A lot of you just sound so scared that people like Blow want video games to occasionally mean something, and not just be badass power fantasies.

I really don't think all of Braid is about the Manhattan Project. A bunch of the earlier passages make no sense at all if you apply them to the atomic bomb. I think the game is about obsession; the first 95% is about obsession pertaining to a girl, and the last 5% is like "Yo dawg, obsession is also bad if you…

I agree that Nintendo will hold up, but there are lots of other singleplayer games without excessive amounts of DLC that will hold up in 10 years. Batman: Arkham Asylum. BioShock. And so on.

"Don't tell me that Mario Kart is still lighting the sales chart on fire."

Agreed on Link's Awakening being superbly made. Also, I really enjoyed that you could map whatever items you wanted to the two buttons. The result was that the game didn't feel as slavishly devoted to the usual Zelda stance of "HOLY SHIT SWORDS ARE SO COOL".

I'm pretty sure they've whittled the VC team down to only a handful of people. Nintendo is fairly tight-lipped about the sales figures, but if you look at the sales for things like Xbox Live's Game Room and other retro game services, the vast majority of titles sell TERRIBLY. The only ones that sell are the ones that…

Pretty much every games journalist I've ever heard talk about the future of the CoD series is quite sure that this fall will be Black Ops 2. There are too many rumours and "I heard a guy let it slip"s going around for it not to be true.

I can still hear them saying that. I felt so bad.

Now seems like a weird time for Kotaku to suddenly start mentioning the start of new Starcraft II seasons.

The issue is that a lot of gamers are 12-25-year-old males with poor impulse control, so they're pretty bad at organizing a mass boycott and sticking to it. But yes, people not buying stuff is pretty much the strongest signal you can send.

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ROLLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART!

Please tell me you're 12. If you're an adult, or even a teenager, and still saying things like "Crapcom", that's just plain embarrassing.

You've made a wise choice.

Dungeon Defenders has way more RPG mechanics, what with the level grinding and character classes and various stats. At times it doesn't necessarily feel like tower defense, because being overpowered/underpowered can be a big issue. Also, it has multiplayer. And the devs seem pretty committed to continuing support for…

Just when I thought this couldn't get better, I found the author's description of "Legend of Zelda: Fall of Man":

Surely by the time you finished elementary school, you realized that it is fanfiction law that to fit the shitty story you want to tell you must entirely rewrite the personality and demeanor of whatever characters you're stealing.

Yeah, if you're writing a fanfic based on Majora's Mask, how the fuck do you not know the name of one of the characters that is literally on screen for the entire game? Seriously, "Talt"? I could forgive a typo, but that's how the writer spells it every single time.

"If the Penny Arcade guys wanted to get back at this guy, they should have INVITED him to the event instead of banning him. Make him the guest of honor, hang out with him and make him feel like a loser. He'd either refuse to go or be shown up by the organizers that were able to pretty much make him the butt of the…

Sure, not everyone has money to spare to buy video game consoles. That's not fucking relevant to this discussion at all. If they sell it for $300 at launch, that will be quite low relative to most other console launches.