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Yeah, I totally got a blog ready for today. Not just posting something real quick so I can go to bed. Nope nope nope. Definitely ready.

You guys have probably never heard of Shaun Musgrave. Interesting fellow. He's a Canadian who lives in Japan and teaches English. So if you ever meet a Japanese kid who talks about going "oot and aboot" you'll know who talk him  Anyway, Shaun writes a lot for the iOS game site Touch Arcade, but he also has a personal site where he writes about all sorts of games. Recently he wrote about all the Sega 3D Classics games and is currently going through a bunch of Spider-Man gamess. He especially loves to talk about RPGs though. He has a very enjoyable writing style and lately I've been plowing through the stuff he's put up and having a grand old time. His site has a great name too: Post Game Content. Be sure to check it out!

Those of us who read Nintendo Power in the early '90s probably have fond memories of the comics they ran back then. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario World both had great comic adaptations that, while loose with the source material, were a ton of fun to read. Rereading them today, though, was an arduous task even if you still had your old issues of NP after all these years. But the Zelda comic was finally reprinted in 2015 and the Mario comic got the same treatment last October. I'm reading it right now and having a wonderful time. They put so much personality into the characters. I feel like if they made a comic for Mario today it would be a sterile corporate creation, but this comic is brimming with life all its own. And I had forgotten how awesome Peach—er, Princess Toadstool is in here. Great stuff.

For those of you who listen to Retronauts, this is old hat but I thought it was so cool that I wanted to share it with those of you in the dark. (And if you're not listening to Retronauts...what's wrong with you???) Metroid Resynthesized is a fan arrangement of the original Metroid soundtrack done on a Korg MS20 Mini. Basically, any synth music you hear today that's done on a computer is digital but this project was done with analog synths, giving it a '70s-ish sci-fi sound. It's really cool!

I know this isn't breaking news—the story I first saw was posted January 30—but the Deus Ex franchise has apparently been put on hiatus after Mankind Divided failed to meet sales expectations. As a big fan of the series that waited five painstaking years for this sequel, this news is crushing, especially considering how Mankind Divided left the story just hanging there. What if we have to wait another five years? WHAT IF WE NEVER GET ANOTHER? I am very frustrated. And so they can work on Guardians of the Galaxy? *grumble grumble*