It didn't bother so much in Mass Effect, I just chalked it up to it being a military thing.

Or have rogues lie about being able to pick locks and that will make them useful, except they can't actually pick locks. I'm looking at you, Zevran.

Despite how lovely it looks in general, there is still one area where the game looks dated: Cutscene animations. Characters still stand stiffly when talking, and while the lip-synching technology BioWare is using is unnervingly good—how did they sync up such an ungodly amount of dialogue? Is it procedural? I don't…

I hope I have the chance to create another Blood Mage, which no one will remark upon despite the fact it's supposed to be the most heinous crime imaginable.

I'd sure like to see it on Vita. But I'll settle for remote play for now.

This is a great game that I would recommend to fans of strategy games and fans of good stories. It really felt like a fun "choose your own adventure" book with great art, that looked very old school Disney (you know, when it was still done by hand), and challenging gameplay. I got it from a Steam sale, but it would…

The Banner Saga is worth a look, especially if you are a strategy fan. What really stands out about the game, to me, is the fantastic art direction. It's reminiscent of Don Bluth or older Disney animated films. The whole game is good, but the art style is magic.

Gorgeously animated strategy game The Banner Saga will be coming to PS4 next year, along with even more small-team-developed games.

The New York Times is the worst. I love it when Columbia loses.

QUOTE | "I certainly wouldn't characterize the community of fans I know and had the pleasure to engage with as toxic or misogynistic." - Michael Condrey, director of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, talking about his experience with offensiveness and abuse in the game community.

I don't know... Maybe she chose to stay behind with family. There is not enough details to crucify him in that specific decision.

I wouldn't say it warrants piracy, but there are other issues, such as requiring a constant internet connection (even the slightest hiccups close the game), being clumsy as a program, requiring it to be open as a window instead of simply as an invisible process, and interference with software causing technical…

In other news, Far Cry 4 is now available for pre-loading on the Xbox One.

Or you could just stand by your convictions and not play them.

It's called "the 10" here.

So true. How fucking many drops were there last night. Christ.

And Eli has had it with his receivers not catching any balls.

Showing my age here. I went to college at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and The Halloween Blizzard of 1991 was epic. Bare ground to 39 inches of snow in one night. Since UMD was (and perhaps still is) a dry campus, everyone fled to off-campus party houses. Aaand because of the totally impassable streets, no…

just yesterday (yah, 2 good days aftr the halloween) at around 7pm i saw this girl in a pink tule miniskirt & a tshirt with a unicorn stuffy attached to it - kinda like bursting out of her, buying over the counter morning aftr pill (i recognized the packaging) at my neighbourhood drugstore ....