I wonder if it’s a Georgia thing, or even a Metro-Atlanta thing, that Popeye’s isn’t really better than KFC. Church’s is definitely worse, but maybe all the Church’s in this area are a strange anomaly. KFC was the only one of these brands I was aware of before coming to the United States, so it was the “default”…

Impressive, sure, but does it have Adeline Software’s Little Big Adventure?

And on top of that, it’s a terrible name for a bundle!

Ah, that is an issue and remains one. Both the ground and sea components of the Self Defense Forces (Japan’s constitutional military, effectively the country’s postwar army and navy) use the rising sun flag, or a close variation (I don’t know if the Self Defense Forces, as a whole, have any flag). This isn’t too…

A Switch release is unlikely. BUT it’ll almost certainly come to the Xbox store on Windows 10. Possibly even Steam. 

There’s something to be said about a story starting and ending in one go. Hellblade had issues, but that was not one of them. A double-edged sword: we’d like more of Senua. but....

Really all I can say about the Saturn. 

I’m sure in a few years people will feel the same about coming across the odd load screen here or there, at least if promises about what the PS5 will be able to do are to be believed.

I am an SNK fan (with a deeprooted fanaticism that will probably last until I die), and Bitmap Book’s earlier Neo Geo book did not disappoint. I will definitely be picking this up, even though Metal Slug is not quite my favorite SNK franchise (though I’ve purchased the individual titles more than a dozen times on…

My appraisal is basically the same as when Microsoft announced it: not only is there no quick-swapable battery, there’s not even a clear way to replace the battery when it inevitably dies without prying the casing open and hoping for the best. So, even with its improvements, there’s really no reason to prematurely…

Oh, in that case I’m behind--I was still thinking of the debate over the choice of Terry versus Mai as the cameo fighter themselves. 

I actually assumed it was because fighting style (here, I looked it up: Shiranui-ryuu ninjitsu) wouldn’t translate well to an arena fighter like Smash Brothers. Yes, I’m aware that there’s no way to articulate that without sounding at least a little stupid, but even back in Fatal Fury 2 (her first appearance), Mai’s…

Sounds like something some good ole’ journalism could get to the bottom of.

The fan is dying on mine--it’s very loud and chronically overheats, even just in PS2 games. 

This is pretty hilarious, as my immediately thoughts were wow a hueg spiderman-font PS3! I haven’t seen one of those in a long that that wasn’t sitting underneath my bedroom television. 

Kenji Kamiyama (the director of Stand Alone Complex, Seirei no Moribito, and Eden of the East) said much the same thing, in his inimitably unflappable style: hand-drawn animation, with less computer assistance, was simply becoming less and less of a skill trained for and utilized by subsequent classes of new…

I’m waiting for a multiplatform release. I’d be genuinely surprised if the first episode didn’t come to PC before the second episode was delivered, though after that, who knows? 

Even back on the Xbox 360 and with that generation’s hardware limitations, Sera has always had a very memorable architectural sensibility to it, at least starting with what’s left of Ephyra. The very, very high-end CG videos in the Ultimate Edition very much highlight that combination of neoclassical epic architecture…

Since everyone already beat me to Ripley and the Nostromo, I’m going to suggest someone else.

Thanks for the great article, John! While I doubt it’s the most popular franchise overall, I know KOF still has a audience in Taiwan and is much more secure in the public consciousness then somewhere like the United States for much the same reasons: proliferation of capable, affordable hardware in a country…