Oh man... Jason, please bear with me here.

My father's name is Edgar. I loved him to death, and he actually passed away last year. He gave me something that I would never ever lose, and that was the courage to be myself. (This has a relevance to your article, so hear me out.)

People have been saying WOW has been dying since before Burning Crusade came out. Cataclysm release, number drop, but..never..did..die...did it you pessimists!

I feel like we've come full circle

I'd say conspiracist, but is it a conspiracy theory if so far everything has turned out to be true?

Here's what I've learned about grief and loss over more than fifty years:

Yup, the ol' GTA chain reaction explosion never gets old. I remember putting an obscene number of cars together in GTA1 and watching the ensuing fireworks, and it's been a tradition for me with each game since then.

Small signs of the growing global depression? Methinks so.

Interstate 76

I wish more games would touch on the effects of colonialism and imperialism on the past and present, particularly that of native tribes. We know slavery was horrible, and we admitted it with war that divided a nation, with rallies that saw injustices perpetrated on our fellow man, with social engineered poverty.…

This is basically how they killed Michael Hastings a few months back. Except they did it wireless. Virtually any modern car can be hijacked, car and driver even showed how easy it is to do.

I remember Ghosts and Goblins, and leaving it paused for hours on end. But that probably doesn't work for portables if you can't have them charged at all times.

Why do some people watch "Swamp People", "Honey Boo-Boo" or that other reality show crap? For vicarious thrills. And that's fundamentally why people play video games.

Not true. I do like my Kinect...well, liked. I broke it when it fell off a shelf. I liked being able to charge my controller and use the Kinect to control Netflix and some of the games were very good. My favorite was Child of Eden. Its an extremely pretty game, confusing as hell, but pretty and intuitive. Also great…

if we can get the lone wolf Sony of 1995, when they printed up napkins that said "PSX welcomes Sega CES!" for a Sega-held CES party, that'd be fantastic, because there is so much ripe material here for them to riff on.