Pop Culture Mulcher

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I’m so excited about Gotham City Impostors coming out next week (edit: nope, delayed!) for Xbox Live Arcade, people! Read that in an Oprah voice. Anyway, it looks so fucking whimsical, which was my favorite thing about the Bioshock 2 multiplayer — I mean, when you put aside the fact that it’s an ongoing civil war between two drug addicted factions who fight over the drugs that are stored in little girls, that is. But setting someone on fire and throwing bees at them while you shoot them with a nailgun? If you can’t see the inherent fun in that, you’re probably dead inside. Or much more emotionally healthy than I am.

Point is, I am sick to the teeth of games where I play as part of a military industrial complex that I morally oppose using guns I don’t give a shit about to mow down commies/nazis/Africans/The French so I can call in military stuff that I have no interest in. UAV? Some sort of sunblock. Strafe runner? Elaborate jogging maneuver. Osprey? A bird, I think, or some sort of fancy coffee.

Gotham City Impostors has, like, PVC pipe rocket launchers and roller skates! Jack in box grenades! Things I really care about!

And there’s a horror Xbox Live Arcade title called Amy coming out next week, too. It has children AND zombies, so it will probably be very scary.

I’m pretty sure both are coming out on PSN, too, if you’re fancy.