I was interested in Skylanders as soon as I heard about it. I love toys and the whole concept just seemed cool to me. With that said I was still surprised by the marketing assault I found at our local Toys “R” Us or TRU as those of us who used to work there called it. I took Gabe down there who is seven now and smack dab in the middle of what I imagine their target demographic to be. When he saw the wall of Skylanders toys and accessories he actually started drooling. I took what might be the worst photo ever. Nice job auto focus.

It's been a while, but I have every faith that I'll be able to manage it. Don't call it a comeback! Call it a lethargic, days-long emergence from a waxen sac.

Here is the strip.

The strip is here. We like it. But you also might need it for... something else.

New strip's here. Part One of James' PAX story is here. Part Two begins... now!

Here's the strip: I mean, here. <- It's there.

I already own Frozen Synapse, but I could gift it; I really wanted Trauma, which I saw at GDC a few years ago but it never seemed to come out. It was like a Photosynth of a nightmare. Now they've gone and thrown in SpaceChem, and it's over. It's over! You beat me.

We try to take a vacation of some kind after PAX, when we can, and now that an entire month of preparation has passed we're entering into the realm where such things are feasible. Where are we going? We have two strips that will detail the journey with frightful specificity, and the first of them goes up on Friday. In addition, as sometimes occurs, I have secured the services of an elite cadre to manage the newspost - beings whose unique character and experience are calibrated to nourish you in my absence.

Given the disrespectful manner of my treatment, my husk is holding up super well! I hate it, and I hate the idea of it, it's my enemy in addition to being a kind of prison, but aside from the occasional twinge of piercing, mysterious pain, this thing just keeps on going. Sure: there are the occasional parasitic lumps, sucking out my vitamins. But it's mostly cool. My teeth are rarely pulled out by a Charleston Chew.

We will be playing League of Legends tonight. That’s pretty much what we do every night but tonight is special. Tonight we will be playing for Child’s Play along with some folks from Riot and the 10 Win Streak crew. You can hit up this site tonight at 9:00 PST to watch a live stream of the games. That’s right, You’ll be able to watch Tycho and I along with some other PA people get our asses handed to us by the jerks who made the fucking game.

I think Erika has really outdone herself with this latest design The Gamer Crest is available in Mens and Ladies. So you can get one if you are a man or a lady. -Gabe out

Some stores tell you that they “have a warehouse, nut they don’t make you shop in it.” Well we have a warehouse and we do make you shop in it. We are opening the doors on October 22nd and slashing prices! Tycho and I will be there along with most of the PA crew. We will have big discounts as well as some out of print and hard to get stuff.

You'll need some basic information to get the most out of the strip; I won't even link it yet. The main thing you need to do is to get your mitts on the demo for Burnout Crash. Get it right away. Oh, you've already played it? You're licensed for strip viewing. If not, you need to go get it. You need to play Rush Hour.

The reason the electrified parts of the world have not ground to halt altogether is that the Diablo III beta includes only subset of a percentage of a portion of a slice of a morsel of the first part of the game. Well, we have been there, we have done that. And we've gotten the boots.

I picked up Burnout Crash this weekend and could not put it down. I’m serious, I downloaded it at about 10:00am and at 9:00 at night Kara and I were still playing it. We needed to get the house cleaned that day so we played in shifts. While she did a couple levels I would vacuum the family room. Then I would play a few levels and she cleaned up the kitchen. Gabe was out at a birthday party all afternoon so we only had to neglect the baby. By the end of the day we had racked up 192 stars.

You can now play Dominion without facing in a particular direction or making an obeisance to (insert god here).