Roundup of Unusual Size: The ABCDs of the Day – Anime, Bayonetta, Cupcakes and Death

Nightmare Mode is republishing Dire Critic’s ‘Roundup of Unusual Size’, a collection of links put together by site friend, Kris Ligman. It’s like Critical Distance, except we post on the six days of the week that Ben Abraham doesn’t, and there are usually more non-game-related articles… So I guess we’re actually more like Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Sunday Papers, except less British. You can send Kris recommendations for the roundups via Twitter or email!

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My blooood! The doctors took all my blooood!

Videogames

At last, a perspective on Bayonetta I wholeheartedly agree with, from Go Make Me a Sandwich: Bayonetta is hands-down my least favorite character in any type of gaming ever. It only gets better from there.

Over on the Newsgames blog, Simon Ferrari reports on You Shall Know the Truth, a hidden object game in which the player assumes the role of a U.S. spy sent to retrieve leaked documents from a WikiLeaks employee. Provocative in and of itself, one should think, but Ferrari provides additional commentary as well.

And over on Joystick Division Gus Mastrapa touches death in L.A. Noire. Warning: graphic images.

Machinima

Here’s a fun one: a commercial music video animated almost entirely in LittleBigPlanet 2.

Fandom

Ahh, a fan-made Doctor Who anime? Yes please.

Curios

They’re SQL injectin’ through your windows, stealing your data up, tryin’ to hack ‘em so ya need to hide yo kids, hide yo wife–an’ hide yo husband they hackin’ errybody out here.

A counter-terrorism strategy that Valve would approve of: MI6 hackers replace Al-Qaeda bomb formulas with cupcake recipes.

Finally, science cannot de-cuteify this cat video.