“featuring the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme sung by Faith No More’s Mike Patton.”

Some of it is certainly on Nintendo (the Smash scene is hardly the only example of Nintendo being weird and out-of-step with the rest of the video gaming space and they have a 30+ year history of being consumer hostile).

And nothing of value was lost.

Cheeky response but if you’re going to read off people’s resumes, you might also include that Kitase was the producer of the embarrassingly awful (and full of melodramatic time-travel nonsense) Final Fantasy XIII series and Nomura has spent the last 20 years turning Disney properties into hilariously convoluted,…

“Took a beating and then gets bailed out by his defense and fluky plays” should be the first sentence on Eli Manning’s Hall of Fame plaque.

Prepare to have to import the “Asia” version. Squeenix is generally shit about giving Japanese dialog options in US releases.

Epic is a big deal because a) it’s walling off games other than the ones they publish that previously would’ve come to Steam by paying off developers/publishers and b) China. While some of the China stuff definitely has a “red scare” vibe to it, there is no denying that Tencent (WeChat) and other Chinese corporations a…

As someone who’s lived in NC for the last dozen years, Colbert is 100% right. The vinegar-based BBQ (there’s a couple of other styles in NC that are significantly better) is awful. Friends have dragged me to all of the “best” spots (“you just haven’t had it at a legit place yet”) and it’s always terrible. The acidity…

I would assume it’s because those games have very little in the way of mechanics and are entirely about experiencing the story and impressive technical features. On top of that, most folks seem to feel that the storytelling and handling of delicate subject matter in the game is about as subtle as a baseball bat to the…

The only traditional fighting games that have a similar number of people playing them competitively as Melee are modern games (SF5, Tekken 7, Dragon Ball Fighterz and the ArcSys games in Japan).

Smash players prove once again why they’re persona non grata in the FGC.

Gamblers who can’t wait to continue betting against Gruden.

I mean it’s funny.... and I generally expect the Skins to do the dumbest possible thing in any given situation (especially when it comes to trading for/signing washed players). However, the Skins play them twice a year. Pretty sure they’ve seen Eli play recently and even they’re not THAT stupid.

There’s a certain strain of thought that I see in some parts of the online retro gaming scene that says it’s somehow morally wrong to buy a game for a dollar at a thrift store and sell it for $100 on eBay. It is not. If you’d rather trade it to another collector, go for it. If you’d rather sell it to a friend at a big…

I’m thinking Kevin Spacey’s book is pretty clear for the next 5-10 years.

Congratulations on giving the richest contract ever to a quarterback that even Dan Snyder wouldn’t overpay. You know, Dan Snyder: the living manifestation of evil who has given hilariously large/long contracts to Albert Haynesworth, DeAngelo Hall, Jeff George, Mark Brunell, a washed Donovan McNabb, a washed Deion…

While I’m disappointed that James Gunn was fired and thoroughly enjoyed both of the Guardians movies, I’m incredibly grateful that he’s now able to go back to doing something other than comic book movies. We need someone like him working on something more interesting than “Marvel Movie #23 starring likeable cast,…

Well-written and agreed wholeheartedly.

I’m not a big Nintendo guy but they kind of are who they are at this point. For the last 15+ years, they’ve just done their own thing and acted as though the rest of the video game industry just doesn’t exist. They make great video games in about five different franchises (Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Smash Bros, and…