So, I love games. One of the upcoming ones I'm really excited about is: Torment: Tides of Numenera (currently in Kickstarter form, as you can see).

They just.. they did SO many things brilliantly, with their kickstarter, with their design, with communicating with the fans. Here's why I think it'll be awesome:

* Planescape! Well, so unfortunately ( Read more... )

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The plot of Palimpsest, which is one of my favorite novels ever, goes something like this. Four diverse misfits (and they really are broken people, and each is heavily obsessed with something, whether it's bees and making lists, or medieval literature, or trains, or their dead sister) discover a crazy beautiful (sexually ( Read more... )

I tend to get stuck, and not post, due to various OCD-like tendencies. I think, half-consciously, I require my posts to be sequential, to tell my stories roughly in the order they happen. And when I miss one story, it all piles up, and I end up not posting ( Read more... )

Two things that I found out yesterday, and await with much glee and trepidation (well, the second one with more trepidation than the first, as there is more room to mess up):

1) (via pluckypixels) -- Diablo 3 has been announced (note: the official site is very slow and flash heavy)! Watch the 'Classes' gameplay video, specifically. Of course it ( Read more... )

A very important survey for you, apropos of nothing. Yes, go answer!

(Also, if yer some sort of schismatic, and have played Rogue, ADOM, Angband or some such similar, substitute your favorite for 'nethack'.)

Poll Nethack and You

(via miz_anneliese)

Fez (by the super indie Montreal-based Kokoromi Collective) is a remarkable game, immediately inspiring the "ok, I gotta check that out" lust in me ( Read more... )

The Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition is coming (the core rulebooks will be out May-July 2008), and the D&D 4th ed Preview Books are out already ( Read more... )

The other day, I happened across a Strange Maps entry - Map of the USA, Made in Japan.

Now, take a look at this map. Just gaze, let it soak in.


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( via darlox):

Bible Fight (by Adult Swim)

I'm sorry, but the awesomeness of this cannot be overstated, try hard as one might.

Fight as Jesus, Eve, Noah, Satan, Mary, and others. Street Fighter II style. Call down rains of frogs. Crush heads with the cross that you bear.

(This is why God invented videogames.)

(I suspect this is IE-only)

Two Wires is a remarkable Flash game -- it's incredibly simple, and captures a certain dreamlike sense of flow.