No idea what happened all day. We're back up.

We're hitting the mall today and find out of there's to be some kind of "Midnight Madness" ala Halo 2 event for the PSP over at our EB. I really do desire the machine, in a way that I wish I desired another new handheld with two screens, but one of these systems has a strong launch lineup and one of them dished up an eight year old port and called it a feast. I believe somewhat the prevailing logic that the systems are designed for utterly disparate demographics, the price and design seems to imply such thing might be true, although I can't tell if PSP games launching at the $50 dollar mark constitutes brand identity or naked, cynical graft.

We weren’t going to do a comic strip about the final outcome but then we saw their little animated gif of the master chief body humping the fruit fucker. That sort of insolent behavior could not go unpunished.

You might have heard the black lies promulgated by the scalawags at Bungie.net regarding our epic matchup on Wednesday. Today, I break my one day silence. Today, I speak the truth - yes, the truth! That truth which is so abhorrent to our enemies!

Page six of our Brothers in Arms comic is now live. Things start to go in sort of a different direction as this page ends.

The response to the JIVE cover I posted yesterday could best be described as “overwhelming”. I’m really glad you guys liked it so much. Since everyone asked for a wallpaper sized version of it, here it is:

You can look up my statistics in Halo 2 and see that since the night Half-Life 2 was released on Steam, I haven't really looked back - and today I'll be made to suffer for it. I am scared right now and want only to be held.

There will be a pretty good sized interview with us in an upcoming issue of JIVE magazine. They asked me to do the cover for the issue and I was super excited. The concept I had was Gabe and Tycho as though they were real people being photographed for the cover of a music magazine. Here’s what I came up with.

It's number nine, right down at the bottom.

I believe I spelled that correctly.

People often ask me why we don't talk more about the things that are going on in the web comics community. They want to know what I think about the Daily Grind or whatever. So I will now give you my own little web comics news update.

He gave a speech at the GDC, which Gamespot has summarized here. Fascinating. Looks like 1up has some action as well.

As soon as we began to hear the rumors of a camera - and let's be clear, they're probably not rumors - we almost immediately began to tremble with fear, although this feature is likely to save me a trip downtown.

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Robert attended the GDC this year, he was able to ask Reggie the questions which were posted yesterday - and though the show seems to be intensifying, at least from an outside perspective, it doesn't sound anything like the shows I've been to. He mentioned to us in passing that IGN has a booth, a place members of the press can swing by to get a statement on the things being shown there. Damn if that didn't sound like a hell of a job.

I was not aware that such a man as Reggie Fils-Amie existed before last year's E3. We attended the Nintendo briefing for Retailers by mistake, which for a person on the enthusiast side of things was extremely odd - there's probably an entire article just in that. But central to the presentation was this man, a person I had never seen before, broad of shoulder and intimidating, describing the Nintendo DS as a dangerous, unstoppable machine, like a self-ambulating bear trap that craves the human leg.