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Sunday Links: I Think I'm Turning Indonese

This week is all about the indie games and, yes, I am aware that "Indonese" is a shitty play on words.

Supergiant Games' "Bastion" (pictured) is fucking awesome and you should buy it now. It's only available on PC via the Steam Store, however, which I'm still reluctant to support. I know that Steam has become a ubiquitous part of PC gaming, but I'm working under the impression that Valve will just renounce their support for Steam any day now and all of the games people have bought will be lost. I should really move this post along, though. I've got to get back to my street corner and hold up my various doomsday signs. "The End is Near!" "Repent!" "$2 Highballs Every Thursday!"

"To the Moon" is an upcoming RPG by Freebird Games that's about an old guy who wanted to be an astronaut, or something. Luckily science has reached the point where we can alter a person's memories on their deathbed, and the scientists themselves finally get to live out their life-long dreams of becoming psychonauts.

I don't know if "To the Moon" will be freeware or not, but all of Freebird's previous projects are available to download for free right here.

Did you buy the Humble Indie Bundle #3? I sure did! So did over 370, 000 other people, raising over $2, 000, 000 for indie developers, the ESA and the Child's Play charity. However, there are over six billion people in the world right now, which means that a huge majority of you are cheap motherfuckers and should be ashamed of yourselves. I'll bet that not a single Ethiopian bought the bundle this year, so those starving bastards can go straight to hell.

Sunday Links - Brought to You by the F-Word

Zeno Clash is on sale for $3.75 until Monday. It's a first-person brawler set in a bizarre fantasy world filled with strange creatures, like Father-Mother, a cross-gender being that gives birth to many of the game's characters. Now, I know what you're thinking and the answer is yes, having both a penis and a vagina would be awesome!

Aliens: Infestation, previously mentioned back in 2009, has been rated by the ESRB for the Nintendo DS. It's a side-scrolling shooter being made by … I don't know, Capcom? To be honest, I'm not really paying attention to what I'm doing here. Some show called Kids in the Hall is on the T. V. and I am simply enamoured by all of the gorgeous women in it—and by "enamoured" I mean "touching my penis."

The virus from 28 Days Later is real and going to fuck us all, or at least that's what I got from the headline of this Ars Technica article. I've gotten into trouble for jumping to conclusions before, though, like the time I said that James Franco will gay rape us all and then I was sued for libel. Still, I'm pretty sure I've made the right call this time.

Sunday Links - The Return

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted on a Sunday. You can either blame me, or that damned liberal media for not being liberal enough and stinging out on the sexy pictures and other goodies that are worth posting. This week has been considerably more loose than the last, though, so enjoy the return of Sunday Links. Just be sure to wear protection if you don't want your dick to rot off.

A new gameplay video for Batman: Arkham City (pictured) features Catwoman doing things. I'll only cover the Arkham Fill-in-the-Blank games when there's explicit sexuality involved because I have no interest otherwise. It's my way of saying to the developers "tits or GTFO."

Jeremy Parish is the new editor-in-chief of 1Up.com, so congratulations to him. I've been reading his side blog GameSpite for a couple of years now—too bad for him him that I've never purchased an issue of GS Quarterly, though! Ha-ha! I'm so fucking cheap.

"Golf Sector 6" is a free Flash game about playing golf on Saturn's moons. The levels were all created using actual images of the moons taken by NASA, which is cool, and you have to compensate for the varying amounts of gravity as you play. I like this idea since I'm white and therefore a pretty big fan of golf. Also my family is rich so we probably owned slaves at some point, and hiring a caddy is the closest thing we can get to reliving the good old days.

Tuesday Links

Sorry about the lack of updates all day. I awoke this morning in the middle of a field and just now managed to reach civilization. I'm updating from a coffee shop on some asshole's Mac Book. Settle down and quit reading over my shoulder, asshole. You'll get your computer back when I'm finished updating and looking at porn.

Instead of trying to write up a news post for each thing that happened today I'm just going to group it all together Sunday Links style. Say hello to Tuesday Links, Sunday's younger, more attractive and rebellious sister who gets drunk on weekdays. I'm sure you'll get along famously.

