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My favorite part of that Kickstarter is that it's for a 9 year-old to go to RPG Camp and one of the rewards is a "Can Koozie" that says "I drink like a girl.... keep up!"

I can't say as I'm entirely surprised. If you were to compare the features of Kunark versus Velious, Velious would look absolutely sparse. No level cap increase, no new race, fewer zones, content focused on a narrower level range, etc. Not to mention, it came out so soon after Kunark, that...

I'll be disappointed if this doesn't make its way to Steam eventually.

PM me your email address. I'll send you an invite and save you the $20.

I think the douchie thing isn't what he said, but the fact that he posted his explanation in a .pdf. WTF? In regards to what he says, I think part of the problem is it's really hard to teach game development. Unlike art and programming which have very broad practical applications, game...

I've never been entirely sure why, but I've always found MMOs to be the most boring genre of game to watch someone play. Perhaps there is just something to the immersion that improves the enjoyment of the game that you just don't get from watching someone else play? After seeing theirfirst...

Design a multiplayer game and include a way to make it easier for people to play together? Bwaaah!? I don't know. Art design aside, it does seem like they're trying to differentiate themselves from WoW by adding a lot of depth. Besides the housing, there are the various paths (which they...

New trailer today. Not sure if it gives any new information, but it does show some of the PvP warplots and housing.

Bioshock: Infinite is Steamworks on PC, so it's safe to say you'll get a Steam key, same with XCOM. (It says "DRM: Steam" under the title. I wish Amazon would be consistent with where they're going to show that.)

Reynold and Eddie likely wouldn't be in the position they were now if their "pretty people alliance" wasn't so obvious. Though, I wouldn't say we don't still see this. Even this season, Michael and Matt seem to be operating an alliance within an alliance as well as Corinne and Malcolm. Of...

Wow, between this, Saints Row 4, and Dungeon Defenders 2, this has been quite a week of announcements for games I eagerly await.

If anyone is still looking to preorder this game,Amazon increased their pre-order bonusesto match Steam. It now includes a $30 2K Games Credit,Bioshock Infinite: Mind in RevolteBook for Kindle, "Industrial Revolution Pack,"andXCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Sometimes, yes, which makes me wonder if Probst has really changed that much or the editing has changed so more of Probst's pressing questions are asked. My guess would be it's a little of both. I seem to recall them changing their director (or whatever that role is for a reality show) a few...

Yeah, he steps down March 30th. Though, not sure how badly they'll be hurting. They also announced today thatSimCity sold over 1 million copies, making it the most successful SimCity launch ever. Now, whether or not that meets expectations is unknown, but it certainly doesn't hurt them.

And EA CEO John Riccitiello has resigned, though I doubt this is mainly due to Sim City. I'd think ToR's flopping probably had a bigger impact.

I'd also speculate that a lot of the questions that seem especially pressing are shown out of context and in response to something someone else said. I think that was a decision Probst made himself. I read an interview once where he said he really hated doing them and felt they were extremely...

Right, but this is a show that is supposed to go many seasons, and given the premise of the show, it doesn't seem like Will will be catching Hannibal anytime soon, which leads me to believe there will be some "near misses" just to keep tension up.

Finally caught up after falling a couple episodes behind. Holy shit. Whatever person is in charge of screening people to make sure they are mentally competent to play needs to be replaced. I just find it amusing that, prior to the season starting, Jeff gave an interview to EW where they...

I don't think that's true. I just don't think this is a shooter MMO. The combat is more akin to Mass Effect 1 than CoD. It's more RPG than shooter, so it sort of sits on that line that's too RPG for shooter fans and too shooter for RPG fans. Plus, as far as an MMO goes, the only new thing it...

I think that's a good comparison. Both Tera and GW2 do an excellent job of introducing you to the game by providing you with a dynamic cinematic and immediately throwing you into the action. Defiance, on the other hand, has a fairly forgettable cut scene (which is more like the opening of a...

I think my two biggest fears for this show are: 1) This will just be another show with the detective whose neurosis gives him godlike powers to solve crimes (a la every detective show since Monk). 2) Hannibal is going to be doing his thing and constantlyalmostbeing caught by either Will or...

One thing that's becoming more evident to me the more I watch this season is that the writing is far less subtle than it used to be. It's like the writers want to make sure we get the jokes, so you get things like Jeff kissing Chang's ex and then exclaiming, "This should bother you because...

After seeing this week's episode, I'm pretty amazed that NBC actually made the right decision in not picking up The Farm.

Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the name. Wasn't he the one that either came up with or ran the Best of the Best competition?

That's not the part that gets me. The thing that gets me: No one noticed this prior to launch? No one spoke up and said, "Hey, having cars always take the shortest route means a lot of roads will be unused and therefore pointless. That's sort of a problem"? Did they not do any internal...

The more important thing is they were able to remove the 20 minute check to see if you are connected to the internet, effectively making thegame playable offline, though it still requires an internet connection to save. I think the thing is a lot of the problems that are being talked about now...

I'd be happy with just an episode that wrapped up the series.

How does that even work? In previous Sim Cities, if you didn't have areas zoned for commercial and industrial, your residential areas wouldn't build up.

It'd be nice if, between this an Aliens: Colonial Marines, people would learn not to pre-order games.

It's always easy to apply a prophecy in retrospect, especially when the prophecy is as vague and gives as few details as the Prophecy of the Popes does. How hard was it really to find some connection between Pope Benedict XVI and olives? Give it a few days, and someone will come up with...

Yeah, I don't think this will have any trouble meeting and exceeding their goal. What should be interesting is to see byhow muchit exceeds the goal and whether or not this will have the same impact on movie making as it has on game development. Though, I can't really think of many movies that...

To be honest, the thing I find most surprising about this choice is that they went with another really old man. I remember looking up that most popes in the 20th century were in their mid-60s to early-70s when elected. Benedict, at 78, was a definite outlier, and it was suspected that he was...

Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell havestarted a Kickstarterin an attempt to make the Veronica Mars movie a reality: The goal is set at $2 million, which is less than I'd expect for a movie, but then I imagine they were never going to be able to get this done unless it was with a small budget.

Given how much money they've made off Sims 3 and its 16 expansions, I think it's pretty clear that this is where they want to go with Sim City. It's most likely why you can't mod the game like you could with its predecessors. They wanted to do the same thing with Spore, but well, that game...

See, that's probably the thing that disappoints me the most about this. When I heard Sim City was going to include online features, the idea actually excited me. I think there's a lot of compelling online content that could be added to a city simulation. After all, real cities don't exist in...

I'll give it a chance purely because it's written by Bryan Fuller. Hopefully it's as good as his other shows and, if so, hopefully it can make it past season 2.

I think the unfortunate thing is that the always-on DRM has taken up so much of the focus on the major gaming sites, that the actual problems with the gameplay are largely being overlooked. The server issues are obviously going to be fixed in time, but it's unknown if some of the issues with...

I did say it "started more last season". I'm not sure she'sworsethan she was in season 3, but she's really no better, and I don't think having her date Troy helps. They just haven't known what to do with her once her original role ran its course. It's the same sort of problem they ran into...

I tend to agree. I didn't mind them leaning on Abed that much this episode, because I enjoyed the joke of him trying to give the situation a theme. It was a bit oflampshade hanging. I do think they're missing their mark with Britta, though. This started more last season, but it seems like...

Kickstarter has been riding pretty high on the wave of nostalgia the past year: Shadowrun, Wasteland, Planescape, etc. He'd be stupid to not try to leverage some of the nostalgia factor associated with his name when so many others have done so well. To be fair, the same argument Tim Schafer...