El El, you are currently the only Kotakuite to have made a Dune reference.

i feel like that might be shopped... i can tell from the pixels, and from having seen quite a few shops in my time

please don't listen to this guy; D/4 is fantastic. it's a HARD GAME, and you shouldn't just start the game over again and again to grind. try and beat the whole game without ever restarting, OR, even better, without even getting a game over, as one of my good friends managed to do. the game's difficulty is balanced to…

i hate to say this because it's usually a dumb thing to say, but "you're doing it wrong."

sorry, that was a poor attempt at humor (hence using the game's entire name). this game, as well as Barkley and Shaq Fu, all are awesome!

yeah, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. each new pokemon gen adds a shit ton of new mechanics and features, as well as dropping or refining old ones. sometimes they even completely overhaul important aspects of the battle system, such as when gen 4 un-tethered the physical/special attribute of…

This kinda seems like a ripoff of Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa, conceptually speaking.

Really, I think the music is about 90% of it. I'm not saying the rest of the game isn't great... it's an excellent game. But jegus christ, that music is AMAZING.

This article is bullshit. The multiplayer is THE POINT of the game. Or, more specifically: the complex and ambiguous interplayer mechanics are the point of the game. I get that sometimes you encounter a player who is "uber-pro" and they just lead you along and know all the fancy secrets... and that sucksk and that…

Awesome piece, tim! I've been wanting to play Gasketball ever since you and Bennet and everyone were raving about it on twitter, but I don't have an iPad :(

How 'bout this: subtract one year for every time someone thinks that art = "story." Does the Mona Lisa have a story? How about Brahms's 4th Symphony? The Mona Lisa is art because if its aesthetic value, and a symphony is art because of its structure and arrangement and themes (ignoring later, more programmatic…

Shmups. No, really. Shmups don't pretend to be adult with complex plots or poor attempts at thematic and/or character depth. They just beat you over the head with beautiful architecture. If most games are Metallica, Radiant Silvergun is fucking Bach.

Man, I am an incredibly lucky person. I got my 360 Elite way back in the day, before Bioshock came out, and I've only had it fail once. And it had the retroactive 3-year warranty, so I got a free replacement and a month of Live. And it has been ALMOST perfect since! Except last month it red ringed a few times, but…

Radiohead's 6th album, Hail to the Thief! A lot of people say it's not that great, but I think it's their best, and one of my all-time favorite albums. Also: the new Dirty Projectors album, Swing Lo Magellan, is their 6th and their best.

Or, another interpretation of "very ambitious" is that the project started off with a big, beautiful artistic idea, but it turned out to be hard to implement in a way that is actually fun and interesting. I'm having the very same issue with my own game. It's an RPG with a very unique battle system that reflects the…

I'm appreciating the heck out of all the Jamestown love in those screenshots. I already LOVE playing Jamestown co-op on a big TV with Xbox 360 controllers!

Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I wish they'd stop with MG. It was my favorite series from the original Metal Gear all the way to MGS3, and then 4 was just god-awful. I guess if this game is REALLY GREAT, then I'll buy it, but I'd rather Kojima not make Metal Gear anymore.

Yeah, I agree that playing "without a game over" has always been an incredibly fun way to play MGS, and I think the lower difficulty settings are very much designed with it in mind! Especially MGS3. It's fun to turn off your "I MUST HAVE A HIGH SCORE" brain and just go with whatever happens no matter how much you're…

For the Democrats out there, I think that this is a very good thing for your (slash sort of my) party. I don't really know any Democrats who have been disillusioned with their party or are considering voting Republican. However, just about EVERY SINGLE TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN PERSON my age (at least, the ones I hang…

That was the first thing I looked for in this issue. It makes me all giddy inside. I love you CliffyB