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.

We've got Bawls, which makes a kind of potable bubble gum, and a little company you might have heard of called Games Workshop will bringing their legendary tabletop game, card games, and (hopefully) both of their current licensed games.

Both stories in this strip are true, true, true. There was even a time when another player took an opportunity between rounds to strike his girlfriend, producing a haunting crack and a yip, but it was difficult to find the joke in it.

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay is actually one of the games I was going to talk about, so I'll just link the strip concerning it and then we'll move forward like normal.

There's something fucked up with the upload script, so this will have to do for the time being: here is the strip, and here is the mobile version.

I told you I would write something for you, something in addition to the product I am sworn to produce, and I have failed thus far. Every time I sit down to write something, I remember with a level of joy usually reserved for the birthdays of children that this machine - the same machine I'm typing on - can also be used to play Thief 3, also known as Thief: Deadly Shadows. I will complete a mission in Thief, realize the extent of my failures toward you the reader, and say that I will only allow myself to complete four or five levels in Mario Vs Donkey Kong - four or five, and no more. What typically happens then is that I feel like playing a little more Thief, and having completed another level I will be overcome with guilt at not having written anything, declaring that I will play no more Thief forever, I grab the GBA because really each individual level takes only a few minutes to play through. This loop reiterated itself virtually all day Saturday, and other than pure joy, indeed, joy concentrate, I have nothing to show for it.

The Seattle Children's Hospital is holding a telethon on channel 4 June 12th. They have asked us to come on and re-present them with the huge 27,000 check we gave them back in December. We'll have a few minutes to talk about what Child's play did last year and what we're planning on doing this year. If you live in the Seattle area you should tune in on June 12th and check it out.