I play Killzone: Shadow Fall multiplayer every night. I love it. Maybe you do the same thing I do when you really get into a game? I hit up all the forums for it just because I can’t seem to absorb enough information about it. I checked out the Shadow Fall forums and saw that people tend to be pretty upset with it. There are apparently frame rate issues, they have “ruined the sniper class”, the SP is “mediocre at best”, it’s simply “wretched” and I guess almost no one is playing it online.

The very first Killer Instinct Pin Challenge is live today! If you picked up the Pin Ultimate edition of the game this is your chance to get your first “engagement” pin. You can find all the details over on the Play XBLA blog.

We have been known to make the occasional comic.

I’ve been having a ton of fun streaming my Playstation gaming via Twitch. It’s fun chatting with you guys while I play and it’s quickly turning into one of my favorite features of the PS4. Usually I’ll drop the Twitch stream in here on the front page just before I start gaming and I end up with three or four hundred folks hanging out in the chat. I’ve had a few requests to archive the streams but that’s not currently available. From what I understand it's a feature that Twitch is planning on adding to the PS4 streams in the future.

Today is the last day for what Brian calls "USPS Priority Mail (Domestic) Shipping," after which you're going through UPS and shit gets progressively more brutal cost-wise. But! We just got our scarves in, and by leveraging the Top Secret, impossible to decrypt code "w1nterscarf" you may secure an additional twenty percent off, regardless of the season you actually wear the aforementioned scarf in. Behold!

I thought there was a lot to like about Frozen; I could probably talk about it for a long time. The comic isn't about that, though - it's about the Match 3 Puzzler brand extension that Gabriel somehow became ensnared in, and cannot escape, and how it culminated in a kind of spirit quest which I sincerely doubt is even possible. Having played some Angry Birds Go(!), and seen its stupid energy thing which similarly punishes interest when said interest is not coupled with direct investment, I understand what he means. The takeaway is that regardless what type of game it is in some specific case, "free to play" must be considered the "genre." It reliably warps mechanics to such an extent that it probably offers more stability for the taxonomist.

Gonna play some Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer tonight and I'll go ahead and stream. You will be able to watch right here and even join in on the chat.

So I had to look up “concomitant” while reading Tycho’s post. I was sort of surprised by how specific the definition was.

We just started having this conversation at one point last week, about different aromatic resins or whatever, and it seemed like we had to make it a thing. There's a ton of iconography we weren't really aware of, even though we've seen representations of this event all our lives. Also, Melchior is a pretty hardass name, sounds like a real motherfucker. Gotta work that into something, even if I'd be coming to that particular party pretty late.

I was listening to Christmas music this afternoon and doodling on my Surface. Yes I am a little obsessed with Killzone: Shadow Fall.

Brian tells me orders of this kind will get in just under the wire, so please take advantage if you haven't already. The main bit is that it's the last day for International Orders to get there by Christmas. The rest of the cut-off dates for shipping are available at the top of the store. Holiday Rewards of various kinds are also described there. There are also rumors out there, dogged rumors, of secret gifts being secreted in some orders!

Don't forget to bake some dicks this weekend!

We were talking the other day about the kind of shit you can get up to with a PS4 having only purchased the box, and how freemium stuff like Warframe or DC Universe Online can mollify wastrels who might otherwise turn to vandalism or hard drink.

Mike Fehlauer is now Mike Hayes, since he got married, but it's been hard to make the shift because his nickname came from his old last name - Feh, pronounced "fay," and it's been in circulation for about a decade. I've tried to substitute other names of similar weight, like in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but "Hay" or "Haylauer" never took. I lucked out when I changed my last name because no nickname has ever stuck for me, ever; there was nothing to change. Anyway, he's at his folks' house on vacation, and apparently they are a people who collect books. He found this page about a moral panic related to the reading of "dime novels," and I thought it might be instructive.

Just a reminder that your Dickerdoodle pictures are due by December 21st. You can get all the details here.

I’ve been working on Automata for about the last month or so. That should mean I have a lot done but the problem is I keep drawing and then re-drawing the first two pages. I just can’t settle on anything I’m happy with and I’m starting to go a little crazy. I’ve got probably six completely different versions of these first couple of pages. I’ve tried some crazy stuff and done a few that are closer to my normal style. I thought I’d share a couple of the most recent iterations with you guys so you can see the process.