When Christmas ‘89 rolled around, I’d been an NES owner for a full year, and Marvel Comics was the center of my life and existence. So it made sense to me at the time that I’d ask my parents to get me the brand-new X-Men game as a Christmas gift.

The six button Genesis controller was amazing, and I’d still probably rank it among my all-time favorites. But yeah, that wasn’t the default.

They’re also not dropping Ultra HD Blu-ray. Recent theatrical releases are still on the table, as are animated catalog titles.

Astral Chain, at long last!

I’m hardwired to avoid having a backlog and to finish every game I start, yet for whatever reason, I’ve been sitting on Astral Chain for right at a full year. And I’m a huge Platinum fan too!

It’s frustrating for me because I was excited about playing The Avengers online with friends and family, all of whom are invested in the Xbox ecosystem. I could still play as Spider-Man on my PS4 / PS5, but especially since cross-play reportedly isn’t on the table, I’m being forced to choose between Spidey and my…

“Marvel (Disney) had to pay Sony to put Spider-Man in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, for example.”

Source?

There’s only thing I really miss about E3 this year: that if the conference had been able to go on as scheduled, we’d almost certainly have known the prices, release dates, and launch lineups for the PS5 and Xbox Series X back in June. And we still don’t know any of that, nor is there any indication when we will.

For what it’s worth: even though I was enormously disappointed by Far Cry 5, New Dawn wound up being shockingly fun. More focused, more visually interesting landscape, superpowers (!), no forced kidnapping/battle sequences...

It’s great to know that I’m not the only one out there! Buffy was the game that compelled me to pick up an Xbox, shifting me away from being a PC gamer towards the console world. I’d love to see it make the backwards compatibility cut next-gen, as unrealistic as I’m sure that is with the whole licensing thing.

This format is literally unreadable on my phone. Whenever I scroll down, the page jitters and scrolls me back up.

There’s been a lot of speculation that The Initiative is working on a new Perfect Dark game.  Dunno how much stock to put in that, but fingers crossed...!

If I could high-five you through my phone, I would.

The way it goes: keys are purchased with stolen credit cards, the keys are sold for a fraction of the going price on G2A, and the publisher is hit with significant chargeback fees to correct for the stolen cards (so not only are they not making any money, but they’re actually losing money).

About the most I could find is from the PS Blog, with no screenshots, no videos, and no nothin’:

And even within South Carolina, mustard isn’t dominant statewide. This is especially true Upstate, but I feel like most places I go have a choice of red, yellow, vinegar, and sometimes even white sauces.

I don’t know how widespread Dei Fratelli is, but my wife swears by this stuff.

My March list is on the slim side at the moment, but that’s okay since February was so loaded. The only thing I have pre-ordered at the moment is PEARS’ self-titled album.

I dunno, what Katie is saying reflects what I’ve seen in my very conservative extended family. Not the violence aspect so much, but practically all of ‘em go into conniption fits whenever there’s profanity in a movie or on TV. Maybe that’s more of a Southern thing, but it’s certainly pretty widespread in three…

Fun fact! The voice of Sydney, the Dunkaroos kangaroo, is John Cameron Mitchell of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame. 

Thanks for the link. The Burgerim in my neck of the woods closed very shortly after opening — I never even got a chance to stop in! — and now I know why.