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Games Gone Missing - Where are they now?

Added: 23.01.2015 16:00 | 3 views | 0 comments


Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, Silent Hills, Kingdom Hearts III, Tekken X Street Fighter, EverQuest Next, Crackdown, Scalebound and more, Alexa does some research on games we haven't seen in a while, and whether or not they're still coming out....

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The best (and worst) features we’ll miss from Club Nintendo

Added: 22.01.2015 23:00 | 18 views | 0 comments


You know how you’ll buy ten sandwiches at that corner shop to eventually earn a free meatball sub? Well, some years ago, Nintendo decided to take that approach with its games, rewarding its fans with free stuff for buying the publisher’s products. And now, after Club Nintendo’s ups and downs (if you believe the internet, mostly downs), Nintendo is pulling the plug on the global service.

As someone who registered literally hundreds of items with Club Nintendo, I was as sad about the program’s demise as anyone. But I’m not here to bury Caesar, I’m here to praise him! There are so many great things Club Nintendo gave to company diehards over the years, whether it was something physical, digital, or just a modest sense of community. And now, as Nintendo preps a new approach to rewarding consumers, let’s look back on the many great (and even not-so-great) aspects of disappearing service.

Easily Club Nintendo’s most obvious highlights were all the physical items you could earn. After registering games and accruing hundreds of coins or stars (depending on region), you could get all kinds of Nintendo memorabilia that couldn’t be found in stores. There were posters, playing cards, pins, folders, and much, much more - though the prices didn’t always make sense. You had to register six games to get a tiny Mario badge? It was a bit much.

Out of the many things I got gratis from Club Nintendo (even the shipping was free!), my favorites were the practical items. I’m not 15 anymore, so a set of posters doesn’t do much for me, but Mario hand towels? A desk rack for storing DS carts? A Pikmin tote bag? Historically accurate recreations of old hanafuda cards and Game Watch machines? Now those are things I can (and do) use in everyday life.

Nintendo didn’t restrict Club Nintendo to physical releases either, as games were also claimable. However, as nice as it may be to receive a free port of Super Mario Land for a few hundred coins/stars, Club Nintendo also hosted a number of free titles you couldn’t get anywhere else. In the US, the practice began with an early version of North America’s Club Nintendo giving away the indispensable The Legend of Zelda: Collector’s Edition for registering a couple games. And the exclusives only grew from there.

Grill-Off with Ultra Hand! is an early reward that gave many Club Nintendo alums a set of Wii minigames based on Nintendo’s grabby toy of the 1960s. The team behind the Punch-Out!! reboot pit trainer vs. trainee in Doc Louis’ Punch-Out!!, an extremely rare Wii download that only North American Club Nintendo folks could get in 2009. And then there were the Game Watch Collections for DS, exclusive (and very simple) recreations of some of Nintendo’s earliest games. All of these could only be claimed by Nintendo devotees ready to register every game under the sun - or those ready to pay big bucks on eBay.

Just about every publisher has gotten into the business of fancy freebies and extras for preordering the next big sequel. Yet, Club Nintendo was where the N took a different approach from its competitors. Instead of giving you some exclusive costume or gun, registering a particular game with the service could net you soundtracks, posters, new characters, or even a hefty amount of store credit.

Registering Ocarina of Time 3D got you a CD version of the soundtrack, and you were similarly rewarded for registering both versions of Super Smash Bros. in 2014. Add Kid Icarus: Uprising to your account and you’d get a set of AR Cards not offered in US stores. If you bought the combo of Fire Emblem: Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei 4 (games that any real RPG fan was going to buy anyway), you got $30 in eShop credit. And then there’s the exclusive DLC attached to games like Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros. 3DS/Wii U. In retrospect, Nintendo could’ve done this type of stuff with way more games, but whenever we did get a special offer, it always felt worthwhile.

If you were a particular level of Nintendo obsessive, you registered enough games to qualify for either ‘Gold’ or ‘Platinum’ tiered rewards once a year. Being a crazy consumer, I ranked Platinum every year and for a time collected some really cool stuff offered on the North America store. I got a pretty detailed Mario figurine, a Mario hat I wear on special occasions, and the aforementioned Doc Louis’ Punch-Out!! It was fun for a time… but then the rewards started to go downhill.

