It wasn’t an update in the traditional sense, the content was all there from the beginning but it was behind a global unlock waiting for a certain number of people to hit level 10. It would have been cooler if the countdown to unlocking it was in the plaza, but I guess that a one-time only event that was bound to go…

Roller is a skill position specializing in ambush and melee combat and a utility/support role at the same time. It’s like Pyro, Spy and Engineer rolled up (heh) into one. So naturally there’s a right way and a wrong way to play them and the difference between the two is night and day in terms of how you counter it.

This game has some of the best anti-camping measures built right into its mechanics. You can hide as a squid pretty easily in your own ink, but hiding means you’re not covering ground so it’s only useful in short bursts, and the nature of territory capture means the enemy is constantly spy-checking by spamming the…

Ridin’ Squirty.

It’s perfect if you know how the game is scored. His side covered 60%, the others covered 20%, and no one bothered to go paint the other 20% (or more likely the roller team would have painted it if they hadn’t been well contained by their opponents).

Just gonna leave this here:

Insurance companies will love these things, they know how statistics work. They will get to charge more in premiums to cover public demand for extra precautions while pocketing more because these trucks will get in fewer accidents. The trucking companies will gleefully pay a higher insurance rate because they know…

One, how can any game with a choice of characters not have mains? There’s always going to be one character or build or something that you like best or play the most with. Two, every game with competitive multiplayer is going to have a meta if anyone is discussing it at all. You might say that using the terms of art…

This is a game that could only have been an entry in a long-running series. To really enjoy this game I think you needed to be well in tune with the basic on-foot mechanics to the point it’s totally natural and you need a change of pace. All the AC games now have to be “Assassin’s Creed plus something”, Brotherhood…

A friend of mine put me off this game because uPlay ate his savegame on PC. But I just got a PS4 two weeks ago and bought some used titles to get me up and running and this is my favorite of the bunch. I love the presentation, the visuals, the mini-games, I even love the tie-in tablet app.

I’d say the connection to the…

This is big for gamers with limited vision, and I bet it’s also a boon to anyone who uses an HDTV smaller than a billboard. I have a gaming laptop with a 15-inch screen, it’s native 1080P but most games aren’t scaled properly for that size, so it’s hard for me and I (knock wood as I’m past 30 now) still rate 20/20. If…

Yes it is, Ming-Na Wen circa 1995. How high the mighty have climbed.

Metroid Prime is so incredibly brilliant. The way it manages to make the inherited mechanics from the 2D games work in an FPS, the variety that comes from the morph ball sections, the scanning mechanic, the subtle way it works Samus's past into the narrative without breaking her silent protagonist status...

They re-calibrated the difficulty levels to be in-line with 3. The originals had two difficulty levels, which are the top two difficulties in 1 and 2, and there's a new easier one added at the bottom. Also I find the Wii control scheme makes the first two games easier to play if you're used to PC fps games, so that…

Right, the point is not "skip gap coverage" but "get it for less from your insurance company".

I remember BloodRayne having janky breast physics, even though it was a third-person shooter and the main character was only ever visible from the back, and there were only about two other women in the game. It wasn't just used for breasts, there were these mostly-naked S&M bat-vampire beastman enemies in the game…

If I had to guess, I'd suspect that the central role of the Scarecrow means a lot more graphic horror on-screen, and the fact that the Batmobile has realistic weapons on it that are wielded by the player (even if not against people).

They are when major retailers refuse to sell them to teenagers. But in the era of digital distribution who knows.

I think the entire point of Flintheart Glomgold is that he is eviler and always (very slightly) richer than Scrooge McDuck, so putting him to the left of Scrooge makes no sense.

I've got as huge pile of built-up micro USB chargers from all the phone accessories and whatnot that came with a charger each, so withholding an extra charger from a USB powered mobile device is something I wish more manufacturers would do, especially since USB chargers are available in a rainbow of configurations and…