Laura and I are rather pleased with Recettear (pronounced Reck-ket-tear, I think). It's a clever, fun little game; it is essentially a lightweight JRPG, but you play the Genki Girl owner of the item shop rather than Generically Brooding Warrior Dude.

You should definitely check it out. You can grab the demo here. (If you have Steam, you can jump ( Read more... )

You should try Alien Swarm, a free game released by Valve.

http://www.alienswarm.com/

If I could describe it in one phrase, it would be "Left 4 Diablo 2, Space Marine Edition." Like L4D it's an obligate multiplayer game with a strong emphasis on cooperation, but it has top-down gameplay ( Read more... )

Bad Universe looks AWESOME.



It appears to be Death from the Skies in video format, hosted by Doctor Phil Plait, the author of the book as well as the Bad Astronomy blog. What's not to love about that?

Behold the amusing reactions to Westboro Baptist Church picketing Comic-con ( Read more... )

I bet Laura was EXACTLY like this as a toddler.

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07192010.shtml

(Spoilers for Serenity, but if you haven't seen that yet that's your own damned fault.)

Tip o' the space cowboy hat to P-Zed.

It's fucking terrible. I couldn't get past the first issue. It's like the artists and writers wanted to out-Liefeld Liefeld.

( Condensed script for Witchblade #1 behind the cut. )

News has been floating around for a few days about an Iranian Grand High Muckamuck who claims the current increase in earthquakes* is due to women dressing immodestly and behaving promiscuously. Curiously, he doesn't comment on any males with whom these women might be promiscuous. I guess men who have sex with immodest women can't be blamed for ( Read more... )

I can't believe this is a real thing. For those of you who actually have the self-restraint to go by a hyperlink without clicking on its delicious post-information-scarcity goodness, GameCrush is basically a service wherein you pay a real-life girl, exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark, one one one one one, to play video games with ( Read more... )

Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority describes it far better than I could, so I'll just link you to his article ( Read more... )