I feel like this has been a great strength of recent Ubisoft titles. I just picked up The Division on sale, having heard some okay things and some really good things about it, but I was blown away by the environmental storytelling and detail. It shocked me to see people leaning out their windows and yelling down to…

“This is not the model for Spirited Away or anything of the sort,” the owner wrote in now-deleted Facebook messages.

I love seeing footage of Super Mario Land for the Game Boy. Such a weird and wonderful game. Like Ceave, it was also my first Mario as a kid, and I’m always glad to know I didn’t just dream it up. When I eventually moved on to the Mario All Stars collection on SNES I was shocked to learn Koopa Shells didn’t explode…

Maybe it’s for the best that The Merchant hasn’t appeared in any other games, because it adds to his mystery.