty favorable review — based on a very limited amount of play time. But after hitting max level it rapidly became apparent that this game has serious flaws and most likely was rushed to retail before it was ready. I'm terribly…

Welcome to the Internet, let us sing you the song of our people.

This. That is all.

Unrelated but amusing: I taught English in Budapest for a while.

The other teacher, an Englishman, and I were enjoying a beer after class one evening.

I'd recently had a rather long lay over at Heathrow and had spent a day zipping around London. I asked him why London was so bloody ugly, to which he replied, "German…

We are all Francis.

This pleases me.

This is a step in the right direction. They now have my attention, but will have to earn my trust. And for those bemoaning the lack of innovation, well ... (and I'll probably get flamed with "lol, pc master race" comments for this) consoles haven't been doing anything innovative for most of the past generation. The…

This is among the better pieces I've read on today's "Xbox 180."

I built my current rig for about $900. I built it during the PS3/360 era (about 2 years ago) and while it's no longer a high-end system, it'll be good to go for sometime into the PS4/Xbone era. If you've bought at least one of each (not to mention a TV — I just use my monitor for everything) you've already spent more…

Or a journalist. And as a journalist, I wouldn't wish that on anyone!

Then Krieg is your man. Seriously, while gamers should never trivially through money at stuff just because it's cheap, considering that so many games have crazy high price points these days and Krieg is just $9 on Steam, I'd he's worth it. I had a blast playing him — he feels a lot like the Gunzerker in some ways, but…

Except that I meant "VI and VII" instead of "XI and XII." Which is what I get when I stay up all night leveling a Psycho in Borderlands 2 and then rant before coffee.

FFXII is by far one of the most under appreciated entries in the series. I've never understood why, personally. For a PlayStation 2 game it's remarkably pretty. While Vaan is annoying, the other characters are interesting, the environments are gorgeous and the Gambit system is open enough for some real subtlety. It…

Just last night I was playing Pathfinder with a couple of guys and thought to myself, "You know what this needs? More explosions." CAN'T WAIT.

As a professional journalist and sometime game critic who has struggled to find an audience, to get my stuff out there and seen, I can understand the pressure. Lots of people work very hard to cover the gaming community — so many that it's easy to get drowned out in the clamor of digital voices all screaming headlines…