As though fixed to some hissing mechanism, I receive a reliable drip of corporate PR every few seconds throughout the day. It's rare that I find this "content" worthy of you, and so I rarely present you with it. When Gabriel returned, knowing his abiding love for beautiful ponies and husbandry, I presented him with Ponystars - one of the bizarre gems I had sifted out of this endless accumulating ASCII. A product of the reconstituted Acclaim, I was confident the product would ensnare him, because in Ponystars one can:

Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to mail me their thoughts on the game. The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive. More and more reviews are coming out now and the numbers are falling right about where I expected. We got a 7.8 from IGN which I'm actually pretty happy with. I think Hilary had every reason to tear us a new one but in the end she actually said the game was good... yeah I know Hilary is a guy, old habits die hard. We got a 4 out 5 from X-Play which is another site I sort of expected to rip us a new one. One of our best reviews came from Destructoid. Rev gave us a 9.0 and said the game was fantastic which was really nice to hear.

I believed strongly in BioShock as an experience, and disagreed strongly with the idea that it should be corralled by a single console. It sold so well that Take Two apparently disagrees also, releasing the game a full year after sensible men and women had played it to completion. I don't remember if we're still angry at Bioshock for only being excellent, or for being too popular, or for breaking its ludic contract with the player, or something else - but at the very least, Playstation 3 stalwarts can stop hating it for no good Goddamned reason.

I just got back from Paris. I'll talk about the trip later after I've had some time to organize it all in my head. Right now it's still all sort of a blur. I have to talk about the game though.

For PC, Mac, and Linux, or on XBLA.

Being children of the eighties, of course we believe that every adventure should culminate as it has here. Not that this adventure has been entirely culminated, of course. We reserve the right to explore the Earth's hidden mysteries anytime Gabriel goes to France.

Here's Gabe's next communique... From Earth's ancient past!!!

Sometimes, the old magic is best.

Several people (3) asked about this set's whereabouts, and I am happy to announce that it just hit the store.

I guess Gabe wrote little intros for these pages. Hmm. Here's the second one:

We ended up taking a shine to that exterminator we made for some reason, but since we like to retain our conceptual agility we thought it was time to return to the news. With Gabriel leaving town, we saw an opportunity to indulge ourselves in questions like "what happened in there, exactly?" There are three such indulgences, so hopefully we weren't the only people curious about these events, which take place in the womb of the Ancient Earth.

Don't ask what: just click, and be enriched.

I have played it, but it was under bizarre circumstances and I don't know if I can write about it. Suffice it to say they'd probably like what I wrote. This video is "must watch," though.

So our game will be launching very soon and in order to get you in the mood so to speak we made a little four page comic. In the game Gabe and Tycho own and operate the Startling Developments detective agency. The city of New Arcadia is trying to move into the future but it's still plagued by ancient horrors and dark magic. The study of the arcane has fallen out of fashion though as steam powered machines and other new technologies have captured the imaginations of the populace. The Startling Developments detective agency remains committed to investigating the strange and terrifying mysteries that the rest of New Arcadia refuses to acknowledge.

Comic conventions often have a "free shit" table, and our booth was situated in such a way as to watch this locust swarm coalesce. We even had a chance to see this drama unfold, which we immediately transcribed to the surface of the table for future use.

So we can finally announce that our game will be out on May 21st. IT will be released on Xbox Live as well as our own digital games store Greenhouse. If you do decide to download from Greenhouse you can grab one code that will give you access to the PC, Mac and Linux versions. I'm super excited to hear what you guys think. If you're looking forward to the game you should check out the new trailer over on the Xbox Live site.