Transistor is the game I'm most hyped for this year, on account of my well documented love of Bastion, but I had forgotten about The Witness, I'm excited to see how that one shakes out as well.

Salutations friends! After two long weeks it's the return of the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Drama Spectacular! Apologies for my unannounced absence, but we had a pretty severe ice storm up here in sunny Toronto, Ontario over the holidays which left my house without power for nine days, so I missed two Mondays in a…

Patrick with the hat trick.

Speaking of, I assume you saw this? (It's a link)

*shoots finger guns at everybody, puts on sunglasses, jumps into convertible, screeches off into the night*

Same here, difference being it was Final Fantasy IX, Christmas 2000, 13 years ago. I've mentioned my whole sense memory thing in these comments multiple times in the past, but firing up FFIX on Christmas day, still wearing my pyjamas, has permanently linked that game to Christmas in my memory. Even today, if I start a…

I imagine a Nomad with Sonic & Knuckles in the cartridge slot and Sonic 3 in S&K's slot is basically the least portable handheld system in history. Still, more power to ya, I always desperately wanted a Nomad. Hell, I still want a reliable way to play Genesis games on the move. Hopefully more Genesis titles get…

Why is that cowboy talking to three children? Is that part of the joke? Is there a joke in that comic?

I saw that same show when it came to Toronto a few years back. I showed up in my Dinosaur Comics t-shirt and everything. The show itself was pretty cool, but it was kind of embarrassing when I got there- 90% of the audience was under the age of ten or was the parent of a child, and there I was at like twenty years old…

Nope, shenanigans. There's no way this is a real movie. A BBC documentary series being mutilated into a movie where Justin Long plays a sassy dinosaur? That's the kind of thing Sean O'Neal would write as an acidic satirization of the movie industry. It couldn't have possibly actually happened.

Whoa, I didn't know there was an Ancient Greek spin on the Warriors formula, I may have to check that out. My dreams are retroactively coming true!

I've always had a special place in my heart for the Dynasty Warriors series and its spinoffs. Samurai Warriors was my jam back in the day, and I even played a bit of the Gundam one. I never did play the one set in the Hundred Years War, though, which is a shame because I quite like that period of European history.…

Ha! The Digest is back, Samantha Nelson makes her inaugural appearance, Drew grew his stache back out and is doing that hobo chic thing he always pulls off so well, we're all making snide comments about AJA's famously horrible jacket- oh man, all my Christmases have come at once!

This makes me more sad than I know how to express.

Yeah, that's another point I was going to make: these days it's easier than ever for a small group of talented people to make a game that is a truly polished experience. Even if the juggernauts come crashing down end-of-Fight-Club style, there are so many little studios and individuals whose games have no reliance on…

There's something about a monster with a head like a penis with two sets of teeth at the end that really takes the wind out of a good blowjob.

Scott MacDonald, you live in Toronto? We should hang out! We could collaborate on getting the AV Club's Toronto office back open! Then you guys could give me a job, and I could afford to eat something other than cat food!

Oooh, I like the idea of revisiting the systems a year after launch. Right now the Bone and the PS4 are both sort of like ninth graders- new on the scene and attempting to project an aura of self-sure confidence despite being terrified and immature inside. Over the next year they'll surely cave to peer pressure,…

"Xbox, play Also Sprach Zarathustra."

Working conditions, development costs, and the grotesque marriage of gaming to corporate shilling and hype machines are probably heading for some kind of reckoning, but I don't know if a full on Apocalyptic self-destruction is likely to happen again. After all, two games in particular had a massive effect on getting…