The sloth of today's game designers is revolting. What is the biggest innovation in the last six years of aggregated shooting? Literally, it is the ability to cower. Gears of War 3 lets players press A to snivel behind a topiary. By 2012, your emasculation will be the new normal mapping. 5th Cell - creators of Lock's Quest, Drawn To Life, and the original Scribblenauts - seek to break this cycle, with the bullet point to end all bullet points. Super Scribblenauts features (and I am not joking about this/why would I joke about this) the ability to use adjectives.

Gabe had an idea for a comic, and after a nominal attempt to make three panels out of it, it seemed to fit more naturally into the single-panel "classy comic" style found in the New Yorker or the Playboy issues which I absolutely never read as a young man.

Just like it says!  Any of the preorders we receive will be signed by the office, and there's two thousand preordered so far, so that's a pretty full day already.  If you're interested though, of you would simply like to hasten our development of carpal tunnel syndrome, here's the link. [Clarification: Thursday, 10/21 at 11:59 PM PST is the cuttoff.]

I have been playing a lot of different games lately and I figured I should take a minute and share some thoughts.

We haven't gotten around to talking about Castlevania: Lords of Shadow yet, but it ain't for lack of love. In fact, it's fair to say that this thing has rendered us more or less speechless.

Kirby's Epic Yarn is effective, not merely as an electronic entertainment product but also as a time machine.

Today on PATV, a new Blamimation, featuring timely returns to your favorite sketchencomedich.  

In case you missed it, our online store is back and we are taking pre-orders for the PATV DVD. If you liked the show then I think you will really appreciate all the extra stuff we packed into the DVD. Check it out:

Having sons means (among other things) that we can buy things "for" those sons that we might not purchase for ourselves. I think Invizimals probably fits somewhere into that scheme.

DOTA's Icefrog is a bastard?  The terrible, true story of Mythic's dissolution?     

More Precipice, and I'm sorry it's late.  I usually write these at night, which feels appropriate, but my son, my daughter, and my wife are all sick, and when my daughter cries over the monitor it's like I've been electrocuted.  I can't put any kind of thought together, let alone two thoughts, and this installment has many thoughts in sequence.  

I was able to purchase a copy of Gamma World from a “Premiere Store” near my house last weekend and I ran the game on Monday for my normal group. We have been playing the same campaign now with the same characters for nearly two years so this was sort of a break. I’ve spoken to all of them and we’re playing Gamma World again next Monday as well. Defeating Tiamat may have to wait a few weeks while we stomp Badders and dig through ancient junk.

This one hardly needs a preface. Sometimes, the comic is word for word true.

Gabe really does have a bat! A real bat, just hangin' up in the eaves and devourin' thousands of insects every night. You might be surprised to learn how codified the process is for keeping and encouraging bats, I wasn't aware this is something one did, but I'm overjoyed to live in a world more interesting than I previously thought. There are those who find their impish faces and split noses vile, but that's not my demo. Bats are my favorite mammals by a wide margin, and yes, I'm aware that humans are mammals.

Today on PATV we've got some of the deleted scenes from the Upcoming DVD (which is available for preorder!).  They're cuts from the PAX East episode.    

Cold Stone is generally a dessert, but it can also be a meal - the one by us will fold forest mushrooms, prosciutto, Black Forest ham, and gravy ice cream into a savory mass. This kind of versatility is what makes it so core to our Identity as a people.