My gentleman caller and I were extremely excited to play the Diablo 2 remaster/rerelease together when it came out (I’ve only ever played Diablo 3), and this week we looked at each other and said, goddamnit, now we can’t. Luckily, there are lots of other co-op games we can play instead. (He wants to pirate it instead.…

I’ve been replaying the original in prep for this release, and it’s held up pretty well! My hands haven’t held up as well with the dual-screen battle system, though...

I love physical gaming magazines, and while I mostly rely on Kotaku for actual news and interesting content, and while it’s pretty much just an industry shill/miniature zombified Think Geek catalog at this point, I’m not unsubscribing from my physical Game Informer magazine until they stop printing the damn things.…

You make an EXCELLENT point, my good human.

I think you PROBABLY meant a clothes pin rather than a safety pin? Safety pinning your nose shut just sounds like a recipe for some uneven nose piercings rather than a supereffective odor shield.

There’s an idea! I just PAID for it on PS4, and I’m like...do I want to pay for it AGAIN...

I’ve got tendonitis, so I can’t hold a controller properly. I play with an arcade stick when a game’s controls allow for it, and I have a modded controller, but there’s only so much I can handle. I’m mostly confined to turn-based games (though I’m doggedly trying to arcade stick my way badly through Hades). I very much…

Vaan = lame. Balthier = the sexiest digital man to ever walk a digital world.

Oh come ON, I held off on getting a Switch for the inevitable improved model, and this is all I get? Booooo.

I think another issue here is that the on-console PlayStation Store is an appallingly broken mess. One would think that a console manufacturer would find it to be in their best interest to guarantee that it is as easy as possible for their customers to, ya know, give them money in return for games. But I cannot even…

My partner just finished this yesterday on PS4, and he loved it. It’s not my kind of game, really, but Boyfriend became extremely emotionally invested in the characters, and while I didn’t see enough of the cutscenes to really follow what was going on, I did think he was right about the surprisingly dynamic facial…

Well, while he’s been playing Yakuza on one screen, I’ve been playing Kiseki, a series of a similar length and complexity, so maybe we’ll get there at the same time.

There are thousands of people who collect video games, and I’m certain that while a few might suffer from some form of mood destabilization, collecting is not inherently a symptom of mania, and furthermore, while mania can be triggered by traumatic experiences, it is not caused by traumatic experiences (at least…

When I get them, it’s usually because my PARTNER downloaded something on my account, because he’s never bothered to get his own PSPlus account. Still makes the vague panic in my heart.

I am THRILLED that a series has made the jump TO turn-based, instead of the tragic opposite (lookin at you, Final Fantasy). I’ve been watching my partner play the early Yakuza games to get a sense of the world and the characters so I can jump right in to Like A Dragon when we eventually get it.

I’m just here to thank you for placing the phrase “spurious ass clowns” into my general vernacular.

Can you climb INTO the squid? That’s what I want to do.

I’m here to also demand a farting Pikachu shitpost. I feel that you will handle it with aplomb, as you do your other articles.