I got Bastion for Mac in HiB V, which ran in June 2012, and according to Wikipedia the iPad version came out in August, so it was pretty close. Nowhere near the amount of time between PC and Mac releases though. Maybe this time around the distance between ports will be closed a little.

I am going wild with anticipation. Christ I hope this gets a Mac release soon. I think it took Bastion the longest part of a year to get a Mac version, and I don't know if I can wait that long. I might have to resort to emergency measures to tide myself over, like replaying Bastion through tears every day until…

Just one of the many advantages of living near an accident black spot.

Hello again one and all and welcome back to the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Drama Recap. I can't apologize enough for my unprecedented two week absence, but I'll try anyway: sorry all! Sometimes real life things get in the way. Anyway, surely this week's story will be worth the fortnight's wait, right! Ehn, sort of.…

Yeah, I'm really obsessive about talking to every NPC whenever all their dialogue updates. In P4 you need to be even more dilligent about it, since your sidequests come from the various townsfolk rather than from a centralized quest dispatcher like in P3. It means twice a month or so you have to rub yourself up…

I don't think I've even met an Ai Ebihara yet. I've actually been doing my S-Links really differently this time around- in P3 I tried to start as many as possible and keep all my plates spinning through the whole game, this time I'm going for depth rather than breadth, and trying to power level individual S-Links…

Nanako is the sweetest lil' sis in the whole world, and I have an actual real life little sister.

My very first playthrough of P3 took me about 100 hours, and I'm usually pretty good at the whole JRPG thing. You could probably do it faster if you were more efficient about it, but I tend to do these things pretty leisurely. I'm about 55 hours deep into P4 and it shows no signs of stopping. Yeah, they're pretty time…

Another week, another Persona 4 Party Thread. Spoilers up to about 09/24 in-game in this comment.

Yeah, Love and Terror on &c., &c., &c. was originally a book by Poe Ballantine which was half memoir, half true crime story. The author was acquaintances with the victim, so he used the tragedy of the case as a framing device for a story about his own life. The filmmaker who covered the story ended up using the book…

I'm glad my human interest angle has piqued the curiosity of the AV Club at large, but you'll be sad to hear we're still just pals. Also, I think she has a boyfriend. Also, I think she fell asleep halfway through the film and I didn't have the heart to wake her.

I saw Love and Terror on the Howling Planes of Nowhere earlier in the week, which was half excellent and half sort of dull. It split its attention between a really fascinating missing persons case concerning a genius level mathematician who vanished for three months before turning up immolated and a biography of the…

I think Amarant is probably my most underused FFIX character, every time I start it up I promise myself I'm going to use him no matter what (and the game is easy enough and I'm familiar enough with it that I could probably beat the game using just about any party) but I always end up ditching him for Freya or Quina.…

Zidane is my favourite character in the game and possibly the entire franchise, so I would probably bring him everywhere even if I had the option to leave him behind. It would be interesting if IX had more of a VI thing going on, though, where after all the narrative heavy lifting is done the game becomes much more…

I saw this at Hot Docs last week, and it was pretty all right I guess. Mostly I went to see it because a friend of mine who I have a massive crush on asked me to see it with her and I was too much of a spineless nerd to tell her I wanted to see Slums: Cities of Tomorrow instead. At least it meant I got to catch Beyond…

The actual process of getting Excalibur II is really interesting to read about (well, in the same way that tort reform or meteorology is interesting, which is to say, interesting to pencilnecks like me but not normal people.) Speedrunning a 60 hour narrative driven JRPG is a very different beast to speedrunning a…

I had the exact same problem a while back, but after opening my system and pushing some component slightly with a Q-tip my Dreamcast is as good as new now. Try something like this out (pushing those six pins into place completely solved the problem for me, but remember to be delicate.) Worst case scenario is that your…

I used to have an absurdly efficient 20-minute speedrun video of Sonic 2 on my phone, so that in case of emergencies I could bascially watch the entire game in less time than it takes to watch an episode of Seinfeld. It involved a lot of really clever abuse of the spin dash and probably a total memorization of the…

(This week's review was supposed to be Scaredy Cat, but real life got in the way, so it'll go up next week. I've got quite a lead on you now! I think the next story in the pipe after Chimes of Midnight is Seasons of Fear, which is probably my #1 favourite story so far, so enjoy that when you get around to it!)

That was another thing I noticed that differentiated Oliver from Stewart or Colbert. Those latter two are comedy powerhouses and I don't really have anything bad to say about them, but having to air so many episodes per week on such a tight schedule means they sometimes have to milk jokes to get an episode all the way…