I feel like being Mercy is like being a good free thrower in basketball. It’s a vital skill, every team wants a good free thrower, but it doesn’t really make for great spectator moments, not like making a great three-pointer or driving to the basket. There are moments (usually towards the end of very close games in…

I used to teach kids in Japan, and I had one kid named Taku who was always very quiet in class. Nice kid, but really never said a word. One day, I noticed that he had a Pokemon pencil case, so I asked him if he liked Pokemon, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He started sputtering in broken English about how much he liked…

Yep. And yet they still honored the god-knows-how-many thousands of little bi-fold scratch-off cards with keys on them, which got packed in with shiny new videocards and whatnot. :D (Thus marking the last time Steam’s customer service was any good whatsoever.)

Varia Suit with the scanning of a Samus amibo?

I watched both cars movies in a row for the first time about two months ago, one after the other.

And no.

Cars 2 is a goddamn trainwreck. It’s a tonal mess that cannot fin it’s way to clarity on what movie it wants to be, lurching awkwardly from brutally violent spy thriller to Southern hick mocks foreign cultures…

> Since then there have been quite a few spinoffs

ajdragoon is right. BBS is basically KH0 and DDD is KH3 or lest go with 2.5 since 3 is this new one (imo DDD should’ve been 3 and the new one just KH4).

That rhythm heaven clip was a terrible.

My fingers are crossed that they actually learned from Other M and didn’t just write off everything as ‘fans don’t like Metroid anymore’. Yes I saw the quote about Sakamoto but I’m not sure he understands WHY no one liked how Samus was portrayed. An experienced bounty hunter taking orders like a rookie, and being…

Jason, any thoughts on how the game feels and plays compared to AM2R? From the look of it I think the two will feel like separate experiences completely (major moments of arrival aside), but I’m eager to here that angle from someone who has played the 3DS game at E3.

My dad hasn’t played a game seriously since Quake 2. We got him an Xbox One S with Battlefield for Christmas and now he puts a couple hours in every night.

Much like how some of my coworkers focus on YouTube personalities and streamers, I think it’s valuable to write about speedrunners. Stories about what gamers are doing help us understand the culture surrounding the media and surrounding specific games. 

Nintendo 3DS: “Daddy’s Big Little Nintendo”

The vast majority of Pewdiepie’s fans are children. And children are stupid. They’re not emotionally mature enough to fully grasp nuance or context. They see Jacksepticeye criticizing his actions while also voicing support, and all they understand is “Jacksepticeye talked shit about Pewdiepie.” They can’t see how…