Reader Brendan Keough writes in with the following:

There is a Pandora Tomorrow Xbox 2v2 Tournament advertised over at Clan World Network. I've actually never heard of the site bepore and the rules for the tournament make it seem like they have no idea what the fuck they are doing. This is from their website:

Square Enix had an offer for a free demo of Front Mission 4 they would mail right to your home, which is great because that's where I live. We've played it. Even when fully cognizant of the dangers inherent in Time Travel, it is easy to see why one might brave the chaotic realms outside linear time to snare a copy before the June release.

I've been hearing strange things lately to this effect - and from more than just this source. I have not arrived at a conclusion about whether or not this would be a good thing.

Stormy sent me a new Hook-Up a couple weeks ago, and I put into a page and upoaded it, but going back over the posts on the front page I can't see any mention of it. There could be any number of culprits - as a post near the time I got the article states, I was pretty sick and not a little delirious. But the news system has also been eating updates lately, reverting to old updates, doing all kinds of crazy crap, so who knows. Let's just say it's my fault.

I've mentioned Codename: Panzers with enthusiasm on more than one occasion - Panzers, with its RTS/RPG hybrid gameplay and fancy multiplayer modes. I just saw on VE3D that there's a demo available for the game - not sure what features are included, might be fun to take the full co-op for a spin.

When you read this article, you will have an orgasm. Take whatever precautions you deem necessary.

Looks like there's a PA "Group" for finding gamertags over at Snackbar Games. Another handy way to do it.

The PAX site got updated again with some cool new stuff. Here's a list of some of the new additions:

The bear issue notwithstanding, her fixation on the outside world is shrouded in mystery. While it is incontrovertible that The Night-time Is The Right Time, I submit that it is the right time for absolute translation into a Massive role-playing game and not the right time to have one's foot pierced by a discarded hypodermic needle in a public park.

The fourth part of that epic Mario Brothers saga I told you about is up. Haven't seen it yet, hopefully I didn't just send you to a flash movie featuring some guy's prong.

Page 10 of our Splinter Cell book is online now. Page 11 should actually go up a little later today. We asked them to put up both pages together since it helps to read them together.

One of the guys I was talking to at that first party on Saturday night said a few things about Interactive Fiction, i.e. Text Adventures. He just sent me a mail I thought you might enjoy - (CW)TB

These guys have been asking me to post their cool new Interface tools for WoW, and I told them I'd put them in front of people - so here you are. It's a pretty neat suite of functions, but the main reason they wanted me to mention it is that their Auction Manager functionality is shit hot, but requires that this client be installed on everybody who wants to use it. I think the best case scenario for them would be complete ubiquity for their package, and since they're plugging what I see as holes in the existing interface it's a noble goal.

Anyone who attended E3 last year and came by to see us probably didn't enjoy being kicked out of the place four separate times, ultimately being exiled out by the road if they had the patience to hang around.

Let’s pretend for a moment that I was sick and tired of trying to create works of art that were funny or interesting. Instead I decided to become a worthless political cartoonist, scrawling my work on the backs of paper dinosaurs and eagerly anticipating the next tragedy so that I could draw a picture of a bald eagle crying on a torn American flag. If that’s what I decided to do, then my first cartoon might be a drawing of a mouse trap which I would label “Star Wars Galaxies”. Inside the mouse trap I would draw a piece of cheese and I would label it “The Jump to Light Speed expansion”. Then off to the side I would draw an octopus that would represent America’s foreign policy pre 9-11.