I’ll be honest, the romance options I experienced in Mass Effect: Shepard Editions weren’t great, especially as the series wound down. I found myself expecting more, even with the straight options. In the end, I found myself enraptured by the story (except the ending of 3, which is standard), but completing a romance…

This week on News at 7: Halo fans crushed when they realize their game is not as xXx_MLG420_xXx as they had hoped.

You may be the King of Games, Yugi Muto, but you’ll never defeat the Rare Hunters!

Is that the one where they cover John Cage?

This is the most realistic mechanic that has ever been introduced in a Battlefield game. Why, I remember great-grandpappy telling me about when he was five days deep into trench warfare with the Krauts, and they still hadn’t run out of grenades. He lost two good men who tried to eat the grenades. Infinite food supply…

Am I doing it wrong, or is the video 3 seconds long and contains 0 heavy metal?

A rhythm game where you intentionally play Dream Theater-esque complex beat structures? Yes please.

Lady Gaga is an anagram of Shania Twain.

For anyone confused as to why a 200-man tournament would take place in a hotel suite and not a conference room:

Lord Easterbrook, master of inside his own posterior, long may he reign over the land of haughty dipshits?

Ah, the good ol’ Shawinigan Handshake.

Remember, large corporations: everything that you put on the internet will be used against you. It’s the Miranda Rights of the Internet.

Still less collectibles than DK64.

Weak = not viable at tournaments.

Well done.

O rly? Let me test you with the Minnesota Shibboleth.

A crazy example of the “pre-order bonus” thing is Dead Space (1? 2? I forget), where you get a Foam Finger Gun that’s crazy OP and doesn’t use ammo, or something like that. I’m too tired to Google it, but either way, it’s crazy busted.

GameCube Wind Waker runs generally use a Game Boy Advance for a few portions of the run. That’s more of an investment, and I’ve never heard it called cheating. Hell, they’ve run Wind Waker at AGDQ, complete with GBA sections, with no problems.

Deconstructing the medium is a big part of viewing video games as an art form. That’s why Undertale was so good, and things like this, while smaller deconstructions, are just as important.