Joystiq had some interesting articles up over the weekend about introducing your family to the Wii. I actually had a similar experience. We had a house full of friends and family for Thanksgiving and the Wii was really the star of the show. Kara and I both had parents over and we actually had a hard time getting them off of Wii sports. I can’t even count how many rounds of bowling I must have played. It was amazing to watch how easily they picked it up and how much fun they had. What was great was watching Kara’s Dad who loves to bowl but can’t anymore because of his knees. I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes home this week and tries to pick one up.

Our Turkey Triloging comes to a close with this, our denouement. Gabriel is, of course, a caricature of the genuine article. On the other hand, the grandma and the greasy fireman are only too real. I sometimes wish that the fireman were less real, particularly when I am sent to the basement on an errand.

The Turkey Trilogy warbles into its second episode - in this installment, it is revealed that Gabriel has turkeys lurking in his lineage. It's All Tied Together with references to a mysterious religion set against the backdrop of galactic war.

Several crucial items(!!!)). For one, eight new hospitals have been recently added. Is one of them near you?

We’ll be launching two new T Shirt designs on Monday as well as some new hoodies. The first shirt is called "Fruit Fucker Apocalypse".

The Turkey Trilogy is a thrilling, three-part story that only deals with turkey one time - and even then, it does so in a non-committal fashion. The narrative is really not focused on roasted birds. I hoe you will be able to overlook this shortcoming, and enjoy those parts which are tangential to heritage fowl.

Gears multi had just become a nightly fixture, and then - wholly without warning - it was over. A pack of downloadable maps (already in progress?) might give us another night or two on Sera, but the reality is that the rest of Team Inferno has moved on to Rainbow Six.

Penny Arcade turned eight years old today. Happy birthday to us!

The Child’s Play website has been updated with more events taking place all over the country. If you would like to set something up in your neck of the woods please send a mail over to Kristen. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it here already but Kristen is actually in charge of Child’s Play this year. IF you’ve attended PAX you know her better as Princess Red Dot. She’s the voice on the loud speaker and the official “Mom” of the show. She actually did an interview with Fleen a couple weeks ago. If you missed it you can see it here.

It was good news there for a little while, when PS1 games were five bucks a pop and you were changin' out that hard drive and still retaining your warranty - big, generous moves that asked hard questions of their primary competitor. Just days later, it's weird rumor after dark rumbling after grim report. 

We are mentioned briefly in the most recent Major Nelson Radio podcast, where we learn that the man apparently can't remember which one of us is which, even though he stood before us in our marble reception hall only days earlier. The end of the same podcast features an interview with one Chip Lang, Vice President of Online Commerce for Electronic Arts. The good Major keeps it social, and does not savage his guest, presumably because he likes his job and would like to keep it  Never fear!  We can do what he can't.

I wanted to mention all our Child’s Play auctions again just to make sure everyone is aware of them.

I took the Wii home over the weekend and was able to put quite a bit of time into Zelda. There was what I would describe as a “bru ha ha” over at Joystiq when one of their bloggers claimed the game was a flop. He cited its terrible graphics as reason enough to dismiss it entirely. The response in the thread afterwards was heated with lots of people claiming that the graphics weren’t as bad as he claimed and that the game actually looked really good. Having played it all weekend I’m here to tell you that’s not the correct response.

I'm super depressed. I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale. I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend. A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous. Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.

Lots of people asked for a wallpaper sized version of the “birds are Weird” book cover. I get so many requests for different crazy resolutions that it’s not really worth it. So here’s a big high res image for you guys. You might have to do some tweaking but you should be able to make something passable out of it no matter your resolution. Click on the thumbnail for the big one.

Do not forget! All the information can be found at yonder page. As requested, the date has been bumped up to the December 15th to give people more time for their projects.