I went through absolute hell trying to do a buy 2 get 1 on Switch games from Gamestop back in June. All were supposed to be new games. Two were not only not shrinkwrapped and had Gamestop’s awful, nearly unremovable price tags on the case, but one had very visible damage — the kind that a used game would have. I…

“O’Malley wrote it.”

Except there is a long history of that very thing. Sherlock Holmes might be the title character but, in the books at least, Watson was always the true main character. This being a video game site, it’s also easy to go to what might be the gaming industry’s biggest and longest-running example of this: The Legend of…

What, it’s not like their cultural distaste for guns means they have less gun violence than we do or anything.

Oh wait...

Hardly anyone even wanted to pay $200 for it. Nobody is paying $300+. 

The only thing “risque” about JFG is a little bit of jiggle physics (on a completely covered chest) and a short-ish skirt on the female playable character. 

If I recall correctly, the only thing that is even remotely “mature” about Jet Force Gemini is that the female character’s boobs jiggle a bit. But since when does Japan have an issue with that?

The Simpsons Game was... fine. It had its moments, especially the levels that tried something different and weren’t just generic (and not particularly well polished) platforming. But it’s only because most Simpsons games are so bad that it’s always a relief to get one that’s at least okay. That said, Hit & Run remains…

And the sad truth is that Jade probably only got as much press coverage as she did because she happens to be pretty. If she wasn’t, would we even have gotten as many features about and pictures of her as we did? 

Yeah, that Stephanie Joosten interview was actually really interesting and covered a lot of great stuff. But what did every single headline say? “Quiet actress discusses the character’s skimpy outfit” along with a picture of Quiet bent over or whatever. Not a picture of Joosten, just of one of the characters she…

Thanks for saying this. We need to stop calling racism, sexism, misogyny, bigotry, etc anything else than what they are. If I was a conspiracy guy, the one I would push is that “they” are trying to steer us towards hating capitalism so we stop paying attention to systemic racism and misogyny and how it’s not only…

I don’t have an issue with them being universal. I have an issue with devices not coming with them. The last, I don’t know, 10 devices I’ve bought haven’t had them. Sooner or later I’m going to need to replace the ones I’ve been using for years and years -- electronics don’t last as long as they used to, as we all…

That’s the thing. Yes, most of us have a surplus of adapters. But they don’t last forever. Sooner or later we’re going to need to replace them, especially if we’re expected to run every single new device we get on the same three or four adapters we already have. And I’m going to get irritated when it comes time for me…

I didn’t. I was speaking hypothetically. I have no interest in spending $200 on a handheld device that I can’t even take out of my house.

Yeah, it’s funny that people were like “The SJWs have won, we can’t even have huge tits in video games anymore!” just because they gave Tifa a sports bra. It’s like, you clearly didn’t play the game, because Scarlet’s outfit and cup size negates your entire premise lol

Because for most of us, if we have to kill time on our phones for whatever reason — bus, train, airport, waiting room, bathroom, wife watching House Hunters — then we’ll just doom scroll social media or buzz through a listicle or something. That usually does the job. I haven’t played a game on a phone that isn’t…

I’m too lazy to look, but I’m assuming one of those “It’S nOt FrEe If YoU aRe PaYiNg A sUbScRiPtIoN” bros has already done his due diligence in this comment section?

Yeah but like you said, that requires watching Netflix on your phone. I almost never do that, and clearly you don’t either. We can’t be the only ones. My kids watch a lot of streaming shows on their phones, but most adults don’t as far as I know. So that shouldn’t be the only place that Netflix pushes -- or even…

I don’t know, I guess I’m still at a point where if I find myself not able to use one of the televisions in my house and handheld gaming is my only option, that’s what I use my Switch for. I don’t absolutely need to play Spider-Man 2 or whatever. It’s like “Well, I guess I’m playing something for Switch now.” And…

I keep hearing that joystick drift is an issue with all modern controllers. I’ve only experienced it with Switch controllers, and I have multiple Xbox and PlayStation controllers.