Pete Mecum

i can feel it, i can feel the cosmos

Grimm is Now Available on Steam!
The true meaning of the word fear...



Once upon a time, fairy tales were valuable cautionary yarns filled with dire warnings and sage advice. However, over time, the stories have become so watered down with cute woodland creatures and happy endings that they have lost their true meaning and purpose. No more! This is American McGee's Grimm, and Happily Ever After ends now!



Experience an incredible adventure built around the world's best-known fairy tales. As Grimm, you will transform the classic tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and more of your favorites into darkly twisted Grimm versions of themselves in 23 episodes. Each game episode is centered around one of the world's best-known fairy tales and provides 30 minutes of gameplay. Each episode is a complete, standalone experience and the episodes can be played in any order.

The Anime Pack, all new content for Saints Row IV is Now Available on Steam!

Finally, the fantasy of Eastern cultural happiness can be yours! Get hair defying the elements of winds! Slice many of the people of bad with Braver Sword! Kaiju-XL makes little of foes with speed and curiosity! Also dress up clothing changes any Street of 3 Holy Man a beholding wonder!

I just realized that I never shared any Journey related content on Dueling Analogs until now. How? Just had to add a brand new tag to the library for it. It’s a shame too. Journey is such a brilliant game.

This comic once again proves, that Zac Gorman has an uncanny ability to tell jokes about games that you may have never even played, but that you can still understand and enjoy.

This is cute. I think this is cute. This is actually something that I could probably post in one of my daughters’ rooms, and both they and the wife would appreciate it.

Besides a copy of my Mr. Masters mini-poster hanging in my oldest’s room, I don’t think any artwork I have ever created has been on display anywhere in the house besides my office. And for the record, my oldest swiped one of those mini-posters and hung it up in her room on her own without me knowing. I believe this was back when she was four. Good times…

Jonatan Iversen-Ejve was commissioned by Swedish gaming magazine LEVEL to create a re-imagined screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening as a newer game in the same style. I would like to say that Jonatan is spot on, but A Link Between Worlds convinces me otherwise. I already discussed this recently, so there’s really no reason to rehash it again. 3D is the dominant design base for most modern video games and it’s, honestly, illogical to think that will ever change. Technology will advance, but 3D will remain king.

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The Multiplayer Mod for Just Cause 2 is Now Available on Steam!

JC2-MP is a project to bring multiplayer to Just Cause 2 in all of its magnificent glory. Imagine the chaos of normal Just Cause 2, then extending it out to dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of players.

Graham mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, but since the release is today and it’s unlikely to be particularly visible for long on Steam, I though it best to draw attention to it again. Just Cause 2′s multiplayer mod is one of the crazier alterations to a game I’ve ever seen, turning the enjoyably daft open world game into a massive landscape of impossible stunts and unlikely vehicle bonding. Supporting hundreds of players, most with the single objective of causing as much hilarity and carnage as possible, it’s akin to a drunken superhero flashmob invading Far Cry 3 and turning the island into the world’s most expensive and ludicrous circus. The video below tells you everything you need to know.

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It has been announced that Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe has left developers Replay. In what is turning into one of the more peculiar and uncomfortable stories, it seems that Lowe has chosen to leave the company at the same time as news of a sex offence by the company’s president, Paul Trowe, has emerged. Trowe was arrested in October last year for showing “harmful materials to a minor”, and plead no contest in April this year. He was guilty of showing a film of gay sex to a 15 year old girl, in a matter that’s as convoluted as it is sad. And it seems this might just be one small aspect of a very bizarre story.

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This fork, the kind of fork you eat with, connects to your computer via Bluetooth. You eat all of your food with the fork, and it measures how you ate with the fork. Of course, for this to actually work, you’d have to take your gigantic Bluetooth fork everywhere you go, and eat all your food with it. The lone customer review suggests that it doesn’t really work, though, and when contacted, the company told the user that they were “eating wrong.”

I view this as a companion piece to the internet-enabled scale I wrote about last year. Broadcast your weight-shame to the internet and then have your bluetooth fork vibrate your skull when it determines you are eating too fast. It’s the future of weight-loss, and that’s why none of us are overweight anymore, in 2013.

Rust is Now Available on Steam Early Access!
The only aim in Rust is to survive.



To do this you will need to overcome struggles such as hunger, thirst and cold. Build a fire. Build a shelter. Kill animals for meat. Protect yourself from other players. Create alliances with other players and together form a town.



Whatever it takes to survive.

…DAHN DAHN DAHN…. April 4, 2014. There, look, I know was a big old tease in the headline but at least I didn’t make you wait long, did I? 4/4/14 is indeed the release date for Bethesda’s MMO adaptation of The Elder Scrolls RPG series, and that’s for PC and Mac – next Jennifer systems will follow in June.

Here’s a PVP trailer, too.
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For what seems like years and years and *checks torn calendar pages* years (it was actually Feb 2012), the Starbound website has mockingly invited us to Play Starbound. But we couldn’t play, could we? It was not out, yet. That unfulfilled entreaty caused me to go into a bit of a emotional loop, where I’d click the site, get sad, leave, and then click it again. I’m doing it right now, but only as a final hurrah. The first part of the Starbound beta is out today. To whet your loins and gird your appetite, there is a trailer below.
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Phillips Distilling Company has released UV Sriracha Vodka, a new hot sauce-flavored vodka made with a blend of chilis, garlic, and vegetables. Recipes for a Sriracha Bloody Mary, a Sriracha Chelada, and a Srirachaberry Margarita are available on the UV Vodka website.

Meet the Bloody Mary’s new best friend: UV Sriracha. Made with all-natural flavors, it’s spicy, peppery, and of course, super tasty. Hot, but not too hot, it adds just the right amount of kick to your cocktail. Try it in a Bloody Mary or on the rocks.

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Just Cause 2 never gets its due. The third-person, open world shooter was hamstrung by mediocre missions, but it was also vast, beautiful and joyfully silly. It’s a game where you could do things like tether a plane to a hot air balloon and then surf atop the unguided plane as it loops around and around. It’s a game where you could fly using a parachute and a grappling hook, and where mods made that grappling hook infinitely strong, infinitely re-usable, and near-infinite in length.

The Just Cause 2 MP mod has been working on bringing the lonely madness beyond the realms of those missions. I’ve played it, it’s great, and now it’s coming to Steam.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *BOOMSMASHWHAMCARSEVERYWHERE*

GOTTA STEER, GOTTA STEER, OH JEEZ OH JEEZ OH JEEZ *steering wheel pops off* NONONONONONONONOOOOOOOO

WELL MAYBE MY FINAL MOMENTS WILL AT LEAST BE ACCOMPANIED BY PLEASANT MELODIES ON THE RADIO *accidentally tears off radio* WHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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If ‘arrangements go through with Steam’, Starbound’s first beta will be available around December 4th. I’ve opened a can of fizz in celebration of the fact because Starbound’s procedural planets and penguins look splendid, and December 4th isn’t much more than a week away. Instead of counting down the days until Christmas, I’m going to start counting the days until Starbound, even if it might not be quite as punctual as Daddy Jesus Claus.

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Multiplayer and The Typing of The Dead: Overkill - Shakespeare DLC, all new content for The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is Now Available on Steam!

Something Wicked this Way Comes…

Download the new Shakespeare of the Dead DLC now and unleash the full force of Shakespeare’s greatest works on the ignorant zombie masses!

[Earth-shaking slapping sounds can be heard in the distance, like fresh lard being cannon-fired at an ancient war drum]

Do you hear that?

[A glass of water ripples ominously; a largely decorative Jello mold does the same, but fails to be particularly frightening]

Something’s coming. Something big.

[Dogs whine, horses stomp frantically, one or two people glance up from Western-shootout-caliber staredowns with Facebook on their phones]

It’s… it’s… SEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.

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What You Need To Know About The Legend of Zelda - A Link Between Worlds:

• The map is a near identical recreation of the Hyrule from A Link to the Past, for better or worse. It's fun to come back to a familiar world with new twists added to it, but at the same time there's less sense of discovery.

• You get to rent and purchase pretty much all the big items you would normally get through the course of a normal Zelda game (hookshot, bow & arrow, etc.) at the beginning of the game AND IT IS AMAZING.

• Instead of having a magic meter and item collecting (set number of bombs, arrows, etc.), you have one single general meter for magic and items that automatically refills AND IT IS AMAZING.

• A mother and father who seem very worried about the whereabouts of their young child don't seem to be too concerned when you tell them that their child is a magic sage who is now in a dimension separate from our own to help destroy an ancient evil, which is weird.

• There's a rapping shop owner.

• REPEAT: THERE'S A RAPPING SHOP OWNER.

• The game isn't super challenging (a lot of the boss fights are way too easy), but it refreshingly doesn't hold your hand and allows you to figure stuff out for yourself and explore the secrets the world has to offer.

• Right when Link has a shot at having a home with a single twin bed that he doesn't have to share with his weird uncle, a rabbit-hatted person/thing starts living with you and literally turns your home into his own store.

• RAPPING. SHOP. OWNER.

• The villain who sets the plot into motion looks a lot like a lady-version of Ganondorf. FANFIC COMMUNITY, TIME TO REV YOUR ENGINE.

• Oh goddammit, the copy of Hyrule Historia I bought doesn't have this in it. IT'S LITERALLY WORTHLESS NOW.

• Turning yourself into a painting on walls is pretty fun and adds some interesting puzzle elements and all but ALSO THERE'S A SHOP OWNER WHO LITERALLY COMMUNICATES BY RAPPING.

 

 

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I understand that by sharing this video I am clearly demonstrating my maturity level. I honestly didn’t expect to see anything worth sharing when I clicked play on a video called “Super Mario 3D Fart”, but at the :16 second mark when Toad shows up I busted out laughing. And I thought, just maybe, that someone would laugh at that like I did too. And that, good people, is why I am sharing this video with you now. Good day… I said, “GOOD DAY!”

Dota 2‘s latest update is a big one. Not only does it introduce the much requested Halloween event, Diretide, but it’s got three new heroes, a coaching mode, and a socketing system. A lot of people who understand what any of this means are very excited right now.
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