I’m also a translator. Pleased to hear a semi-serious attempt at a conversation in a foreign language, which Archer has done before, but I was a bit annoyed that they didn’t bother to really get Ray’s French really right— the show probably has the budget for it. (I can live with Lana’s mistakes because she is not…

The title alone makes this a must watch.

Man, don’t mock David Cage! Seriously, you are an unbalanced... psychopathic... ASSHOLE!

I’m sure the guy holding the girl hostage is an android or something, which would explain the superhuman arm strength, but unless he weighs many hundreds of pounds, I still don’t think I buy the physics on that screenshot where he’s holding her at arm’s length out over the edge of the rooftop...

Mike Myers doesn’t count, his parents are/were both from England.

Yeah, I actually tend to agree with that, however grudgingly at times— like, my (divorced and therefore long-single) parents were each desperate enough to buy me and my twin sister TVs for our individual bedrooms back in the early/mid ‘80s, so I was totally awash in TV for like 3-4 hours a day and still turned out…

YouTube is a big freakin’ deal as far as popular awareness of games. Right now my 9-year-old strongly prefers watching YouTube videos of people playing games over actually playing any sort of game himself. That infuriates me in most ways (dude, the whole point of this medium is that it interactively engages your…

My only experience with the series was GOW 3 which I played for an hour in the playtest lab when I worked at Ubisoft Montreal (I guess they were trying to learn what people thought of competitors’ games), and I actually liked it pretty well. But then Polygon gave the new game a 10 and also a bunch of other fawning…

Oh also, I totally forgot to mention this, but Matt, you mentioned Child of Eden in your article. Child of Eden is extremely awesome and more people should know about it. One of the more enjoyably psychedelic action games I’ve played, and well worth checking out for anyone who doesn’t know about it. End message.

Hey, Matt Gerardi— at a certain point in my life, the “I’ll have a beer” thing was the only way to go, namely when I lived in Germany at age 19-20 (= legal to drink over there!) and every bar had an official house brand. In many places (I was in Hessen and Nordrhein-Westfalen at the time, so Frankfurt and also…

Great, looking forward to it! Yeah, if I didn’t reply ASAP it’s because I just so happened to be exploring the single-player, which I discovered by accident in a sewer off the main square, and I was just noticing the 3D platformer aspects myself. Seems pretty fun but the whole thing feels a heck of a lot like a Wii…

Heh, cool. So now I have learned about “Kinjaimproved”, and also about our shared interest in Gravity Falls. Win-win.

Thanks, this was my question too, although your description of your failed attempts to find the answer far outstrips mine.

OK, Wolfman, I have to ask: Is there some underlying logic to the bold+underline start to each paragraph? Are we looking at some epic word-level acrostic scramble spread out over months of posts? Perhaps it’s just a way to highlight the start of each paragraph, similar to how some books start each chapter with a large…

Sweet, that works for me! Could well be I have equipped myself with a copy of the game by May 8th. It’s been quite a while since I did any online gaming with AV Clubbers (last time was on Steam... probably Payday 2.... shudder...)

Limbo is oppressive, creepy and very well-done. Inside is borderline terrifying and shocking (especially at the end). I loved them both, but Inside stuck with me a lot more. Enjoy...?

Hey, is Mario Kart 8 on the 8th a Switch-based affair now, or only for Wii U people, or doesn’t it matter? (I have a Switch but no Wii U, and since I also don’t currently own Mario Kart 8, I am debating whether it’s worthwhile to buy it with this group event in mind.)

Every time things get wild around the house with kids, pets, etc., I find myself thinking: Total chaos! I LOVE IT!

Oh yeah, forgot that you can include videos and stuff. Here’s Time Pilot in action (so somebody out there has an emulator...):

Hmm, Wheels of Aurelia sounds a bit like an even more pared-down version of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Basically an interesting “street-level” history lesson with some sort of game mechanics draped over it (in 1979's case, a not-quite-successful variation on a Telltale game,…