These aggregated statistics charts for video games are starting to become rather meaningless to me. The first or second time it was kinda cool seeing how many millions or billions were killed in some popular game, but now I see the numbers it's just "Oh. Okay." Every major game racks up numbers in the millions and…

Being "DRM Free" does not mean you are telling everyone to pirate your game. It means that if you a legitimate customer, the company does not want to hinder your enjoyment in any way with useless DRM schemes. Legitimate customers are completely unaffected by their pursuits to nab pirates.

This is a gamer blog. It is about games. We come here to talk about games.

I believe that you always "started a new game" whenever you simply created a new set of 6 characters, because there are no permanent changes you make in the world... all the progression you make in the game (to my memory) is simply by gaining levels and by acquiring the proper items to access dungeons and the the…

I don't get it. I mean, with crazy PC case mods at least there's usually some clever aspect about it seeing that the case still has to be able to support all the cable connections and ports of the PC as well as house the internal components. But with these iphone "case mods", the iphone itself acts as nothing more…

Are you making a reference to the 1985 classic? Because the way I see it, this game has absolutely NOTHING to do with that classic game. I can't even understand why they used that license, it's not as if the Bard's Tale (though legendary in its own day) was some big IP or well-known name among modern gamers. And to…

Awesome! Can't wait to see Kylearan, Mangar, and even Roscoe's Energy Emporium again!

TF2 has three Americans (one southern, one Bostonian, one "generic" American), a black Scotsman, a Russian, a German, an Australian, and a Frenchman... and one "Miscellaneous" (Pyro). All incredibly stereotyped, but clearly the stereotypes are played for laughs.

Funny thing is besides the fact that you fell for Obvious Troll (it's even his avatar, for pete's sake), in his post he didn't even make any claims about his own superiority or any such thing. You brought that up yourself.

My favorite year of all time was 2007.

Whoops, accidental post. Is there a way to delete this?

I can't find an updated list, but here's one guy's list from a few years ago.

This is true.

I'm fairly certain that most (but certainly not all) sites operate on the American school system style of score allocations. So, in fact, 5 out of 10 IS pretty much the worst you can get because that is a Failing grade in American school systems... and most people subconsciously will interpret it the same way because…

To add to what you say, what I dislike about the color palette discussions is the prevailing "everything is brown and gray!" sentiment, which I don't even think is true AT ALL. Only ONE genre is affected by this, and that's the shooter genre... and on top of that, it's pretty much ONLY the "realistic, gritty…

The tried-and-true mantra.

You should also develop an alternate theory: Years with a Half-Life game and/or Portal game (remember, they take place in the same universe) are renaissance years — 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2011... and let's just ignore Episode 1 for now.

Yeah, I'm not here to judge whether Skyrim deserves 10/10 (I don't even own it yet). Rather, I'm just decrying the tired misconception that a "10/10" means that a game was "perfect", when no reviewer I have ever come across actually believes or states that their numerical score means that.

Actually, there are many good games that didn't make a lot of money. For example, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Planescape:Torment, and the list goes on and on.

In real life, whenever you have an amazing, wonderful experience with your buddies, ask them, "Hey man, so on a scale of 1-10 how awesome was that?" If they answer "10! That was so awesome!", you should immediately punch them in the face and say "STUPID! There's no such thing as perfect! Are you trying to say that…