King, the makers of Candy Crush, are assuring people that they do not intend to pursue any actual action against The Banner Saga. Instead, apparently due to the inner workings of trademark/copyright law, they would have a harder time pursuing future claims if they did not currently oppose every use of the word they see […]

Trademarks and copyrights are important… but holy shit companies do some silly things with them sometimes. The latest of which is the makers of Candy Crush Saga trying to trademark both the words ‘candy’ and ‘saga.’ Not combined as they appear in the title of the game, but as two separate entities. The excuse the […]

I have far too many consoles hooked up to my tv right now. It’s been nearly a decade since the last generation-swap, but I seem to recall getting a cleaner break than this. The new consoles came out, I wished a fond farewell to my old ones and boxed them up with some of my […]

Motherfucking Banner Saga, man. I’ve been anxiously awaiting this game for the better part of a year, and it’s finally arrived. I was up until the wee hours of the morning playing, and I can’t wait to finish my other stuff today to get back to it. Everything you need to know about the combat […]

Playstation Now looks great. A decent compromise to backwards compatibility, the service will allow people to stream older games to their devices, like an OnLive for Playstation games. If it works, it will be pretty cool. I have to wonder, though, if anyone at Microsoft is scratching their heads regarding the favorable reaction to this […]

I don’t recognize the person I become when playing Rust alone. By necessity, to survive, you have to become the most untrusting, paranoid fuck possible. It consumes you. Suspicion is paramount. You adopt a shoot-first, ask questions later mentality, and any attempts to do otherwise are met with disaster more often than not. As an […]

Rust is one of those early access games I had kicking around on my Steam wishlist, and finally picked up last month. The most apt description would be to call it a cross between Minecraft and Day Z, with the scales tipped towards the latter. You start out somewhere in the wilderness, completely naked with […]

Happy 2014 everyone! 2013 ended on a hell of a high-note for me, but everything leading up to it was a crazy whirlwind of unexpected, head-spinning stress. The year did not go at all how I thought it would, so here’s to hoping 2014 is a smidge more predictable! Currently in a bit of a […]

I’m beginning to forget what it felt like to be not-tired.

As I would hope should be no surprise, since it’s the same deal every year, I won’t be updating on Christmas. I’ll post a new silly, or something, but not a full update. I’ll be spending the holiday with my family, and our early Christmas present:   I hope you all have a fantastic and […]

I find myself adding a lot of games to my Steam wishlist lately. Games that even as little as a year ago I wouldn’t have hesitated to purchase outright. I think my wishlist has sort of turned into an “on deck” list or “holding pattern”, in light of so many interesting indie games constantly springing […]

Well, I survived my first week of parenthood. Only… eighteen more years to go.

So… I have certainly intended to do a proper comic for today. However, our son had other plans, and decided to show up two weeks early. This handsome little guy was born yesterday morning at a healthy eight pounds even. Mother and baby are doing absolutely wonderfully, and we’re so thrilled to finally meet our […]

  Our site is being sponsored this week by SUMO beanbag chairs. They love you guys and, apparently, you dig them as well. You’ve heard me talk about them in the past, I have a handful of their chairs myself, and I love them. They’re very easy for me to recommend, so I’m always happy to welcome […]

  Our site is being sponsored this week by SUMO beanbag chairs. They love you guys and, apparently, you dig them as well. You’ve heard me talk about them in the past, I have a handful of their chairs myself, and I love them. They’re very easy for me to recommend, so I’m always happy […]

I’ve had my PS4 and my Xbox One for a little while now. As game systems go, they’re both pretty awesome. The XB1 has the better launch lineup. The PS4 has the better controller (though they’re both great, the Dual Shock 4 was a bigger improvement over its predecessor than the XB1 controller). Both systems […]

After my PS4 got the Pulsing Blue Dickpunch last Friday, I called Sony. It took me three hours on hold to finally get someone, but they told me they’d send out an RMA box. It arrived on Monday, overnighted. The return label was overnight FedEx as well, so I sent the console back the same […]

You guys are pretty damned awesome.

So I backed this nifty sidescroller by some former LucasArts vets, Super Roman Conquest, on Kickstarter. It looked like a pretty neat idea, and the preview of their new art direction by Sean Ward (of Hyper Light Drifter) won me over:   Anyway, they were about a thousand dollars shy of their modest $30,000 goal, […]

We left off with this story here. I was a bit on the fence about this one… I pressed pause on this in the middle of a combat scene because it had been running for a few weeks, and I knew we were a little over a week away from a few weeks of The […]

I teased some new shirts a couple of months ago, and they’re finally available in our store. The first two are faction t-shirts for the Console Wars (which I had intended to resume on Monday, but now I’m questioning if I need to rewrite some in light of recent events). Maybe I should do a […]

How karmic. I wrote that comic Thursday after hearing some early launch/Taco Bell PS4s were having problems. My system shows up on Friday, and two minutes into setup, the screen freezes, and I get the Blue Dickpunch of Sadness. I double checked HDMI cable seating, swapped cables, reseated the HDD, etc. Occasionally I can get […]

A couple of years ago, a month or two into Cataclysm’s launch, I decided I was finally done with World of Warcraft. After six or seven years playing on and off, two years straight for the last stretch, I was feeling burnt out. I’d raided all throught WotLK, and when we started raiding Cataclysm, I […]

It’s funny how “early access” has become a thing. I feel like these days I play more games that are not even “officially released” than finished titles. This sort of thing was unheard of when I was growing up, but it’s becoming more and more common. In a lot of ways, I think it can […]