My fiancée and I had a board game day with friends planned this weekend, but most of our guests cancelled for… understandable reasons, as we all need some time alone with our feelings right now.

Oh yes, chains and combos are essential. When you're about to match three blocks, stop and look in the rows and columns just around it to see if you can quickly set it up as a combo of four, five, or more blocks. See if you can make the final two blocks you switch both create a match, like having a stack of orange and…

Agreed. I was excited to see the other four game modes open up after I cleared one story-driven tournament, but the lack of a puzzle mode was kind of a bummer (though not nearly as much as the lack of a book-style option with touch controls. It always felt like cheating in Planet Puzzle League but now it just feels…

I broke out my wave 1 cards for the first time in ages last night as I finally dug into Desert Island Escape. Unfortunately, I totally forgot who my dream team was in the Wii U game, so I just blindly put together a team I knew would have varying skills (Fauna was great at exploring without setting off traps, Gigi was…

It'll be hard to do when the Republicans have command of all three branches of government.

I've already written a letter to my local cable provider to kindly request that they add the Fusion network.

Glob bless the Wii U for allowing me to play Mario Kart on the gamepad screen while CNN is on the TV.

Can we talk for a second about how wonderful and on-brand it is that MEOW is an acronym for Mutual Exchange Of Wealth? Man, I love Animal Crossing!

I'm curious to see if items bought with MEOW coupons can be given as gifts to other players when visiting their towns. My finacée plays with a downloaded copy of New Leaf on my old 3DS XL (Link Between Worlds edition) and she vehemently does not want an amiibo reader but is also giving the game another go thanks to…

I, too, am hooked back on the Animal Crossing wagon… er… RV. I quickly secured both the Wii U and New 3DS items from my K.K. Slider amiibo and got right to work on Animal Crossing Puzzle League, a slightly cuddlier version of one of my favorite puzzle franchises. I imagine this weekend will see a few games of Animal…

I've been listening to this album almost exclusively for the past week and I like it a lot, but not half as much as their self-titled. The title track, "Love Is A Disease," and "Gangs" are the only ones I've found myself singing long after the music has stopped. This is definitely a more mature package, with…

Haven't watched this episode yet (my fiancée and I get caught up on most of our shows over the weekend) but I'm excited at the prospect of this show getting regular coverage. Hands down the most engaging pilot I've seen in years, and the following four episodes were all surprisingly endearing. Like other commenters, I…

Heck yeah, one-off holiday specials are a blast! Last December, we played a one-off where we flashed back to a solstice festival in the village we had saved earlier in the year, we were all resting there between quests when suddenly a "Winter Daddy" (an angry-looking Santa Claus miniature from a zombie-themed board…

This weekend is our Dungeons & Dragons campaign's annual Halloween sleepover, or as we call it, D&DB&B. Our last session ended with the eight of us being split into two teams for a game of capture the flag that we are casually referring to as "Captain America: Civil War But With Wizards And Junk," but one of those two…

I'm with you on the 999 ending. That last puzzle felt like eating a comforting bowl of soup after having to prepare a five course dinner through the majority of the game's puzzles. Mostly I was just in awe of the way it used the DS hardware, after ignoring it for so much of the game, that one little mechanical twist…

I've been a Google Music subscriber since the get-go, and I'm locked in at the $3-less-per-month from when they initially launched. Generally I like it a lot, but it is definitely underdeveloped compared to the competition. I like their algorithmic radio stations much more than Spotify or Apple Music, but the absence…

I still tear up a little when I think about the Valentine's Day episode where Nanny forgets Rowlf's cookie and everyone thinks she doesn't love him. This song at the end was too good for a syndicated kid's cartoon.

We're saying, though, that there are noticeable differences between what's shown in the trailer and what is currently commercially available. There's no way that the Mario Kart and Splatoon in the trailer are Wii U games played with backwards compatability, unless there are new Wii U games coming out that we don't…

The continuing absence of Jackbox games on the Wii U is a constant disappointment for me whenever I have company over (it's so awkward booting up the PS4 in front of guests like "wait, wait, trust me, I'm being social!" At least with the Wii U you can start the games covertly on the gamepad before turning on the TV).…

Agreed, Nintendo have always been top-notch when it comes to ergonomics. Everyone said the Gamecube controller looked insane until they actually played with it and felt how perfectly shaped to the hand it was. The only non-Nintendo controller I've enjoyed holding in my hands as much in recent years was the Ouya's, and…