Obviously someone who worked on the new Penny Arcade game really liked Persona.

(I posted this on my Twitter already, but some people who might find this amusing don't read it!!)

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I don't usually point people towards the Humble Bundle (seriously, if you're not paying close enough attention to get amazing deals on amazing games it's your own damn fault) but since I'm an unapologetic shill for Telltale Games I felt I should point people towards this week's weekly bundle (separate from the "real" bundle, which you should still ( Read more... )

So now that Hatsune Miku has been featured in Super Robot Wars (this is still not a joke, by the way), you might be wondering what the logical next step is. Turns out, it's THIS:

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Full but short "series" list (quotes because at least one of these is just, like, some kind of mascot ( Read more... )

I've wanted to write this thing for a long time, but always in bouts of insomnia, and never with a keyboard within reach. Well, the urge to write this sordid tale has struck again, and I figured I had enough leeway to wreck my sleeping schedule for the next few days. Lucky me!

( In which I get shit off my chest about snobbish teachers and broken dreams and so forth )

So this morning, Amazon announced a project to sanction and pay for fan fiction for several franchises, starting with Warner Brothers TV properties (notably Vampire Diaries). This blog post examines why the deal offered is a terrible deal for writers, but concedes that it's better than "no deal at all and possibly having to deal with a cranky ( Read more... )

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I've been discovering Xenogears for the first time recently, via my brother playing the game while I goof around, and the game's at-times unintentionally hilarious script had me wonder if there was one of those Twitter accounts that just randomly tweets lines from things. Surprisingly, there wasn't!

Well, I just fixed that.

No, I am not kidding. See for yourself! After Hatsune Miku and SD Gundam, SRW has found a way to surprise us again. Also, original Zoids!

Also, SRW finally include Patlabor after trying to get it for so long.
A moonlanguage series list and a confirmation that it'll use SRWNeo's strange (but actually awesome) gameplay mechanics. The crazy part: the ( Read more... )

Apropos of nothing: Strangely often, whenever I witness discussions about Metroid: Other M, people like to talk about what the "Real Samus" would do in a given situation. For some reason, what the Real Samus would apparently do often involves putting the game's entire human cast (plus director Yoshio Sakamoto) on the receiving end of a volley of ( Read more... )