Transformed is so good! The console versions are plagued by bad framerates though (I have the Wii U version). If they could've nailed 60fps like Mario Kart 8, it'd be perfect. Are you playing on PC? I bet it kicks ass.

Finished Alan Wake and started the first DLC, The Signal. Also picked up a back compat copy of Dark Souls and will give it a whirl. And after the announcement of the new one at E3, I fired up God of War 3 Remastered for the first time after picking it up for like $12 last Christmas. Viva la last gen!

Yeah, when I was dying repeatedly in SotFS by getting hit by bombs thrown by enemies offscreen that I couldn't even see, that's when I said "F this."

Hmmm, I'm the kind of player that usually skips reading the documents/collectibles in most games, so I'm not sure if that sounds appealing at all.

I guess a better phrased question would be is the PS4 Scholar of the First Sin that much harder than vanilla DSII? And are all the Souls games harder than Bloodborne? I had a blast with Bloodborne, but DSII: SotFS was just simply no fun.

Though I'm probably not their typical fan, I really, really like Volbeat. They're a perfect storm of the music genres I love—pop punk, metal, rockabilly and a little blues, along with that goofy Scandinavian dude-singing-in-English thing I love (see also: Turbonegro). And they covered both Teenage Bottlerocket and…

I played it a little while last night and thought I was playing a rummage-through-my-high-school-girlfriend's-bedroom-simulator. Is there any action or is it just reading notes and journals to piece together a mystery?

Where does Dark Soul III sit in the ranking of hardest Souls games? I thought Bloodborne was tough but I powered through it, whereas I just got frustrated and bored with DSII: Scholar of the First Sin and gave up. I never played vanilla DSII so I don't know how it compared.

Yes, a digital copy you can play on Xbox One came free with the purchase of Quantum Break (which is Alan Wake developer Remedy's latest title). Apparently Remedy has two unannounced titles in development, but they have said neither is Alan Wake 2 unfortunately.

To me, Kojima is like the Radiohead of video games.

I'm not sure what I think about the new God of War. On one hand it looked gorgeous and the Norse setting is intriguing. On the other hand, I'm not terribly fond of games with an AI companion, and this looks like GoW mashed up with The Last of Us. I've been a huge fan of GoW because it is what it is—a bombastic, over…

I wish I was playing any Playstation VR game so I could decide whether or not I want to start saving up for the damn thing. Apparently they're starting demos at Best Buys and Gamestops, but none near me yet. My wife recently got a new phone that came with a free Samsung Gear VR, and some of the games/apps are pretty…

It's still $60 on console, isn't it?

I dug the beta, but games like Overwatch are the reason I've stopped buying games at launch this year (with the notable exception of UC4). In a couple months we'll be able to pick it up for $40, with months of patches, fixes, tweaks and added modes/characters.

I'm partying like it's the early 2010s, alternating between Alan Wake and Doom 3: BFG Edition thanks to the sorcery of Xbox One backward compatibility.

Can't say I've ever been there, but I did visit Salt Lake City once and it weirded me out because it was so clean it seemed like they just built it yesterday. I've lived most of my life in the durrrrty south. Everywhere I've ever been has been under construction.

Also just as unlikely is the "pristine police state futureworld" like I've just seen playing the EA Access demo of Mirror's Edge Catalyst.

Is Alan Wake's American Nightmare worth playing too?

AHA! So that must be how I finally won a round.

Can't have your pron tarnishing "the cloud"