Nonstop salivating over No Man's Sky, residual excitement about New Horizons, and a furiously enthusiastic recommendation from a friend has got me wondering if I should pick up and play FTL for the first time. I'm still in a real hard sci-fi/space travel groove- I've been rewatching some of my favourite 70's sci fi…

Every now and again I go through a serious "astronomy is super cool" phase, binge watch astronomical documentaries, pore over Wikipedia articles that I patently do not understand, and pester my astrophysicist friend with inane Astrophysics 101 questions that he's nice and patient enough to answer for me. Usually when…

See, this all sounds amazing. Because I've been playing so much Witcher 3 on the highest difficulty, where battles can be won or lost before they've even begun depending on how well you prepare for them, I've developed a serious taste for games that reward knowledge, foresight, planning, and preparation. The idea of…

I've been watching a lot of Elite: Dangerous videos on Youtube as a sort of pre-methadone to the eventual heroin that will be No Man's Sky, and while at first I found its uber simulationist approach kind of dull seeming, the more I watch of it the more interested I am. I've been watching a sort of meandering Let's…

Eight spent 600 years on Orbis alone in the Big Finish stories, although they built a "not necessarily in Earth years" Get Out Of Continuity Free Card right into the plot there. Big Finish's Eighth Doctor stories are at least semi-canonical as of Night Of The Doctor, but the math there doesn't really add up, as Nine…

When this game finally comes out I'm leaving this dump of a planet and going to space forever, so long suckers, nice knowing you, I'm rededicating my life 100% to No Man's Sky, tell my family I love them.

Like most people have already said (and now me too!) this is a pretty popular opinion, and one that I hold as well. Asylum was built from nothing, so it had the benefit of being really tightly designed, its every element existing in a clever balance with everything else. Its sequels, while by no means "bad," have all…

Its so weird to me that people plan Bioware game replays based on what class they want to play and not who they want to romance. My first playthrough was my Sera playthrough, then came my Dorian playthrough, next I'm gonna do a Josephine run. I mean, yeah, I'm also gonna be playing a Mage for the first time, and I…

Something Dragon Age does especially well is "incomparable choices" rather than moral choices. So, instead of "kill the evil wizard or team up with him and be evil too," it offers choices like "side with the Mages or the Templars," "make Cole more human or more like a spirit," "save the Qunari or save the Chargers,"…

Bioware's character focus and CDPR's story focus really is the heart of the issue here, I think. When we talk about "moral choices" in games, or even just choice generally, we often fail to recognize that games can employ choice for wildly different reasons and to different effects. For Bioware (and Telltale), choice…

When it comes to equipment I've found the best strategy is to pick whichever set of witcher gear is your favourite (Cat gear is light, Griffin gear is mid-weight, Bear gear is heavy) and commit yourself to getting those diagrams and wearing that stuff all the time. The locations of the witcher gear diagrams are…

As an art history major, I always made sure to purchase Leonardo's version of Leda and the Swan. If only Ezio had kept it somewhere safe, it might not be lost today!

I've been playing a lot of The Witcher 3 for the past several weeks, and whenever I find a merchant selling alchemy formulas I get a little jolt of adrenaline. Potions, bombs, decoctions, and oils are all hugely important to the combat, especially on the highest difficulty, but they're also rare and valuable. In the…

I know some of my homies here have been playing Suikoden II recently, so in case any of y'all missed it, Suikoden III recently hit PSN with little or no fanfare. Suikoden III is no Suikoden II, but it's a damned fine title that takes the series to some really interesting and unusual places. Just, y'know, a public…

Fun though.

Like many others, I'm playing The Witcher 3 right now and would die in 0.05 seconds if I attempted to do any of the crap Geralt does in that game. I probably wouldn't even make it to a monster encounter, I might just get terminal saddle sores from all the horseback riding.

Gameological E3 livechats are going ahead again this year, we're in the process of sorting them out now.

There's a great puzzle in Silent Hill 2's hospital level that requires you to drag yourself across the entire building finding keys and codes to open the three locks keeping a box shut, and when you finally manage to get it open all that's inside is a single strand of hair. You do actually need the hair to get a…

Okay I'm glad you've seen the end of the Bloody Baron plot because like what the hell. I mean I get that part of the badness of the bad ending there is that without the Baron, Velen begins to slide into anarchy, but like am I really supposed to let a half dozen children I played Hide and Seek with get eaten? That's…

I am extremely envious that ComradePig made that Alexei Savrasov comparison because it's absolutely perfect.