If you played Bulletstorm, specifically on the 360, you have probably checked out Gears of War already. I'm fairly critical of Gears precisely because I do love it, and want it to be better, so that people will see what I do. Ultimately, this will have the side effect of making me feel less crazy.  It's a long-term play.  

So it’s no secret that I am a huge golf nerd. When I was a kid I played Washington Junior golf and then ended up on the golf team in high school. Growing up, golf and art were the two things I did. I remember getting dropped off at the local golf course at six in the morning so I could play a round before school .Then on the way home, the bus would actually drop me off at the same course and I’d just keep playing until my mom came to pick me up around dinner time. Eventually it got to the point were I wanted to start putting more time into my art and less into golf. Pretty soon golf fell off to the side and I was only playing a couple times a year. I still LOVE the game though and every year I tell myself “this year I’m gonna play more!” but so far that has not happened.

Robert considers Mortal Kombat his "game," in the way that some might consider Empire State Of Mind their "jam." He's been busy repairing the business we are perpetually trying to destroy, so he hasn't had a chance to come in and see it. I'm not an expert, like some people; we tend to play the fighters of the mysterious East, though this is at least partially because those are the fighters which exist.

I just wrapped this up. 

The Wii2 rumors are getting pretty dense up in this piece. Microsoft proved that you can get pretty far dropping a new platform before everyone else is ready, to the extent that if you can do it, you should. We've aggregated the most far-out content from blogs, newswebs, and dotcoms, boiling out the excess moisture until all that's left is a kind of dense cake.

Registration for PAX Prime just opened, PAX is that videogame convention we do sometimes, and it tends to sell out so now is as good a time as any to register.  i can remember reading somewhere that we were trying to manipulate people with this kind of language, and I can assure you it isn't the case!  Every, every, every ticket gets sold before the doors even open.

Every time a shop closes near our office, within the space of a week it is transformed into a dispensary. Italian Soccer Bar? Dispensary. Custom Engraving? This is now a dispensary also, though you can get things engraved while-u-wait. Our state decided a long time ago that it wanted Medical Marijuana to be a thing, but they never thought much about what that would actually look like, and in the absence of a legal framework what it looks like is that every time a shop closes near our office, within the space of a week it is transformed into a dispensary.

There is a new Kindle in town, the "Kindle With Special Offers," which I would definitely have named something else.

That's the game I was talking about before.  I actually thought I was mentioning it too much, that's how obsessed I am with it, everywhere I look there is another Spiral Knight.  I could have edited the original post to put it in, but I think it's so weird that I managed to talk around the fucking thing for three paragraphs that I kind of want to leave it.  Anyway, if you were made curious, there you go.  

People have been asking me what I thought of this book for a while. Minor spoilers ahead I guess.

We called up Pat Rothfuss, who was wasting away at some kind of romance convention, to show him our new strip before it went up.  It was important to us that he know it came from a place of love.  Gabriel wanted to warn people about spoilers for those who have yet to read A Wise Man's Fear, or The Name Of The Wind for that matter, but I told him - correctly - that if a person hasn't read these books yet, they are villains, and we need not concern ourselves with their writhings.

Gabriel just returned from something called a "Great Wolf Lodge," which sounds like a half-way house for troubled young lycanthropes. But it's not! And apparently there are many things there, things both wolven and lodgy, but the big takeaway is apparently MagiQuest which is like if they had RFID at Hogwarts.

They've almost pushed him entirely away; somehow, they have discovered the ragged boundary of his masochism. It's been true for a long time now that the movies, strangely enough, haven't been the core of his fandom.

For some reason, and perhaps this is something you can explain to me, PAX events are dense with requests to bring back Rex Ready - even though the entire idea of the bit is that Rex Ready is a bad, dumb thing! But bad, dumb things are very much in our wheelhouse, and if someone wants more of that, well, who are we to say no.

The dialogue that surrounds Dragon Age 2 is at least as interesting as the dialogue contained within it. It's ongoing, and you can't lose anywhere you plug yourself in, really, unless you're lead DA2 writer David Gaider. How many people does that apply to, though? One or two, at most. Anyway, there are concerns about the game's erotic menu, concerns which are wholly valid.