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Really? 'Cause there's a lot of Alien games and I can only think of maybe three good ones.

This is the first Alien game I've ever seen that actually looks tonally the same as Alien, which is rad. That being said, I'd wait on it what with Colonial Marines having been so awful.

Here's a brief rundown of some things I've really enjoyed in the past, with a brief description for each. Manga first, then western comics. My favourite creator overall is Osamu Tezuka, who really got me into sixties/seventies era manga, so that colours this list a little. Sexy Voice and Robo by Iou Kuroda (manga; light serial drama): she's a high school girl with an uncanny talent for impersonations and voicework. He's a manchild with an encyclopedic knowledge of toy robots. Together, they solve crimes. Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (manga; historical epic): a somewhat fictionalized account of the life of the Buddha. The first Tezuka book I ever read, and fascinating throughout. Tekkonkinkreet: Black and White by Taiyō Matsumoto (manga; crime drama): a pair of orphaned twin brothers acting as their own youth gang try to save their city from gentrification by the mafia. Franken Fran by Katsuhisa Kigitsu (manga; horror/dark comedy, not legally available in English): a girl grafted together from corpses by a brilliant surgeon takes over his work, performing some of the most impossible surgeries in the world, generally with gruesome results. Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka (manga; historical epic, science fiction, anthology): Tezuka's tragically unfinished magnum opus. Phoenix is a series of interwoven character stories that bounce back and forth from the earliest historical mention of Japan all the way up to the end of the universe, slowly converging on the present day, almost always featuring the mysterious immortal being known as the Phoenix and the folly of man's search for immortality. Possibly the single greatest comic ever written. Wandering Son by Takako Shimura (manga; LGBT, slice of life drama): two transgender children find solace in each other and endure the tortures of the early teenage years. Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma (manga; slice of life comedy): an adorable kid does adorable little kid things. It sounds boring but it's astonishingly good. Though the English editions published by Yen Press are easily available, try to find the ADV editions of the first five volumes since the localization is far superior. Cat Eyed Boy by Kazuo Umezu (manga; horror): this one is very much an acquired taste. Imagine the weird late sixties Japanese equivalent to something like Tales From The Crypt and you're almost there. Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka (manga; medical drama): a mysterious jerkass surgical genius takes on the most difficult cases available and performs operations that border on the miraculous. The limited-run hardcover editions of the first three books come with really fascinating bonus material, if you can find them. Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (manga; slightly macabre action-comedy): a boy with supernatural powers goes on various bizarre adventures. A quirky staple of Japanese pop culture, the closest English equivalent would be something like The Addams Family. The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Ōtsuka and Housui Yamazaki (manga; horror): a group of college kids each with specialized skills relating to the dead start a business in finding the corpses of the recently deceased and carrying out their last wishes. Sometimes this is as simple as telling their family to stop looking for them or giving them a decent funeral, sometimes it involves avenging their death by finding their murderer. Crazy Scooby-Doo shenanigans within. Princess Knight and Twin Knight by Osamu Tezuka (fairy tale): among the first and most influential comics for girls ever written. This is going to sound really grandiose, but the closest thing to these two stories in my mind is Shakespeare. They're filled with dramatic irony, mistaken identities, tragic circumstances, etc. They're melodramatic while also being super fun. The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé (Belgian comics; pulp adventure): Super fun proto-Indiana-Jones-esque serial adventures. I recommend skipping the first few stories (up to and including "Tintin in America") and going from there. It starts to really gwet going right around "The Crab With The Golden Claws." There's a big boxed set with everything from "Tintin in America" onward plus bonus material, but I don't know if it's still available. Zot! by Scott McCloud (American comics; superhero, teen drama): a superhero who lives in a retro-future dimension comes through a portal into our own and becomes close to an ordinary teenage girl. Bounces back and forth between whimsical throwback to silver age superheroes, intepersonal drama, and deadly serious superheroics. The Understanding/Making/Reinventing Comics trilogy by Scott McCloud (American comics; reference and examination): Anyone interested in comics owes it to themselves to read "Understanding Comics," one of the most fascinating breakdowns of the medium. The other two books are still great, but are more for those interested in a career in comics, with Reinventing comics feeling sort of delightfully quaint now that it's a decade and a half old (Will Wright loved it, for what it's worth). Bone by Jeff Smith (American comics; fantasy adventure): an all-ages fantasy story in the same sort of framework as Lord of the Rings but with a much less-explored world. Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Canadian comics; slice of life, urban fantasy, romantic comedy): You probably know this one. Scott is a twenty-something slacker dude who can't adjust to post-college life wants to date Ramona, the mysterious and collected girl of his dreams. In order to do so, he must get his shit together and defeat her seven evil exes in mortal combat. Flight by various; edited by Kazu Kibuishi (multinational comics; anthology): an eight-volume series of standalone books that collect short stories by various young creators. Some are one-shots of existing work, some were created wholecloth for the series, and most of them cover the theme of "flight" in some way. Adventure Time with main stories by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb and backup features by various creators (American comics; all-ages fantasy, adventure, comedy): based on the TV show of the same name, the Adventure Time comics are actually secretly a way to showcase talented young artists, largely from the world of webcomics, and have them flesh out the already fascinating world and characters of Adventure Time. Ryan North? Meredith Gran? Paul Pope? Kate Leth? Michael DeForge? Anthony Clark? All in here. Daisy Kutter: The Last Train by Kazu Kibuishi (American comics; sci-fi western): an ex-bandit cowgirl is hired by a security mogul to test his wares by pulling a train heist against deadly robots. I also liked Kibuishi's far more popular "Amulet" books, but I never got very far into that series. Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell (British comics; urban fantasy, science fiction, youth drama): a young girl attending a mysterious British boarding school discovers it to be a breeding ground for the supernatural, the spiritual, and the technological. Batwoman by J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman (American comics; superhero): this is hands-down the most I've ever enjoyed a monthly superhero comic, and the art is gorgeous. Too bad it went belly-up due to executive meddling. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists (British comics; fantasy): If you like Neil Gaiman, this is some of the finest writing he's ever done.

