While the martial arts quest is indeed fairly boring, I can never pass up the opportunity to train with The Dragon. Having my character stand behind The Dragon in the fighting ring, idly fiddling with her gauss rifle while he throws a couple of punches into the air is a very charming (albeit somewhat lame) attempt at…

I honestly believe that employing a tactic such as this is what should trigger the "This Is Dark Souls" trophy/achievement. Good luck!

Pressing select in the stats screen (this applies to weapon and inventory screen as well!) allows you to move around and read short descriptions of what each of the icons represent and what that stat actually does.

I failed miserably at waiting for the PC release of Dark Souls II by downloading it from the PSN last Friday at 11 p.m. (oops!) and have yet to regret it.
I really, really, like the boss fights in this game (or at least the ten that I've encountered so far), and the run to fog gates is so much less stressful since you…

There will always be a very special place in my heart (in the dark, angry part) reserved specifically for the charms menu.

Still playing Banished. I'm on my fourth (maybe fifth) attempt and I think I finally have a pretty decent grasp on how to run my little brown-haired anarcho-collectivists. I like it.

I picked up Banished a few days ago because it looked pretty. I doubt that it will have crazy civ-level replayability but so far I'm enjoying it quite a bit. And yes, it is very pretty.

Regarding the link: this is, conceptually, the greatest use of the pause menu that I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing!

This was actually one of my favorite games as a kid (probably not so much because it was a great game, but because it was one of the handful of random titles available for rent at the nearest video store).

When we do play together my husband and I tend to prefer the controller-passing method to either co-oping or versus-ing, unless a game is relatively short (like Dishonored) in which case one person will play through while the other one cheerleads. And then vise versa.
This weekend we're wrapping up our first Dark Souls…