If you haven’t seen the official Pokémon valentine’s cards, you’re missing out. They’re obviously much more kid-friendly, but they’re still really good. The official espurr one is my favorite, with slowpoke a close second.

Yeah the heavy exploration style games, especially Bethesda’s, are genuinely a lot better on PC. Even if you don’t like to go crazy with mods, there’s always little tweaks that make the game a much better experience. And since these games always have bugs, you don’t have to worry much about it ruining your game…

No her powers really aren’t very spidery, actually. It’s also kind of a running gag that people think she’s related to spiderman. She was genetically modified to have thematically spider-ish powers, but the versions I’m familiar with don’t have her actually getting DNA or anything from a spider. Basically she is…

Those New Vegas challenges were great. Kill House with a golf club? “A Slave Obeys.” Assassinate Caesar with a knife? “Historical Propriety.” Assasinate President Kimball with a pistol? “Sic Sempar Tyrannus.” There were also ones for killing robots with the Blade Runner gun, killing gangsters with tommyguns, and even…

That’s not a mace...that’s a morning star. Morning stars are essentially spiked maces. Maces vary a lot across the world, as they are essentially fancier clubs, but they aren’t spiked. Flanged or pronged maces, however, were fairly common across Europe, the middle east, and in to India.

I always felt a good Asian setting for AC would be China during the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901). It would be a good way to see how the whole history-spanning conspiracy affected Asia. Also the Boxer Rebellion seems like a perfect set-up for AC. You’ve got secret societies, pro and anti-imperialist factions, and all…

A lot of the themes and characters in Yokai are just too much a part of Japanese culture for it to catch on well over here. If you’re in to anime you’ll recognize a lot of the archetypes and ideas, but most kids will find the characters and monsters in it just odd. The Japanese culture and mythology aspects are part…

In large cities after the bombs fell, people tended to stick together in small groups. Usually the common bond that linked them together was some sort of shared ethnicity or culture. So you had the surviving Irish immigrants (like the members of Boston’s Irish mob, dock, and factory workers) grouping together and…

Of course...there is that face down there. If you didn’t notice, there was some odd stonework at the bottom of the pit that resembled an eye and part of a face.

If you have a good charisma you can persuade the synth to admit that he is. He’ll think you’re from the Institute and wants you to help him out and keep it off the record so no one knows he screwed up. You’d think that the Institute would be more precise and surgical when they wanted to replace a person, but this…

This just really makes me hope that Obsidian does a Fallout entry with something like their Pillars of Eternity engine. Or at least a remake of FO 1 and 2 like the Baldur’s Gate remakes. I know a lot of people who want to play the original two but just can’t get over the old mechanics. Isometric style CRPGs are…

With the upcoming SSB announcement and change in Nintendo’s leadership they could honestly be trying to get ahead of a possible legal threat. (Even if they hadn’t received an official or unofficial threat.) Other possibility, though unlikely as they probably would have said something, is that one or more of the…

I really just want to recreate classic stages that everyone knows and alter the size of pits and pipes just enough to fuck everyone over, but not be discernible to the naked eye.

In all the games I’ve played there are only like 6 mods I would pay money for.
Project Nevada (Fallout NV)
Willow - A Better Companion (Fallout NV)
Sith Lords Restored Content Mod (KOTOR II)
Alternative Start (Skyrim)
Hothtrooper44’s Immersive Armor & Weapons (Skyrim)
Fore’s New Idles in Skyrim (Doesn’t do much on it’s own…

As much as I want some more Fallout in the traditional settings, New Vegas and the expansions did a pretty good job of covering the post FO2 wasteland. So hopefully they'll focus on the east cost more, especially since it is a vastly different kind of wasteland. It got hit by more bombs, it has different types of…