Deliciously intriguing websites worth reading
Did you know that if you read a GameSpite article three times backwards, you'll die within seven days? That's why you should check out some of these other sites to break up the monotony. Er, I mean, the fatal deathness. Yeah.
Comics
Penny Arcade: Somehow two guys turned a series of funny doodles into a corporate monster. An indie corporate monster. How can such a thing exist? See, that is exactly the sort of living contradiction that is Penny Arcade, like the way the writer is intensely outgoing and friendly while the artist hates the human race.
Scary-Go-Round: If I could draw and write like John Allison, I would be a multi-millionaire. But he is unflaggingly British, which means he favors wry, ironic humility to fabulous riches. An inspiration to us all, no doubt.
Kate Beaton: I weep to consider how much smarter and more talented than this cartoonist is than I am. At least I can take comfort in knowing that she too is also very sporadic with her work.
Achewood: Unfortunately, I can derive no such comfort from Achewood, because Chris Onstad is a machine. An enigmatic and highly private machine. Made of pure skill.
Games
1UP: Some site or another, I dunno.
Insert Credit: Your one-stop shop for slavish devotion to obscure Japanese developers who really should have died off in the transition to 32-bits, but didn't! Also, comprehensive info on games about young, naked, cartoon girls. Maybe a little too comprehensive.
Hardcore Gaming 101: If it's old and from Japan, HG101 has probably written about it. Whatever Kurt Kalata's site lacks in polish is more than compensated for by breadth and sincere enthusiasm for the subject matter.
PSMonger: Nadia Oxford has her very own corporate blog now. Except she's not very good as doing the whole "dry, corporate tone" thing and so this ostensible PlayStation site... isn't, really. It also has a tiny portable counterpart. Well, the counterpart itself isn't portable, but it focuses on portable games. Er, you know.
VG Museum: True fact: 95% of lazy game journalists get their retro-game screenshots from VG Museum. However, I'm the only lazy game journalist who links back. Man, we're such a bunch of scum.
Personal
The Third Half: Not too many personal nerd sites from the Internet's earlier years are still kicking around. Manna and I are a dying breed. No doubt the rest of the Internet would very much like us to die, already.
Skellington Parade: True fact: Nich Maragos is one of the greatest humans on earth.
The Gameroom Blitz: Jess Ragan soldiers on with the online extension of his old print zines. He's the elder statesman of this nonsense by now.
Catherine Nguyen Photography: My little lady takes rad pictures.
Whatever
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