Honestly I think the removal of transformation characters is a really good move. Yes, it removes some of the fun of the characters that did so, but did most people really ever take advantage of the transformations? It's much better to focus on a single move set for those characters and not have one move be taken up by…

C'mon guys, Zero Suit Samus' boots totally make sense. I mean, they aren't high heels, they're jump boots! Get it right! Obviously it would be impossible to have rocket jump boots that didn't have a high heel-likedesign, you have to put all of that rocketry somewhere! Nintendo wouldn't succumb to that kind of fan…

I suppose that's something to consider. It would make it easier from a design standpoint to make those elements more effective.

Maybe it's just because I usually associate dinosaurs with lush, vibrant, green, tropical sorts of environments, but this game looks horribly... gray. Like, everything is very de-saturated, to the point of having a washed out look. I can understand stylistically why they'd want to do it this way with a survival type…

Was just about to comment on the egg one and how inanimate objects with faces, in particular food items, amuses me for some reason.

I've been saying for a while now that Nintendo needs to make an e-Shop Kirby's Air Ride City Trial game. I'm not sure it'd be enough for a full release, but I'd sure download that and play it to death. That mode alone put Kirby's Air Ride into my usual rotation of multiplayer games to play with my friends, where Smash…

The Start button is a little too close to the A and B buttons, seems like you'd accidentally press it all the time with it right there.

Have they mentioned anything about 5 player local, with one player on the gamepad? It was kind of nice being able to do that with the Sonic racer released near the Wii-U launch.

Minecraft's "Everything is a villager now" update is silly, but fun. Every player's skin has been changed to look like the NPC villagers, and the sounds have been replaced entirely by the voice used by the villagers in animated shorts put out by Element Animation (the Villager shorts being some of my favorite videos…

What I don't get is why games based on a popular film franchise have to be released around the film's release. I mean, sure, it cashes in on the popularity generated by the film, but if someone were to take a film that was a huge success, create a well designed, high quality game based on the film's world (and not…

Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (Wii U, $6.99)

Feeling better about this after reading a few reddit posts by the founder, but still a whole lot more skeptical than I was yesterday (where I was ready to jump right in as soon as a consumer version was made available):

I've never really understood the whole "string around the tooth and slamming the door" thing because of this. If I had a loose tooth, I'd just move it around with my tongue unconsciously and eventually it would fall out. I don't recall it ever being particularly painful, except when I tried pulling on it with my…

I'll believe Sega loves us when we finally get some sort of news on Phantasy Star Online 2. Like, anything to let us know it's status for western release. I'd even be happy with a cancellation just so I can know to not wait (and thus decide if I want to try to use an english patched Japanese client).

Agreed. I've maxed out Wind Waker on my PC and it can't beat Wind Waker HD on the Wii U. There's only so much upscaling the game can do, they tweaked so much about the game, both in graphics and in gameplay, that it would be really hard for me to play the emulated one again.

It was a pretty narrow victory, though. It bothers me that people only barely didn't vote EA as a worse company than TWC. Not as much as if they had voted it worse, of course, but still.

Yeah, no idea why it's *any* of the buttons. It just needs a power button that's slightly inset or flush with the remote (sort of how the Wii's power button is), to avoid accidental activation, and it would be my favorite remote.

This just shows me how incredibly inefficient Roombas are at making a path to cover the entire room. Which is the best that can be expected without them having a digital map of your house to follow, but still, they don't do the best job at getting a full room on a given battery charge as they make random leaps across…

The term "graphics" in relation to games has always been a bit of a problem point for me. While, yes, used in the way it is in this article is technically correct, years of game marketing buzz and console wars has added an additional layer of weight to the word. "Graphics", for me, has become more synonymous with the…

You need a clear view of your console.