You know what the Flicky means! I’m real busy with real work and need to break from here for a little bit. Be back shortly.

So…tired…but no worries, normal updating will return very shortly.

I get to spend mine doing taxes!

In the meantime, why not check out this article over on timewarpgamer.com about SNES regional box-art differences? If you like this site, it’ll be right up your alley, I promise.

A lot more buzz seems to be focused on EGM, and it’s not much of a mystery why — EGM is a pretty new concept and it has something of an all-star staff, while the new GameFan is basically more of the same from Halverson, a mag that combines elements of Play and Geek Monthly into something that sounds a bit like — dare I say it? — PiQ. I’m not too optimistic that the market for PiQ is any better now than it was two years ago.

• Fusion Publishing, producers of Play and Geek Monthly, hasn’t published anything since the January Play (above)
• The last print issue I got of Geek Monthly (subscription renewed in June ’09 or so) was way back in September; they apparently distributed their October and November issues in digital-only format while I wasn’t paying attention
• Play has recently lost two key staffers — Greg Orlando went to PlayStation: The Official Magazine, and Brady Fiechter, who was sorta the editor-in-chief, has moved on to the new EGM project
• A report on Geek’s Facebook page claims that readers are receiving notices that Fusion has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (i.e. liquidation). I haven’t gotten my notice yet, but I certainly look forward to reading it and seeing exactly how impossible it’ll be to get a refund*

Does this mean that I’m not gonna be producing “Dave Halverson’s Greatest Hits” for 2010?

* Not like we did any such thing at PiQ, of course. But that was all out of my hands, I promise, having been laid off way beforehand! (Not that I was gonna spend my personal money to send out refunds, but…)

Sorry to jet on you again, but I’m on vacation for the rest of January, skiing in Tahoe. Above is some footage from last year.

Maybe I’ll update a bit during this time, but to be frank, I probably won’t! (I’m doing my January the Nintendo way — in hibernation, am I right, guys??!!)

In the meantime, why not review some of the PC Engine coverage I’ve generated so far, all 61 articles of it?

See you folks later!

Updates coming back sometime soon!