You really don't. Anything essential is filled in during the opening. No need to know anything about the characters or events from the previous games, though there is a pre-order bonus (and likely paid DLC later on) set of missions that explores the events immediately following the end of the second game. Second Son…

That reminds me, did anyone ever post a pdf of the Wonderbook online? From what I saw it was basically just QR codes in a board book. I had a pdf of the 3DS AR cards on my phone before even picking up my 3DS on launch day.

Saying Batman: The Animated Series/The New Batman Adventures was a good cartoon is like saying the first few years of The Simpsons were kinda funny. I assume everyone on The AV Club knows better. That said, you might want to look up the Young Justice series. It only ran for two seasons before Cartoon Network…

I think of Brave and the Bold as being fairly middle-of-the-road for DC's stuff. Heavy on style, light on urgency, it was a fun watch but never something to set on your DVR, a lot like the current run of Teen Titans Go! which owes its entire continued existence to the fabulous art direction of Dan Hipp. Brave and the…

We're going to have to agree to disagree on the entertainment value of that particular cartoon.

Don't forget the Batman Beyond epilogue in Justice League Unlimited, which features a particularly messed-up origin story for Terry McGinnis and downright creepy retirement story for Bruce Wayne.

That's long been the case with with Marvel and DC. Even the best Marvel animated series (Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and Wolverine and the X-Men) can't hold a candle to the confidence and charm of DC's Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, and Young Justice (which was from the same…

Come on, dude, the game doesn't actually "force" a tutorial, you can go straight to multiplayer, career, or quickplay mode without entering the tutorial at all, you'll just be awful at the game. I'll give you that the SSX Blur tutorial is a slow slog of menus that don't actually help you learn all that much, the best…

Not so much an awful tutorial as a poorly-considered one that ruined the game for me, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage. I'd gotten my way up to the final area of the game when I decided to open up a second save file, hand it off to my little sister and see how she felt about it. She was 22 and…

Knowledge is power, for real.

CONTINUED DARKNESS
more darkness, get it?
THE OPPOSITE OF LIGHT

An intense amount of planning goes into setting up that elaborate ruse. We photograph the set at the end of the day to ensure we can match the lighting and arrangement perfectly, immediately change into a fresh set of clothes at the end of the shoot so that our previous day's attire is in the exact same condition for…

Spent the past month or so going back over their 13 & God sideproject with Themselves in preparation for this new album, trying to track their continued experimentations into minimal electronic compositions. I hope they keep up the pattern and do a third 13 & God album after this LP.

For real, that 8-1 jump at the 4:00 mark is one of the greatest achievements in modern history. NotEntirelySure has my undying respect and admiration.

Paul Rudd, dressed as Link. You're welcome, internet.

Note to self: Inventory of games that are TOTES KAWAII

Or you could check out Botanicula, the most recent game from the same designer. Very similar visual style, only with tiny tree creatures instead of robots. It's available on Steam and Humble.

Most of the problems with the PS3 version were fixed with an update that allowed players to install large portions of the data to the HDD. At launch, the PS3 version of Bayonetta suffered devastating load times with remarkable frequency (as in every time you picked up an item). Now it's completely playable, provided…

If you're curious, there are Gameological reviews for five of those six games: Dust: An Elysian Tail / Guacamelee! / Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine / Antichamber / The Swapper

Just wait 'til you see the bigger numbers.