Info on a bunch of the missing, cut, or unlockable stuff in SPvTW:TG.

No weapons? Wii waggle? And a "re-imagining" of the first Silent Hill game is what they're calling this? The combination sounds like Silent Hill: My Worst Nightmare, and I don't mean that in a good way.

Boy, was I ever wrong. Instead of some Silent Hill one-off rehash, we get a lovingly crafted story set in a world so deep and involving that it actually does the series name proud. The Wii waggle? More like Wii mastery. The control is a new hallmark for Wii games, let alone Silent Hill titles. And the no weapons part? Absolutely brilliant, and it works out to be a chillingly beautiful thing when you finally understand what the story is about.

As you probably know, in the late 70’s Panic was writing VAX/VMS automation code for the textile industry. Cotton attenuators, zipper sublimation, loom dynamics, that sort of thing. What you might not know is that, once the early 80’s arrived, Panic got hit hard with two things: unkempt mutton chops, and Pac-Man Fever.

'Cause no one thinks about the minions anymore. A musical comic.

A complete postmortem of Persona 4. Did you know they hired Persona 3 fans to work on P4? Did you know they apparently flubbed up one character's design, in their opinion? Now you do. A fascinating read.

“Six months!? Why six months!?”

“How hard can it be to translate a simple game like this?”

“There’s no reason* why it should be taking them that long.”

It may or may not surprise you to learn that Atlus U.S.A., Inc., like any other company, keeps tabs on Internet response to its games, and the above is a relatively common sentiment expressed on forums here and there.

This is intended to be an easy guide for general newbies on how to both edit and add civilizations, creatures, objects, and so on in Dwarf Fortress, both adventurer and fortress modes, without breaking anything too much. Generally breaking stuff is fine!

In which the voice actors of Metal Gear Solid get together in a group therapy session, and fourth walls are destroyed with wild abandon.

Welcome to the beginnings of my Death Knight Outland gear guide. This guide is to help you find the best upgrades for a Death Knight while leveling through Outland. I’m making it a goal to get the gear as soon as you are high enough level for it so that you can continue laying waste to the countryside on your quest to Northrend.

Van Hansis will be among the 40-person cast of Les Freres Corbusier's Dance Dance Revolution, created by the company and featuring original songs by Gary Adler and Phoebe Kreutz. The production will play the Ohio Theater, December 3-20. Alex Timbers will direct.

For level 8 mages only, sorry. This is win.

SNK has an interesting solution for RPG fans that can’t commit dozens of hours to a single RPG. Stories in Kimi no Yuusha can be completed in half an hour. In the short amount of time you go through story sequences, a world map, towns, battles, and an epilogue. However, you can’t “beat” the game during one lunch break. Kimi no Yuusha contains 25 story missions and 50+ side story missions. If you want to complete everything expect to spend around 35 hours playing the game.

Sort of Puzzle-Quest-ish, if you're fiending for something like Puzzle Quest. Has a downloadable demo, if you've got a Dreamcast or a GP2X sitting around, and can be ordered as well.

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is completely free, Windows and possibly Mac.

This is so not fair because this will never come to the US. Ever. If we couldn't get Namco x Capcom we definitely won't get Cross Edge.

Looks like Microsoft's attempt to make an easy silverlight creator. Now with a game creator (in alpha).

TECMO BOWL IS BACK, BABY

Seems the Ultimate Hits version of Itadaki Street Portable has a pullout guide with English translations. Sweet!

This is the first one of these that looks like it might actually be fun.

Turns out that a bunch of the stages in Smash Bros. Brawl don't end at the edge of the board.

What's most amusing about this record is that... Guinness arrived at it without even considering all the Mega Man games -- basically, they failed to arrive at a full count.

Stalin. 1942 Siberia. Fighting Martians. WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE

Jeff Atwood on Rock Band. Contains lots of neat hints, especially pertaining to quieting down the drumkit.

An interesting story involving a miraculous voice, a time-travel-enabled clock, and Quantum-Leap-style crime solving? Sign me up for more original S-E IPs, please.

Something to do after work!

Another XNA tutorial, the most basic of basics (but sometimes basics are good!).

A fantastic little physics sandbox. Create simple shapes, change their properties, watch them interact. A great way to lose a lot of time.

Oh hey, someone did a Japanese-to-English translation of Rockboard. Two of them, in fact: one with the Japanese names, one with the English ones.

Most importantly: Freezepop.

Phoenix Wright + lolcats = contest. Way to go, Capcom.

Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine.

More Pythonicity; a dead simple-looking but awesome-to-play racing game written in Python.

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s and is now used for everything from literary narrative fiction through to plotless conceptual art.

Plundr is a location-based game of piracy and trading on the high seas created by area/code. It's also location-based - what island you're on changes based on where you are.

Reproductions of NES games never released in America, burned onto an authentic NES cartridge. I'm really thinking about picking up Mother and Sweet Home...

A simple guide on moving FFXI from one computer to another without the reinstall and arduous patching process associated with it. Good for building new PCs or moving games to Boot Camp. :)

Remember that freakishly cute Scottish Fold kitten who showed up holding a DS Lite and such? Yeah, her name's Fami, she's a 1-year-old kitten, and she has her own blog. This may be the best thing on the Internet.

Details on layoffs were not disclosed, but the freelancer, Jeb Haught, writes that LFP was "planning on firing the entire staff this week, with no severance pay, while they were away from the office at E3 promoting the magazine."

Oh, hello, Mr. Fancy Polygonal Backgrounds. Yeah, sorry, we already made a decision. Have you met the ridiculously hot Ms. Parallax Scrolling? Thanks for coming down, though.

Adding digital content to music isn't a new thing - in fact, some musicians added Spectrum ZX code to vinyl recordings! Jawdroppingly weird. Includes some versions ready for emulation.

All games contain crates, therefore all games can be judged empirically on those crates.

"Wii Media Center X is a Java-based web media server that you can have up and running in about 15 minutes."

Brief instructions and back cover of Jump Ultimate Stars.

Square Dance Revolution is a square dance calling game, in the spirit of the other "______ Revolution" games. It is a voice-controlled game, and you get points for calling varied interesting square dance material, with good flow, and for successfully reso

Now adapted for XNA.

Randomly created (and, bonus tip, destructible) terrain generation for 2d games. Sample code in Java.