Exclusive games and figurines are impressive, and look even better compared to the tiny desk calendar, and shoddy set of pins that came down the line. As the years wore on, it seemed like Nintendo’s heart just wasn’t into the Platinum rewards anymore. I get that sending out stuff all across the country is pricey, but if you’re only going to offer a small set of playing cards instead of an exclusive figure or hat, why even bother? Those rewards felt like a last minute gift your uncle bought you on the way to your birthday party.

Speaking of not being happy with what you’ve got, any Club Nintendo member outside of Japan would be routinely filled with rage when they saw the cool stuff that never left the island nation. See, Club Nintendo had been running much longer in Japan than in every other part of the world, so that branch had a lot of momentum behind its freebies. So, if you want to preserve your sanity, you may want to head to the next slide before seeing what items stayed in Japan.

When it came to games, Club Nintendo Japan released an impressively odd remake of Balloon Fight that cast lovable weirdo Tingle as the lead. There’s also the fanservice-laden card game Nintendoji, and an exclusive digital rerelease of the underrated Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. But my eyes get extra green when I see the non-game rewards, like an anniversary soundtrack for Luigi, or CDs for the stellar Super Mario Galaxy orchestral scores, or a couple of fashionable Mario and Luigi handbags, or a Wii Classic controller that looked like a Famicom joypad. But the exclusive, ridiculously rare Chotto Mario-themed 3DS is the easiest to covet of Japan's freebies. Just try finding one of those online for less than a grand.

Reaching the end of Club Nintendo has gotten me all nostalgic, so I headed to my account and looked back on everything I registered. It’s a loooooong list, with over 350 items registered over the last 11 years. Though that includes demos and game updates, so I’m not as crazy as that number seems. Aside from reminding me that I’ve played a LOT of games since 2003, that registration list is also an unexpected journal for my fandom.

Thanks to Club Nintendo, I know it was September 26, 2013 when I decided to try Hakuouki: Memories of the Shinsengumi, and that I first played Elite Beat Agents two days after Christmas in 2006. Where were you on June 14, 2005? Because I know I had just opened up a Nintendo DS. As a gamer, it’s easy to lose track of the when and where of it all, but if you’ve been devoted to Club Nintendo through its entire run, your history with the company is chronicled for more than a decade.

It’s easy to remember Club Nintendo for all the free crap it delivered, but that ignores all the hard work involved in actually acquiring the lovely junk. To score those coins/stars, you had to register a game and then spend valuable minutes filling out lengthy questionnaires for your purchase. Having a pile of surveys to complete could feel like a real chore, but after doing dozens of them, you realized out how to fly right through them - mainly by not giving a fuuuuuuuuu...

That part that asks for a number? Put in 99 or 22 or whatever, it doesn’t matter. Nintendo wants you to explain what you liked about the game in 150 words? Type in “gdfsgsdgonsdnsgokn.” The system can’t tell the difference - and I don’t write reviews for free. The last seven years of my surveys couldn’t have been all that useful to Nintendo, but all I know is that I got my hands on that free stuff much, much faster.

I want to take one last moment to spotlight the extra effort Nintendo put into the freebies, including some stuff that many didn’t notice. When it came time to design a set of hanafuda cards, the cover to a CD soundtrack, or a tote bag, the company could’ve slapped any old art on the giveaways. Instead, Nintendo put the work to get their top class artists to create brand new portraiture for Club Nintendo.

Look at those highly stylized cards above! Stare at that calendar cover! And marvel at the energy and excitement crammed into the Super Mario 3D World soundtrack case! Not everyone noticed, but if you were paying attention, Club Nintendo was like a secret gallery showcasing the company’s talented art team.

Club Nintendo will soon be no more, but what could take its place? Nintendo says it plans to roll out a new customer loyalty system, but will I be able to get a new tote bag when it debuts? Will my catalogue of previously registered games simply vanish? So many questions without answers. In the meantime, please head to the comments section below to share your own Club Nintendo memories as the service rides off into the sunset.

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Backlog backed up? Here#39;s how to conquer it in 2015

Added: 22.01.2015 21:00 | 34 views | 0 comments


When you're a kid, there's no such thing as a video game backlog. You get a few new games a year as birthday or holiday gifts, and you have all the time in the world to play them courtesy of summer vacation. But you and I are adults now, and backlogs are a very real, ever-present part of our continuously growing game libraries. Disposable income and awesome year-round sales give us the means to buy tons of worthwhile games, but real-world responsibilities have robbed us of the time we need to actually play them all.

