> Delete actual bed (mattress, frame, bedsheets) while two Sims are engaged in engaged in intercourse.
> Sims suspended in mid-air looking horrifying.

Sounds about right to me.

Really? I wasn’t aware of that—the problem was that Sony always reported as “units shipped” rather than “units sold”, as Nintendo and Microsoft did at the time, which caused confusion. Microsoft and Nintendo argued these were different terms, Sony that they were identical (until the launch of the PS4, when they…

You’re right! “A lot less common than ___” would be a better description. I’m still one of the only people I know with an 80 GB model.

No problem, anything for a fellow Urusei Yatsura fan.

Just pop the disc in, it works as a physical license (if you haven’t figured that out already). Remember to upload your Xbox 360 saves to cloud storage if you want to keep them.

Lots of Valkyrie players loved “No Touching,” a sassy depiction of a brutal lady who took no shit. Fuck with me and you die, is what it seemed to say.

Obviously it’s reflective of the United States audience, but when the game launched, PS3s were still rather rare—I suspect most people who played the game in English played it on Xbox 360.

So, fun fact: Catherine launched on the same time on Xbox 360. That’s not a big deal (to be honest, nothing about Catherine probably qualifies as a big deal, and I say this as the only person I know who completed the game on hard and tried to get other people to play it) except for the fact that is a backwards…

The vents are probably the least of your problems (you can clean them out with an index card). And there were much worse controllers.

I know about the Dendy principally thanks to its status as a rebranded version of the Micro Genius Famicom clones that were sold in Taiwan, in lieu of actual Nintendo Famicoms (I don’t think actual Nintendo-sold hardware took off until the Super Famicom, and even then diskette-based game sales were prolific), for…

Eh, the manga’s very good (first one anyway), and the Oshii film has its moments (and was very influential). But yes, Stand Alone Complex (and its film) are better.

Eh, the manga’s very good (first one anyway), and the Oshii film has its moments (and was very influential). But…

The title graphic is from Stand Alone Complex, the first of two seasons of the Ghost in the Shell television series, rather than the 1990s film that proceeded it by ten years. It’s probably fine, I’d say Stand Alone Complex is better than the Oshii film, much less Dreamworks’ attempt.

The title graphic is from Stand Alone Complex, the first of two seasons of the Ghost in the Shell television series,…

Yeah, but then you have to play with....a Dualshock 3. :)

Here’s hoping Ninja Gaiden Sigma works one day. The sequel isn’t such a trainwreck in emulation, but still runs veyr slowly.

A strong list (though I’d argue that, if you were getting into Il-2, you really wouldn’t want to start with the original title...you’d be a lot better off with Il-2: 1946, the speculative postwar aircraft aside, and even that would be fairly dated). Other good additions might include some of the Janes’ titles, though…

I think that’s a fair point. I was born a male child in the twilight years of a capitalist dictatorship in Asia (guess which one! haha), ergo I have a certain experience with a culture of violence, and a decried one at that, that the majority of Americans would not I’d wager (I also conscripted into that country’s…

I see your point, but I would add—as sexual fan service is everywhere in anime, so too is violence everywhere in video games. Twenty years ago, we brag about getting the version of Mortal Kombat where blood gushes out instead of grey sweat, as a point of pride (I think I would at the time), we’re chuckle at…

Being, well, Asian, I confess don’t go to White Thanksgiving either. This year my mother is visiting the Old Country and I’ll be sitting in my apartment on Thursday, possibly alone, possibly watching the last episode of Xam’d of the Lost Memories with some friends. That is unclear. That aside, this was an informative…

Shocking development: video game audiences have mixed feelings about gratuitous violence. “Maybe we really don’t need to see their intestines tumbling out. Or maybe just not their colons, can we draw a line at colons?”

That’s a fair opinion. I didn’t care for it, and when I redbox’d the game, I learned rather ironically: