When a new game comes out, the main review I want to read is Kotaku’s. Is there any chance you could do a REVIEW FORTHCOMING mini post for games you intend to review so that I don’t hold out hope for every single game thinking “yeah I like this game therefore all the cool gals and guys at Kotaku must too. Right?…

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This is a great comment and something I hadn’t really thought about. As much as the Genesis was in many people’s homes, it only created the sort of competitive devotion that maybe the Xbox 360 did: great fun console, lots of great games, but not really cementing Microsoft in the hearts of its players.

I agree, I think a lot of my appreciation of the game has come from approaching it like a magazine subscription: I have something new to look forward to nearly every month. It takes away any impulse to have to binge the game (which can lead to getting sick of it) and keeps the focus on cycling through the great…

Fingers crossed for DQ 8 release date

bump. I wonder if it has any official connection to the calculator original (which, itself, was a big Galaga/Galaxian ripoff) or if it’s just a sequel because nobody really owns the original Phoenix?

Maybe they should have just been honest in their marketing: it’s a device made to play Captain Toad Treasure Tracker.

Yay lists!
1) Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved (PS4)
2) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (Dreamcast)
3) Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS)
4) Animal Crossing (Gamecube)
5) Super Mario 64 (N64)
6) Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together (PSP/Vita)
7) Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast)
8) Harvest Moon 64 (N64)
9) Pikmin 2 (Wii version)
10)…

Can anyone else confirm that the Hitman issues are mostly PC-only? I’ve played at least 40 hours on PS4 without issue, but I’m bad at spotting frame rate drops unless I’m spectating.

And while I can appreciate some of the fun of M&L, they have been stretching the same game idea/mechanics into multiple games without real innovation or gameplay polish (yay more switches to hit!). Not that M&L needs to die for Paper Mario to live, but if they were going to re-assess the gameplay of one they really…

*Reads article*

Isn’t the real controversy that they’re making another Paper Mario game that people don’t want? Pretty sure all the series fans want another actual RPG, not a card game. Hell, we’d settle for another Super Paper Mario if we had to at this point.

Those ducks are the real star of the trailer. Dear internet: let’s make them famous

Limbo “was good”? I’d go so far as to say it was a landmark indie game and one of the best, most polished games that stands up incredibly well several years removed. Let’s make sure that as much as we (hopefully) end up praising Inside, we don’t short-change Limbo either.

I apologize, I probably shouldn’t have used the word “stole.” But I think that with virtual environments (a good 15 years after MGS:VR, which Bithell, designer of Volume, openly acknowledges as an influence) and especially the exaggerated polygonal faces and enemies, Eidos Montreal could have at least acknowledged…

So... they saw Volume and just stole from that?

There is a real centipede problem with this list: those things are horrifying, versatile, and skittish little predators that can fit in or under anything. They crawl up walls or on ceilings and disappear into floor cracks. They lose legs and just keep going, while the leg flexes dumbly. My friend once told me he had…

I second Hitman: every level so far has been astounding, just a big enjoyable toybox stuffed with more NPCs than I could believe. And exploding golf balls.

I’m always kind of disappointed with how little Bethesda utilizes their underwater space. Both for Fallout and Elder Scrolls, what could be another area of rich exploration and, especially, large creatures, ends up being almost entirely empty and lifeless.

queue (probably) unlicensed Beatles music...