Just commenting to say that this was a really interesting and well written article.

Tales of Graces f on the PS3 was one of the best ones I've played in a long time.

I think it's somewhat logical that there weren't women presenters at the conference. As you cited, a few years back many of these companies had a great deal less women working for them. So it's likely that many of these companies had men who have worked for these companies longer than woman, and thus more chances to…

Well, in light of the Colonial Marines Incident, I don't think we can say 100% that you know the game will be good. Every video released for that game looked great, and then it came out and it was nothing like what was shown.

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/606/

Kirk: You can get your cash back from GameStop when you preorder, unless you preordered with store credit to begin with. GameStop employees are sly about it because they get hours based on preorders (no preorders not only means no more hours, but no more chances to prove they can get the preorders), so taking a cancel…

I think instead of saying "I will buy one" I'm going to put the money aside and then... wait. There were a lot of systems I bought day 1 and regretted (Vita being the most recent) and while they mostly get good eventually (3DS), they usually stumble at launch. I'm still waiting on buying the Wii U, and my PC can play…

Tri-Ace? Sold.

I think they're doing fine... but only because they acquired Eidos.

I think that game looks awesome, but man was that trailer poorly paced.

Can we get one of the old bingo setup going again tonight? Bets, anyone?

Myrmidon lets you go Swordmaster or Assassin.

Olivia is one of the best overall characters. You can take her to Pegasus Ride -> Dark Flier then get her Galeforce which lets her attack again if she kills an enemy. Turn her to Swordmaster and she can get Swordfaire and Astra, which give her a huge stat boost and let her attack 5 times in a row. But what really…

If you have no internet, grinding in this game is a nightmare. Very few enemies pop up outside of chapters, and you can buy Reeking Boxes about halfway through the game to summon grind enemies.

Olivia is beyond broken for me. Ignoring the fact that you can do a spotpass map against Moulder, kill everyone but him, then unlimited grind her dancing until she's level 30, she can become a Swordmaster and get Astra, a Dark Flier to get Galeforce, she has crazy amounts of luck and speed, and when you've maxed her…

I think the modders can only take it so far, but they're trying to fix a game that isn't that great to begin with. At the very best, you could call the game "generic", but there are lots of things I don't think they can fix, such as:

Oh man, moving the bubbles around was a real pain in the ass. I haven't touched my Vita in months.

This article seems like it has some great tips. I'm going to leave it at the end of my tab line and come back to read it later.

I think BF4 was more or less announced. They did that little thing where they announced MoH:WF would have the BF4 beta access.

I think there are plenty of people explaining what doesn't work with a lot of these logos. 1, 4, and 5 require you to contort your eyes to find where in it says PS4. The first one looks more like it says PS1 than PS4. 2 and 5 have strange color palate choices that don't keep with the current Sony schema (not really a…