Imagine a world where only established "big name" developers have their ideas get any sort of exposure or funding.

This is possibly the most childish tirade I've seen since the last time I loaded up slashdot.

Needs MOAR LIGHTNING.

I read it as DEC and wondered why Nintendo was using binary-coded decimals.

My wife and I are huge Mario Party fans, and have been since the original. We actually grabbed Fortune Street to some degree because of our love of Mario Party. We were unimpressed by 8 because it felt rather stale, but this one might be fresh and inventive enough to get us hooked again.

The PC version is still a disaster. I had to download a community fix for the main storyline because I was softlocked out of progressing it due to a nasty bug. I still can't progress the Companions line because of ANOTHER bug, and none of the workarounds (including some pretty heavy world manipulation via the console)…

Resident Evil: Revelations also looks and plays like pure awesome.

The update previous added a third-person control mode for ground combat and redid the numbers to make ground combat go much, much faster (like 10 times as fast. I'm not exaggerating). There are a few other neat systems they've added, too. And hey, it's free!

Considering how much has changed in STO from launch to now, it would be interesting if Kotaku followed Eurogamer's lead and did a review of the f2p flavor.

I desperately want to love this game, but I just can't. The story bits are really amazing (although depend heavily on which class you choose ... Jedi Knight is fairly boring, from what I gather). I love my consular in particular, running around the galaxy diplomatizing and bringing fools back to the light side. that…

Does this copy of DA2 include the DLC, or no? I own both DA:O and DA2 with just the preorder DLC for DA:O and none for DA2. I'd be tempted to go for this if it included the DA2 DLC, otherwise ... not so sure.

Ground combat was completely overhauled late last year. They made things much faster and included a third-person mode with free aim. It's actually pretty nice (GATLING PHASERS!).

The TOR programmers are actually fairly horrific, so this doesn't surprise me. One of the most fun bugs is a memory timing issue which causes machines to simply power down unexpectedly while playing. Not only that, but they somehow made the problem worse in the previous patch, as it now affects more players than…

DA2 does have some serious issues, but it committed the cardinal sin of playing against type.

Fortune Street is completely balls-out crazy. And evil. And awesome.

That's the duty officer system, which is a mix of trading cards and Assassins Creed's management system. Bridge officers are still your pets on the ground and abilities in space.

I just don't see the point. We play games because we want to be challenged in some way by a system whose mechanics we enjoy. By exploiting, we break that system (why are we playing that game?) and remove the challenge (why bother playing any game?). If you want to just win, go play solitaire, or calvinball.

It was either Portal 2 or Skyward Sword. This is a good choice.

I think either would work. I like the cop angle because the way the police operated back then is so completely alien to our modern theory of policing. It creates a good contrast which helps the settings, whereas a private dick really is Noir, because private investigations (infidelity aside) just are no longer part of…

I adored L.A. Noire, but there were two problems with the gameplay that bugged me.