My "tastes" as regards virtually anything - even for mediums that cannot be "tasted" in any traditional sense - are, um... broad. I have used the baleen metaphor previously, and The Vinegar Tasters, but essentialy it's an ongoing, active effort to decouple my own propensities from what I'm willing to try. My natural enthusiasm is sometimes "right," but not always, and discovering the geography of that middle place is what I like best.

Playing Killzone multi tonight and I'll be streaming. I'll be starting around 9:00pm pacific. So, just about 45 min from now.

I talked about the Lost Lands podcast yesterday and I wanted to point you towards it again today in case you missed it. This is a podcast featuring Tycho, Scott Kurtz and myself all sitting down to play the tabletop game my son Gabe created. He’s 9 years old and I think his game has some really cool mechanics. It’s interesting to see what a kid comes up with when they don’t have all the baggage that we adults carry around. He doesn’t know how things are “supposed” to work he just makes up his own rules. The results are pretty amazing sometimes. It’s free and you can listen to it right here.

I feel like Humble Bundling is completely normalized as cultural practice by now, but just in case: the idea of a Humble Bundle, at root, is that it's a fleeting, Pay What You Want store. If what you Want to Pay isn't anything, that's utterly legit - but if you pay above a certain amount, you get more shit. We've been around long enough and worked with enough people to have a ton of things to offer, and the full offer up there now includes all four installments of my digital suicide attempt "On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness," soundtracks thereof, and two books. Pay nothing, pay us, donate the whole thing to Child's Play, monkey around with the sliders and create some kind of hybrid, it's up to you. Thanks, in any event. I really enjoyed making all that stuff.

Correct in every way that truly matters, the 234th Annual We're Right Awards continue apace.

The $200,000 goal of our Kickstarter came with a very cool reward. We recorded a podcast of my son Gabe's table top game. You might remember we did a series of comics about it a while back and since then he has continued to work on it. Tycho, Scott and I all sat down with Gabe a few weeks ago to play the latest version of Lost Lands and we recorded the game!

In a tumultuous world, it can be a comfort to settle down deep in just how right we are about everything.

I was browsing r/gaming and saw people were posting old photos of themselves as kids holding up their game systems. Well here's my entry.

I mentioned Max: Curse of the Brotherhood yesterday and said I was having fun with it. Well, I was able to beat it today and my initial impression still stands. This is a great puzzle/platform game and well worth the $15 they are asking. In fact I’d say it’s my favorite Xbox One exclusive so far. I found a couple frustrating bits towards the end. They do the classic puzzle game thing where once you’ve learned a bunch of skills and you’re having fun solving puzzles they make you do it fast. I absolutely hate this mechanic in these sorts of games. I love the mechanics and I just want to solve the puzzles. Making me do it quick while being chased by lava just pisses me off. Thankfully there is very little of this and usually the game slows down at crucial moments giving you the extra couple seconds you need to draw in the element you need.

The new Acquisitions Inc. Pin set is in the store now! Also we’re still running the “buy and 2 pin sets get a Pinny Arcade poster free” deal. You can still take advantage of all our Holiday reward tiers as well. Just hit the front page of the PA store for all the details.

We’re going to spend this week counting down our top nine games of 2013. It’s been a long time since we did the “We’re Right Awards”. In fact the last real one we did was back in 2003. It’s been an incredible year for games though and I had a great time going back over my favorites.

We were very surprised to receive mails to the effect of "what happened to the We're Right Awards," seeing as we stopped doing them because it seemed sort of whatever, but I have to tell you that if I'm going to be spending a week in the fucking Pain Mines, scooping anguish out of blisters in the Earth with the largest, most contiguous skull I can find, "whatever" sounds pretty Goddamned good.

Max: Curse of the Brotherhood just hit the Xbox One and I've played a few hours of it. It's a side scrolling platform game with a bunch of physics based puzzles. You use a magic marker to draw various elements into the game world. It's a fun mechanic and I've been really impressed with the puzzles so far. With all the drawing going on it's a crime this game isn't on the Wii U but it works okay with a controller. If it was on the PS4 I'd stream it but It's Xbox One so you'll have to make do with the game clips it records automatically and uploads. If you check out my profile on Live you should be able to watch some of them and get a feel for the game. My XBL handle is just Gabe and I think if you follow me you can watch my clips? Maybe? I honestly have no idea how it works.

Tycho was right. Dungeon of the Endless is something special! I can't believe how cool it is for a game that's not even close to being done! You can grab it on Steam early access right now and I recommend you do just that.

I've got heaps of boardgames I've Kickstarted, and I mean heaps. It's fucking sick, and not sick like a 180 Kickflip Psychonator off the top deck. It's sick like I should probably be taking some kind of medicine to tamp it down. Additional medicines, I should say.

Just a reminder that this is the last weekend to bake your Dickerdoodles! So bake some dicks this weekend!