Everyone is attracted to youth. EVERYONE.

My room is full of this sort of crap (games, figurines, posters, plushies, anime) and naturally everyone's first reaction is along the lines of, "How do you get laid?" or "You must be, like, a total loser or something."

Have you not seen the new 360 D-Pad? It's actually better than most of Nintendo's recent D-Pads.

Okay, this totally wins.

Really? I didn't like the Advance at all.

This is pretty much fact. It does sort of take all the small-ness that you lose after growing up, though.

Get that disgusting D-Pad off of my controller, sir. What are you thinking?

COMPLETELY.

It's for me, too.

"10. If you can, play the game on PC."

And I never even noticed...

Amazingly, it's not. I got to use it at last year's E3, and was able to play New Super Mario Bros. flawlessly. It is a little big, but it isn't heavy and the buttons are laid out well.

This is absolutely an awful, wretched idea. The music is too busy, too poppy, for a game that requires concentration. I honestly wasn't aware there was anything wrong with the music already in the game. It's one of the things I look forward to most in each new iteration.

I loved the characters in Radiant Historia, especially Raynie and Marco. I had them in my party whenever I could (despite Aht being far more useful than Raynie), and a large part of that is how well the game connects you to them early on. I think the only major character I didn't care for was Eruca. Although, this…

Twilight Princess Howling Stones, anyone? Does anyone else hear that?

Marin > Zelda

It's Tim Drake. He's in Arkham City's story mode, briefly.

We don't have any in the Dallas area, I think because of Entertainment Mart, but we have some in nearby cities: [www.gogamexchange.com]

Game-X-Change. Every time. Granted, we're still rather small; 40-ish stores in Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Connecticut, but we pretty much under-cut GameStop at every turn.

I hate that crap. What's the point of pre-ordering if it's still first-come first-serve?