Stormy has bleak premonitions about a grim High-Definition Apartheid in the coming generation of consoles - it's the first time I've ever heard this position enunciated.

I just wanted to take a second and address some of the casting rumors that are circulating all over the net with regard to the imminent DRDTB movie. I saw a couple articles over at Aint it Cool News saying that Burt Reynolds had been chosen for the role and I can assure that’s not true. I think Smokey and the Bandit is the number one best movie ever made, followed closely by Smokey and the Bandit part II- The Bandit Rides Again. However, when Burt auditioned for the lead role in DRDTB he just didn’t have the same fire in his belly that I saw back in 1977. Then I heard that Tom Cruise had mentioned in an interview with Vanity Fair last month that the role was his. It’s true that we looked at Tom for the part but we decided to pass on him after he showed up drunk and proceeded to stumble and slur his way through his audition. In the end we settled on an actor that I had been pushing for since day one. Donnie Wahlberg will be playing the part of Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood and you heard it here first. I told the studio I wanted him because of his stellar work in “Boomtown” but honestly I’m just a huge New Kids fan.

PSP Vault just popped up a Hot Shots Save, and in record time - it's not complete yet, give this anonymous gamer some time, but the save gots four courses, two mirror versions, and a bunch of adorable accessories.

I'm packing up to fly to a California studio where Gabriel's hideous creation will be birthed, no doubt there is an ancient prophecy that details all the particulars, though I suppose technically those would constitute spoilers. In the meantime, I dropped a couple random pages from his "great work" on the webserver for you to ridicule. Updates should continue according to the usual interval, and if there's Internet in the sheetmetal hovel provided by the production company I'll post as I can.

If you can’t wait until PAX to see the one and only MC Frontalot perform live on stage, you don’t have to. Just get yourself to NYC on Wednesday May 11th for his show at the Slipper Room. You can find all the details on his site. If you can make it I highly recommend that you do. The Front puts on quite a show.

Because I can hook that up.

There is nothing that escapes our gaze, expanded as it is by thousands upon thousands of grisly servants. One such creature, "James," let us know that apparently a Div shirt compelled a young man to do something very lewd indeed, something I cannot officially endorse but secretly believe is all the way live.

I hadn't investigated it, but with PSP saves so easy to pull directly from the machine and compress for download I felt sure that repositories for the files were readily available. We just got back with our Hot Shots Golfs, and we enjoyed the single course that was available to us - but if our choice now is to play hours and hours of the single player to get more or download a .zip archive from the Internet, it can't be hard to guess my preference.

We should have known that making shirts based on fictional line dancing teams wasn’t a good idea. Personally the Kansas City Hotsteppers shirt is my absolute favorite. Very few other people seem to share my taste though and so we have decided to retire the designs. If you’ve been eyeing either the Hotstepper or the Obsidian Spur shirt I suggest you pick one up now. Once they are gone we won’t be restocking them. I believe the price has also been dropped on those shirts to reflect their clearance status.

I am physically ill with excitement about the gaming news at the moment. I have to get some of this off my chest before I misplace my breakfast.

After being dicked around by Verizon for two weeks I finally told them to piss off and I got myself a new internet provider. When I moved into my new place Verizon told me I'd be up and running in five days. That was apparently a lie from the pits of hell. They hooked my phone up just fine but my DSL never kicked in. After a week I called their technical support. Now I don't know a lot about computers. I pretty much just use mine to play games and draw. I'm not teh hax0r by any stretch of the imagination. With that said I do know enough to know that the woman on the other end of this call was full of shit. I explained that my DSL modem ready light was simply flashing repeatedly which I understood to mean that I had no DSL. She had me go into internet explorer and delete my cookies. This sort of thing went on for about 45 minutes culminating in her telling me that the problem was with my router. I told her that I didn't have a router hooked up but this didn't seem to faze her. My imaginary router was not supported by Verizon and so the problem was my own fault. It was my use of phantom electronics that meant I would never again surf the world wide webs. So I told her to go fuck herself and I immediately called Comcast. Four days later I'm back online. The point of this story is that if you tried to send me a mail anytime in the last two weeks I never got it. I'm golden now though so if you still need to talk feel free to mail away.

Oh, it's quite true - Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood has been optioned and will now be smeared across movie screens worldwide, with no thought of how they will eventually remove it. I'm speechless, in the way that makes a person go on and on. And what's more, he must have had the foresight to cut me out a year ago, because I'm nowhere to be found in that strip's credits. I said I'd go down with him to the studio and see how things are coalescing, but told him that if his "vision" manifests itself as boiling human waste it's only because it tried to stay true to the source material.

Rob Liefeld has a new website. I honestly don't know how he keeps getting work but whatever. He has his own online comic called "Shrink!" that you can check out on his site.

My friend Steve over at Hypothermia slash HardOCP is giving away Earth PSPs to five lucky organisms! I understand that these PSPs each have a single dead pixel, but I've got three on mine and it's not the sort of thing that should keep you up at night. One can obtain "the infos" from here, were one so inclined.

The strip has a sharpness to it, something mean, but speaking for myself the idea that I could just watch an Oddworld story without having to twiddle a gamepad is something I'm genuinely looking forward to. Stranger, what would eventually come to be called Stranger's Wrath, was my favorite of the bunch - and I was still toiling from cinema to cinema. The desire to slide into noninteractive entertainment has always been there - their Big Brand aspirations being clear from the first Abe manual - and I think it's also clear that he would enjoy it more anyway. For an extremely intense interview with Lorne Lanning on closing down development and the realities of business as a third party, clicka this link.