Macroform is an ambient electronic artist whose music can be a little tricky to find all in one place. The most comprehensive sources seem to be a page on OPSOUND and a Bandcamp website — complete with visualizers. I also came across what appears to be Macroform’s blog. The song featured below, Seeing In Purple, inspired me to do something a bit different with the video than I normally do; I hope you like it.

Ooh! fanboy fodder! Really, though, this is a good thing. Activision won’t seriously ever stop supporting Sony consoles. This is actually one of the least-evil things they’ve done or said lately. It’s a fact that the Playstation 3 is too expensive. Most gamers agree, most of the press agrees, and the sales numbers of multiplatform games make developers inclined to agree. Any other day I’d be jumping at the chance to hate on Activision, but as a person who wants to play some PS3 games, but doesn’t have a PS3, they’re right; that machine’s too expensive.

It’s going to be great when we no longer need to ask questions like this.

Yes, you read it right. The Ghostbusters developers didn’t include multiplayer in the PC version so that they could make the console versions better. Meaning the Xbox 360 version, apparently, since the Playstation 3 version renders at a lower resolution and has lower resolution textures. To be fair, the PC version is $30 instead of $50, but I’d rather have more co-op and less $20.

I am not ashamed to say it: I like books based on video game universes. Reading Fall of Reach was integral to my enjoyment of the story told in the Halo trilogy. So too did having read Revelation bolster my appreciation for what occurred in Mass Effect. My want for Mass Effect 2 after reading the second book, Ascension, could not be greater. I don’t need to see trailers or hear about how the graphics engine and gameplay have been changed for the sequel; I’m invested in the fiction. That is all the hype that I need. I was an understandably easy sell, then, when I heard earlier this year that Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne, a novel based on Dragon Age: Origins and written by the game’s lead writer David Gaider, would be released.
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It would seem that, thankfully, Jonathan Hickman hasn’t been completely devoured by his new Marvel overlords, and eight months since issue #2 shipped, A Red Mass For Mars #3 is finally coming out — TODAY! My copy won’t arrive until next week, but I thought I’d throw out a reminder. If you aren’t familiar with A Red Mass For Mars, I first wrote about it for Comic Tips almost a year ago, before Comic Tips was even a thing.

Jonathan Coulton just has too many great songs for him to not be featured multiple times. Last time I rode “Always The Moon” from the ever-growing album The Aftermath, but this week is for the acoustic version of “The Future Soon”, which is from JoCo’s demo album Other Experiments.