I recently played Halo 4 with two people who had never played any Halo games before. I summarized the series as best I could, but I ran into a speed bump when they asked me to clarify the nature of Master Chief and Cortana's relationship.

After I stuttered some insufficient explanations, one of them asked, "Is it a Tinkerbell fetish?"

Hotline Miami, an indie top-down shooter PC game by Dennaton Games that came out in October and found its way onto many a Best Games of 2012 list (including the Phoenix's), has a twist ending that you have seen before. You have seen it in Fight Club, and in the first Call of Duty: Black Ops game. In some ways, you have felt it shake you to your core in every game that asks you to kill someone.

Jilane's "breeding farms" almost feel like a dirty little secret, considering how few people have sought out the Gears collection of art books, comics, and novels.

I hope you watched that entire Duke Nukem Forever trailer. Next, you should watch this compilation of one-liners from previous Duke Nukem games. Are you feeling like more of a man yet? Because I do. And I'm a woman. So that's saying something.

Duke Nukem Forever seems to be in a perpetual state of controversy.

^{THE SONY NGP Is this a Magic Eye image? If I cross my eyes and back away, will I see a pussy?}

I realize this controversy happened a week and a half ago, but it still makes me want to punch a wall until my hand falls off, so here we go.

Mr. Jaffe, you may recall saying the following statement about the new Sony NGP: