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@Anonymous

Interesting that you spend your time trolling this failure.

... and this is why I'm excited about a Sesame Street video game. Funny how things change when you become a parent...

Anyway, that's our little guy. We will surely be exploiting him to up the cute quotient on the site, especially when he's old enough to talk and play simple games.

Man, this sucks. Bizarre is a great developer and it's sad to see them go. I hope the guys who founded the company go on to found something new and continue to make fantastic games. Best of luck to everyone there.

My two cents on Stacking: I love it. Another really inventive game from Double Fine. It started out a little slow, but quickly picked up steam and never overstayed its welcome.

Many of the game's puzzles took some real thinking and the world construction and characters were top notch as usual. When compared to Costume Quest, I think I like it just a bit more, if only because it's not quite as redundant, but both were a real treat.

As much as I want a Psychonauts 2, I wouldn't mind if Double Fine stuck to digital distribution titles for their original IPs. They seem to excel in the format and it seemingly has inspired them to explore entirely new gaming concepts.

Chessa is actually working on that right now, Caliban. We just finished the game over the weekend.

This is probably of little interest to most of our readers, but my love of Double Fine made it impossible for me to pass up covering the story.

I think most of us grew up watching Sesame Street, so I'll be interested to see what Double Fine does with the property. Their brand of lighthearted humor should certainly be a good fit for the property and their knack for creating compelling gaming experiences should help make this one of the better licensed children games out there.

If a review copy doesn't come, I'll probably pick this one up anyway. It'll surely be useful in the future...

@Zap

I'd say the Virtual Console on the whole has been a success. I do think that it has been flailing in recent years and I'm not quite sure why. There are still plenty of games out there to release, yet nothing does. Weeks come and weeks go and often the Virtual Console sees no new additions.

To an extent, I'm sure Nintendo is holding back, but I'm not sure that they are actively pursuing publishers to bring new content to the service. I don't run their business so I can't quite say what would be profitable for them, but I'd have to think it's in their best interest to try and sign everyone up on the Virtual Console. Surely, Nintendo makes a piece of the profit, and as has been demonstrated, the effort in releasing a title is minimal because they are nothing more than ROM dumps.

While I do think that the Virtual Console has more or less been a success, it hasn't really lived up to my expectations. I was truly hoping that we'd be seeing a wider representation of games by now and I was hoping that more and more out of region games would have been released. Those are what I'm really interested in.

The trend we have seen completely goes against what my expectations were - I figured by year five of the Wii, the Virtual Console would have so many games released and still waiting to be released, no one could possibly keep up with it.

I'll be curious to see what Nintendo does with the service going forward. Clearly, they have trumped Microsoft and Sony in releasing classic games, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there is some Ace up that sleeve.

I was really upset that this version of Angry Birds came out so bad. I currently have the game on my HTC Incredible and it runs and plays great. Furthermore, it was free on that platform!

It's hard to recommend this version to anyone, as it's such a poor representation of what's actually a very good game.

I look forward to your 3DS coverage on it, Matt.

Kirby's Epic Yarn is an interesting beast.

I really, really enjoyed playing it in spite of the game's extreme ease. In many games, the rewarding part is success, but in KEY, the reward was the voyage. Each level is playful and simple, offering elements of discovery and plenty of little things to do.

My biggest complaint was the co-op, which felt forced in a few levels. Chessa and I found out quickly that some levels just weren't made for it, and we'd have to take turns backing out of the game to complete those levels free of frustration.

This same issue manifested far worse in DKCR, which didn't seem cut out for co-op in the least.

Although I was far more excited for DKCR than KEY coming out of E3, I think I enjoyed the contents of KEY quite a bit more at the end of it all.

Sweet Jesus, I want this thing. Must add more coins...