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Funny how this issue is coming out right after I let my subscription lapse. They print nothing but Metal Gear and Superman covers and now do something I'm actually excited about. Tricky bastards.

indie games: Battles of Norghan Natuk Dominions II Space Empires IV Land of Legends older games: Master of Magic Fantasy General Lords of the Realm the Heroes of Might & Magic series console: Dark Wizard (Sega CD) Tactics Ogre (PS1) Tactics Ogre (GBA) Rebelstar (GBA)

Earth - Like Gold & Faceted

Blonde Redhead is an awesome band that everyone should listen to. What are we talking about?

"Come on, people. he posts at the Codex once in the blue moon. It's not like he's a regular there. Geez" Actually, he sends everyone at the Codex a PM every Friday afternoon at 3:41. He tells us how much he loves us and what he dreamed about the night before. It's kinda creepy.

Jack from Bloodlines

Slanted & Enchanted is a bit more "off kilter" than Crooked Rain, but it's got more of the spontaneous magic that made them such a kickass band. Definitely buy it if you dig the band at all. Listen to it every Tuesday.

I can't wait to get NWN2 so I can play as a warlock named Volourn.

Is the Duel option the same as Hotseat?

Ok, you call Stan Sakai and I'll call Dave Sim. The TMNT guys are too rich from merchandise already so they won't bother.

The final version is going to have a single player component, but they didn't have the AI ready for the beta.

Slayer always reminds me of high school, senior year. And my black denim jacket.

You have to have a PAID Fileplanet account, though. The normal free one doesn't count. Also, you need to be aware that Starforce is part of the beta.

I hated the seemingly constant required feeding in Arx Fatalis. I know some people dig that because it's more realistic etc, but my blood pressure went up everytime I heard my character say "I need food." It made me feel like I was playing with a Furbie or Tamagachimacallit. That aside, pretty much every Japanese game has some WTF design moment. It's something I pretty much take for granted.

Sonic Youth - EVOL I used to listen to Big Star everyday at work. It was one of the few bands everyone in the office liked.

I had to vote for Shadowrun. I love the setting. It would suck crazy balls if it ended up a MMO, though. MMOs is dirty. As for RIFTS, isn't there something in development? I thought I read something about in the past year. edit: The Rifts game was an N-Gage title so I don't know if it even came out.

Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3. I cried like a little wussy the first time I listened to that on acid. edit: I'm guessing that Enoch listens to Eric Dolphy as well as Mingus.

Those titles are all common and fairly easy to find (at least here in the states). You might as well pick them up if you have $100 or so to spare.

That sounds like Crackdown by Real Time Worlds. It's coming out for the 360.

Soldier of Fortune because shooting people in the nuts never gets old.

"NOLF stands for No One LARPs Forever" Kamaz & Yipsl will prove you wrong in the end.

Geneforge or Geneforge 2 And Planescape: Torment of course.

I didn't see anything in the article to indicate he (if it's really just one person) took out 50 to 146 US soldiers. "Since February, the killing of at least two members of the battalion and the wounding of six more have been attributed to Juba. Some think it is also he that has picked off up to a dozen other soldiers." Bomb makers are far and away the biggest threat and morale sappers to US troops.

The haunted level was too cliched to actually be scary. It was so well done, however, that it still stood out as a high point of the game for me. Definitely play as a melee-oriented Brujah if you want to tear everything up.

Shipping from the UK to US would probably be like $10 minimum and take a long ass time. You can get the Japanese version from Amazon US. It has a few extra songs, but is fairly expensive. Amazon