I have a CRT under my HDTV to play my old consoles, but mostly because I primarily use my PS2 to play DDR and In the Groove, and I’ve never managed to get around the lag if I run them to the HDTV. Lately, though, the CRT has been seeing more use during my playthrough of FFVI, which I am playing as a PS1 Classic on my…

I loved this game so much. I played it when it first came out. It IS long, but I loved every minute of it. I enjoyed it so much that when my roommate saved God Hand on the same PS2 memory card and corrupted my save data (a weird thing that apparently happened sometimes with Clover games), I was perfectly happy to play…

I always wondered what accent the Viera were using! When I read the entirety of Pullman’s His Dark Materials aloud to an ex-boyfriend years ago, I used the Viera accent for all of the witches from the North, and I’m happy to hear that this was an entirely appropriate choice.

As a woman with a 3DS and no Switch, I’m happy to hear this (although to my shame, I never finished the original game).

I mean...if a mobile game is worth my time, Kotaku usually tells me about it.

I keep my Pro membership for the Game Informer. I really like having a physical magazine to read once a month, and 15 bux a year for some minor discounts and 12 magazines just seem like a great deal. I never shopped at GameStop enough to make the Elite membership seem worthwhile.

This is why I only play single-player games. I’ve never been into shooters, but after hearing about how “approachable” Overwatch was, I checked it out of the library to see if it was fun. I played the training modes for a bit, but every time I started up a multiplayer match, I turned the game off before it could…

I met my current partner on OKCupid, and we’re really happy. During my brief time on the site, though, I established a few rules for myself and others:

This makes me feel ill just looking at it.

I’d play that Pokemon game.

I watched my boyfriend accomplish this feat two years ago at our first Portland Retro Gaming Expo, because we’d only been dating for about 10 months and he wanted to impress me with his Battletoads prowess, but no one saw it but me, so it doesn’t really count. When he was a kid, Battletoads was one of only two or…

I’m not an MMO player anymore (too much of a grindy timesink in my old age), but I will say that I’ve always felt that smaller stat and damage numbers in an RPG makes the stakes seem higher and the battles more grounded. I’m playing FFVI right now, and when an enemy does 78 damage to a character with 329 hit points,…

I actually love my Wii U, not only for the exclusive games, but because it makes my Wii games look much prettier. I switched to the Wii U 40 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles, and I loved how colorful the world was after the switch.

I intensely dislike the idea of paying a monthly fee to access my own damn games (and the expensive high-speed internet to go with it). That sounds like cable packages, and everyone can agree those suck. I don’t think I’d ever buy into a streaming service like that. I have enough of a backlog of games I actually own…

It’s nice to know it’s not just something wrong with my computer. There’s a few content sites — Kotaku included -- that I visit enough that I’d really prefer to pay some sort of small membership fee to remove the ads but still support the company. I’d do that with Kotaku for sure. I pay $15/year for a Game Informer…

Ni No Kuni is the only recent JRPG I’ve played that evoked the same sense of childlike wonder and excitement that the classics did, and for this reason (plus the gorgeous world, amazing soundtrack, and adorable Ghibli characters), it’s one of my favorite games of all time.

Coincidentally, I am alternating between Final Fantasy VI and Radiant Historia at this very moment, two games that I started a little under a decade ago and subsequently lost all of my progress about halfway through. (The computer upon which I was emulating FFVI died just after I reached the World of Ruin, and my Radia…

It’s also slightly disingenuous to represent the entomology of the word as “flighty woman.” In the late 16th century and mid-19th century the word was used for both bundles of sticks and certain women, but if you look at the evolution of the synonyms of that sense of the word (my favorite free place to do so being the…

I find the BBC’s idea that “20 hours a week = addiction” rather strange. Granted, that’s a part-time job, but that doesn’t seem unreasonable for a hobby. As I child, I spent over 20 hours a week reading, to the exclusion of many social activities, and the fact that I read so many books gave me a sense of self-worth…

I have increasingly bad carpal tunnel in both thumbs, so holding a controller normally is difficult for me, especially for long play sessions. I play with an arcade stick when I can, but it’s not compatible with all systems and all games. I can’t really hold a Wiimote and Nunchuck any more, so I play most Wii/WiiU…