Y'know honestly if it's an action- or genre-movie trailer that has appeared before human eyes anywhere on the planet Earth some time during the past 15 years and was not based on a J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman* or Suzanne Collins book then, yeah: You can assume that it is crap.

STILL annoyed and distracted by the impracticality of double-crossbow wielding. Like, two crossbows: Much less effective than ONE crossbow, due to the need to put one down on the ground after shooting them both, re-cock the other one, reload the other one, put THAT one down, pick up the first one . . .

I dunno, the 'complete ergonomics' of Myst or Riven on iPad seems like the perfect thing for me. I have a minor lower back condition that makes it way more comfortable to either stand or lie down rather than sit. For me, it's the perfect total game experience to be stretched out on a bed or couch or floor, with an…

Playing Riven (Myst II) on IPad. Oh man, I'm 16 again, reading of Gehn's journals, listening to the trippy music . . .

Oh and another added feature: 24 hours after purchase it turns into a hollowed-out pumpkin with a mouse running on an exercise wheel inside.

Mmm, I knew of the series but didn't know there was a game.

Hmm, now there's an MMO concept I would pay eleventy-million dollars to play: Queendoms of Amazonia. ONLY female avatars are available.

As someone who practiced Chungdokwan Taekwondo for many years, I have often noted the lack of a good 'exhaustion' mechanic for warriors/melee fighters. Usually in Chungdokwan, you fight for 3-minute rounds, best-2-out-of-3. The objective is to land kicks to the chest, obliques or (rarely) head.

*Can Diablo III Really Bring Back That Old Diablo Magic?*

For the tenth time, let me take a moment to flog MY idea for an FPS:

*...at least until we've invented an AI capable of all the same roles as an infantryman.*

It's more true than funny.

Oh FPS community, don't ever change: Keep spinning your hilarious "ultra-realistic" fantasies of massed armor and infantry warfare actually existing in the future.

Did I tell you about my Courtney Love tribute band?

Thanks right back at you. Yeah, cheap speculation on childbearing and childraising seems like the high-fructose corn syrup of the internet these days.

I see pencil sketches, I see overlaid text, I see a hand moving on an iPhone.

I move in broad enough social circles to encounter both families who procreated because they honestly and sincerely wanted to have children (as my mother said of me, "We had you because we were ready for a change.") and also those who had children because there was some sort of religious or cultural imperative to do…

Hey Colonial Marines upper-echelon command: Perhaps it isn't my place to say this, but mayhap repeatedly deploying 12-man infantry squads with no intel and no reinforcement closer than 17 days away and having them confront the aliens essentially hand-to-hand inside their own hive isn't the masterful foolproof strategy…

That's Amendment 2. Just be patient, it'll be on the ballot in November.

Oh and I also think the logical extension of that whole homophobes-are-gay thing is that racists of this extremity may axiomatically be assumed to have a black or Latin great-grandparent.