If there's anyone else who hasn't started their own original "OMG bots are gay" thread, can you go ahead and get that out of your system now please? kthx

Glitch, you say? Candy Jam, you say?

You could certainly try the beta. I definitely needs a lot more than is in the beta to retain an audience, for sure, but there's quite a bit you can do despite its relative simplicity. I can't say if it will hold your interest (or mine, or anyone's) in the long term, but I'm having fun with it for now.

Right, but it hasn't been done like this, with a set of intertwined elements that all work together so well. If you don't see why people are talking about it, either you haven't played it, or you just aren't interested in a game like this.

The indoor spaces are small, but the whole point is that you're moving through them while sprinting, jumping out the window and vaulting onto the next rooftop. There's not much reason to make the indoor spaces interesting, though I don't find anything in the game bland, there just needs to be more of it (hopefully the…

I seldom actually get in my Titan, and when I do it's usually to make sure I get to activate the nuclear explosion (because, nuclear explosion!). It certainly doesn't hold up against multiple enemy Titans, but it takes out infantry you aren't looking at while you keep your eyes open for pilots.

Though I've switched a lot of my digital consumption habits to streaming, I still buy Blu-rays and subscribe to DirecTV, and buy physical games. The trend toward streaming/downloading basically everything — from Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBO Go, to Steam/PSN/Xbox Live/PS Now, to the web and everything else — is going to run…

Unfortunately, as with a lot of things on the Xbox One, these are neat ideas that fall down in the execution. Quality seems to be the primary tradeoff with a lot of the features — it can stream TV but degrades the quality of the signal significantly, the Netflix app features a better design but lacks some of the…

Yeah, every scenario you're describing is the definition of griefing. The fact that the game lets you do anything you want is neat, and it supports lots of emergent gameplay, but there's nothing inherently cool or awesome or 1337 about sitting in a tower and shooting people who cannot really retaliate. The people who…

"Finally, gentleman, we have achieved a breakthrough! Not only will this bra finally allow us to understand women's confusing emotions, but it will also automatically lock the fridge when she's feeling moody!"

Tim Curry is the BEST.

I like that Microsoft has chosen to go all-in with a consistent design language across all its platforms. That having been said, there are many times that rote consistency lessens the experience. The black background and flat colored squares of the XB1 look ok until you compare them to the PS4's subtle textural…

Right, there are plenty of games I enjoy despite the writing and characters, and in many cases pointing these things out kind of misses the point. I can't think of a game that has excellent writing (not "excellent writing, for a game") or deep, multidimensional characters that were not "Oh, he's multidimensional…

I personally think all the confirmation-seeking among gamers reading reviews is strange. People get upset if a reviewer didn't echo what they want to believe about a game, even to the point where people frequently say "Oh, damn, I was hoping it was good. Guess I'll pass." You're never going to know whether the…

Yes! I loved Kameo, it was an Xbox game that wasn't bro-tastic. Knack looks to have a lot of that kind of DNA, which I consider to be a good thing.

Right, and that's certainly all true, but ultimately it's still a question of whether you care to invest hundreds of hours in the "beginner" stage, which is the impression I have gotten. MOBAs in general are incredibly complicated, and it seems to me that by their very nature you must be well-versed in all aspects of…

One thing I'm hoping Blizzard does (and it sounds like they may be to a degree) is to move MOBAs out of the hardcore crowd and closer to the mainstream, as much as that would be anathema to a lot of the hardcore players. The reality is that both the learning curve and the game design of these games seem designed to…

I was always puzzled as to why Blizzard didn't jump on this immediately after the original DotA became popular. This could be the MOBA I actually try, the others seem to combine a near-vertical learning curve with an aggressively antisocial community, something I don't really need in my life.

There are too many Kickstarter campaigns for the mere fact that something is a Kickstarter campaign to be newsworthy. It's just another avenue for funding, it isn't inherently good or bad, in any quantity.

There is probably something, somewhere that this would be good for. But this isn't it. TV web browsing via controller, really? In 2013? And anyone here who claims they think "But it's cool that you can do it, anyway!" will try this exactly once and then never use it again.