A couple of months ago, the business manager at my workplace turned to me at the end of a staff meeting and said, “You know, I haven’t played a video game since I played Pac-Man at a bar once as a younger woman. I’d love to see how games have changed since then.” Somehow, this comment turned into a staff gaming night…

What are they yelling when they score a successful trash kill?

My boyfriend is a PC snob gamer, and I am a happy console gamer. I think if I liked first-person shooters, a PC’s more consistent framerate might be important to me, but a JRPG doesn’t really need 60 fps to work well. My main issue with PC gaming is that it’s so often such a pain in the ass. The following is frequent…

I agree!

Definitely the funniest part of this movie was the sudden appearance of Teras Kasi as a legit thing in the cinematic universe. My peeves mostly revolve around the fact that Disney scrapped my beloved Extended Universe and now cheerfully bastardizes elements of it. Crimson Dawn seems like an obvious re-imagining…

If codpieces are making a comeback, I’m down.

It seems like a pity to play A Link Between Worlds in 2D. I loved all of the three-dimensional layers in the dungeons.

As a day-one launch PokemonGO player with an unhealthy Eevee obsession, I feel as if this game has been made for the demographic of me. I love the concept and the adorableness of Pokemon, and I’ve played several of the handheld games, but I’ve never finished one. I usually get bored 20-30 hours in and abandon it for…

Also, it has local co-op, an important and exciting detail. Running around as a wizard sounds much more appealing if I get to run around as a wizard with my boyfriend also running around as a wizard.

Oh good, now I have an insatiable craving for melon pan, and I will inevitably buy some when I pass the international market later today. Thanks.

Well, the fossil record indicates that the Nevada desert WAS a shallow sea in the late Precambrain Era (like 700 million years ago).

Final Fantasy XV still fills me with sadness. I watched my boyfriend play parts of it, and it seems like a perfectly adequate game, but it doesn’t seem like a Final Fantasy game. As an avowed fan of FFI-XII, I worry that XV will become the style going forward, essentially killing the franchise for me.

Forlorn Femme’s letter was a bit hard to read, because she’s basically describing my relationships with my ex-husband and my ex-boyfriend before him. Telling her to leave is exactly right, and I think she’s getting close to being able to do so, but telling her she needed to get out 4 years ago, etc, isn’t helpful.…

Oh, and then I watched the video and recognized one of the designers! I went to grad school with him!

Oh my goodness, this is greeeeat. If Microsoft is doing this, I’m sure Sony will be next. I have moderately bad carpel tunnel, and I’ve had to relearn how to hold a controller on my lap, which makes it impractical to play anything but turn-based games (though I’ve gotten pretty good at Xenoblade’s active system…

NICE! <3

I personally think that building cosplay as a person whose physicality doesn’t quite match up with the original charater’s is much more interesting cosplay. It shows off a costumer’s skills to be able to tailor a costume design to their specific body shape, and it highlights the performative nature of cosplay. It’s…

Oh damn, thank you for this. Just bought it and I’m already planning a girls’ night around it.

Younglings make weird art on the Internet, and it’s frequently terrible as they test the waters to see what’s funny, what’s relevant, what’s artistic, what’s good. You have to make a lot of terrible art before you make any art that even approaches good. I’ve kept copies of almost all of the stories I’ve written since…

I haven’t played Breath of the Wild yet (I’m waiting for the summer when my workload is lighter at my job), and I’m looking forward to the experience, but I’ll be disappointed if this is the new normal for Zelda games. I can’t wait for the AAA gaming industry to get out of this Skyrim-inspired open-world rut. Open…