But I'm vowing to put a dent in my overwhelmingly giant backlog (which you're about to see some selections from) over the next 12 months - and judging by the responses to or the stack of unopened games on your shelf is quite different from actually accomplishing it. If you're determined to finally beat your backlog this year, I've got some sensible tips to help make it happen for the both of us (fingers crossed).

 I started doing this in 2013, and it's amazing how much it's helped me to chip away at my backlog. Make the list wherever you like - Google Docs, various game-tracking websites like , a piece of scratch paper, whatever. But being able to look at just how many games you've plowed through, all catalogued in one place, is strangely empowering. Suddenly, it becomes that much more exciting to finally complete a game, so you can add it to the list and move right along to next one. Whittling away titles from your backlog feels so much more meaningful when you've made a record of their completion, rather than letting the experience fade into the aether of your gaming memories. There's always that game that you'll totally start playing... tomorrow. Time and again, you notice it, smile at the thought of diving into it one day, then return to the game you were actually looking forward to playing. It's time to stop kidding yourself. I've been meaning to play The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion since the Game of the Year Edition in 2007, but you know what? I'm never going to make the time to do so, and I need to be at peace with that. It's not the end of the world to have bought a game but never play it. Instead of thinking of it as wasted money, treat it like a constant reminder to be more deliberate with future purchases. In other words... It's so tempting to snatch up the new hotness, isn't it? There's always the fear that if you don't, you risk missing out on the latest zeitgeist or having secrets spoiled for you by random dopes on the Internet. But too often, we buy games at full price and only find the time to play them when they're being sold at a ludicrous discount. I've talked at length about , but I'll trumpet it again: good things come to those who wait. In the long run, staving off the impulse to pre-order or buy AAA releases on day one without the express intent of playing them immediately will keep games out of your backlog and money in your wallet. If you think you're going to happily crank through every Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto game in order, then you're setting yourself up for failure. Playing multiple RPGs or open-world games back-to-back can be exhausting no matter how enjoyable they are, because the breadth of content will start to feel like a neverending grind. Instead, alternate between the bigger games on your backlog and shorter, bitesized experiences. I recommend using the excellent site to figure out which of your backlog games will take the most time, making sure that you don't stack all the biggies and burn yourself out in the process. Speaking of calculating the time it takes to beat a game, it's best that you set some guidelines for yourself when taking on your backlog. My recommendation? Stick to the main campaign and forget about 100 percent completion or DLC missions, even if you already own them. It's totally fine to make an exception for the games you're really loving - but if you're determined to attain every hidden collectible, perfect mission score, and challenge mode to get the most bang for your buck, you're going to end up hating yourself. Forget those fleeting leaderboard positions and ultimately pointless achievements - this is about beating your backlog. Remember how I talked about making a list of the games you beat? Well, why not do what I seem to do subconsciously in all aspects of life: turn it into a competition! There's a good chance that you and your buddies skipped many of the same games, so why not egg each other on to see who can strike them from the backlog list first? Once you get going, you'll be breezing through your stockpile just to one-up your friends. Yes, you might get accused of padding your list with short indie games (like yours truly) - but you know what? Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet wasn't going to beat itself. Of course you can't play through all your backlog games at once - that's absurd. But if you think you can just bounce back and forth between them, you're just going to distract yourself to the point of inaction. Instead of trying to inch your way through a bunch of games simultaneously, pick one or two to commit to, and don't allow yourself to play the rest until they're complete. It takes discipline, but when you refuse to let yourself get sidetracked, you'll end up reaching your goal that much quicker. There are some games that people feel like they need to play for reference, be it a timeless classic like Earthbound, a continuously popular release like Skyrim, or a touchstone of gaming culture like BioShock. But if you boot up the game and just aren't feeling it after a handful of hours, my recommendation is that you just move on. Yes, some games only 'get good' after a dozen hours of investment - but that's time you could spend playing through backlog games that you enjoy every second of. Unless you think you're going to regret your decision on your deathbed, don't force yourself to play through something just to say you did. And hey, that game will always be there if you change your mind. Before you jump back into a backlog game that you started but never finished, really think about what that might mean. Will you remember the mechanics and controls that got you to your most recent save point, or be able to pick them back up fairly quickly? Did you retain the crucial plot beats up to that point, enough to feel the impact of any twists or revelations that might lie ahead? Do you remember what made you stop playing in the first place, and are you ready to overcome it this time around? If you're unsure about these three questions, then there's a hard choice you have to make: either start the game over from scratch, or just nix it from your backlog completely. Sometimes, it's probably best to stick with the latter. Looking at a hard drive full of unplayed games can paralyze even the bravest would-be backlog conqueror. When you have so many games just staring you in the face, all of them waiting to be played, it can induce the same anxiety as a stack of unopened bills or those 200 pages of War and Peace you need to read by this Friday. Instead of downloading your digital library in bulk and trying to trudge your way through it, only install the games you plan on playing right now. Unless the Steam/Xbox Live/PSN servers all explode overnight, you'll be able to download your other games at any time - and it's so much easier to complete a task when you divide it up into manageable chunks instead of one monstrous burden. I'm not saying you should stop playing Destiny, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, or whatever happens to be your online drug of choice. But you have to realize that every moment you spend grinding for gear or climbing the online ladder is time that could go towards your backlog - something that actually has a tangible end point. If you're serious about clearing that stack of pressed-on-disc shame, maybe you don't need to run that raid for the seventh time in the hopes of a lucky drop. If you're hopelessly hooked, then by all means, enjoy it - just manage your expectations about the amount of backlog you can burn through. This one may be frowned upon by some, but I'm not ashamed to say that I've done it, and will continue to do so. If you're playing a game to experience the story, or explore its rich world, there's nothing wrong with dropping the difficulty down to Easy. Sure, you might not experience the same memorable roadblocks as other players - but when you think about it, is it really so terrible to miss out on an unpleasant shared experience? Easy ensures that you'll cruise through the story at a brisk, constantly engaging pace, without any slogs through grueling sections to discourage you from reaching your goal. So, think the aforementioned tips won't help? That means it's time to go nuclear. For instance, what if you could add 10 or so hours to your day? All you have to do is buy two of those IV drip chambers they use in hospitals, then fill one with saline solution and the other with Mountain Dew. Once you're all stocked up on adult diapers, you can lock yourself in a room with your backlog and refuse to come back to the known world until you've conquered your entire game library. Be sure to adjust your eyes to natural light slowly, lest you go blind in an instant. With all that money you saved picking up games on sale, you've got some chump change to throw around. So why not hire a surrogate who can just play through your backlog for you? You can take naps, spend time with friends, or be there for your kids, all while someone else goes through the trouble of playing your games to completion for minimum wage. Once they're finished, ask them to compile the CliffsNotes version of each game, so you can get the same experience in a fraction of the time. Gather your backlog of games, cases and all, into a sturdy knapsack, then begin the harrowing trek up the tallest mountain you can find. Once you've reached its rocky summit, breathe deeply to fill your lungs with cool, calming air. Raise the sack of games above your head, then with all your might, literally hurl your backlog off a cliff and watch as it tumbles into the unseen wilderness. Who knows - perhaps a game-savvy camper will stumble upon it someday, and your backlog can become theirs. As for all those digital games you own, just commit multiple counts of credit card fraud and your account's as good as suspended! [Editor's note: Do not actually do this.]

