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Acquisitors, Part One

The original plan was to start running these next week, when were en route/at/leaving PAX Aus, but something came up that I'll let him tell you about. Long story short, getting ahead on the strip turned out to be a pretty Goddamn good idea.

Showtime

In The Taken King, you can jump into a "Strike Playlist." For the uninitiated, it means that you strap into a kind of electronic ride where you are slotted with your team into a functionally endless string of mini-raids. This roster isn't super deep, but there are a few different ways for them to go down so it's mostly okay. For the players, I mean. They're fine. They get a steady stream of forgotten, borderline mystical hats.

The Double Reverse Troll

If you have a handle that some people don't like, Riot will give you a new handle. Then, you have two choices. Well, three. You can always keep the new name. You could also give them about ten bucks and change your name. Or, you can subject yourself to a psychological battery, play a bunch of games in the "stocks" of your new handle, and then take the survey a second time I guess to see if you have been rehabilitated.

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Question Mark

So, here's an index of the difference between myself and my friend Mork. If I see some words, I read them right away. I mean, I don't even "read" them as such. I absorb them and they are incorporated instantly. Mork, on the other hand, will buy a game because he sees the cover art and thinks it must be the sequel to Bravely Default when it is actually a totally other game called The Legend of Legacy.

PAX South Panel Submissions Needed!

It might come as a surprise to you but we don't have anything to do with the panels at PAX. They are submitted by you guys and we just try and make room for all the things you want to talk about. We are specifically looking for folks who actually want to speak at the show. So if you have a panel and you're ready to bring it to PAX South, let us know.

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Le Livre Des Visages

The rumor was that Dislike was en route to Facebook, but I don't think that was ever an authentic option and would corrode the service. It was eventually determined that Liking Things wasn't sufficiently granular, and so there are a raft of New Likings being rolled out. Except they're missing a few key inflections that apply to ninety-nine point four percent of posts.

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Club PA Comic Preview

The full strip and its accompanying postito go out later this month to members, and becoming a member is incredibly easy and is also rad for too many reasons to enumerate here, which is why there's a whole page dedicated to it. I think this one is pretty Goddamn good:

Tearaway

Tearaway is a game that came out awhile back on the Vita and I loved it. I’m playing through the PS4 version now and it’s even better in a lot of ways. It’s still a ridiculously beautiful platformer with some genuinely unique gameplay but it also has a really cool second screen application now. If you have kids in your house this is seriously something you have to try because they will love it. Let me tell you how it works.