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10:40AM AJ Glasser | At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda’s Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. More »
Torture In Video Games
10:40AM AJ Glasser | At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda’s Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. More » 
An Awesome Interview With Missile Command’s Mr. Awesome
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | You can keep your “good v evil” motif from King of Kong, for me, the film’s highlight was the appropriately-named Mr. Awesome (aka Roy Schildt). Becase, yes, he was/is awesome. As such, this interview with the man behind the legend – over at The -Minus World – is essential reading. Because if you don’t read it, you’ll miss stuff like this: As they say in the King of Kong, this society is based on war and games. The real war is to get the higher score Missile Command score recognised and the war in Iraq is to get democracy recognised over the assholes. It’s the same mindset with a different goal. You’ll also miss the raving-mad Schildt ponder beating Billy Mitchell to death if locked in a room with him for five minutes, so please, go read it. Don’t Get Chumpatised: Missile Commander Roy Schildt Speaks Up [The -Minus World] More »Retro Sabotage’s 20th Edition: Missile Command
8:00AM Owen Good | Our disturbed friends at Retro Sabotage are all suspender-popping about their 20th sabotage since the site launched shortly before New Year’s Eve. Remember, these are flash games that play normally (or close to it) before something goes horribly, comically wrong and beyond your control. The latest is the “Missile Command Docudrama” although its message is, surprisingly, kind of serious. Tof from Retro Sabotage explained to me in an e-mail: “We wanted an “anti-sabotage” to celebrate the 20th release, and it’s kind of a mirror to Mockumentary (though we got mails of people who somehow believed in that one)”. In the past I know we’ve linked to some of their other clever redos of classic arcade games. The Xevious Autopsy in particular is worth a look, and I think it’s new since RetroSabotage last got a mention here. Missile Command Docudrama [Retro Sabotage] More »
