@MadMarcus: I already answered that on the first page of the comments, but it should be in the mines (accessible from the north side of Monteriggioni's outer walls) after you renovate them.
@bullard: The only thing I can suggest is that you look over the screenshots, and if you see any locations that look unfamiliar, go and investigate them.
@Timgamer777: Check the maps again - there are 20 glyphs, listed and marked, with location descriptions and screenshots for each. (I double-checked after seeing your comment, and everything's there.) That's 5 in Florence, 1 in Monteriggioni, 5 in Tuscany/San Gimignano, 2 in Romagna/Forli and 7 in Venice. There aren't any glyphs in the mountains, so I hope you're not hunting for them there.
@crazytar: UK article, UK release dates. But we'll update with the US ones as well.
@JackSkellingtonSkin: I think the author was trying to focus on original PSN/WiiWare games, rather than falling back on PSOne Classics or Virtual Console games. But thanks for the observation.
@superjw701: Thanks for pointing those out. I fixed them, and just to be on the safe side double-checked all the feathers against their respective maps. I found that the map for CR5 was also wrong and, more embarrassingly, the location of SP3 was wrong on the large map. I've updated the small map images for Venice and the San Polo district, but the large ones will take a little longer.
I'd like to thank everyone for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Thanks also to iahtebrandon and superjw701 for pointing out specific errors - that was a big help.
@iahtebrandon: You're absolutely right; thanks for pointing out the errors. Regrettably, these things sometimes happen when we're working with lots of similarly named, similar-looking images, but I've updated SP7, CS3 and CS7 with the correct map images. If you (or anyone else) see any other errors, please leave a comment or message me directly.
@newbie1511: Thanks for pointing that out. I'll check the video again today; it's possible I marked something down wrong, and if I did, then I'll post a fix.
EDIT: I found the problem - the fourth step (move the fifth and first rings right 5 times) should actually be to move them LEFT five times. Sorry about that. I'll change it in the text. Hope that's not too late to help.
@raist: I think that one becomes accessible when you renovate the mines. The entrance is on the north side of the outer walls, behind where the villa is.
@lnksmartt: We're working on it. Our hidden-glyphs guide, with puzzle solutions, should be up tomorrow. Your patience is appreciated.
Wail –verb (used without object)
1. to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
2. to make mournful sounds, as music or the wind.
3. to lament or mourn bitterly.
4. Jazz. to perform exceptionally well.
5. Slang. to express emotion musically or verbally in an exciting, satisfying way.
Whale - v. tr.
To strike or hit repeatedly and forcefully; thrash.
v. intr.
To attack vehemently: The poet whaled away at the critics.
@TriforcePlayer: I sort of wish I had, too, but I didn't think about the comparison until the review was already up. So I'll do it here:
In spite of the score disparity, I do think Arkham is a better game (although I'd probably also give Arkham a 10 if it were up to me). Again, though, it's an apples-and-oranges thing; Arkham is a taut, focused adventure in a relatively confined space that messes with your head, and ACII is about tearing ass through a wide-open, convincingly re-created moment in history. Although if the Arkham sequel is structured anything like ACII, I certainly wouldn't complain.
@garnsr: The accents and occasional spurts of Italian are explained as glitches in the Animus' translation software, if that makes sense. Really, though, they're just a stylistic choice by the developers.
@vitoruss: If you've already got Lost and Damned, and you have the capability to download Gay Tony, then you should probably just download Gay Tony and find a cheap used copy of GTA IV to replace your original. Unless you really don't want the original back, of course.
I think it's just a mannequin - there's an action-figure version next to Luis' television, too. If it's unlockable as a costume, I haven't found it yet.
@DaveBoyle: Of course Tyler didn't "forget" about Jeff Gerstmann, but that's not a case of a games journalist being on the take from a game publisher. (If anything, it's the opposite.) There's also more to the story than just Jeff getting fired for one review, although so long as nobody's discussing specifics, it's impossible to know HOW much more there is.
It's also not the kind of thing that happens frequently in our industry; if it did, it wouldn't have generated headlines. Feel free to lump it in with the "couple of shady cases" Tyler mentions.
I actually really liked the Gears of War ads, but Dave's right: they're not at all reflective of the experience of playing the games. The issue here isn't that the ads were bad, necessarily, but that they look pretentious when one examines what it is they're selling.
"If you put a gun to our heads and made us choose one reason why we pity the youth of today, it’s that they’ll never know the beauty of a suicide gag."
Don't worry, Chris - so long as today's youth have Drinky Crow, there'll always be plenty of suicide gags to go around.
@mentalityljs I play PC games but a majority on my 360 because I don't have the money to constantly upgrade my PC to play the games I want. In fact I enjoy being able to pick from like 80 games to play without having to install em or worry about installing an antivirus/antimalware program. Therefore I don't mind paying 40 bucks for live when its a lot cheaper than a new video card, cpu, ram, more hard drive space and so on. I still love PCs but economically the 360 is great, especially with everyone's unanimous talk of not needing a new gen console quite yet.
Haha its late so I read Zack & Wiki Quest for Barbaros' Treasure as Zack and Mira Make A Porno haha. Yeah I'd cheat because I'd actually love to play Ratchet and Mario again but cheating is expensive. :P
As a wannabe level designer I giggled with glee reading this article. Gotta say that's a good list and I would agree with John 117, I'd add on a Starcraft map like Big Game Hunters. I don't know how many different versions of that one people made and I'll be damned it will not appear in SCII. I'd have to say Counterstrike was my college experience while Goldeneye was my high school experience.
Why did Kojima declare Legends non-canon? Because he's a dick, that's why. But I love him, because he still supervises the most kickass 2D platforming RPGs.
@bullard: The only thing I can suggest is that you look over the screenshots, and if you see any locations that look unfamiliar, go and investigate them.