Perfect timing, Shane - I am just about to fill up my Wii U storage and was thinking about investing in one of these. Thanks!

Perfect timing, Shane - I am just about to fill up my Wii U storage and was thinking about investing in one of…

These stories broke my heart. I truly feel for these folks. I don't work in games, but my own workplace was the target of an attempted takeover by a competitor just last month, and we all spent the last few weeks assuming we were about to be laid off. It was an incredibly stressful time, and I don't even have a…

It's the end of the quarter, either Q1 in the U.S. and Europe or Q4 in Japan. Very common to see layoffs in many industries on or around that date. I've seen plenty in my own line of work fall on the last Friday of March / first Friday of April. (Always on Fridays, you know.)

Class act all the way. Not a single bad thing to say about his former employer.

Yeah, it was totally in line with what I expected.

Incidental to your photo art: I traded in a copy of Halo 4 today, and GameStop gave me $1.65 for it.

Yep

I play video games to relax and unwind. I have a stressful job, and gaming is a wonderful distraction. It's always there for me, and I can pick it up and put it down whenever I want without feeling like I'm interrupting something. I usually feel like I need to watch an entire TV show or movie in one sitting; with…

There was some half-baked speculation among the remaining Rangers faithful that this was a deliberate act to force an early end to the game, since it was already past the 5th and the Yankees were winning... of course, we fans are so miserable this season we don't really give a shit at this point.

Beartato and Reginald from Nedroid. That's... random.

I'm astonished no one managed to discreetly record even a snippet of video on a phone or Google Glass or something. Did everyone in the room have to sign a NDA first or something?

As did I.

Well, yeah. I buy lots of games there. But I never preorder from anywhere.

Excellent work. May I ask, in the interest of full disclosure, whether Deadspin / Gawker paid you for publication in this case?

Easy solution:
Don't buy any games at GameStop.

A remake / reboot in HD of the NES cult classic Crystalis, with the original score (in a modern musical format, obviously). Nintendo had a chance to do this when they licensed the IP for a Game Boy Color remake, but they pretty much ruined it. Take an old and forgotten IP, brand-new visuals, deeper story, added…

Oh! That's good to know since I still buy DS and Wii games.

Aonuma: Actually the voice issue is a little bit tricky. We could just make him talk, we could just give him a voice and have him speak, but does that add to how fun the game is? Does that add to the experience? It might actually just make it the same as a lot of other games. By not having him talk, it kinda lowers…

Nintendo stopped offering coins for DS and Wii games earlier this year:

This is NOT new. The message about N64 titles has been on the Wii U website since 2012. From the original source of this rumor: