I could not agree more with every point you raise, Kirk. And you didn't even get into the terrible, godawful Desmond sections (or the endings) or optimistically glossed-over revisionist history.

OMG he's a beautiful girl in a blue bikini.

Pretty sure the Day-Glo space armor aesthetic is gunning for Halo, the name, obviously, Call of Duty (voiceover says "the biggest game in the world"). In either case, the movie feels slightly out-of-step with reality. For one - arcades, in this day and age? Secondly, a female protagonist in a contemporary military…

I think that most of the reason Sony doesn't have the same degree of iconography that Nintendo has for its roster is that Sony encourages (forces? I'm ignorant to the politics) its studios to invent new IP's each generational cycle. If Naughty Dog were still making Crash Bandicoot titles (and had never made Jak or…

Thirded. Not especially happy doing it.

Thirded. Not especially happy doing it.

That image just screams "Yorick" to me.

John K Samson of The Weakerthans has two songs off his new solo record about videogames. One that begins with a lyric about GTA: San Andreas, another whose entire plot is a stop error in CoD4 on the PC. Here's the former.

Funny story - it's one of two launch games I'm buying for it (the other being NSMBU). The reasons being are that I want a title I can invest a good amount of time in, cultivate a new batch of online friends, perhaps see a strong graphical experience compared with other current-gen consoles, and experiment with…

Hah, yeah I'm aware, but when I was reading "green-haired heroine" I was thinking her the whole time. Terra's totally blue (teal? turquoise?) in my memory, but it's been a while.

An animal phallus isn't pornographic, it's biological. I wonder when games will become so realistic that they'll actually depict animal anatomy without copping out with "oh, this horse is a mare or gelding," or "armor obscures the animal's genitals." Although then you'd probably have 20 angry graphic designers working…

Cue 3875934758934985 "explains why ____ character was so effeminate" jokes.

At this point in consumer electronics, I'd be shocked if an electronic device didn't use reprehensible slave labor, child labor, child slave labor, blood minerals, or disgustingly inhumane factory conditions. Is it wrong that I just assumed this device did one or more of those well before I read this article?

You're right. I had no right to explain how the mechanics of super moves worked having not played the game, and I should've respected and heeded your negative opinion of the product above all others, even though you rushed to discredit me without reading what you were replying to. The world is upended and humanity…

I never, ever buy 3rd party peripherals, but you guys have sold me on the Pro Controller's flimsy, weightless, cheap feel. I hope a third party makes a sturdier, weightier controller.

I'm not sure what you're trying to convey, honestly. It seems like you're just gloating that you've played it for an hour but aren't very skilled, so it's somehow objectively a "less fun" game than Smash. And it's not a huge surprise, honestly, given your tactful items-on, hazard stage-enabled Smash practice.

I'm confident you didn't read anything in my response that you replied to.

Come on, the game's, what, a month or two away from certification? The multiplayer's probably scrapped, so the game's done. Hell, I'd bet most of the DLC is done. There's nothing distressing about the departures of some of these people. I don't think anyone's jumping ship.

Firstly, love the screen name. Technodrome, let's kick shell.

Here's hoping Mega Man is in Playstation All-Stars.