Had I just read the reviews of Front Mission 4 and not actually played the demo I might not go buy it today. Thankfully I did play the demo and I know that the reviewers are full of shit. I just want to make sure that others aren't steered away from the game by misleading reviews. If you're still hesitant at least rent it and check it out.

I'm just afraid that Gabe will learn the wrong lesson from this experience. He'll come away from it with a fear of shrubs or young men when all that's required is that he be more circumspect regarding his dalliances.

I have all the information about what's going down at the Guildhall in Texas, and another meet later that night. Here's the data, if you're in the area.

When another man questions your throughput, I mean, it's on. Driving music begins to play and you have to use your crane kick.

I’m a big fan of the new maps for Splinter Cell:PT. I think that they have a visual polish that far exceeds any of the original levels. The Osprey hovering around the beginning of the Bank level is a real treat.

You can play Four Swords with four people, three people, two, or one - but, unlike the GBA version that comes with Link To The Past, the experience doesn't change depending on the number of players you have. So, if you're playing with two people, each person gets two Links that can move in different formations. It's pretty fun, I doubt that you'll become incontinent with joy while playing it but it's better than a kick in the dick. It also uses the GBA connectivity in some new ways - any time you fall in a hole or enter a building, basically any time you are not on the overworld adventure map, you enter (or in some cases "fall into") the Gameboy. If you do decide to play it, though, you might as well familiarize yourself with the archetypes.

We're currently downloading Federal Bank and River Mall - I'd heard they were going to hit in an hour or so, but they're right there for you if you want them.

I did a piece for the new Blizzard fanart section. I thought you guys might like to see it.

We have finally assembled our All Star Team for Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, and like the Planeteers our membership spans the globe. We did run into a snag initially, but it's not really something I want to talk about.

I would just like to draw your attention to two brand new shirt designs over at Gameskins.com. First up is the sensual “Justin Bailey” shirt. Prove your old school heritage by sporting this Metroid inspired work of art. Then strike fear into the hearts of zombies throughout Raccoon City with the new R.P.D T-shirt.

I feel like I should let you know that my Inbox is actually quite divided on what will one day be known as the Full Spectrum Warrior Issue.

The charge that the gameplay in Full Spectrum Warrior doesn't change much is fair in my opinion, but why that's not relevant to me is something we can discuss in a second. The notion that Army brass would wait to reveal the infantry's ultimate techniques amused us though, and we went with it.

There were never many details regarding True Fantasy Live Online, but since most Massive games are largely duplicates of one another it seems fair to assume that bands of adventurers would rock kobolds and wear hats, and I'm down. For both things.

I have to go back to Spokane this weekend. I am sure that the same sort of thing happens to anyone who grew up in a small town and then moved away to the “big city.” Towns like Spokane seem to have their own special gravity that pulls you back every couple of months. I’m taking my new copy of Full Spectrum Warrior though which I have been saving especially for this trip.

It's never me that suggests comics with religious overtones, the big bad atheist, oh no - it's Gabriel, the "Catholic"! But of course, it's up to me to answer all the nasty mail about it, when I'm as uncomfortable discussing religion as I am discussing fallopian tubes, or some other byzantine feminine machinery. It's like when, completely without input from me, he puts a link to a kind of mercenary evangelical site on a pedophile's shirt and then I'm supposed to explain the heathen purpose of that to a throng of angry believers. Was he trying to say that Christians are pedophiles? You've read his posts. Does subtlety really strike you as his thing? If he wanted to conflate religion and pedophilia, trust me - you would catch the meaning.

Page 16 of our Splinter Cell comic book is online now (click on downloads). You can finally sit down and read the entire thing from start to finish. I hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed making it.