I’ve never questioned Eiichiro Oda’s insanity, nor do I expect the man to be able to hold a coherent conversation. This is the very stuff that makes him a manga mad genius.

I like short games, and I’ve become more demanding of longer games if they expect to hold my attention past the 25-hour mark. I have less free time now than I had when I was longer, and there are so many games! I’ve loved brief, luminous romps like Portal, Shadow of the Colossus, and Beyond Good and Evil because they…

Final Fantasy Adventure was my favourite Game Boy game, until Link’s Awakening was released. I was eagerly looking forward to Sword of Mana, but I was cruelly disappointed by it - I don’t know how professional game designers could have made such terrible interface decisions, and their updated take on the story was a…

I was seven or eight, so I played it around the time it came out. It was at my aunt’s place, who’s always had a thing for video games (she ended up buying Zelda II and Final Fantasy on her NES). I remember being fascinated by what could be in those question mark blocks. I wanted to hit them all! ;)

It’s not because a game is flawed that it can’t have things you’ll love dearly about it. I guess I think fondly of Paladin’s Quest for the same reason.

FF6 is a manifesto on what video game music could be, and broke the pattern of the single main protagonist in favour of a multiple POV storyline à la Game of Thrones. These are its main accomplishments in JRPG history. That, and Kefka wrecking your poo (shhh, spoilers :P ).

Wait, what? You can play plain old Wii Virtual Console games on the Wii U that you can’t get straight from the Wii U Virtual Console? How does that even make sense?

Who would have thought that a well-crafted, engrossing single-player experience could sell? (I haven’t played Witcher, but it’s more of a general comment on deep single-player games.)

Sorry, you lost me at “a pitch for a game that’ll be on Kickstarter in the near future”.

Video games are not a correlate of crime. There are all kinds of things that are correlates of crime (including age and gender), but video games (violent media in general, for that matter) are not one of them. Any study who wants to posit that video games are linked with aggressive behaviour needs to address why they…

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April Ryan is the greatest video game protagonist.

Sharks usually don’t attack humans. Usually.

I think I missed out on part of the Gawker drama that’s been going on. I keep hearing about it, but I don’t know what happened exactly.

The One Piece is in fact Gol D. Rogers’s beetle collection. Only the true Pirate King could recognize the value of such a treasure.

I squeed when this started playing at the end of the last trial in the conclusion to the original Phoenix Wright trilogy. :)

Wait, why does this game have character penis size? I’m fine with the concept, just wondering? So far, the only game I’ve ever played where this was a feature was Corruption of Champions, why is a smutty game.

He’s not making allegations towards a named, specific person though; that strikes me as unnecessary. Other articles with interviews of anonymous survivors don’t go out of their way to state that they think the survivors are telling the truth. Also, my husband is a journalist; I know a thing or two about this (we talk…

It’s kinda funny - I’ve lost both my grandmother and my stepfather this spring, and I felt the urge to play Binding of Isaac to help me cope. There’s something about this game that just appealed to me as I was grieving.