[ Editor's note: Paul Soth rocks! -- CTZ ] I spent the past weekend at Anime Punch here in Columbus. A small to mid-size con that I’ve watched grow over the past few years, Punch always manages to put on a good time.

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Anime Punch joins in the homage to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
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Weekend Destructainment is GO! After the break, watch a group of guys as they try to play together on Xbox Live. Then check out the augmented reality demo showing off the skeletons of the top 100 Spore creatures. Next, a laser cutter plays the Super Mario Bros

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Weekend Destructainment: This is between life and videogames
[ It's time for another Monthly Musing -- the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. -- CTZ ] The following letter was discovered in City 17, at the site of a recent firefight between Combine forces and members of the human Resistance. It was attached to the side of a steam radiator that had been embedded in the wall, as if thrown with extreme force

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Those About to Die: A Letter to the Combine Overwatch
The concept of consequence has never been fully grasped by videogame PR. Whether they’re putting severed limbs around London or sacrificing goats, you can always count on marketing bods to do something stupid in the name of promotion. Take EA, for example, who has had to recall the illegal weaponry it sent out to press along with Godfather II

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EA sends illegal weapons to press, wants them back
Who needs two relatively dumb boxing gloves when you can have one completely amazing boxing glove? It’s deep questions like these that I believe the Buddha contemplated to reach enlightenment, but that we don’t have to because the internet puts the answer right in our face

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Little Mac’s south paw can be yours
No matter how cool they may seem, it’s always hard to get excited about fan-made Zelda games. Their creators are always faking their deaths or pulling some other wacky stunt to back out of their projects. This 3D remake of Link’s Awakening may be different

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Fan-made Link’s Awakening remake may not be vaporware
Does everyone remember the Conan game that came out for the 360 and PS3 in 2007? You know, it had Conan and killing or something
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Disney + Nihilisitc = crazy delicious?
Does everyone remember the Conan game that came out for the 360 and PS3 in 2007? You know, it had Conan and killing or something. Listen, it happened, we were all there, let’s just admit no one played it and move on
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Disney + Nihilistic = crazy delicious?
Crap, did I forget to change the headline? Well, you’ll just have to make one up yourself. See these little quotes with one gaming company dissing another come along every week or so and coming up with a new title every-single-time is just far too much work, and I’ve only been at this for two weekends.

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Insert inflamatory quote from gaming company headline here
Yesterday, Braid was released on PC. We would have loved to see what Jonathan Blow — the creator of the game — had to say about the release on his blog, but we can’t.

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Braid available on PC