Skulls & Roses has been on my radar for a while now, so thanks for the reminder. I'll have to remember to bring a Sharpee out with me this weekend and try to gather enough cardboard coasters for a round.

I'm curious to hear what you think about Card Wars. Both of the special starter kits are on display at my nearest game shop (I believe it's Finn vs Jake and BMO vs. Lady Rainicorn?) but I'm very cautious. The best part of the game in the cartoon was the hologram-projecting playmat, which I'm fairly certain is not a…

Yeah, that last level of Flower is one of the single most uplifting experiences in modern gaming I can recall. Especially after how dark and unsettling the areas immediately preceding it were, that last area made me feel positively charged with life.

Behind the AV Club commenting trends? Woah there, Hitler.

I always took it more as a dig on the rising trend of first-person shooters (there's a particularly great fourth-wall breaking moment where Dot asks what kind of disgusting creep gets pleasure out of shooting other people and then both Dot and Enzo stare directly at the camera with a disappointed glare). Up until that…

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It can run most Vita games, as in the ones that don't require touch-controls, cameras, or microphone, since you'll be using a DualShock 3 instead of an actual Vita. I feel like the puzzles in Virtue's Last Reward were largely reliant on the touch screen, but it may just be that I never tried the buttons. Regardless,…

The irony there, of course, is that the Hulk is a mutated human while Wonder Woman is from a race of Amazons, an ambiguous class somewhere between human and god. Also, video games, so whatever.

If you're talking about how the karts now work underwater and have gliders to float in the air, Mario Kart 7 on the 3DS did that a whole year before Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed came out, but yes, Transformed is a pretty great kart racer.

1. If we only counted storylines that satisfied the majority of the audience, all we'd have is The Dark Phoenix Saga and Age of Apocalypse, as everything else could be called controversial at best. Mr. S was communicating with the Phoenix Force, which took on the form of Jean Grey.
2. As long as you don't call them…

I mention in the fourth paragraph that there are thousands of realities in the Marvel multiverse and in the sixth that these are just a few of the more predominant ones. Remarkably few of Excalibur's adventures had any significant impact on core X-Men continuity.

Ooh, I like this game, let's play this game.

That was probably my favorite part of House of M, that Spider-Man married Gwen Stacy, had a family, and was generally loved by the public, and when he got his "real" memories back and everybody was set to "fix" the timeline, he was like "do we have to? I like it this way." After everything was back to normal, but the…

Yes, but not cool.

Yup, and she was drastically different too. Short hair and very meek, while AoA Blink was expressive with dynamic spears of hair. I very much got the vibe that Lobdell and Madureira designed this super-cool character for AoA and felt the need to establish (and quickly kill) her in 616 immediately beforehand to justify…

I don't think any of these timelines really stopped existing (AoA came closest, but then was retconned), just that the main timeline was corrected. Forever Yesterday continued to exist even after the X-Men stopped Onslaught and there were a few stories that revisited Days of Future Past, and we have them to thank for…

It's up there, right between "Age of Apocalypse" and "Here Comes Tomorrow".

By adoption. Cable raised her, her biological parents are deceased and unidentified.

AoA is probably my all-time favorite comic book story, but it's only really all that affective if you're already familiar enough with the existing X-Men characters to care when something happens to them that would be unimaginable under normal circumstances. Being a big fan of Lobdell and Bachelo's Generation X at the…

I've up-voted three versions of this story now and I don't regret a single click. I would (and might) do it all over again.