My friends and I bust out games at parties, and we're all circa 30 years old. Funny enough, it was a couple such parties that convinced me to get a Wii U (in spite of disliking the Wii) since my wife and I had so much fun playing it at our friends' house. Not sure about smartphone games. I've been entirely unimpressed…

Yup. I'm not even hurt by Wii U sunsetting, since even with the limited library it feels like I'll be playing for years. Definitely got my money's worth with that one.

It's the Nintendo way.

This is actually the first time I've been legitimately hyped for a console since… maybe the PS2? Or the N64? It looks like it's pretty much designed exactly for me, as the Wii U's offscreen play is my favorite feature and it appears to be enhanced here. I'll reserve judgement (and funds) until the reviews are in,…

A painfully on-point O'Neal article. Would that we lived in a more enlightened age; would that a more enlightened age had ever existed.

That Call of Duty article has one of the best historical quotes I've ever read, and I say that as a trained historian and professional archivist - "One century you’re building a world marvel, and the next someone’s pillaging the stones to build an outhouse."

WHAAAAAAT Keyboard Geniuses two weeks in a row?! I'm living the dream!

Agreed. It's kind of funny playing Soul Silver and wondering why it feels like it's moving at 10 fps or something - it's a top-down largely sprite-based game on a console that was able to put forth 3D Zelda titles, for pete's sake! At a certain point, I guess it's just slow by design. With that said, it used to bug me…

We're like the same person! Haha. Gold and Silver were my favorites back when they were released, and remained so up until X and Y. Animating the Pokemon in 3D was enough to kick that one up in my appreciation, but revisiting the top-down world is pleasant too. I'd forgotten how charming it is to have the li'l…

I don't know what to make of Canvas Curse. I'm in the same boat as you, intrigued due to the excellence of its successor, but NintendoLife had a pretty disappointing review for the Wii U version.

I just realized that you are the old DL. For some reason I ignored the uppercase DL in your name and remarked to myself on what an odd coincidence it was that two commenters had such similar avatars. Huh…

I'm pumped for the 18th. My wife and I were celebrating our anniversary on the 8th, so it didn't pan out, but we are both ready to split-screen it on 10/18. Any word on the two characters selected for that tournament?

Might be worth looking into Oxenfree on PC. Also, I'm not sure what your laptop situation is, but I found a short HDMI cable will do the trick for hooking it into a TV (again, depending upon whether your laptop has HDMI-out and your TV has HDMI-in). You could also grab a wireless keyboard/mouse combo - I got this one…

Color Splash is amazing. It's really the perfect after-work game, as it's story bits are interconnected enough to have you eager to continue to link up the world while being discrete enough to permit a little vignette each night. Nintendo's really excelled in that particularly episodic style of narrative over the past…

I haven't played any of the post-DS Layton games, and one of the reasons is the change in art style. It's funny that some series (Pokemon, The Legend of Zelda [to me at least]) are dramatically improved by a shift to 3D models while others lose an elemental piece of their charm. I hope I'm wrong about the Layton…

It's incredible. I was very lucky to buy one from the local Gamestop (for $50) that had just that day come off of its trade hold. The DS iterations are especially tricky, since counterfeit versions are rife and full of bugs. About four years ago, my wife bought a $50 copy of Heart Gold for me that ended up being a…

This weekend I'll be playing Dragon Quest VII and, as I obtained it earlier this week after selling a delightfully overpriced record, Pokemon Soul Silver.

Funny enough, she's a friend of a friend of mine. Man, Trebek is a jerk, huh?

Well as the man said in High Water (For Charley Patton), "I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind." Clearly he was gunning for the Nobel since 2001!

Say what? The shows I saw in 2013 and 2014 were some of the best concerts I've been to (though admittedly those from 2005-2008 were pretty bad). The guy's got some hilarious lows, but his concerts are pretty consistently an artist dedicated to reinventing and engaging with his material time and time again rather than…