Unrelated news, but it’s interesting to hear that a mysterious new superhero is defeating villains in his area with a single punch.

It sounds like they’re surprised that there’s still 80+ million PS4 users this far into a “next gen” compared to the PS3 / PS4 transition, but I think the difference is that the PS3 felt pretty long in the tooth by the end of its generation, with many games really hitting the performance ceiling (aside from Last of Us…

I’m a huge fan of Amano’s Final Fantasy art (check out the Sky artbooks collection), and also just the sheer bravado of an artist who found his style and has really stuck with it for like four decades.

Two things:

If there’s ever a Jason Schrier deep dive into Sony’s transition into this overcomplicated PS Plus system, I fully expect the answer to “why’d the massive and incredibly important PS Classics selection go away?” to be: 

I know Shattered Memories is technically a remake / reimagining of the first Silent Hill, but I’d much rather have a remake of the original than 2. Ps2 games (especially the greats like SH2) have aged infinitely better than many PS1 games, so there’d be much more benefit. Plus, aside from the PS Classics on PS3 and…

Uh...has there been an actual trailer for Starfield that I missed? That game was allegedly coming out in six months and, unless I’m mistaken, we’d seen incredibly little of it. And it’s Bethesda, a dev with very long development cycles in the best of times. I certainly never expected that date to stick.

Better yet, in their Buy section under Old Consoles (rude), there’s a single GBA game - World Poker Tour.

I would typically agree with the reasoning that 18 months into the generation, it’s time to move on, but in this case I’m not so sure. For one, it’s still very difficult to get a PS5 or Series X as far as I’m aware (or at the very least it’s not widely and easily available like most products, ie you can’t walk into…

Could definitely be a combination of that and moving that monumental game release away from their long list of 2022 games. Don’t need Zelda cannibalizing their other successes. 

Interesting. I think I own that game, I should probably play it at some point.

Twinsies! I was also feeling self-conscious. I’m typically walking around with a staff in my left and katana in my right, but can swap the left to either a shield or another katana when I run out of FP or need to handle business more physically. I like the versatility of being able to cast, tank, or dual wield just by…

Man, give me the Batman: Year Zero game where a young vigilante is figuring things out and working out the kinks. Let him focus on a small but dense neighborhood of the city that’s full of life and people (similar to the Yakuza strategy), and accentuate the parts of Batman that are underutilized in games and film -…

Fair point! I’m rusty on my Red Hood lore.

Might help their business model to also check on their pricing algorithm...we sold our 2016 Scion iA to them a few months ago and got over $16k, which was like $3-4k higher than similar listings and even a little higher than we paid for it brand new. It was baffling and seemed like it was too good to be true…

Totally agree - the Switch has been my primary console since I got mine at release because the portable factor just fits my life so well (and doubly so now that I’m a parent). It makes me really wish the PS4 Remote Play worked better, as I’ve tried to get it to work a few times on my phone, Vita, and PC, but it runs…

Oof. Yeah, that looks really awkward. The old Arkham games had that same issue, but I think it looked even weirder there since that Batman was built like a linebacker yet had the agility of a ninja (I’ll never understand or like that character design). And it’s not like Spiderman, where it makes sense that he’s…

I mean, if you’re Nintendo, would you rather cut off one of your bestselling games of all time at the knees by even considering announcing a sequel is in the works? MK8D is basically effortless money at this point and likely for the rest of the Switch’s lifespan. Plus, the game’s so damn good and has so much content…

Through pure coincidence, when I started the video the song on my focus playlist changed to Cruel Angel’s Thesis, which felt incredibly appropriate for an eerily empty Japanese train station with the summer sound of cicadas in the background.

I actually bought a GB Micro for the first time a few months ago, and I found it really underwhelming for the most part. As an adult with average hands, it’s just too small to be comfortable, especially the screen - anything with even a moderate amount of text to read was a hassle, I spent the whole time squinting at…