Loghain as Warden makes perfect sense!

In my experience, nobody can make you feel at home like your in-group, and nobody can betray you quite as deeply. That first death-of-innocence moment, whatever form is takes, is as inevitable as it is heartbreaking. Unfortunately, if you happen to have an identity that can't be hidden, denied or replaced (racial,…

Gah-DOHT. It means "banks." Like Elizabeth, or Tyra. The Hollywood family tree is a complicated, multilingual affair.

A role for an Israeli in a foreign production that's not "Arab terrorist," "Arab dictator," "ancient Egyptian," "ambiguously foreign soldier in first-person shooter" or "Natalie Portman?" What, Jennifer Lawrence was busy?

Good on you for reminding me. I've been wanting to get that, but it slipped my mind. I got an Amazon gift card for my birthday, though, and while I had intended to save it for some Xbox One games, I may have to make an exception. Of course it has to be out of stock now…

Unfortunately, once you get the combat in Dragon Age, you'll boot up Dragon Age II and have all that hard-won combat positioning training undone by mobs of enemies randomly spawning behind you. But the writing is much sharper!

They grew up together. The reason she doesn't protest is that she finds him Mako-addled and stricken with near-total amnesia in Midgar and nurses him back to something approaching health, and she doesn't want to destabilize his already precarious mental state by contradicting him in front of the team. It was Aeris who…

Oh. Yeah. They did fix the D-pad. One step forward…

It's missing the Jew's harp! That is what made Shadow's theme!

I got me an Xbox One. I hooked it up and it would neither read games nor eject discs (it just made an ominous clicking noise when the button was pressed). It seems to have come 'round after much poking and cursing (fingers crossed), but there is no purer horror than thinking you've just spent $400 on a lemon console.…

If I recall correctly, you tab over to the character to whom you want to give the gift in the inventory screen, and then select the gift. Save beforehand, it's not always exactly intuitive who likes which gifts.

Yesssssssss. Hell, this might be the kind of series where you should be encouraging her to read the fucking ancillary novels (they're actually surprisingly readable, which is surprising because the Mass Effect novels were war crimes).

Don't forget spending half an hour drawing magic from random enemies, and then being afraid to use it because you've had to link it to your stats! And breaking your fingers boosting your way through the 378th time you've had to watch a Guardian Force summon!

Having the core cast be unrepentant members of an avowed terrorist group seems like something mass-market video games would avoid like the plague these days. Simpler times, ese.

Told you.

My general advice is to stick with the characters you like/spark off each other in amusing ways (especially since opportunities for shuffling are limited anyway, since a rogue and a mage are a near-necessity). That being said, Shale is quite humorous, and you absolutely need to bring it along when you sally forth into…

Cider, txakolin, whatever: the Basques' true contribution to the world and my liver is the humble kalimotxo.

But Cathtilians, thee, they drive a car like thith.

Basques be all speaking a non-Indo-European language isolate like this.

I actually stopped just short of mentioning that specific move for its awesomeness. I don't know why. But I'm glad you did.