I never understood why MGS3 doesn't get a bigger spot in history. For all of its usual Kojima ridiculous shit, I think it handled the themes of duty and betrayal more maturely and well than maybe any other game I've ever played.

Is this from Nier? I played a little bit, loved the music, then stopped for no reason. Thinking I should pick it back up.

I am shamefully close to that total. Sub in an iPad Air for the mini, cut a few games, and add a Panasonic P60ST60... Not gonna run the numbers because it'd make me feel too dumb.

Since this came up a bit disappointing for some people, for a Nintendo history fix may I suggest this riveting article about the ambiguity of Super Mario Bros' release date in the US: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1…

Poor Devil May Cry. Excellent game, will almost certainly be forgotten in most considerations this year.

I second that. Putting Cerny front and center was the first of many uncannily good moves that Sony made in the run up to this launch in terms of seeming like a company who gets where I'm coming from as a big fan of games and the game industry.

Which, FYI, playing something like Frequency piped through a modern LCD TV and AV system is freaking impossible due to the lag/unforgiving timing/lack of calibration on early rhythm games.

I have a giant console collection, and if you can swing it I highly recommend just grabbing a smallish tube TV from Goodwill for your old console area. You don't have to worry about display lag, and you can still play lightgun games.

I'm assuming by flash game you mean a tiny game featured on your site, rather than an Adobe Flash game since Candybox was pure JavaScript/HTML goodness.

Similarly, I remember feeling like Alan Wake nailed a much more filmic look in its cutscenes than I had seen up to that point.

Ooo! Thanks for posting this, I love her stuff!

Generally speaking, most of the internet is on what are basically rented servers. As I understand it, the mains problems are the law of diminishing returns kicks in very quickly when you scale this sort of infrastructure and consequently it becomes prohibitively expense to requisition more servers.

I noticed that Michael's back is usually sweaty when he gets out of a car, a feeling I'm sadly familiar with on a really hot day.

Yup. I 100% agree. Walt and Jesse are pretty much literally in their own personal hells. I'm betting Walt goes out in a disgustingly ego driven flameout by taking it out on Elliot and Gretchen because he has no one else left to fixate on.

Also, don't forget that freaking MF DOOM and Ghostface Killah made a track for the game.

It's very interesting and provocative, and while I absolutely love that Gaspar Noe exists and makes exactly the kind of weird, drugged out, hyper self indulgent movies that he makes, I don't think you can qualify his movies as, like, history makingly great. This is really abstract and shitty sounding, I know, and I'd…

God willing Steam will be around for a nice long time, but there's no more a guarantee that it won't disappear in 5 years than there is that a new console won't be reverse compatible.

Just spent two weeks in Tokyo with my wife for our anniversary and there was a location selling these at the Mejiro station near where we were staying. Suffice to say, they were both incredibly cute and tasty.

This kills the frog.

I bought a giant lot of old video game stuff a few years ago that included a TRS-80, a C64, and a tape drive that is compatible with both. It also came with several enthusiast magazines from the 80s and tapes that had weird little programs and ASCII animations on them. Such bizarre and awesome bit of computing history.