Eh, super busy as usual, so much for regular updates.

Anyway, while browsing the web today, I stumbled upon something fascinating.....

NARCISSU 3 IS COMING OUT THIS MONTH!

When I first saw stage-nana's website, I was like wut, it's coming out when? April? Wow I sure missed this one. The official title is narcissu 3rd -Die Dritte Welt-. In case you haven't played the first two games in the series, go do yourself a favor and play them now, and don't complain about you can't because they are free and are available in English, Chinese, Korean, and apparently Thai (thanks to fan translation, of course).

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First GameHippo and now Home of the Underdogs (the URL no longer works so don't even bother clicking), the old vanguards of free online downloadable games are dropping like flies! So what kind of site was HoTU? The site was founded in 1998 by Sarinee Achavanuntakul, who goes by the name Underdogs or Fringer on her own blog.

The site is a big collection of abandonware, games (mostly DOS and Windows games) that were no longer supported by their publishers and were no longer commercially available. HoTU offered these games (and their manuals) as free downloads. There were also reviews and rankings and other goodies. Of course sometimes the site found itself in the legally gray area thanks to its hosting of out-of-print games without the consent of their creators/owners, but no one seemed to mind for the most part.

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Indeed, mG is still alive! It's just that real life is getting busier and busier =(

So many things to talk about, where to start? First of all, finalists for this year's IGF is out for a while. As (somewhat) expected, games like Blueberry Garden, Dyson and Night Game made it in, while some other unexpected entries, like You Have To Burn The Rope, also somehow ended up in there, lol. Congratulations to Cortex Command for finally making it in, and Machinarium is looking mightily good.

In other IGF news, the 2009 IGF Student Showcase winners are out, and voting for the Audience Award is currently underway.

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Approximately six months ago, the big orange hippo went belly up, marking the end of an era. Just when people finally got over the loss of their beloved hippo and moved on with crayon in one hand and goo in the other, the great freeware deity casted Life1 on the great hippo, and so the great orange hippo was back, bigger, stronger, and (hopefully) better than ever.

Basically, if you don't know what GameHippo is, here's a description of the site from many-a-post ago:

Many should have come across GameHippo at one point or another. Nearly a decade old, GameHippo (http://gamehippo.com/) is a freeware PC game download site with a huge index of games of all kinds, no shareware, no demos, just free games. At its prime, GameHippo was THE site to go to for updates on the latest freeware games, and GameHippo was the site that got many people into independent/free games (myself included).

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Happy New Year (to whoever actually comes here)! May this little site be updated more frequently in 2009.

Anyway, the main purpose of this post, aside from the holiday greetings, is to update y'all with some Type-Moon news for the last couple months.

Let's see, first of all, Comiket 75 has come and gone, and there were a variety of TM goods sold. The best of the best, without surprise, came from the TM booth itself:

• CONCEPT artbook [2,000 yen]
• Poster set - 22 posters (150mm x 420mm) [3,500 yen]
• Ryogi Shiki bath towel [4,000 yen]
• AATM2 Neck warmer [2,000 yen]
• AATM2 Paper bag

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Not quite sure why Nitro+ would dig up a game that's over 10 years old and turn it into an anime...again, especially when the first attempt at adaptation did not cause a sensation of any kind, but whatever their reason, boys and girls, a new anime adaptation of Nitro+'s classic game Phantom of Inferno has been announced, the anime will be called Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom.

Phantom of Inferno was Nitro+'s first game, and is, in every way and form, a classic. The story revolves around a 15-year-old Japanese teen named Azuma Reijing travels to the U.S. to celebrate his graduation (who does that anyway?). While in the U.S., the poor guy witnesses a murder and is subsequently kidnapped by the criminal organization Inferno. Inferno brainwashes the boy and trains him into an assassin called Zwei. Zwei trains under Ein, also known as Phantom, a title given to Inferno's top assassin. The story has many routes, Zwei either goes with Ein as the two try to discover their true self, becomes the personal boy-toy of Inferno's top official Claudia as she tries to take over, or meets the little girl Cal who later become the assassin Drei.

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