When two of the games in that ‘thin’ lineup are considered two of the best games of the last decade, that you can’t play anywhere else, that starts to give you an idea of why it’s popular. 

I like how it gets called a ‘village’ in the article. It’s...really not a village. 

You tell him! Should have known Bront would post here.

That’s actually a pretty good take. I think I’ve heard 2022 mentioned as a deadline too, so the longer this keeps rolling along, the more chance there is that the FF rights just revert back by default.

I remember reading somewhere that it was one animator’s job for an entire week just to get Alyx kissing her dad on the cheek in Half Life 2 to look right, so I dread to think how many man-hours this took!

Came here to say - hot shreddies are far superior to cold. They turn into a kind of malty porridge and it’s glorious.

A couple of my friends didn’t know it was effectively “part 1". They spent the whole ending waiting for a last minute reprieve that never came.

The way I see it is that even if we know what’s going to happen, the characters don’t. If the performances and the writing are good, then it sells it in the moment. When Spider-Man went there was only a tiny part of me thinking “well obviously he’s coming back, I wonder how they do it”, mostly I was just wrapped up in…

It’s not just Dad sensibilities she’s appealing to. Child-free here and the only reason I clicked on the post was because of her in the header image.

Bro!

I know it’s not a popular sentiment around here, but I bloody love Age of Ultron. Sure, the middle sags, but for the most part it’s a 2.5 hour live-action Saturday morning cartoon, and that’s exactly what I wanted. It’s easily in my top five MCU films.

People are using ‘indie machine’ as an insult?! I think it’s awesome! I want every indie game to come to Switch, and based on the last year, I may actually get my wish!

Port is delicious...

The Switch outsold the Wii U in nine months. There are a hell of a lot of people who never played its games first time round, and even people who did now get extra stuff and portability, should they want to pick them up. I’ve been tempted to grab Mario Kart 8 and Bayonetta 2 despite playing them to death, because…

Hogwarts is in Scotland...

They’re kids. A tenth-dan black belt doesn’t teach a yellow belt any super advanced moves, they wouldn’t be able to handle it.

You should watch the DC Arrowverse shows. Between Felicity on Arrow and Iris on Flash I’ve felt my leg-man needs suitably fulfilled.

That’s...oddly specific.

A few summers ago I stayed with a uni friend who’d moved to France. We had a BBQ one evening with a few of his students (he teaches English). Within a few seconds of him putting a steak on the BBQ the French group were shouting “turn it! Quick!” and were taking it the second it was full seared. They’d cut into it and…

I’m always torn about this. There are some obscene deals on Comixology at the moment, which are really hard to resist, but I just don’t like reading on a screen, and I love having my collections displayed on my bookshelves (I get trades, rather than monthly comics).