OH DANG, I want to play this non-existent game very badly now.

I’m solidly a Sony girl, because PlayStation systems have historically more likely to have weird JRPGs (although the Nintendo DS had me covered there, too). I also like the controllers a lot better. But like...what’s the point of hating on XBox fans? If you like shooting stuff, it’s my understanding that it’s maybe a…

I told my boyfriend this, and he yelled from the living room, “HAVE THEY ADDED A PERK LOADOUT YET???” Apparently he got suspended for using a mod that allowed him to to save perk loadouts and swap between them instead of having to do it manually. That does seem like a logical feature to have in a game like this.

Oop, I’m back to defend the Wii U, which still gets a lot of play in my household. (Boyfriend is playing Xenoblade Chronicles X as I am typing this.)

Oh, I do remember loving the bleep bloops the console made. So rewarding. I’ve never played a 7800, but I looked up the controllers, which seem to have kept some of the dumber design elements of the 5200.

Oh, all this shade thrown at the poor Wii U! I love the Wii U, and it’s such a pity everyone gave up on it. I love the Gamepad because it’s very comfortable for me to use sitting flat on my lap, and I also love it because you can put the maps there. Tokyo Mirage Sessions (my favorite game on the system) offloaded its…

In a perfect world in which actors were considered for roles for nothing but their talent, this would make sense, but that’s sadly not how casting works. An autistic (or trans or disabled or actor of any other traditionally marginalized community) will likely face ENORMOUS barriers in getting work, in getting cast as…

While console exclusives are less common these days, the one exception (at least thus far) has been in my genre of choice, the JRPG. Big AAA JRPGs usually release cross-platform or make the jump to Xbox eventually, but a lot of more obscure titles are Sony exclusives. In past generations, it was rare for any JRPG to…

I had never heard of XIII until September when I checked on my 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim pre-order at GameStop and discovered that they’d pre-ordered me the XIII remake instead.

I remember being very jealous of the one guy in my grad school cohort who was able to afford one of the first iPhones, and then finding out later that he could slice fruit with his fingers, which basically seemed like wizardry in 2010. For a phone, anyway. I had been able to slice things on my DS for a good while by…

White women didn’t achieve universal suffrage in the US til 1920. We had a couple of states who conferred it earlier, mostly Western territories, but the amendment didn’t occur til August 26, 1920. Non-white women’s suffrage is still a work in progress.

I’m just baffled at what possible personal benefit you stand to gain from invalidating / being offended by someone else’s experience of the world, which is, by definition, very different from your experience of the world.

My co-worker’s response to this on our Slack: “Our main character Clive is ROYALTY and a KNIGHT who can wield PHOENIX FIRE. His brother Joshua holds the SPIRIT OF THE PHOENIX within him and can TRANSFORM into this summon AT WILL. And finally, Jill is a GIRL.”

My PS2 was my first non-handheld console purchase, and I still have it in my living room 16 years later hooked up to a CRT for the express purpose of playing my collection of PS2 DDR games. Occasionally, I pop in a PSX disc. But mostly just DDR.

I’m glad SquareEnix is still making Final Fantasy games.

Even though I was born in the late 80's, my parents were very much of the “go play outside and be back for dinner when the street lights come on” school of parenting. My sister and I were permitted to roam our neighborhoods freely, with little to no supervision, and we were...fine. I mean, I frequently injured myself…

My parents are of the “video games and television rot your brains” school of thought, so I wasn’t allowed to play video games or watch TV. We had an Atari 5200 that my uncle got us at a garage sale, but I very rarely played it because the controllers were so janky and hard to use. But oh man, get me near the Genesis…

I, too, never throw out my console boxes. It drives my partner crazy. I didn’t get my first console (a PS2) until college, so my insistence on keeping the boxes stems from the fact that I moved so, so, so often as an adult, often multiple times a year, as I switched dorms or my roommates changed or rent was raised or…

When I was in my late twenties, I was still married to my ex-husband, whom we shall call Howard for the purposes of this story. Howard and I, it should be said, did not have a healthy relationship and absolutely should never have been married, but we don’t always make good choices in our twenties.

I play a couple hours a week. I like having a battle royale that doesn’t require me to shoot things.