Here it is folks, part 2 of my recent interview with Phoenix Online Studios, the development company behind The Silver Lining.

Earlier this month, I reported about Activision’s unfortunate cease-and-desist of long-term fan project The Silver Lining, which was meant to act as a spiritual King’s Quest IX.  As a long time follower of the project, it was upsetting to see such a high profile project have the rug pulled out from under them so ruthlessly.

Thanks go to the Save the Silver Lining Movement for setting up an interview with not one but four core members of The Silver Lining team, and to the TSL-Game forums for supplying some of the questions.

If you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t been paying attention to our weekly podcast, The Red-Light Roundtable, you too might have missed our discussion about the best fucking flash game we’ve ever played. That game is Robot Unicorn Attack.

There is a new public library near where we live.  As you enter and walk the long hallway to your left there is a glass enclosure where there is currently a Star Wars exhibit of sorts.  Just from those first twenty or so steps in, I knew this was my kind of place.  Being brand new, this library is very high tech.  You return books on a conveyor belt that scans the UPC codes and confirms them as returned in-route to being dumped into the large collection bin.  You check out a book by showing your library card to a scanner, and simply laying your book on the table, Science! then takes care of the rest for you.

I have returned from a long hiatus to the site. I don’t come empty handed, oh no. I wouldn’t dare dream of doing that to you, would I? With the beginning of a new week, it’s time for the weekly release list, a quick look at what’s coming out this week.

If you didn’t know already, the first piece of upcoming DLC for Resident Evil 5, Lost in Nightmares was released today. The DLC chapter consists of Chris and Jill’s time in the Spencer Mansion before the encounter with Wesker that Chris mentions during a cut scene in the main game. It also begins the extended Mercenaries mode by giving you Barry Burton, of the first game and Sandwich fame, and Excella, one of the game’s antagonists. Rebecca Chambers of the first game and its prequel is also available, but needs to be unlocked. Being a big RE fan, it has been a day one purchase of mine for a while, especially with the similarities between Spencer’s mansion and the original game’s mansion. Hit the jump for a short review on the chapter itself.

We had a few great games coming out last week, but for me, THE game to get was Dante’s Inferno. We caught wind of the game not being sold in the Middle East. This raises a couple of poignant questions.

1) Are they afraid of offending Muslim people because it’s a story of a guy going to hell to fight Satan?
2) Did the game developers include Muhammad in the game (Who was residing in the 8th Circle of Hell in Dante’s poem)?

That’s right bitches, we’re back! Thanks to that 5 month hiatus after PAX which nearly everyone on the panel got infected with convention SARS (Swine-flu to be exact), we’re all rested up and ready to bring the pain in what I’d like to think as a rebooting of the Red-Light Roundtable. On the episode we get into what each of us has been up to for the past 5 months and more!

Got beer? Got whiskey? Want to drink both at the same time without having to double fist it? Well you’re in luck because this week’s Strange Brews allows you to do just that.

This week, there’s not really much of anything that I see as an absolute “must-have” for any one of my gaming systems…though I am leaning towards picking up one game in particular…but you’ll have click that little button right there to see what that might be.

It may look generic, and it probably is, but that doesn’t stop Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BFBC2) from being a very fun game. Hit the jump for my impressions from the recently released Xbox 360 version of the multiplayer-only demo.

President of Nintendo (Satoru Iwata) in an interview with the New York Times recently commented on Apple’s newest creation, the iPad. Coming from the game company to be the first to really stabilize and sensationalize the handheld market, this could be bad.

Another week, another massive list of shovelware for the WII and DS. This week though, we’ve got a few gems that some of us MediaWhore types are lookin forward to. I’ll give you a hint…one sounds like Fast Trebek Blue.

Two-thousand-and-nine, a year in which many of us expected to be in the middle of Space War I, or locked into a huge battle with the Decepticons of Cybertron. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I want my fucking jetpack or flying car now! Well, at least was a great year for media. After the jump, enjoy what the editors of MediaWhore think of as their top picks of 2009.

Ok so 2009 is finally over…somebody took it out back behind the barn and put a slug in its noggin. I can’t be happier. A huge period of ‘no time’ has finally passed and I now find myself staring, mouth agape over the possibilities this this upcoming year will bring us whores, and all other slaves to the media.

Normally, we’re not the kind to make New Year’s resolutions…but this year we all thought we’d try to add a little levity to the asinine resolutions that people seem to always make.