Apple’s mobile/tablet market position is so dominant that many Office features hit iOS first, before even the Windows PC version of the apps. Microsoft’s whole strategy is to be where the users are, and the priority of their efforts tends to reflect the proportion of return they’ll get.

One of the best reviews I think I’ve ever read on Kotaku. Really great work, thanks for sharing.

I approve your placement of Kirby’s Dream Course in the upper echelons of the list. It is indeed, as you say, the best golf video game ever made.

Good review! Just FYI the leader that can play as either England or France is Eleanor of Aquitaine, not Catherine of Aragon.

Is it just me or does this article actually not state which of the two cards was banned?

The bottom-row stuff is in the same order on every board, but the top-row stuff is different orders. This creates different combinations of top and bottom row zones, which I agree is a little wonky when you're first learning - but the value you get in replayability is not to be underestimated. (Even if you always want…

Yeah you will find tons of these things fishing in the wrong places...

I’m pretty sure no one here has posted yet, and therefore I should be obligated to tell you, that this is not the original The Legend of Zelda... this is A Link to the Past.

Their other Kickstarter for the digital adaptation of the very highly praised Twilight Struggle board game - much more in their wheelhouse - has also had crazy lapses in communication and lackluster progress. I think they mentioned at one point in that campaign's updates that they had the majority of their programming…

Great article. Nothing in here I don't agree with 100%, hahaha.

The big difference is scalability. With services like Windows Azure or Amazon EC3, companies are basically able to rent as little or as much computing power as they need to service their needs based on demand. They don't have to stand up 3000 servers and all the infrastructre that goes along with that to meet launch…

You still have to buy the game, which I think you can pick up for 20 or 30 USD... but it's free to play after you own it. No subscription required anymore. Highly recommended.

The only negative thing I have to say about this article is that the three examples Quintin picked at the beginning of the article are all incredible games that are in the BGG Top 50, have amazing depth to them, and don't get old after dozens of plays. I think your point would have been much better served had you…

Seconded the guy who suggested The Resistance. I like it way better than Werewolf because a) everyone participates the whole time (no player elimination) and b) there's much more space for bluffing and deduction based on who's selected by the leader to be on a team, who votes to approve the team, etc etc...

You win.

I've always been very enamored of Knizia's Lost Cities. Now, Love Letter has it beat in terms of simplicity, but I think the simplicity-to-gameplay-depth ratio is right up there at the top along with it.

Yep. Love Letter is probably one of the two most elegantly simple game designs I've ever seen.

Duck Hunt dog wins.

I'd say it was just your friends being horrible. I found the difficulty to be on par with other members of the series (that is to say, pretty challenging if you're playing on higher difficulties, but reasonable on normal, especially considering they added in the whole Battle Save thing)