Game of Thrones meets Pokémon, but really, better. Suikoden II's story is one of the most emotionally resonant I've found in a video game, and its "Oh, holy shit" moments are pretty much better than anyone else's "Oh, holy shit" moments. If you like stories about friendship and betrayal and all that jazz, this JRPG is…

Boll, as Brian Ashcraft pointed out three years ago, is incredibly good at finding money for his films despite a richly deserved reputation as a schlockmaster nonpareil. He also has no trouble getting name actors to go along for the ride. So it's possible that Boll already has money for a Postal sequel, and this…

The majority of game developers make games with other people’s money. This generally means some sort of public or private investors. Thanks to the advent of Kickstarter, now we get games that cut out traditional game publishers and are financed directly by fans. But games like those published by Electronic Arts are…

Tomb Raider regular for $16.99, Tomb Raider Survivor Edition $19.71 on Origin. Not the best ever but ok. Various other Origin titles also on sale, per an e-mail I got this morning.

Earthbound really did have some awesome concepts, as the article mentions the fact that enemies would flee from you once you reached a certain level, was great. Also if you were powerful enough, certain enemy battle would not even initiate, the enemy would just go splat on the main screen and you would be declared…

The title image reminds me of how Gunpei Yokoi, one of the chief designers of the original Gameboy which went on to become a Nintendo staple and easily one of their best sellers of all time, was relegated to what amounted to a "role of shame" when his later experiment in the Virtual Boy failed. Eventually he died…

Trying to play along I purposely did not scroll past the intro text, watched the video and waited 30 seconds. I expected the question to be "why is the fighting system in a hockey game so elaborate when fighting is not the point of hockey?" I guess I never played any of the NHL series. Sure hockey is a physical…

Sometimes the trains can run on time without the categorical and widespread murdering of a peoples. Let's hope that's the case for Sony.

I was going to comment that Teepo's Japanese voice was probably more in the vein of "goofy but loveable" instead of "grating and annoying" - usually this is something that is not captured well by English VAs and the feeling of "oh you silly character you" becomes "I want you to shut up and die". But after some…

One of my worst game purchases of all time. At least Diablo 3 had something resembling a complete game when their servers came back up from the initial onslaught; Simcity was nothing but an mess of bad AI handling and limitations that sucked all the fun out of the city-building experience.

I remember the huge variety of titles like Einhander, Vagrant Story, SaGa Frontier, Brave Fencer Musashi and many others; back when it was Square(soft), not Square-Enix. Now it seems the only games coming out are either Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts. There's no more variety. I've probably posted this elsewhere…

I agree, if you mean sitcoms of the recent era. Shows like Clarissa Explains It All, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts and other shows from that time though, those were all pretty good. But they pretty much shut down that whole division of Nick by 2000, which was sad =(

It is always a very fine balance to strike when giving the players tools to manipulate the world around them. Considering the case described, if goblin attackers are too potent and the tent cities can never be built except with great difficulty, people will give up trying. It is a game after all; it should be fun…

I would have never purchased Sang Froid at full price having never heard of it, but when it was up for five bucks I figured why not. I was pleasantly surprised and had an enjoyable 20 some hours, and I hope Tome II will be out at some point. So at the least there is that.

It's like Upgrayyedd. Gotta have the Double D.

The Daikon from Daicon, the roots (oh puns!) of Gainax and arguably the precursor to a new age of anime.

The bar on the left seems like a big misuse of space. At least on my browser (Firefox) it stays static while scrolling through the stories on the right, static content isn't bad if it's something useful like the "1.7k people are reading this" or my account notifications or something (which the current iteration does…

Monaco got it's own day long sale though, so not too bad. FTL got re-voted over Recettear though, and Kentucky Route Zero losing was of course a travesty.

I did the exact same thing. Super unhappy.

Eventually though the respective governments did come to an agreement, and the citizens living in Kowloon were pressured to leave so the place could be torn down. In this respect it is similar.