Heads up, modders.

Team Ninja, eh? So if they ever bother to release a PC version it will be years late, incomplete, and inferior to the console versions. And then when no one buys it, Tecmo will declare that PC players are pirates and tightwads.

In the Black Jack Justice radio dramas, femme fatale and lady detective Trixie Dixon wears a .38 revolver in a garter holster. She calls it “the mousetrap.” It always makes me think of that scene.

“I’m angry we are pretending to be sports when we are not.”

A very interesting read. Just out of curiosity, did you hear anyone speaking on hollow earth or flat earth conspiracies, or anything of that nature? Those have always struck me as the most interesting, since they combine the big shadowy cover-up with a belief that’s so easily and demontrably disproven.

Whatever DRM is implemented in Just Cause 3, it doesn’t need always-on Internet, it doesn’t require an extra program on top of Steam, and it doesn’t make my PC go bonkers while I’m playing the game. As someone who’s happy to pay for games (and even happier now that Steam offers refunds), I say good on ya.

Sega. SEGA. We’re still waiting on Skies of Arcadia, Sega. Give it to us, Sega.

I’m kind of surprised the Kotaku writer didn’t get the historical joke here. And since this is way down in the greyed-out peanut gallery, I suppose he’ll continue in ignorance.

Sniper rifles have been nerfed in the new XCOM, but the expanded pistol skills more than make up for it. With five enemies in sight, lightning hands, that skill that lets you shoot a pistol without ending a turn, and face off, a single sniper can shoot her pistol seven times in one turn. Put her up high and clear out…

“Hey Hideo?”

The Last Starfighter approves.

I love this low-poly style, it’s such a uniquely “gaming” approach to figures. I’m not a Virtua Fighter fan, but I’d love a few Skies of Arcadia figures like this, hopefully using the blocky old Dreamcast character models.

Once again WB’s lazy, greedy treatment of the PC results in a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Oh geez Rick, I don’t think it’s okay to fight alternate versions of myself, you know?”

And just like that, the status quo returns. At least the new guy gets to keep his uniform.

Nope. That is a rather... suggestive still shot.

WHEN I WAS JUST A LAD

It’s immediately clear that it’s a fake accent, and not a particularly good one. Apparently the actress is Scottish (see above), but I assume they asked her to do an Irish accent because Irish immigration has had such a huge effect on Boston’s culture.

Odd that they would ask the actress to fake an Irish accent when, presumably, she could do a Scottish one without seriously changing the character. Maybe they were trying to lean hard on the history of Irish immigration to Boston. But the idea that the speech patern would survive 200 years of post-apocalyptic culture,…

Her accent is actually pretty terrible. But I use her because she’s kick-ass at melee combat (which I never use) so I don’t have to keep her supplied with ammo, and she never judges you for stealing scrap. She’ll even sit there and applaud while I crack the lock on some sucker’s Master level safe.