DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, BLASTER NATION HAS BROUGHT BACK ITS MOST REQUESTED CHARACTER: THAT HOBO FROM CHAPTER 2

 Alright, so time for Brad's Super Interesting Video Game News. Played two awesome games since Wednesday. One of them was the newly released Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Now, I didn't play Far Cry 3. Villain looked interesting, but I never gave it a chance. Thankfully, Blood Dragon is a standalone game, so I can continue to not give Far Cry 3 a chance. I mean, it looks fine enough, I'm just not that interested in it, and playing Blood Dragon kind of cements that. I love the open-world stuff and the options you have to take on missions, but the actual gunplay doesn't feel so hot to me. But then, I dunno, I'm kind of out of practice on PC FPS games, so I might just suck. Everything else is fan-fucking-tastic, though, seriously. The music is great, I love the neo-80s style, the humor is actually pretty great. I'm going to be really sad when neo-80s goes the way of steampunk, because fuck, I love it so much.

Second game I played was a little indie title called Papers Please, which has you play as an immigrant inspector controlling who is allowed to enter the fictional communist state of Arstotzka. Immigrants present their documents, and you pilfer through them for inconsistencies that might label them as spies, terrorists, or generally unfit for the current Arstotzka regimen. After you do your job for the day, you get a meagar salary which you spend entirely on keeping your family well-fed and/or warm, often having to sacrifice one of those options if you cannot afford both. It's a super interesting game that's still early on in development, but it's shaping up to be really damn cool. Really makes you feel like a poor guy just doing a morally questionable job in an awful part of the world. Definitely recommend trying it.

That's all for today though. Find out where the hell we're going with this on Sunday!