American McGee's Alice, that is: she's back. It'll have to compete with Tim Burton's Alice, the videogame, too, as these things usually do come along in twos. Hollywood, eh.

Home-made outfits, of course.

He's about a foot and a half too short and is making me gufffaw.

(c) Larcenette.

I'd wear one! Not that I drool, you understand.

Zombies, pfff. Easy.

Guns and riflemakers? Genius!

I could swear this is an original shop, unless this John Wilkes signage went up a week or so ago, because I noticed and admired it a few days back after a meal at Mildred's round the corner. Anyway, inside: downstairs was a 4-box setup, and I played a bit. There's a defibrillator; and the melee weps, and a weird neck-riding Jockey character, but it's otherwise seemingly more of the same glorious L4D co-op shooty goodness. In bright daylight: that bit did stand out. Not sure if it lasts throughout the full game.

I didn't get much of a handle on the characters - and the setup had captions switched off - so I couldn't see if there's a joker like Francis in the team. Hoping so. There's a full writeup over here, though.

Upstairs. They weren't kidding about hands-on melee weapon training. Dark room, with some rubber zombies in it, and two huge fellas in flak jackets and face masks. Made all my adrenalin fire, oddly, so I had a mild case of shaky hands for the first few minutes. Nothing like a pile of guns lying about to make you slightly sweaty.

Turns out - after fun with an AK-47 and a frying pan (heavier than it looks!), that the baseball bat is my real-world melee weapon of choice. I am now trained in collarbone-breaking followed by a solid thump to the spinal column for optimum neck severage.

Zombapocalypse, I am ready.

Lovely scarf.

The GRRR! and ARG! necklaces, at Folksy. 6 quid.

Beautiful. From Thinkgeek. Where else. $16.

Very expensive and only in Japan. Of course.

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Pre-ordered. Poor ole DS has been gathering dust.

and, heh, this:

There's a WHOLE PAGE of game related ones, with some invaders that kick my invader's arse. Bah.

I thought I was being clever, until I saw what Julian Dibbell's done. 

Pwnage.

(sent from phone)

Civilization creator Sid Meier said this week that he and his 2K-owned studio, Firaxis, are working on a project dubbed "Civilization Network," a rendition of the strategy game for Facebook, due in 2010.

And...

"I wanted to let you know we’ll soon be looking for beta testers to help us develop a unique new way to play Civilization," wrote Meier on the CivFanatics.com forum on Wednesday. "Ever since we finished Civilization Revolution last year, I’ve been looking at ways of expanding the Civ gameplay experience to include solo, competitive and cooperative play to take advantage of the uniqueness of social networks."

And...

Like typical Facebook games, Civilization Network will be free-to-play, although Meier did not reveal any monetization methods, which may or may not include virtual item buys and advertising.

Amazing money-train, that Civ. It just goes on and on...

(via Gama)