Here is another one for the “why in Gods name would they release these screenshots” file. I love X-men as much as the next guy but these shots look like cheap ass. I understand you PR guys are all anxious to get the word out on your hot new game but this is ridiculous. At least wait until it looks decent before you go showing your ass all over town.

I would just like to say how happy I am that Namco is working on GameCube titles. I am sure Star Fox will be fantastic considering how good Starblade was. However, of all the games mentioned the one that has me drooling is their unnamed racing game. When they mention that it will be the "next evolution of Ridge Racer" I get all warm inside. I think that Ridge Racer Type 4 for the PSX is the greatest racing game ever made. No other racing game before or since has been able to grab hold of me the way R4 did. I spent months with that game trying to shave fractions of seconds off my lap times. I think that ridge racer V on the PS2 was more of a shitty technology demo than a game and so I don't really consider it a part of the series. If Namco is able to bring back all the great stuff from Type 4 like the story mode and the wicked cars then I will be one happy camper. I've got my fingers crossed.

• Ant City: Sent in by Ian from XenGamers, he said it was probably worth about five minutes of fun. Maybe if you play it once, it is. Like the proverbial Pringles brand snack chip, once one has initiated the popping process it is difficult (if not impossible) to halt the procedure.

• The Parking Lot Is Full: I actually found out about Plif and Jerkcity on the same day, instructed thus by the inimitable Monk-e on the Penny Arcade IRC channel. You can only imagine what that day was like. No matter. The Parking Lot Is Full is being put to sleep, has been I should say, so head over to the morgue and ogle the corpse with the others.

• Project Solinari: These guys review games - mainly ones that could be considered classic, which is typically a euphemism for "very old." Nostalgia trips galore.

• A Glimpse Of Our Terrifying Cyber Future: I don't know what Sony could possibly be thinking, mass-producing these vicious robo-youngsters. Time was, you could just push a robot down and they'd roll the credits while you got your chaste mack on in ninteen-fifty. Not so, anymore. These little bastards will turn on the juice and burn your whole head, they don't care.

• Save The Pak Mann Arcade, Goddamit: I don't live anywhere near here, but I was sent this by someone who does. So save it, already!

• Save Internet Radio While You're At It: Feel free to save the other thing first, if you're in the middle of that. I don't want to be a bother. But as I've been putting plans together for our radio station (Ping Radio, yes, named after the wayward duckling), I'd become aware that the concept of Internet Radio is sort of on the ropes. Now, for what we plan to do, we probably wouldn't have to pay a lot - we were never going to run twenty-four seven, like a regular station might. The idea that Internet Radio would be even remotely injurious to artists (read: labels) is, to my mind, an avaricious yarn spun from pure fancy. The issue is too much in the margin to have its ramifications understood by those who will be asked to arbitrate it, so I fear we can chalk this one up to Team Fucker.

Without warning, vile continuity struck in the night.

As Tycho mentioned our Import Gaming 101 feature is now online. Please keep sending me your import gaming questions. I have already spoken to Travis about it and he would be happy to continue answering your questions in this manner. If you do decide to try importing games you should defiantly do it through his shop, videogamedepot.com. I have dealt with them on quite a few occasions now and they certainly get the Penny Arcade seal of approval.

We've got what you need, provided you need something very specific, like one of our comics.

Other than that, Gabe and I are in perfect agreement.

Nothing I do is ever good enough for you. Sorry I'm not fucking perfect like you!

Other than that, Gabe and I are in perfect agreement.

The Spiderman movie is the reason god invented the cinema.

Tron 2.0 looks really cool. That is all.

We've got a new strip up. We do that sort of thing.

After calling every rental place in Kirkland I finally hit the jackpot when I called the Woodinville Blockbuster. The lady there said they had one left and before she could finish I was in the car and half way to Woodinville. A $100.00 deposit, a $14.95 rental fee and a $10.83 late fee (stupid fucking Maximo!) and I had myself a GC until Monday. That means that this evening Tycho, Kara, Monkey and I will all be sitting down to enjoy some survival horror. They were all so mad when I told them about the GC I was honestly a little scared for my life. In fact had I not been able to rent one, my plan was just to drive east until I ran out of gas.

Like many of you, we've been eager in our discussion of the new (i.e., the old) Resident Evil for the GameCube. Gabe's latest free EGM gives it a clean bill of health, and the Gamespot guy ran low on adjectives in an effort to evoke its visual and aural splendor. It comes out today. Did I mention that we have no GameCube? Because I'm getting to that.

Wasn't he in "Too Stupid To Make A Title For His Post"? That was bad ass.

Have any of you guys seen that new movie staring Assy McShutup? I hear it’s pretty good.