Steam keys for whoever wants them.

Gotham Impostors DLC (free-to-play on Steam)
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=4527DAMx36wyD47Y

Arkham Origins Skins
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=HvhFeRZRfdMzSbcD

Lord of the Rings Online (also free-to-play) Steely Dawn Starter Pack
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=CVZYc5sxKyrAxAYf

Guardians of Middle Earth
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=2eZucSEaesSkCYhN

Guardians of Earth Smaug's Treasure DLC
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=dpazEARmUcGM3KMt

Gog is awesome.

I'll saves Mittz the trouble.

Cheryl Cole

I have a spare copy of Oath of Felghana on Steam if anyone wants it.

New trailer for season 5 just dropped.


Even with Dan Harmon back at the reins, there still looks like there's going to be way too many gimmicks.

One example of detail in Shenmue that I never really appreciated until now is the climbing of stairs in Shenmue.

Nearly every game I can think of just has the characters move up the stairs as if they were a ramp. Shenmue is the only game off the top of my head that bothers to have a separate animation showing the characters moving up each individual step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wanhfZFZA ]

I finished Bioshock Infinite yesterday. As a huge fan of the barbershop genre, I was really happy when I heard this song in the game. In addition to the song lyrics being surprisingly fitting, Irrational actually got a really good quartet to arrange and sing the song too (A Mighty Wind). Last I checked, A Mighty Wind was ranked #3 in the world (yes, there are international barbershop quartet competitions).

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Excellent.

If there was one thing missing from Dark Souls, it was that I couldn't play as Mike Tyson.

I just finished the Book of Unwritten Tales. It's a very charming and humorous point 'n click that manages to poke fun at the fantasy and RPG genres without being too in-your-face about it.

The Kickstarter for the second game went live on Tuesday and the developers have already met their secondary funding goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingartgames/the-book-of-unwritten-tales-2

Dungeon Keeper is free on GOG.com for the next 2 days.

Since when do weaboos have a good name?

I've played through the prologue of Witcher 2. I'm having some trouble getting used to the controls. Everything's new and shiny, but the controls seem to have gotten a little less intuitive in the process. Could just be me though.

OL wrote: They're pretty likable overall, with Teepo being the only groan-inducer for me so far

A case of art imitating reality?

My angriest moments have less to do with game moments and more faulty disc moments.

My first copy of Shenmue would randomly freeze on loading screens. I never technically beat Shenmue (it would freeze during the Swallow Flip lesson) until a few years later.

My Shenmue 2 discs are scratched up to hell from when I was younger and didn't take proper care of them. Every time I try to replay disc 2, I get to the point where you chase Ren in Pigeon Park. Then the game freezes precisely when Cool Z starts laughing. This causes Cool Z's laughter to loop infinitely both to mock me and to serve as penance for my sins.

Speaking of online dating...

Ezio's ability with the ladies transcends time and logic.

Each story arc is pretty self-contained. It's not like other long-running shonen manga where you have to read 400 chapters to know what's happening.

For example, in the third story arc Stardust Crusaders , the protagonist of the second arc is a supporting character and the villain of the first arc is the primary antagonist, but you aren't missing anything if you haven't read the first 2 arcs.

It will probably cost a lot if you buy all of them, but you have the freedom to jump around.

If you enjoyed The Room, you will enjoy this book.

Arkham Asylum could get pretty creepy. The whole setting is creepy in general and the environment felt really claustrophobic.

On the other hand, much of the tension was dispersed once you got into the proper mindset. During some sections of the game where I was acting more cautious or more on edge than usual, I realized that, "Wait a second. I'm the GODDAMN Batman." Vengeance and justice then rained down on the evil denizens of the asylum (vengeance and justice being the name of Batman's fists).

OL's earlier post reminded me to preorder JoJo Bizarre Adventure: All-star Battle.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/ea61s9.jpg

I preordered from Club Namco, which gave me 50% off an anime game. I used the 50% deal to pick up Ni No Kuni for just under 10 dollars.
http://i.imgur.com/3hPDzFj.jpg

So I'm going to treat this as the general Batman thread.

