Post-Halloween grab bag

[zhai]

I've been trying to think of a way to gracefully segue into more regular posting, but I'm going to fall back on announcements and links. But thank you to everyone who sent me notes about the fires -- again, greatly appreciated. My family was fortunate to escape without heavy property loss -- some broken windows from the wind, an inch of ash and

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[anguirel]

In order

[zhai]

Yes, Canada is awesome

[anguirel]

Eragon game was published by Vivendi, and tested here. I got to see it played for months (though I only played a little bit of it for TRG).

An independent review site designed for parents to use would be cool, but my hope was that if I can get Vivendi to do it, other publishers will jump on so they aren't left behind, effectively doing at least some of the work for these parents at minimal effective cost (as it would be marketing of another sort, and probably could be pretty effective at least initially). Base the whole thing around the concept -- instead of just browsing games by genre or title (like most marketing sites do now), you can browse them by ESRB rating, or ESRB content-keywords, and getting a quick overview of any objectionable material the game might have in it, making it easy for a parent to pick acceptable titles to purchase - they can then go look those games up for their reviews/playstyle to see if the kid would actually like it.