You can tell it's true because I wrote an article about it. Just writing about the goddamn thing makes me want to see it again.

HAWP DVD UPDATE:

I finished the proof and sent it off to CreateSpace. Now I just wait for them to send it back, and approve their proof. Or something. Either way, it's kind of out of my hands now, which is nice.

Shit, I have to make a cblog explaining who made the final cut. I'll do that soon. Suffice to say, if you submitted something you are at least in the DVD credits (unless I missed you, in which case sorry), and like a dozen of your artworkz are actual DVD menus.

The final features:
-Outtakes
-Commentary
-Two deleted episodes
-An easter egg
-PAX panel audio and powerpoint included as DVD-rom feature
-Sexy fan art montage

And it'll retail for around 18 bucks.

While the Podtoid crew will be talking about pecs and Super Street Fighter IV tonight, I'm going to be on ChatterBox Video Game Radio at 9 pm Arizona time (in other words, roughly three hours from now).

You can listen live from their web site, and call in to ask questions/troll/whatever.

That's pretty much it, really.

Oh, wait -- tonight at 10 pm AZ time (in four hours), the first-ever solo episode of Once Upon A Pixel goes live on GameTrailers. Should be pretty ace.

Wherein I discuss videogame movie technology and how close we are to reaching it in reality.

On the subject of future-tech, I just got an iPod touch and am flabbergasted by how willingly people will put up with an intrinsically bullshit control scheme so long as it's connected to a device that can also play music and make flapjacks. On last week's Podtoid, we complained how irritating it was that Scribblenauts was entirely stylus-controlled and thus really awkward. Playing games on the iPhone -- even relatively okay ones, like Spider -- is like multiplying every bad thing in Scribblenauts by a factor of eighty, only without the tradeoff of imaginatively hilarious word bank gaming.

It's kind of sad when the only game I'm actively looking forward to on a platform is Canabalt.

Yeah.

If you're into it, you can subscribe to it. If you're not, well, we tried.

I wrote this article and you could read it if you wanted to. It's about fictional videogames that kill people.

Also, Ash and I took these pictures at PAX and gave them to the guys at Rockstar.

I'm leaning toward the assumption that Gamer will suck ass, but there are very small rays of weird, postmodern hope to be found in the basic premise.

I went to an Arkham Asylum midnight release with Davis, and spent around three hours playing it.

I like it.

I'm kind of irritated at the optional collectibles, mainly because I really really want access to all the challenge rooms but am also really really bad at finding shit (and I found a Riddler map that I assumed applied to the entire island, but only applied to the area I was in, and then I was like "aw damn," but then Harley Quinn showed up and started swinging back and forth and laughing at me while I fought goons and I was like "aw yeah" so it was alright).

I dig the combat -- it's shallow, but satisfying and at least not a button-masher. I like the stealth sections even more, though I do hope they get a bit harder. I've only been discovered once or twice, and I've never died. Still, it's just plain goddamn satisfying to batarang one gun-wielding shithead while glide-kicking another, then taking them both down.