and it better include the connections in The Talisman/ Black House because a WHOLE BUNCH of DT stuff gets infodumped at one point in that book and some of it was spoilers for the main series at the time.

Agreed. I salute Nintendo for making this commitment to keeping their machine accessible to people with limited vision and reduced dexterity. Last year I saw a little boy about 5 with coke bottle glasses waiting in a restaurant with a DSI XL; his siblings had normal units. Have you not read the stories of elderly…

Well, Steve Newland is back and imho he's worth the price of admission.

I bought the remastered collector's edition of the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena, and while reading the director's commentary booklet he described a bizarre horror movie he accidentally watched as a child that was an inspiration to him. Something about a funeral home where the dead were transformed and sent to…

The year was 1998. The TV series was called Prey. [www.imdb.com]

Wait wait, the third side of the love triangle is Daniel Gillies, Elijah from the Vampire Diaries.

The article is overlooking a huge detail. The PS3 killed HD DVD format. If Sony had not bundled Blu-ray into their player and jump-started mass access to that player, the other format would have won. Ultimately for the company as a whole, that was probably an absolute necessity.

Funny you should ask, the load times on the PS1 version of Persona were horrific. And they implemented a strange Tiki Mask loading screen. It would be MASK for several seconds before going to a blackscreen and maybe back to the tiki. We're talking maybe 5-10 seconds sometimes. P2's load times are like a second.…

I read Jeremy Renner tweeted that the cast of the Avengers was coming to his house for DDR. Seriously.

The perfect DNA/mixed with animals thing reminds me of the Enki Bilal movie Immortal, which was about Horus being an alien come to earth looking for a genetically-compatible mate.

Persona 1 is a great game but it's a "classic" and you have to understand it's generations back. It was a PS1 dungeon crawler rpg that predated Final Fantasy VII. Graphically it was pretty crude compared to anything that came out right after it. There's a lot of featureless cube hallways in dungeons and moving from…

Yes indeed. You can wear any clothing you want. Your character's gear comes in the form of several talismans you have about you that don't seem to have any visual impact. Seriously I think one of the slots might as well be called "the lucky charm in your pocket" item.

I'm not shocked - the game Strange Journey was considered a "main" entry in the SMT series on the DS. They might as well have put the 4 on that and the 5 on this new one. I have to say though I don't have a 3DS and had no plans to buy one, this tempts me. But, I am also still working on Strange Journey, and Devil…

So, did you know there's a hidden music video on the Xenogears disk? If you wondered why there was an amazing vocal version of Stars of Tears on the soundtrack that didn't get used in the game, the answer is that it was for this video that looks like an incomplete rough cut. Enjoy!

Beowulf was nominated for a Smithee for featuring cover copy on the VHS box that described at as being in a Techno-Futile (not Feudal) setting.

Didn't they show him at one point and he was some 30something guy who looked like a mild mannered college professor?

Season 1 wasn't out for Christmas this year, I suspect season 2 will hit stores about a month before season 3 begins airing. Amazon had it pre-orderable at 1/2 off; it's still heavily discounted. Another option for non-Netflix users is they can buy a single episode from Amazon instant video. However, it's $3 per…

The age of the characters in Eternal Punishment alone is cause for celebration. LEGAL ADULTS who go drinking while trying to figure out their next move.

The bomb shelter is an actual dungeon in both versions of Persona 2. It's a regular one in IS, but in EP it's the meta dungeon you go to again and again to encounter low level monsters you need to farm for cards.

No, which was a cause of complaint. They're stylistically different. In Persona 2 Innocent Sin though, you can toggle between the old and new soundtrack — and the new soundtrack is not a total replacement, just a light remix/restore/rework to improve audio quality for the most part.