So, I see two-door“smart cars” (which I have just realized is a genericized trademark—’Smart’ being a division of Daimler AG) about twice a month where I live in the southern United States, more often if I drive into metropolitan Atlanta. As such, I didn’t realize Kei cars (or something that looks almost exactly like…

Having played both, I’m another person who prefers the Motorsport part of the franchise to Horizon. It’s not that FH isn’t an excellent series of games—it’s just when you’re 30 hours into them, you realize they more like substantial improvements on every other open-world racing game ever made, rather than the precise,…

I’m pretty sure a less...disingenuous?...way of saying that would be “Chinese purchase of...in violation of U.S. sanctions towards Russia.” And to be fair, sanctions are codified in laws of a sort. But saying “in violation of US law” takes on a very different context for 1) a United States citizen or resident of…

That is overwhelmingly impressive. There’s something in the recesses of my mind that makes me subconsciously uncomfortable around the notion of bodysuits and molded rubber (it doesn’t even need to involve fake breasts, people in elaborately-made dinosaur or monster suits also make me mildly uncomfortable), but as a Kin…

Shockingly, most people in any given population (like a city) are normal because, almost by definition, they define “normal”. Semantics aside, it’s worth remembering that for any hobby tangentially connected to anime (and to a lesser extent video games), watching anime in Japan is metaphorically (and sometimes…

I honestly thought that, by now, Playstation Plus had made the process automatic (as it is on Xbox Live, which set the tone for cloud saving on console). Apparently not. That being said, at least it’s an option—the latest news on the Switch apparently has had Nintendo come out and say that many games, including…

2002 was before I came to the United States, but from what I’ve gathered (and read in The New York Times and other publications, thanks to archives) it was an era of the United States getting certain ideas, being told they were really not good ideas, and immediately being convinced they were awesome ideas. To use the…

Is anyone else disappointed he wasn’t asked about playing Juan Peron opposite Madonna in Evita? Skipping “Hey, how was being one of the good guys in Red Alert 3?” I get, but Evita seems like a really big role!

Yeah, I didn’t learn about it until later as well—there’s even support for Neo Geo arcade games and other games. Speaking of Bare Knuckle, I put all the Sailor Moon SNES games and the Banpresto arcade game (which is basically Bare Knuckle/Final Fight but with Sailor Moon, Mars, etc.) onto mine as well. The only limits…

Thanks to Hakchi CE, you can play Megadrive games on an SNES Mini (and I assume also a NES Mini, but I don’t own one). I also put Japanese versions of Final Fight onto mine as well.

I’m not sure why, but despite loving Bare Knuckle and Final Fight, I could never get into Castle Crashers no matter how many times I got roped into being the red (or blue or green) knight. I don’t hate the games, but there’s something about them that makes it fundamentally less enjoyable to me (maybe the speed, though…

Wow. Wow. Did not see this one coming. On top of loving Bare Knuckle (putting all three onto an SNES Mini was a major justification for buying one), I’m quite keen on the high-fidelity 2D sprite artwork (King of Fighters XIII, Ark System Works’ fighters, etc.). Please bring this to Xbox One and PC (in fact, please…

That’s very sad—Marukochan was a familiar sight of my childhood, even if I didn’t actually watch the show as much as something like Crayon Shinchan). Thank you for bringing joy to us as children. 

I realize that I really don’t know much about Bond films in general, but I can’t help but thing that, for a proper reboot into 3 or more films, Elba is a little too old (though he’s only 45, and younger than I realized—so he’s younger than Roger Moore was for all I know). Assuming that’s the route taken for the next…

I was about to come here to say that. On one hand, these adaptations tend to be kind of bad in Japan, and really bad everywhere else. On the other hand, I’ve been told the French really love City Hunter...more so than Americans love Ghost in the Shell (not helped by the disaster that was the recent film).

I still have a copy of this, sitting woefully incomplete, for use with my old PS3 (before they stripped out the PS2 backwards compatibility...sigh). Like most people, I got caught up with more modern titles, and combined with my PS3's increasingly inadequate fan (something that claimed one of my multiple dead Playstati…

I think God took brief favor on me for my life’s long misfortunes by letting me get through multiple games each evening during the original launch of the game, much less the following weeks. Sure, I got dropped occasionally, and certain playlists were dead empty, but I got to play online with other people. Bow before…

That’s a fair opinion, though I’m on the opposite line—I found Total Warhammer (I can’t help but call it that) a fun distraction, with some nifty features that I’d like to potentially see in other titles, but it’s not close to a replacement for Shogun 2 (on the other hand, a lot of people point to that as the…

It’s very clearly from the same people who made Tatami Galaxy (honestly, I thought it was Tatami Galaxy), that alone piques my interest.

I have to admit, I also think the bird is going to die.