When I saw Saints Row: The Third earlier this year, developer Volition showcased a spectacular bank heist from the game, a carnage-filled showdown with Steelport's SWAT team. It was a bizarre, comedically ultraviolent shootout that played like a major, mid-game highlight.

Well, folks. It's been fun, but this is my last Open Thread on Kotaku forever. You've been a pleasure to chat with on a semi-nightly basis about things video game related and not. I hope you get the chance to continue doing so.

Did Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain get his "999" tax plan from SimCity 4? Well, probably not, but if he did look to a 2003 urban planning simulation game, don't go blaming developer Maxis if that economic policy fails.

Last week, I purchased my very first strategy guide. Don't judge me! It's one of the best: Future Press' Dark Souls: The Official Guide, a massive, hardcover book that delves into every single little detail of this wonderfully complex and esoteric role-playing game.

Well, after five and a half years of writing for Kotaku, churning out more than 8,500 posts of the highest quality about video games, I'm outta here. Today's my final day as an editor at Kotaku, so please indulge me as I sign off and thank the people that made it possible.

Another weekend, another couple days to spend on my Dark Souls obsession. As I grind my way through new game+, I find myself marveling at just how long this game is (again).

Well, folks, we're just about to wind down here on the nightly open thread. Tomorrow's should be more interesting than tonight's—unless you really take the reins and deliver some seriously memorable off-topic discussion! Yeah, let's do this!

Has it already been a full year since Valve launched the Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. Store, the in-game shop in which people trade cold hard cash for hats, weapons and hats? Yes, it has. Valve is therefore celebrating the shop's birthday and $2,000,000 in profits(!) for item creators with a high five-filled update.

Team Kotaku Not Pictured - A healthy portion of Kotaku is at the New York Comic Con right now, sadly not in form-fitting Deadpool costumes. More super coverage to come.

It was a big week for two very different video games in Japan. One, Konami's World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 (a series you may know as Pro Evo), topped the charts overseas, selling more than a quarter million copies in its first week.

Battlefield 3 is going to have some very big, very impressive multiplayer maps. One may not be for the first-person shooter player with a fear of heights. Look to Damavand Peak, the base-jumping map, for proof.

Want to play as Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City? You'll have to buy the game new or pay for the privilege to do so, publisher Warner Bros. says. That's right, it's the on-disc single-player content that's being put behind an "online pass" style scheme.

Sega's classic arcade racer Daytona USA is just coming to consoles with a high-def visual overhaul, steering wheel support and online multiplayer. And it's coming in just two weeks! For ten bucks!! Rolling staaaaaarrrrt!!!

Hola, Kotaku readers. Can we put this hump day behind us with a little off-topic conversation? Tonight's glamorous open thread is just the place to do it.

Each week, we take a look at the new and creative ways that video games are offending us. Well, not us. We've developed a thick skin to alcohol references, partial nudity and comic mischief. Other people, however, may be disgusted by what video games are doing.

Minecraft X Cake - An opportunity to post about Minecraft and video game cakes? Sounds like a Kotaku trap! (Seen at Gourmet Gaming)

Sega's classic arcade racer Daytona USA is just coming to consoles with a high-def visual overhaul, steering wheel support and online multiplayer. And it's coming in just two weeks! For ten bucks!! Rolling staaaaaarrrrt!!!

iOS 5, the operating system that powers Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, goes live October 12. The people who make video games for iOS are already taking advantage of the update's newest features, including a revamped, Achievements-filled Game Center.

Kotaku readers... ASSEMBLE! There's some off-topic conversation that needs to be done, so please get in this thread and do so! I've gotta split. No time to explain!