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I would say that Nintendo could do that easily by making a Pokemon LoMa, but I'm not sure if Mystery Dungeon players have "graduated" on to other Rogue-likes. Even Roguelike Radio went out of its way to not talk about Pokemon when discussing Mystery Dungeon.

I hope they get a license from Ultra Games and make this part of the Cyber Stadium Series along with Base Wars!

Hey, my wife is dead! After creating this sad house with incomplete rooms, it was robbed, my wife was murdered, and all of my money was stolen. Rather than click the "suicide" button, I tested the house again and fell to my death into a pit. I restarted, then created a house that used the walls to spell "JESUS FORGIVES," leaving the safe at the top of the map next to my family. No traps, just a message. Less than five seconds after creating that house, someone broke in, murdered my wife, and robbed me of everything. The burglar's path taken and line of sight wouldn't have let him see more than "JESUS ORG," but who knows if he bothered to read a single letter? As a burglar, I never took a single step into a home. Every home I attempted to rob contained someone's dead wife steps away from the front door. I broke in, looked around, got depressed, and left. The Castle Doctrine is certainly a contender for Best Dead Wife Simulator of the year!

I think this is finally the moment I break down and purchase a 3DS. Not for Pikachu, but for that "buy a 3DS and Luigi's Mansion and get Super Mario Land 3D!" offer. The only two games I'm interested in!

I purchased the game last night for no good reason, especially because I will never put any effort into learning the mechanics. My home is so poorly designed it's hilarious. I assumed that the tiny rectangle you first see is the entirety of your home, so I began placing walls accordingly. Next I was told to test my home, which is when I discovered that the screen scrolled; my home was several times larger than I assumed. It also meant that invaders could simply walk around all of my traps and walls to get to my vault. So go to my house and take all of my money!

There's no real reason to post this, but this dude I saw on the street looks like Solid Snake.

As of this morning I have now been nearly hit by two MTA buses adorned with Bioshock Infinite advertisements. I enter a crosswalk, the bus blows a red light, I jump back in time to see Shotgun Guy and Corset Girl's faces rush past two inches from my face. This game will literally kill me.

Ha, exactly. We will never believe Nick is truly back until we hear the magic four words: "and I'm Nick Breckon." Astounding... Congrats Tegan!

Someone at Maxis should leak an offline patch or some equivalent. Civil disobedience, man!

Somebody's getting voted off.

This photo is crying out to be Big Blum-ed.

The official Xbox Live Marketplace description of the game is: None of which comes from the game itself. Thanks, Xbox!

I just watched the playthrough today. I was expecting combat options to be "gun + fireball", so I was pleasantly surprised to see summoning spells, spy drones, ley lines, and other ways to mix it up in combat. Fun! And if they're bringing in Jake Armitage from the SNES game, throw in Sam Verner from the Secrets of Power paperback novels!

Absolutely! All I saw was a pair of hoop earrings swaying back and forth while a voice read a page from TV Tropes aloud about things I already knew. But youmeyou learned previously unknown things about StarFox Adventures and Doki Doki Panic. That really is worth it! That really is all this video series needs to do! It's working as advertised.

The $1,500 donor tier is the "Lord" level. Reward: In-game "Lord" title for avatar.

No. Yes. That's good! I am mistaking the point, though, because all I got was "Video games have historically used the women in their story as a player reward. Opportunities to move past this have often been squashed."

So now that I watched like four minutes of this video and learned that Miyamoto is evil, which Mario games should I burn?

I bought The Real Texas on sale on GOG last night. It wasn't until I was listening to this podcast that I realized that it and Kentucky Route Zero are two different games. "Adventure game? Wait, I bought a blocky Zelda/Ultima-ish game!"

RIP No-blix. Merus is right that Valve doesn't need to release a single game ever again to make money, so I think it's legitimate to ask Gabe: are you working on anything? And if Speedy Desiato's hypothetical ever comes to pass, I will consider the Duke Nukem 3D expansion Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach as the true ending to the Half-Life series, complete with Combine soldiers in Hawaiian shirts.

I could never tell if "frag" in Doom terms really did derive from the military meaning of deliberately killing your superior or fellow officers. In the official narrative introduction to Doom, we first see the word as a substitute for "frak" or "frell": But the first paragraph of that introduction says that you've been transferred to Mars as punishment for assaulting (and murdering?) a superior officer, so it's likely that id knew the military definition.

These are certainly "safe" screenshots—no beastmen or moss arrows to scare away the AAA crowd! Also not enough loot! Show us the goods!

Valve is hard at work: Not releasing Dota 2 even though they said it would likely be released by now. Firing people. And Dota 2 is the only game we know of that they intend to release. Even looking past Half-Life, do they plan on releasing or announcing anything?

Thank goodness there are App Store comments like "Zynga bought it and they ruined it." Whether or not that's true, it's the only thing that stopped me from immediately buying it and guaranteeing my non-productivity everywhere.

My personal Chris Remo Game of Shame is a flash-based disc-dropping game called Chain Factor. You make numbered discs disappear by dropping discs from the top of the screen until the number of discs in a row or column match the number on the disc (drop a disc on top of a "2" disc and the 2 disc disappears). It's a slightly different approach to the "match stuff and make stuff go away" puzzle category, and the time it took me to figure out how it worked was enough time to get me addicted. I have been playing it nearly every week for years. During Thanksgiving weekend last year, the site that hosted it, chainfactor.com, shut down. Like Jake's example of Journey 2, I thought it was gone forever! But then I hit up Archive.org and found they had a copy. I've been playing it there ever since. I actually just stopped playing my second game of the evening a few minutes ago. At least Chris has an endgame to look forward to. Chain Factor becomes all but impossible between levels 28-34; the discs you pull are all up to chance and you can easily form a wall of unclearable discs. But I keep playing anyway...

I am in a similar boat and will likely build a living room PC. PC cases are still terrible looking, though! What can I get that won't look embarrassing in the living room?