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Love me some Ticket to Ride in that Humble Bundle. I have it on XBLA - played it to death. Wish they would make some more boards. The meatspace board game has tons of expansions. 

That image of the iPod or iPhone on the stack of vinyl is pretty cool. It's interesting to think how music has changed in its forms of delivery. The amount of vinyl you could get on that device would probably be enough to build a small house out of.

I couldn't help being a ridiculous fanboy and copy the list of writers and make some notes:

Jeremy Parish (RPG Zen master, 1UP senior editor, Retronauts, other 1UP podcasts. I've been listening and reading him for years. He's a bit deadpan but very knowledgeable)
Seanbaby (humorist - I've heard him on the EGM podcast and read him in a column I used to read; I think it was in the back of EGM. Funny guy)
Chris Kohler (I listen to him every week on Wired's Game/Life podcast. Super awesome!)
Jeffrey Green (GFW Radio host, I must've heard him there when that was a thing)
Andy Eddy (co-writer on Game Over book. One I have to read sometime.)
Kat Bailey (JRPG Zen master. I loved her podcasts RPGRealm and ActiveTImeBabble. She's been on Retronauts and did a blog on 1UP. I think she does articles for Joystiq,com now)
Ryan Scott (name's familiar. I guess I heard of him from 1UP somewhere)
Leonard Herman
Pat Contri
Ed Semrad
David Siller
Martin Alessi
Patrick Scott Patterson
Keith Robinson (Did games for Intellivision including one of my favorites, Shark Shark!)
Alexandra Hall
Robert Welkner
Michael Thomasson (Game historian; a subject I was thinking about today. How would you teach a video game history course?)
Luke McKinney (GamesRadar writer. I must've heard him on their podcast)
Kevin Steele
Steve Tom Sawyer
Kevin Baird
David Giltinan
William Culver

I've heard that the DS version required the use of a large real life book of spells because you need to know how to draw the symbols on the screen. It's seems like a really bad design choice. Who is going to carry around this book to play a portable game? But, I would hope they would just take the PS3 version and scale it down for 3DS. I'd love to draw the spell symbols with the stylus ala Okami and Okamiden.

Yea, I might do that. Maybe rekindle my interest in magazines.

Firstly: I'd marry the butler lady because you are a farmer and stay at home a lot and that knight will just be out on quests all the time and never come home.

Secondly: Rune Factory sounds cool. I didn't know there were dungeons in the game and that you can befriend monsters. Some of my best friends are monsters.

Thirdly: I really liked Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. It was like a foody, punny Jurassic Park.

Fourthly: I'm going to read your Disgaea review now because I love SRPGs and always wanted to try Disgaea.

OMFG! I haven't seen this Dark Sorcerer vid before. Awesome!

That's cool. I have it, but I'm going to trigger the buy so I have a backup digital copy in case my disc gets scratched or something.

I still have a vivid memory of wandering around one of the Doom levels and having the music just creep me out so much that my hands started shaking. Oculus Rift got nothing on Doom and its music.

Get me all excited there and no link? Well here's one for ya: http://www.destructoid.com/there-may-be-hope-yet-for-a-ni-no-kuni-ds-localization-251364.phtml The Japanese DS version has been out since 2010 and you can play it on any DS, or 3DS for that matter, if you can handle the menus in Japanese, but apparently a translated 3DS version may happen. This article says the DS version is not as good as the PS3 version, but I don't care. If it comes to 3DS, I am all over it day-one. 

I heard about Retro Gamer on the Allgengamers podcast where they had Mike Kennedy on talking about GameGavel.com. He says "spread the word if you believe in print media". Unfortunately, I'm not sure I do anymore. It kinda sucks. The internet has really made it hard for freelance writers and good publications like this to make a buck.

I used to love my magazines up until only a few years ago and then one by one they got cancelled. Now I get all my info from podcasts and websites like this one. I wish I could get psyched for it, but I can't. A web site yes, but paper thingy in my mail box, no.