I thought for a moment you were going to talk about this guy.

7. Try a Kids App

There's a difference between checking up on a situation and attacking a home. The police are potentially putting lives at risk by not exercising proper care in such situations. That being said, I don't want to take away responsibility from the "hoaxers", because it's a very serious thing to do (you are basically…

The other big problem with this policy is that it puts certain type of Nintendo content in an awkward position. In many cases, the idea that Nintendo would want to take a share of the money produced by video content of their products makes some sense: they made the game(s) in question, and want in on the action. Of…

It feels a lot of the time that the gaming industry is immature as an employer, and that it doesn't take the mental health of its employees seriously. Sakurai sounds like he's going through burn-out, and he deserves all the support (as does any employee) from his employer and his co-workers in this regard.

That's both really cool and uncanny. :)

There are a number of studies that have linked condoms that are too tight with condoms being more likely to break (and a condom that's way too tight is obscenely uncomfortable). It's NEVER okay to pressure someone into having sex without a condom, but there are men for whom it's challenging to find a condom of the…

Smaller, Interesting Games

By sequel, do you mean Seiken Densetsu 3 or Secret of Evermore?

There are games that make sense, and then there is Xenogears, a sprawling epic about giant robots and religious mythology that somehow manages to be simultaneously poignant and incoherent. If you can look past some subpar dungeon design and excruciatingly slow text, you're in for a wonderful adventure about people…

Look, you know all about Chrono Trigger. Time travel, talking frog swordsmen, Lavos, Lucca, mute Jesus protagonist, floating magic sky kingdom. If you've never played Chrono Trigger, try to keep your expectations in check—it's not gonna change your life—but it's still an excellent RPG.

Secret of Evermore is kind of like a mix of Earthbound, Secret of Mana, and a bit of Ed Wood, but even that doesn't do it justice. It's one of the "best boy and his dog" games around. Your canine partner both mauls enemies and sniffs out alchemy ingredients as you uncover a curious conspiracy involving virtual…

SPOILERS!!! Some of us have been waiting for the voume 4 trade paperback to ship for almost a year!

What the F is a mental health epidemiologist? And what does that have to do with deaths on TV and movies?

When you take into account what Pewdiepie is doing with this audience of teens—making people spectators in the games he plays—it's also not surprising that some of the 'gaming elite' dislikes the guy. Our culture is built on playing the games, weathering the hardship and challenges yourself. A gamer is not born, this…

It's been over 11 years since we last saw Hudson Soft's bestial battler series in action, and chances of a Bloody Roar revival are incredibly slim. Thank goodness Capcom is here to provide us our anthropomorphic fighter fix with a whopping nine packs of "Wild Costumes" for Ultra Street Fighter IV.

Suikoden: Make sure Pahn wins THE duel (use him whenever you can so he gets nice and strong); get 107 stars before the Battle of Shazarazade.

Yeah, you really should. One of the things people really love about the main Suikoden games is the continuity. Unlike other RPGs, the Suikoden games are all set in the same universe, with recurring storylines, characters, and settings, making this franchise more akin to one big TV series than it is to, say, a movie.…

We went to Halcon, and our friend cosplayed as Silk Spectre. I had to ask her: "So do you think you'd be comfortable fighting bad guys in hand-to-hand combat in that outfit?" She laughed, and her answer was a resounding: "No."

It breaks one of the rules of Dragon Ball: the villain never returns as a true villain once his story arc has wrapped up. If he shows up again, he becomes an ally or he gets his ass spectacularly kicked.