I've found American snack foods to work as currency over there. Seriously, was able to get people to pay for me meals, travel and phone calls just by bringing Pop-tarts and oreos when I was in London.

Not as far as I could see. Just the PS3 standard version.

*can someone please delete this comment? the system borked and double posted me*

Holy crap! Amazon finally has Ni no Kuni for preorder! With cover art! And a release date! It was beginning to look like that sucker was never coming out.

I totally agree with you. I said a comment similar to this yesterday. I refuse to spend $90+ a month for a phone I barely use just so I can get access to my television shows, games and music. I much rather haul around my cheap, 20-bucks-for-3-months flip phone, my PSP and my laptop all in one bag because it's so much…

Here is why consoles, portable consoles and physical games will never entirely go away, at least not in the US: In the US, smart phones and internet are extremely expensive, especially if you go out west. Around where I live, even DSL is 35 dollars a month, and well over 50 dollars a month for cable internet that at…

Finally broke down and bought something at Gamestop. I don't have anything against them per se, I mean, I would never sell my games to them since their trade-ins are so low and I never buy that many games, so I never need to sell them, just never found anything in there that would call a 'good deal'. Then I found Star…

Aterlier Iris: Eterna Mana is really good. You don't really 'romance' the shopkeepers, but the more you talk to them/be nice to them, the more you find out about their pasts (and most of the shopkeepers are cute girls). Harvest Moon isn't a RPG, it's a farm sim, but you get to romance the local girls, get married and…

Good news is as patents and things expire, you're having more and more 3rd party companies making new technology to handle old games. And a lot of those cheapy plug-n-plays can handle literally a hundred games on just their source memory. Emulators exist as well, but I tend to avoid them as I've never run into one…

D'aww, Derpy :3 Very cute indeed. Nice job with the expressions.

For the DS there is LOADS of really good 3rd Party games.

Pokemon Crystal, followed in a statistical dead-heat with Harvest Moon GBC 2

Oh god, ReDeads. I have no memory for button combos, but I you better well believe I learned that Song of the Sun and could play it in under three seconds.

Fucking Redeads from Fucking Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time. At first I didn't know what the hell they were, though maybe they were just statues. They were completely still, and all you could hear was the weird moaning sound, which I assumed was just part of the background track. I got near one to avoid that ooze in…

Not much time for gaming this weekend. I've got a convention I'm applying for and I'm not totally ready with my portfolio. Partially my fault, partially circumstance.

I always loved the Halloween ones. They had the plain original flavor, but with orange food coloring. For some reason that made me like them more.

Actually, we really don't. Most animals don't like the taste of human meat, the only animals that actively hunted us were older animals that couldn't catch anything else. Bears, Tigers, even sharks will eat just about anything else before eating humans. Most conflicts with large predatory animals (wolves, lions,…

As we have no natural predators as such, humans are violent creatures. We use religion, as well as a whole host of other excuses to inflict pain and suffering upon each other including patriotism, 'honor', 'tradition', and so on. Religion is created and repeated by humans, so violence is *always* going to be a part of…

I agree with you about the event Pokemon. I absolutely hate that to complete my Pokedex I have to wait for the Will of God (aka Nintendo) to let me finish it, or else I must HAX it (which I don't like to do unless it's exploiting a glitch like Mew in R/B/Y). If they were funky Pokemon you normally can get but…

I'm not really looking forward to Ruby/Sapphire remakes honestly. Gen 3 was my least favorite. The GBA was so much more advanced technology than the original gameboy games, yet the games themselves barely had any features. And contests are the bane of my existence. I know a DS or 3DS game would have lots of extras,…