When my Wii U comes back from Nintendo for repairs? Mario Kart 8! In the meantime? A slough of Humble Bundle games and assorted others I've either never played or decided to play again. Mostly including Runner 2, Hotline Miami, Bastion, Super Meat Boy, and a couple others... and Bioshock Infinite for some reason as…

For a literal demonstration of this and what it looks like, see the image above.

That's actually literally untrue, as the Metroid Fusion GBA title has a smoothing filter that can be enabled for playing on larger TVs to smooth out the sprites by pressing in the right joystick on the gamepad. So, strictly speaking, it's possible, and they've already done it for their own games. I imagine things like…

Considering that Luigi is usually portrayed more like this:

Please understand: shit just got real.

They want and need any excuse to start a pointless fanboy war. It's sad, really, that a guy having a medical condition is suddenly cause for shitting on him and the company. I don't see why people can't just like what they like and shut the hell up about it, or why they gain so much esteem from what hunk of plastic…

I 100% agree that Twitter isn't the place for this kind of conversation. Honestly, part of why I don't want a Twitter account is that people only seem to be able to say something stupid and get themselves in trouble for it. Not worth it.

Wait, what??? We also get points for the game we get free??? That. Is. Amazing! I got the Best Buy preorder. so I got $10 back already with a weird credit card number on a PDF that I converted into $10 of eShop credit, and with that it'll be $15 of free credit. I might grab Child of Light in that case. I'm waiting for…

I love the contrast here. It's amazing. I can't imagine Nintendo saw this coming when they opened their tools up for posting to YouTube, and I'm glad they made sharing and making clips so easy (obviously post-processing was done to get the music on there). Without that, none of this would be possible, which is just…

No worries! I was always mystified by it as a student myself, and I now have a much better understanding.... for better or worse. I'm still a grad student for the time being but I've been teaching in different capacities for a good 5-ish years now overall, and working on my PhD now, to avoid being one of the…

When they're still young enough to buy in, absolutely. After they've been battered with so many years of standardized testing, though, and they've been taught that learning is supposed to be dull, boring, and only applied once, in a context they'll likely never encounter again.... yeah, bringing this to the plate…

Yeah, I've been wondering how some of these controls will work, honestly. Have they said yet if they'll have it go across both screens for some games? That is, the TV and Gamepad? Otherwise, if it's all on that one screen? Yikes.

That's the beauty of using an online identity is that I can say this and not worry about any sort of backlash because of who I am! So, uncensored answer:

I always imagine myself on day one, going into class, and trying to explain the system and my reason for doing it, and I don't think I could do it and honestly say I believed in it enough to have 20-30 kids looking up at me and think "they don't think I'm an idiot or that this is a total joke..." I admire the…

On the flipside, I think seeing the power of games to engage people and not trying to apply that to the classroom context when it's possible to do in a reasonable way would be a bit silly. There's a lot to be said for games and learning, and I like seeing initiatives like this, and I think it's an indication that…

As someone teaching in college, I've thought about these kinds of systems, and in the end, they feel extremely patronizing to implement when working with (what are at least legally considered to be) adults. I can see them working well with younger kids, but I don't think I could, in good conscience, implement…

It even kinda bums me out that it ends up here at all. It makes me wonder if this is what the general readership actually WANTS, or if I'm simply out of touch. I hate when people gang up on Patricia (seemingly only because she's a woman, and fuck her for that, apparently....?), but more often than not, her…

I've come to view gif posting as the lowest form of contribution to an online conversation over time, especially when it's someone's whole schtick like some folks around here. They still can be funny here or there, but it feels a bit too.... Lowest common denominator? Most of the time, anyway.

I love when a game speaks to me and my wife and really clicks with us and we end up loving playing it. Monaco definitely did that. So did Runner 2 for a while as well. She's also big on Donkey Kong games, so Tropical Freeze was largely a co-op venture as well. Overall, though, few hold her attention, but I always love…

I suspected as such and hope so! I can't wait to get a crack at it. Hence me being here, I suppose. Haha.