Sorry, that’s not how ownership of goods works. When I pay money for a physical copy of a game, I *own* it. There is no license involved, it is exactly the same as if I had bought a book. Even if there is a click-through license (which I have never seen for a console game), that license cannot remove my ownership of…

He may be too old for the Joker (unless Batman is also old), but there are plenty of other bat-villains. He’d be an amazing Ventriloquist/Scarface.

Are you saying that you would prefer that Nintendo locked all of the characters in Smash Bros, and the only way to unlock them so that you could play as them was to buy that character’s Amiibo?

Don’t forget NASCAR.

I've never caught a shiny in the wild, but this was overheard in my house as my son was playing in another room:

ThinkGeek has a habit of making some of their April Fools jokes into real products, like the tauntaun sleeping bag, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually start selling that controller.

They're too worried that a Game Boy would damage the floor.

Bringing both Marle and Lucca to Death Peak, one of the most bittersweet scenes I can think of from any game.

I would bet on this being fixed in the next patch. Shouldn't be too hard to do something to verify the contents of RAM when returning to the game, like computing a CRC on the player's pokemon/items when the home button is pressed, and when the game resumes if the CRC doesn't match, crash the game. And, since Pokemon…

Actually, Nintendo does a decent job at ignoring the investors when they don't know what they're talking about. For example, investors have been calling for releasing the NES/SNES back catalog on smartphones for years, but they're always told, in the politest way possible, to sit down and shut up.

You drive prices up, while adding no additional value. You may not be breaking the law, but scalpers like you are morally on the same level as car salesmen.

The fact that you feel the need to write a seven paragraph defense of your profession tells me that you have some guilt about it, and that you should find a more honest line of work.

I love the Kinect. It's so bad.

There is a Kirk, but it's the reboot version, so I think "stud-free" still applies.

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Or, as Miyamoto put it, "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

Swatters frequently spoof their caller ID to make it look like the call is coming from inside the house. Also, they tell the police that the situation is as bad as possible: hostages, people already shot, the shooter is on drugs / suicidal / wants to kill cops, etc. It's the kind of situation where, if it was true,…

It would be nice if the patent office did their jobs for once instead of approving garbage like this and letting the courts/expiration date sort it out later. At least we have Alice Corp. now to make it easier to throw things like this out.

I have a son about the same age, and I highly recommend Pikmin 3. It has a 2 player co-op mode (challenge levels only, story mode is 1 player only) and I've been trying to teach him about teamwork and planning. Still, sometimes he hogs all of the pikmin and then takes them swimming. The only problem is that he gets…

I would guess that those two, along with Ralts and Honedge, are from people trying to breed competitive pokemon. Charizard has always been popular, plus his mega evolution is a beast. Froakie and his evolutionary family can have the hidden ability Protean (when using a move, he changes his type to match the move),…