Hooray! TWEWY is one of my favourite games. I sort of wish that more JRPGs with bog-standard combat would at least do the Golden Sun "no autotarget" thing so that I could muster even a little involvement.

This is now the dedicated Spelunky art thread.

I missed you, Marceline.

I wish Nintendo would hurry up and release Pokémon Bank and Transporter already. This many eshop problems and indefinite scheduling are not inspiring a lot of hope in their first-ever paid subscription service.

I slept for twelve hours last night and had a three hour nap in the afternoon. Now it's 2am and I can't sleep at all.

do we have some sort of video game music thread

Also Harvey's is great. EDIT: OnO

I've got a couple of cubes and even 2 anticubes at this point, it's just that going through one specific small gate always crashes the game for me. It's weird.

I like A&W and Wendy's, personally, though I have a soft spot for Burger King (mostly just because their portions are so huge that I always feel full and content at the end).

I started playing this today!

dubba poast

Hayao Miyazaki has rescinded his retirement. Again. This is the seventh time he's said he was going to retire and then backed out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ak_ujxsRG1I

Yes! Thank you!

Did you mean Legacy?

I'm glad Jake shares my hatred for the unnecessary extension of the year of Luigi.

I use Society6, though I've never actually seen what the finished results look like.

What was that tiny indie flash game that opens with someone weighed down and sinking underwater, where you replace words in a sentence until the story changes? I remember the window being taller than it was wide, too.

This goddamn demo. I want to get the full thing, but I'm on a tight budget. Side note: I've been playing as green girl and appreciate the fact that it doesn't auto-default the damsel to the Chippendale dancer model or anything. I can just play as a gay character. Super rad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIN2TDd4xr0

I think it's pretty much expected that comments sections are hives of scum and villainy.

So I'm playing Persona 4 Golden and ]