The "murder by PlayStation" arguments that state that violent video games like Manhunt lead kids to commit murder are just as unconvincing as they were when villains were Mortal Combat and Sonic the Hedgehoge. Read the full story.

WizKids new game, Pirates of the Spanish Main, is their first game since Mechwarrior that I'm even remotely interested in, and the first since HeroClix that I'll go out and buy. Read the full story.

Julian Sanchez compares and contrasts the original The Manchurian Candidate with its just-released remake. Read the full story.

ProFantasy's new computer cartography resource, Source Maps: Castles, gives gamers twenty-five beautifully rendered castles with over 130 floorplans, historical information and game notes for their campaigns.

While the castles and associated maps can be accessed with an included viewer, owners of CC2 can use it to expand that cartography program into a powerful castle designer. Coupled with Perspectives Pro, users can create 3D castles.

Source Maps: Castles includes:

• 25 castles and 139 floorplans including a 3D view, floorplans and
  surroundings
• Castle Designer Pro: a new interface for CC2 Pro which lets you edit and
  create castles
• 170 castle symbols including siege machinery and auto-connecting walls
  and towers.
• 75 castle drawing tools
• If you have Perspectives Pro, you also get 300+ castle perspective
  symbols you need to create 3D castle views like the one in SMC

Learn more about this product by visiting ProFantasy's Web site.

Once again I am shocked -- shocked! -- that anyone would want to flee the workers' paradise that is North Korea. I mean, doesn't everyone love starving to death under an oppressive regime primarily concerned with keeping itself in power for as long as possible? Read the full story.

I don't know what's more surprising: that the owners of copyright to "This Land is Made for You and Me" are threatening to sue the creators of the Flash parody "This Land", or that the writer of the original song was a communist. Read the full story.

A rundown of what I'm reading at this moment, including The Diamond Throne, Dungeon #114 and Robert Jordan's The Great Hunt

An interview with Monte in which he ruminates about the success of Arcana Unearthed, what he'd like to have done differently, and what's in store for the future. Read the full story.

The spacecraft will begin its run at the $10 million X-Prize for the first back-to-back private manned suborbital flights in September. Read the full story.

When it comes to free speech, the only thing that needs banning is the FCC. Read the full story.