So there's been a lot of nattering about reviews and people being demanding of authors on the nerdier end of the internets lately (and by lately I mean in the last N months, not yesterday). And I think that some important things are getting lost amidst the declarations that George R. R. Martin is not your bitch (PS: he's not, nor is any other ( Read more... )

Ordinarily, I feel frustrated with and disdainful of Gamestop/EB Games' "reserve" program, especially for mass-release games that they should be stocking a zillion copies of anyway. In the case of niche 2-D games like Etrian Odyssey, Odin Sphere, and Grim Grimoire, though, pre-ordering/reserving a copy of a game is the only way to ensure that a ( Read more... )