Penny Arcade

I'm not ready to talk about records yet. There's a lot I don't understand about it, it's not mine yet, and if I'm going to address it I need to approach that space and the topic mindfully. But I'm definitely starting to get weird about it. Weirder. I mean, think about my baseline. Fanbyte had a really great article up showcasing a bunch of indie radness at PAX South, and so did USgamer. It really did my heart good. You would think that making something cool would be the hard part, but…

Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team returns on February 5th - that is a fact well established.  At any rate, it's something I said one time in a place you might not have seen.  The Internet is very big!  But we're halfway through a three part series that is something like a remix of The "C" Team, a Weird West tale sponsored by Chaosium, creators of the Call of Cthulhu RPG and utilizing that system.  Starts at 4pm PST this very night, come hang out.  Here…

Okay! I think we did it. Because of where PAX South exists in the "business year," it is - by necessity - a craggy realm where the independent creator has dominion. I said I would go into a few of my discoveries, and God dammit I'm gonna. Sento was legitimately shocking to me. It doesn't really have a presence online yet - like a reliquary, it's just an object of power that travels from place to place. It's by Brother Ming, a super interesting dude who offers generous print…

I've been present for the aftermath of so many shows that it's very startling how gone it is and how quickly it is gone. You keep thinking, or… I guess, I keep thinking, that when something like this happens there's gonna be some kind of echo that blooms in physical space, some platinum tracery midair, some mark. As it is, it's like I like through five seasonally appropriate editions of A Christmas Carol a year, and then it all evaporates to the extent that I can…