As a continuation of Batman's 75th anniversary, DC has released another short.

Here's some comic book science for you.

As awesome as anticipated. It really helps that the studio are massive fans of the series and are adapting it true to the manga.

I have a third-hand fat PS2 whose laser is on the verge of dying. I softmodded mine with Free McBoot. I play games off an IDE drive connected to the PS2 with a PS2 network adaptor, thus bypassing the laser entirely. There are also other Free McBoot apps you could use. There's an app where, if you can connect your PS2 to the internet, you can link it to your computer and play the ISOs of the games from there.

OL wrote:
Basically, she ignores anything that doesn't shout "videogames are misogynistic and terrible."

That's pretty much her entire schtick. She got nearly $160k out of a Kickstarter for her video series (the initial goal was $6k).

My desktop is a dinosaur by computer standards (just over 10 years old and has had practically no hardware upgrades whatsoever), so I pretty much forget about playing any games on it.

I've only just now realized that the majority of my GOG library is composed of games that my desktop can actually run adequately.

Look out Beneath a Steel Sky. You are going to get played.

I watched Dredd yesterday and Lena Headey's already been posted so...

Olivia Thirlby

OL wrote:

Got these in the summer GOG sale.

I think a big part of the problem is that although kids are getting smarter, parents are a lot more protective of their kids. Parents expected a certain level of maturity out of kids in the past, but nowadays they seem to coddle them as much as possible.

Take this clip from "The Great Mouse Detective".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IctxaCPqw

If this was shown for the first time today, a whole bunch of people would complain about the smoking, drinking and "sexual objectification" of the female mice.

Boy Meets World covered a lot of serious topics: alcoholism, domestic violence, underage sex, cults, etc. The vast majority of those kids/teen shows wouldn't even touch those topics. At best, they might tiptoe around the issue and allude to it in the subtlest way possible because think of the children.

It's an incredibly weird paradox. I mean, kids are clearly getting smarter in general, thanks to the internet and all that. But then you see that this is the kind of entertainment they watch... and you can't help but think that we must be raising the single dumbest generation the world has ever seen. I can't figure out which one is the truth.

I was watching a rerun of Boy Meets World and Feeny was just as pissed about this as us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhiiewUgQpc

I also caught 10 minutes of Girl Meets World while flipping through the channels. Wow, you weren't kidding. It really is that bad.

I became a fan of Susumu Hirasawa through his collaboration with Satoshi Kon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNUPVWPquE

He's also done the score for the Berserk film/games (which I keep meaning to watch/play/read the manga). His live shows are also pretty crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddw2g4tViuA

There were a lot of disappointing things about Man of Steel. Antje Traue was not one of them.

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Sounds like inspiration for your next horror film.

I didn't realize when I watched the cartoon as a kid, but Hey Arnold actually has a really great soundtrack.

Dwayne Johnson just confirmed he's playing Black Adam.

Too bad Superman can't return the favor.

Guys, this just means Shenmue Online is going to come out now.

I'm pretty sure they email you for every transaction on the PSN store now.

I now get email invoices when I download free games off PS+ despite not getting any in the past.

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If you want a more dramatic Jackie Chan movie that isn't carried entirely by his fight scenes, I recommend Little Big Soldier. He only has one non-joke fight scene in the entire movie. His acting is also pretty good (not just by Jackie Chan standards), though the character is to his type.

There are a whole lot more countries in Asia than just China and Japan. While those 2 are overrepresented in games, the rest of them are hardly represented at all. They've set up India and Russian settings in the comics. The hood, though iconic, isn't really a hard requirement since we've had a few hat-wearing protagonists.

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I saw it. I thought it was very well done. Better than Frozen IMO, but I also thought Frozen was really overrated, say take that as you will.

As for the white-washing, Hiro is mixed race and the comic the movie was based off of was as weeb as you can possibly get.

Kenny wrote: Videogames are totally misogynist.

Who cares?