"Poopocalypse" will be released on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, which is great news unless you're like me and don't own an Xbox 360. In which case you might want to flip over your desk and shout "fuck this" really loud. The game is described as a "twin-stick poop’em up" and features realistic bird shit physics and a freeform combat system where you fly to the right and shit on things, just like in Batman: Arkham City.

Alice: Madness Returns was released today, which is great news for people who weren't quite sure that Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland did a good enough job of raping Lewis Carroll's mathematically inspired story. At least American McGee didn't put his name in front of the title of this one. As a marketing strategy that was about as effective as putting M. Night Shyamalan's name on anything after The Sixth Sense.

Boromir was stabbed in a bar fight while defending a lady's honour and then went back inside to order another drink. The lady in question was a topless model named April Summers, so the question is do girls who take off their clothes for money still have any honour left to defend? The answer is yes, you queer.

Natalie Portman gave birth to a boy, which means she's pretty much useless now. A woman's sole job is to sire an heir for her husband and once that's done she just has to feed him and make sure he survives long enough to take over the family business/throne. I never thought I'd be saying this since I've had a crush on Natalie Portman ever since Star Wars, but you might as well chuck her into the "used" bin now.

Sunday Links - Who Won E3 2011?

Like the Jewish story of passover, E3 2011 has come and gone sparing those who obeyed God and didn't turn on G4 TV. Arguments will no doubt rage about who the winner of this year's show was, but stick with me if you want to know the real answer. I've got the goods, and I don't just mean what's in my pants because I'm not wearing any.

Nintendo had the Wii U, which sounds kinda gay but supposedly everyone is a little bit gay. At least that's what my soccer coach used to say whenever he'd take me out to dinner.

Sony apologized for their recent hacker infestation, and I forgive them because those things are like roaches: you try to sue one for harmlessly jailbreaking your hardware and then a thousand more show up in its place to ruin your shit. Sony is clearly the victim here.

Microsoft focused on Kinect, so good for those guys. I'm proud of them for sticking with Kinect even though it doesn't have any practical application outside of dancing games and tickling baby tigers. It's like hanging out with your retarded little brother even though he's totally not cool and all your friends have started avoiding you. Those Microsoft boys are saints.

So who was the overall winner? Why don't you take a look in the mirror because it was you all along.

Sunday Links - Things That Rise

Sylvester Stalone will be producing a musical based on the Rocky films that will be debuting in Germany next year. I say why not? Spider-Man has a musical and even Batman is getting his own live show, so why should Rocky be left out? Sylvester Stalone is just as good as any other imaginary super hero.

GOG.com has a massive boner now that they've announced 25 classic games from EA will be added to their catalogue. I haven't seen those crazy Pollacks this excited since Hitler's last visit.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes has a new trailer, but I haven't watched it due to my crippling condition. It's called hating James Franco, and it's more common than you might think. Even Anne Hathaway is a sufferer.

Sunday Links: According to Jim

Jim Sterling

High Voltage Software developers were caught giving bad reviews on Amazon to a book written by Joystiq author Matt Corso. Corso had given Conduit 2 a bad review and spoiled the ending for readers, so the devs were kinda butthurt about it. Destructoid’s Jim Sterling calls the developers’ actions "pretty pathetic, whatever way you slice it."

In February, Carol Lieberman’s book received similar treatment from gamers after she claimed that video games cause rape. Destructoid’s Jim Sterling said that "maybe it will teach Lieberman that spouting off ignorant bullshit for the salivation of FOX readers does have repercussions."

Three years ago, Cooper Lawrence’s book was also trashed by gamers on Amazon after she said some bad stuff about Mass Effect that just wasn’t true. Destructoid’s Jim Sterling said that "this kind of movement is something that these miserable hacks actually understand, and I’m not going to condemn a bit of good old-fashioned karma. Cooper Lawrence deserves this."

So if someone says something you don’t like and you decide to retaliate by writing bad reviews on Amazon, Destructoid’s Jim Sterling will support you 66% of the way.