A big thanks to everyone who donated in Hypothermia's latest drive, and congratulations to those who came away with the prizes. Steve's drives over there made ten thousand dollars for the hospitals, all by themselves. If this were another charity, we might be satisfied. For Child's Play, that's really more of an hors d'oevre.

Holiday memories for you to cherish.

I don’t recommend playing Mario Party on a team with Tycho. Judging by my experience yesterday I’d say the fucker hates stars. I know it’s hard to believe but I watched him just give them away. He also likes to give the other team tips like “Hey don’t go that way! The star is the other way!” or “No No, throw the bomb back three spaces so it hits Gabe!” Thanks a lot asshole.

Div shot glasses are now available in our store. Personally I don’t drink…except for that one time in Vegas. Let’s just say the guys who run the bar at the Star Trek experience are big PA fans. Anyway, I’m not really familiar with drinkers and their customs. From what I’m told you are supposed to fill this tiny glass with the liquor of your choice. Then you drink the entire thing in only one swig. How exciting!

I think it's pretty amazing that the art auctions alone are up to almost five thousand dollars - take a look if you want. Those pieces of paper were just laying in a drawer, and now they could be anything - thirty consoles, hell, forty five if we went with Gamecubes. Grab some Wavebirds so you can get down from the hospital bed, maybe. We'll see where the holes are in the purchases and plug those holes with game systems.

Prince of Persia 2 is a good game in spite of the fact that the developer tried to ruin it. It's like they did their best to burn the entire thing to the ground, but enough of the foundation remains that it's still recognizable. What that means is that the fundamentals of the first game are so good they can withstand being covered in layers of disgusting music, hack writing and monotonous combat.

The Prince is back, apparently from rehab. He is beset on all sides by improbably garbed temptresses. The good news is that game we liked is in there, but it's underneath a bunch of crap I ordinarily wouldn't touch without gloves.

We went to the EB over at the Northgate mall today and signed a bunch more WOW strategy guides. The manager told us that the last batch of autographed books they had sold out in a couple of hours. So we signed another big stack, just head over there if you want one.

The thing I don't understand about that "Ten Super Evil Games" list that's going around - outside of the obvious, of course - is the glaring omissions any modicum of research would have revealed. There is no mention, even in passing, of "The Sodomizer" for the PS2. And yet again, parents' groups have overlooked the Wifebeater series, neglecting to mention Wifebeater III altogether. Also absent with no purpose or explanation are Violencing and Kill For No Reason.

I had a lot of people mail me and ask if we'd do an online auction to coincide with our dinner/auction. Well I've gone ahead and done just that. 100% of the proceeds from the following auctions will go directly to Child's Play.

The toy drive this weekend at Toys R Us ended up being quite an adventure. We arrived at about 12:00 but it turns out we were walking right into a trap.

Gabe has no idea what he's missing with his adherence to the Light Side, as anyone who went dark in the original Kotor is aware. I was not prepared for Bioware to allow some of the things I did, or at any rate caused to be done, and I hope with intensity that Obsidian will indulge us to the same degree in our depravities.

Just one last reminder to come see us this Saturday November 27th at the Toys R Us in Bellevue.

Independent developers of Utah, rejoice.

We did not actually surf a hairy wave of hobo spiders. For reasons unknown to us, though presumably they have something to do with promoting Pocket Kingdoms (which I will now link), we were sent a couple N-Gage game "decks" as part of some strange self-flagellation ritual they have going at Nokia.

The prints are finally going through, and they look the way we want them to. We have a special run of three available for the dinner/auction , but we snapped a shot of how it looks if you'd like to see it.