I can't guarantee that these tips will eradicate your backlog in one fell swoop - but let's you and I give it our all this year! Do you have any other insightful tips for keeping an ever-expanding backlog at bay? Which games will you be prioritizing on your to-do list? Tell me all about it in the comments section below. Oh, and just FYI, the games you've just seen from my backlog are Fire Emblem: Awakening, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Saints Row The Third, Final Fantasy 7, GTA 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (donezo!), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Earthbound, Etrian Odyssey 4, The Witcher 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, Fallout: New Vegas, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, and Uncharted 3 - a mere fraction of what I have to get through before I die. And truth be told, I've already beaten Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, pictured above - I tossed it in here for Lorenzo's sake, and because it looks so cool.

And if you're looking for more, check out .
Backlog backed up? Here#39;s how to conquer it in 2015

Added: 22.01.2015 21:00 | 12 views | 0 comments


When you're a kid, there's no such thing as a video game backlog. You get a few new games a year as birthday or holiday gifts, and you have all the time in the world to play them courtesy of summer vacation. But you and I are adults now, and backlogs are a very real, ever-present part of our continuously growing game libraries. Disposable income and awesome year-round sales give us the means to buy tons of worthwhile games, but real-world responsibilities have robbed us of the time we need to actually play them all.

But I'm vowing to put a dent in my overwhelmingly giant backlog (which you're about to see some selections from) over the next 12 months - and judging by the responses to or the stack of unopened games on your shelf is quite different from actually accomplishing it. If you're determined to finally beat your backlog this year, I've got some sensible tips to help make it happen for the both of us (fingers crossed).

 I started doing this in 2013, and it's amazing how much it's helped me to chip away at my backlog. Make the list wherever you like - Google Docs, various game-tracking websites like , a piece of scratch paper, whatever. But being able to look at just how many games you've plowed through, all catalogued in one place, is strangely empowering. Suddenly, it becomes that much more exciting to finally complete a game, so you can add it to the list and move right along to next one. Whittling away titles from your backlog feels so much more meaningful when you've made a record of their completion, rather than letting the experience fade into the aether of your gaming memories. There's always that game that you'll totally start playing... tomorrow. Time and again, you notice it, smile at the thought of diving into it one day, then return to the game you were actually looking forward to playing. It's time to stop kidding yourself. I've been meaning to play The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion since the Game of the Year Edition in 2007, but you know what? I'm never going to make the time to do so, and I need to be at peace with that. It's not the end of the world to have bought a game but never play it. Instead of thinking of it as wasted money, treat it like a constant reminder to be more deliberate with future purchases. In other words... It's so tempting to snatch up the new hotness, isn't it? There's always the fear that if you don't, you risk missing out on the latest zeitgeist or having secrets spoiled for you by random dopes on the Internet. But too often, we buy games at full price and only find the time to play them when they're being sold at a ludicrous discount. I've talked at length about , but I'll trumpet it again: good things come to those who wait. In the long run, staving off the impulse to pre-order or buy AAA releases on day one without the express intent of playing them immediately will keep games out of your backlog and money in your wallet. If you think you're going to happily crank through every Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto game in order, then you're setting yourself up for failure. Playing multiple RPGs or open-world games back-to-back can be exhausting no matter how enjoyable they are, because the breadth of content will start to feel like a neverending grind. Instead, alternate between the bigger games on your backlog and shorter, bitesized experiences. I recommend using the excellent site to figure out which of your backlog games will take the most time, making sure that you don't stack all the biggies and burn yourself out in the process. Speaking of calculating the time it takes to beat a game, it's best that you set some guidelines for yourself when taking on your backlog. My recommendation? Stick to the main campaign and forget about 100 percent completion or DLC missions, even if you already own them. It's totally fine to make an exception for the games you're really loving - but if you're determined to attain every hidden collectible, perfect mission score, and challenge mode to get the most bang for your buck, you're going to end up hating yourself. Forget those fleeting leaderboard positions and ultimately pointless achievements - this is about beating your backlog. Remember how I talked about making a list of the games you beat? Well, why not do what I seem to do subconsciously in all aspects of life: turn it into a competition! There's a good chance that you and your buddies skipped many of the same games, so why not egg each other on to see who can strike them from the backlog list first? Once you get going, you'll be breezing through your stockpile just to one-up your friends. Yes, you might get accused of padding your list with short indie games (like yours truly) - but you know what? Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet wasn't going to beat itself. Of course you can't play through all your backlog games at once - that's absurd. But if you think you can just bounce back and forth between them, you're just going to distract yourself to the point of inaction. Instead of trying to inch your way through a bunch of games simultaneously, pick one or two to commit to, and don't allow yourself to play the rest until they're complete. It takes discipline, but when you refuse to let yourself get sidetracked, you'll end up reaching your goal that much quicker. There are some games that people feel like they need to play for reference, be it a timeless classic like Earthbound, a continuously popular release like Skyrim, or a touchstone of gaming culture like BioShock. But if you boot up the game and just aren't feeling it after a handful of hours, my recommendation is that you just move on. Yes, some games only 'get good' after a dozen hours of investment - but that's time you could spend playing through backlog games that you enjoy every second of. Unless you think you're going to regret your decision on your deathbed, don't force yourself to play through something just to say you did. And hey, that game will always be there if you change your mind. Before you jump back into a backlog game that you started but never finished, really think about what that might mean. Will you remember the mechanics and controls that got you to your most recent save point, or be able to pick them back up fairly quickly? Did you retain the crucial plot beats up to that point, enough to feel the impact of any twists or revelations that might lie ahead? Do you remember what made you stop playing in the first place, and are you ready to overcome it this time around? If you're unsure about these three questions, then there's a hard choice you have to make: either start the game over from scratch, or just nix it from your backlog completely. Sometimes, it's probably best to stick with the latter. Looking at a hard drive full of unplayed games can paralyze even the bravest would-be backlog conqueror. When you have so many games just staring you in the face, all of them waiting to be played, it can induce the same anxiety as a stack of unopened bills or those 200 pages of War and Peace you need to read by this Friday. Instead of downloading your digital library in bulk and trying to trudge your way through it, only install the games you plan on playing right now. Unless the Steam/Xbox Live/PSN servers all explode overnight, you'll be able to download your other games at any time - and it's so much easier to complete a task when you divide it up into manageable chunks instead of one monstrous burden. I'm not saying you should stop playing Destiny, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, or whatever happens to be your online drug of choice. But you have to realize that every moment you spend grinding for gear or climbing the online ladder is time that could go towards your backlog - something that actually has a tangible end point. If you're serious about clearing that stack of pressed-on-disc shame, maybe you don't need to run that raid for the seventh time in the hopes of a lucky drop. If you're hopelessly hooked, then by all means, enjoy it - just manage your expectations about the amount of backlog you can burn through. This one may be frowned upon by some, but I'm not ashamed to say that I've done it, and will continue to do so. If you're playing a game to experience the story, or explore its rich world, there's nothing wrong with dropping the difficulty down to Easy. Sure, you might not experience the same memorable roadblocks as other players - but when you think about it, is it really so terrible to miss out on an unpleasant shared experience? Easy ensures that you'll cruise through the story at a brisk, constantly engaging pace, without any slogs through grueling sections to discourage you from reaching your goal. So, think the aforementioned tips won't help? That means it's time to go nuclear. For instance, what if you could add 10 or so hours to your day? All you have to do is buy two of those IV drip chambers they use in hospitals, then fill one with saline solution and the other with Mountain Dew. Once you're all stocked up on adult diapers, you can lock yourself in a room with your backlog and refuse to come back to the known world until you've conquered your entire game library. Be sure to adjust your eyes to natural light slowly, lest you go blind in an instant. With all that money you saved picking up games on sale, you've got some chump change to throw around. So why not hire a surrogate who can just play through your backlog for you? You can take naps, spend time with friends, or be there for your kids, all while someone else goes through the trouble of playing your games to completion for minimum wage. Once they're finished, ask them to compile the CliffsNotes version of each game, so you can get the same experience in a fraction of the time. Gather your backlog of games, cases and all, into a sturdy knapsack, then begin the harrowing trek up the tallest mountain you can find. Once you've reached its rocky summit, breathe deeply to fill your lungs with cool, calming air. Raise the sack of games above your head, then with all your might, literally hurl your backlog off a cliff and watch as it tumbles into the unseen wilderness. Who knows - perhaps a game-savvy camper will stumble upon it someday, and your backlog can become theirs. As for all those digital games you own, just commit multiple counts of credit card fraud and your account's as good as suspended! [Editor's note: Do not actually do this.]

I can't guarantee that these tips will eradicate your backlog in one fell swoop - but let's you and I give it our all this year! Do you have any other insightful tips for keeping an ever-expanding backlog at bay? Which games will you be prioritizing on your to-do list? Tell me all about it in the comments section below. Oh, and just FYI, the games you've just seen from my backlog are Fire Emblem: Awakening, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Saints Row The Third, Final Fantasy 7, GTA 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (donezo!), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Earthbound, Etrian Odyssey 4, The Witcher 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, Fallout: New Vegas, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, and Uncharted 3 - a mere fraction of what I have to get through before I die. And truth be told, I've already beaten Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, pictured above - I tossed it in here for Lorenzo's sake, and because it looks so cool.

And if you're looking for more, check out .

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