I did mean the one VB game that’s worth playing but I do like the idea of everyone just having to play VB Wario Land.

I love this but also it is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen Nintendo do recently.

Because I am a Certified Gamer® I understand that the Game Boy Horror is the handheld of choice for real gamerz. Noobs could never understand it.

Agree on the first part, but remember when Hilary was asked to say something nice about him (groaaaaannn) and she said his kids had been raised well? That was hilarious.

Thankfully, it has motion controls

Eh, I kinda just expected a little more from kotaku, reading the room doesn’t seem too hard at this point 

Gamers: *rise up*

Maybe now isn’t the best time to be supporting blizzard for a product that’s virtually the same as another product but with a fresh coat of paint and an even fresher coat of bowing to the Chinese overlords.

How sad. :-(

Birthdays are for closers!

Return of the Living Dead is a lot of fun. It doesn’t make any deep social commentaries, but it introduced a lot of concepts that people think came from Romero (eating brains and spreading via bite). Also, while Dawn of the Dead has moments of comedy and satire, it’s largely played straight. RotLD is the first one to…

Let get back to the Vampire movies!

People are the real monsters is an interesting abstract when things are going well. At the moment I very well aware of how mean people can be and how they get that way. But I’ve been largely disinterested with seeing that trope since reading an interview about This War of Mine, a game whose mechanics enforce this…

Dawn of the Dead. The original.

Trying having the same skin tone as a Roma in Europe, or having a darker skin complexion in places like Cambodia. It isn’t just an American thing.

Yep, because Europeans have never ever done anything bad to people of color ever

She’s still using race as a costume. There are plenty of ways she could’ve done Pyke that didn’t involve race facing.

Already knew this was going to be here:

The core problem is this: It doesn’t matter how detailed, how much care she took, or anything else: Livanart is still treating race as a costume. Race is not an accessory or costume that can simply be taken off at the end of the day.

My long ago university time included membership in exactly two clubs: The student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (requirements for membership: willingness to listen to old unix admins and eat cheap pizza) and the Science Fiction club. The requirements there were a student ID card. Member benefits…