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The spiritual forefather of the Soul serie is actually Shadow Tower, not King's Field. I played several hours of Shadow Tower recently and it's hilariously difficult... well... difficult is not the word... It's just constantly uncomfortable and stressful. The only way to heal is to use potions...

I have seen The Swapper mentioned in several "best of 2013" discussions, so maybe it's not the 'most underrated' game. Or maybe, it's so good it should be on everyone's list like, say,Papers, Please!

This was an exaggeration (based on a spike possibly). In the end, they sold the last 900ish in under one hour, but it's very difficult to estimate from that how many were sold in total, because of the time at which it occurred, how the word spread, etc. We'll have to wait to know more.

Better hurry if you want one: people using ordering tricks to know the number remaining in stock show the basic SKU at about 180 left as of this post and they sell about 1 per second... EDIT: No more basic SKU... still some Battlefield and Killzone bundles.

Did brick and mortar stores also get a PS4 shipment? The Amazon rankings make it sound like it was that big pre-christmas shipment people mentioned earlier.

JLaw obviously.

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World Premiere for the opening of the Berlin Film Festival on the 6th of February 2014.

While Mikkelsen was good, I was mostly impressed by Thomas Bo Larsen who plays the neighbor. That said, I am not a huge fan of the film overall because its stubbornness to refuse dramaturgy left me narratively unsatisfied. That and the nauseating discourse, but let's not get all gender study...

Scribblenauts for the DS is both fun and a very good learning tool for writing/spelling/vocabulary.

If you really really have to remake Naked Gun, it might as well be with a lead that will bring his own brand of comedy instead of trying to mimic Nielsen. Anyway, convincing people that this remake is a good idea and that the end result will be worth watching is a very difficult task.

As far as I am concerned there was too much story. I don't think you need to make that much corny dialogue driven back-story to show someone facing hardships being tempted by giving up and ultimately deciding to fight. Still an extremely impressive movie. Space realism question: after all...

I found the 'teaching an actor how to fake playing trombone' storyline a bit ballsy and maybe a tad too meta considering Wendell Pierce is not a trombone player (but he probably had more than a day to learn faking it). But yeah, great episode. I found the Big Chief losing his sense of taste...

Give your puppet scissors at your own peril!

I will not lie, the previous one made me laugh a lot more than I thought it would, so I am optimistic about this sequel.

And so spoketh the local authority on all things related to fighter games. While you are around, did you play Drop Kick? I wondered if it's a joke or if there is tactical elegance in its simplicity.

The real question with the new Killer Instinct is: can you buy combo hits with micro-transactions?

At some point during the hanging, I thought there would be an uprising. I mean the show established his popularity in Iran and when a popular hero is suddenly labeled a murderous enemy of the state and in the span of three days is arrested, judged and executed, it sounds seriously fishy. It can...

Once bitten, twice shy.

I 'five star'-ed everything but the last stage in normal, but the last boss was so cheap it made me quit

How would you know? It's his first feature film. Maybe you saw his shorts?

To better understand the situation, it would really be interesting to have a somewhat reliable estimate of how many units Microsoft and Sony are able to produce. Be it because of yield issues, delay with the Kinect implementation for small market languages or just a strategy, Microsoft are...

I think there is a typo: where Christopher Nolan is written, you should read Terrence Malick.

More like the last decade you cared about music.

For all five french readers out there, I just finished the three volumes of 'Le puit des m?moires' (The Memories' Well). It's an award winning fantasy novel written by the friend of a friend of a friend of mine. Amusingly, the author created the story for a PnP RPG campaign, mastered it for a...

I did not mean 'worthless' in the sense of 'uninteresting', I meant it as 'unrecognizable by someone who is not a comic fan'. In recent years, Marvel did a much better job than DC at bringing a number of its characters to the mainstream, dramatically increasing the value of these intellectual...

It's a lot easier for Arrow to use DC characters, because they are pretty much all worthless IPs outside of Batman and Superman (who will not show up in Arrow). I am sure though that Marvel also has a bunch of worthless IPs to throw at Agents of SHIELD, but it's both easier and better to just...

You might want to check some youTube video of F-15 Strike Eagle 3 to refresh your memory... It's true though that some spaceships (most notably the big carriers that warp away) are very crude.

I did a search, but I half-ass'ed itI think labeling the game MMORPG is a bit of a stretch though and this topic is useful for the people who did not see the VGX and do not read the MMORPG forum!

The team that made Joe Danger (fun bike platformer thingy) are now working on a space exploration game where the content is procedurally generated as it is discovered. It's a pretty distant release so it's unclear what other layers or gameplay and systems will be implemented on top of the core...

That looks surprisingly decent.

The sound in movies is probably where there is the biggest departure from reality. The punching sounds and the gun/knife/sword brandishing sounds have been mentioned, but another category is the 'leading to impact' sounds. There was a whole documentary on the sound of Terminator 2 on the...

Blunt looks pretty sharp in this! HAH!

I agree you can give a red to Ivanov. The problem is giving him a red for a hand holding as last defender when, 1 minute before that, an intentional rugby tackle on Streller going alone to the goal got sanctioned by a yellow. For those that did not see, the offside on freekick. Note that to...

It was the day of the absurd... Napoli out with 12 points, Porto hitting the frame three times, Milan parking the bus or the linesman missing 4 offside players on a free kick against Basel... fun evening! Basel got supremely fucked over by the refs though, because before the unbelievable free...

The Juventus vs Galatasaray match is actually played right now (as I post, it's half time). The field is a swamp and it started snowing as they restarted! Snow only lasted 10ish minutes and last I saw it became a light drizzle. In some areas, all pass attempt on the ground is futile. It's old...

I think they picked it because the stakes were high and it had potential to be a great match (it will still be true tomorrow, but Basel plays Shalke!). I confess I did not check the other 2 national channels (in german and italian) to see if they showed something else, but I believe they buy the...

That was the one game national TV bought the right for Btw they will not replay it tomorrow, they will finish it tomorrow: it will be a 60min thing.

Another shock of cultures! Here is a map from wikipedia: Blue Sunday, Yellow Monday, Green Saturday, Red Wednesday. Amusingly, the portuguese week starts on Monday... which is called segunda-feira (heritage from the liturgical week in latin).