Borderlands Theme: No Heaven
Game review tomorrow, but today let’s answer the burning question: what is the song in the gameplay trailer and the final credits? That is No Heaven from DJ Champion. The MP3 is for sale at the usual places, which is probably the way to go as Amazon lists the full CD as a relatively expensive import. : Zubon

Her Way of the Shield
I am not a tank. If you need a healer or ranged DPS, I have more MMO experience than I sometimes care to admit. My view is that having something beating on your head is a bad tactic, to be avoided. In group situations, however, I love my tanks, and they love their shields. Blocking with a shield is much better than blocking with your face. I do not often post just to toss out a link, but that is a great post about a rather different approach to the game than mine. If you are anything like me and want to see how the other half lives, check out the shield on that lass. :

It’s the Little Things
Should I get excited about updates to Restaurant City? It is probably my favorite Facebook game. In my defense, it is not that exciting, but it added a bunch of new things to click and ways to interact with your restaurant and your friends.’ You can now protect your friends’ restaurants from predatory penguins and sleeping bears. Let me tell you, we often have sleepy bears around my house. Players now have the opportunity to clean toilets by hand. Joy! If only it were a one-click function in real life. : Zubon Computer maintenance is also one-click in Restaurant City. Conv

Towards a Perpetual Stream of Events
I like festival time in Middle-earth. There is a festival for each season, and each runs about a month, so either it is festival time now, or it was last month, or it will be next month. World of Warcraft has something similar with its seasonal events. About half of each month is a festival. As games age and have more events, they should repeat and accumulate rather than cycling out. All seasonal and holiday content can be re-used for future years. (I gladly exempt Kingdom of Loathing’s Crimbo season from this rule, as I always look forward to the next winter solstice’s insanity. They do recycle all the other holiday

Comment Spotlight
Sometimes when you receive a comment, there are so many things you want to say that you cannot say any. You can do little but regard it with wonder. As with a poem or a koan, the discussion would be far longer than the original. Rather than leave the lantern beneath a bushel, in the spirit of Warrior Wisdom Fridays, we present the pronouncement of jon: RMT proponents are so amusingly shallow emotionally (hence easily manipulated by game devs). You people deserve to be parted with your money. The “directs your efforts away from the