QUOTE | “We can assure you this was a hard decision for everyone. Our team has so much combined Nintendo heritage and we’re huge Nintendo fans as individuals.” - Playtonic studio head Gavin Price addresses why the company’s Kickstarted platformer Yooka-Laylee won’t be coming to the Wii U, the most requested platform…

In your wildest dreams did you ever think the moment that would link Batman and Superman in this long-awaited movie would have to do with something so superficial as a name? But that’s what happened. The fact that Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent both have mothers named Martha became the emotional bond between two men…

Mario Kart 8 was fun for me in short bursts, but I think the lack of voice chat during matches really hurt it. Mario Kart games should be all about that couch gaming feel whether you’re playing them with other people huddled around a TV or playing them online. Voice chat could have done a lot to bring a couch gaming…

I was fortunate in that I was able to get a brand new 8 GB Wii U for $250 back when GameStop was presumably trying to clear out their stock of Skylanders Wii U bundles in 2014.

I’ve been an Xbox One guy this generation too. I don’t have a PS4 or a PS4 Pro, but that doesn’t really bother me. My Xbox One has been giving me plenty of nice gaming experiences. I’ve played Halo 5, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Rise of the Tomb Raider, INSIDE, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Gears of War: Ultimate…

Nintendo has already killed the Wii U, so I don’t blame any developer for cancelling their Wii U plans. Gone are the days when I might have called out a developer like Slightly Mad for cancelling the Wii U version of a game.

The 3DS is in its twilight. It had a good run, but I welcome the Switch with open arms. I was playing my 3DS like crazy back in 2012 and 2013, but my playtime with it tapered off after that. These days, I rarely touch it.

I have a gaming PC and an Xbox One. As much as I like gaming on my PC, there’s something that just feels right about gaming on my Xbox One. Maybe it’s because I only started getting into PC gaming in earnest last year — I don’t know. But the interface, the achievements, the game discs... The Xbox One feels like home.

I haven’t started playing my copy of Final Fantasy XV yet, but I want to start playing it soon. The way I look at it is that I want to play chapter 13 the way the developers originally intended it to be. Maybe the revamp will be better. If it is, then I can experience that on my second playthrough. But I’d like my…

I get the impression from what we’ve seen so far that the Wii U can barely handle the game. Looks like the Switch version is going to be the way to play it.

This makes me want to play the game now so that I can experience the developers’ original vision.

Finally getting back into Rise of the Tomb Raider. I’ve been letting that one go for a long time. Over the holiday weekend, I got all of the DLC I was missing when the season pass for the Xbox One version of the game went on sale for only $6. So I now have the complete package, and I’m ready to explore it.

Somebody had better start telling all those working and retired adults who haven’t had a booster shot in years or decades about herd immunity. Without them, that herd is going to be pretty small.

And Vaxxed isn’t even an anti-vaccine movie. It’s a movie that exposes corruption at the CDC that is allowing at least one unsafe vaccine to go unchecked.

Somebody had better tell working and retired adults about that, because I imagine the herd is pretty small without them.

Yeah, I think it’s going to be a long time before we see a PC version. It took the developers a long time to develop the game for just the Xbox One, PS4, and PS4 Pro. PC porting is a whole other animal that will take some time. I suppose they may have another developer handle the PC port. But if they do it themselves,…

You might want to re-read my post. You and I are on the same page. Replace “than” with “that” and you’ll have what I actually said. I do realize what was promised. I’ve watched pretty extensive coverage of all the promised features that didn’t make it into the final game.

I respectfully disagree that this is what the game should have been at launch. There seems to quite a bit more that was promised (including players being able to see each other) that wasn’t mentioned in the story as being part of this update. If they keep working on the game in the coming months, maybe it’ll be what…

That feels like the right price. I’m not interested in buying it regardless; but if I were, I think $20 would be my limit.

But not a scalper price. Never a scalper price.