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PAX West is coming up this week and I will of course be there PAXING it up with everyone else. Here is a look at my schedule and the best times to find me at the show.

Zero Company practically from the jump has been described as - and literally embodies - the Ayurvedic concept of "Star Wars plus XCOM." I think it's best to resist this kind of mathematics when you're thinking about these things, it collapses too many variables, but then again I'm obsessed with lineage in games and so the two might be considered parents…? It doesn't really matter, though. You can say that phrase, and recognize that it refers to a truth in our world, and still not really know what it would mean. XCOM, like many wargames, tells a story through mechanics that the mind is only too happy to fill with context.  That happens here, too.  But it also has a baller story, good writing, and some startling suprises.  If we gotta get our Star Wars from the computer now, this is a great start.

I know that all my Foon Fiends are already logged the fuck in, but Mork and I somehow wriggled our way into the realm of the Podcast - and further incursions into the mainstream can't be far off.  If you already know what the show is, then that's good.  If not, I might just go in blind.  I just listened to the first half, and I can verify that everybody but me was incredibly funny.

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I eventually bounced off the first Mortal Shell because it was too fucking hard, but I ended up screwing around with the Open Beta for the sequel and it got its hooks in. That's one of the best demos I've ever played for a game, and it did a mean trick where there are invisible forcefields at certain points to halt your progress. I mean, I guess they can't give the whole game away, but God Damn if that didn't inspire a purchase. Now I know exactly what's behind that shimmering curtain of force: death, death, and more death. Which I should have guessed from the jump.