• Eiji Aonuma casts a brief look at Majora’s Mask. Development hurdles, design focus, and the realization that it was a big turning point for Nintendo. Or, yet another reason why I hold it to be more important than Ocarina.

• Permanent Death as prose. Ben Abraham wrote a monumental 400-page PDF detailing his experience playing Far Cry 2 in Iron Man mode. As in, when the game is over, it’s over. Intro by FC2′s head honcho Clint Hocking himself.
• Cat-Life. As in, Gordon Freeman turned into a cat. As in, Half-Life with a feline protagonist. As in, yes.
• Remember, remember, the origami of November.
• Having trouble learning “Hey Jude“?
• The best game that never was.
• “Tyger! Tyger uppercut! Tyger knee him in the gut“.
• 8-Bit Megaman Deathmatch.
• Tom Francis strives to take that goddamn gnome through a Left4Dead 2 campaign.

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