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Modding mecca ModDB has announced its Mod Of The Year Awards 2008, and you lot need to get voting, especially since the awards seem to have expanded to include a gamut of beloved indie games, such as Mount & Blade. It’s all fairly easy - find the mod you want to vote for on the ModDB pages and click the rather prominent button.

Wait. What was mod of the year? If you guys have any nominations for the RPS crew to vote for then post their ModDB links in the comments below. Go!Related stories:

• ModDB Mod of the Year 2007 Results
• Rise Up: Andrew Spearin on Insurgency’s victory
• Mod Gods

3 años ya, ¿Quién lo iba a decir? ¡Hay que celebrarlo! Gracias a los que os pasáis por aquí, por ayudar, por aconsejar, por animar o solo por pasarse, esta casa está abierta para todos.

Is Arsene Wenger really about to spend £20 million?

Tottenham have been linked with Andrei Arshavin ever since Euro 2008 but Zenit St Petersburg have confirmed to Sky Sports News that they are holding transfer talks with Arsenal regarding the Russian playmaker.

A quick glance at the reaction of Spurs fans online shows that some are pretending they never wanted him in the first place and gleefully predicting he will flop in England while others are fearful that he could make as big an impact as Dennis Bergkamp did upon his arrival in 1995.

It’s shaping up to be an all-indie day for Stone, Parchment, Blunderbuss, so let’s continue this proud trend. Next up is Ten Ton Ninja, concerning a treasure-hunting wee fella who’s too porky to move on his ownsome, but can heroically shunt and swing himself all over the shop thanks to his magic ninja grappling hook.
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Les pido perdón a los que este tema no les interese, pero yo hoy por hoy no tengo otro.

Un par de interesantes artículos de opinión acerca de la guerra en Gaza:

Newcastle star mistakenly believed his pigsty home was burgled

The winner of last year’s $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival was Crayon Physics Deluxe. Finally, on January 7th 2009, we are able to buy the finished game. Has that extra year and financial aid helped the hand-drawn physics puzzler maximise its potential? Or did Petri Purho end up eating all the crayons and sitting in the corner? Having played that finished version, here’s Wot I Think.

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The Chilean model who’s worth fighting for

Poisoned Sponge urged me to play this. I now urge you to do likewise. It’s from Blendogames (aka Brandon Chung), built on the Quake-2 derived KMQuake2 engine and is intellectually a cross between Hitman, No-one Lives Forever and Team Fortress 2, with a big splash of arthouse gibber. It’s also the wittiest game I’ve played since… World of Goo? Yeah, sounds right. And best of all, prominently features music from much-beloved RPS-film Brazil. Get it here and play it - and remember F6 is Q2’s quicksave for the jumpy bits - and a little bit of spoiler-heavy analysis beneath the cut.
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Read the rest of We Are Spies, We Will Thrill You: Gravity Bone (453 words)

Ahead of United clash, captain puts faith in his troops

ESFERIFICACIÓN

Escriben Jean-Marie Amat y Jean-Didier Vincent en su Nueva Fisiología del Gusto, que el cocinero cuando escucha a los pedantes de la cocina, siente el mismo cansancio que experimenta el profesor Vincent con la lectura de un mal libro o escuchando una pregunta mal formulada. El deseo de estos dos energúmenos es compartir su saber con el lector, si por casualidad hay un lector, o con el comensal si se da el caso. Hartos de escuchar siempre las mismas monsergas reivindican el buen gusto en la mesa, la receptividad, la mente abierta, el sentido del humor y buenas dosis del mejor aliño: litros de literatura y el hábito de la lectura que convierte el ejercicio de cocinar en algo más que puras y duras recetas repetidas una y mil veces hasta la extenuación. O el aburrimiento. La cuisine c’est beacoup plus que des recettes, nos lo dejó bien escrito Alain Chapel, el desaparecido chef de Mionnay. Ahora bien, a mí no me queda claro qué quiso decirnos el buen hombre. Aunque lo intuyo, si me pongo en plan Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout).

See if ‘Arry can undo Juande’s mess with our interactive predictor

I am so looking forward to watch it!

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Striker is officially on his way back to the lane

Much like a Mountie, Harry Redknapp has finally got his man and secured the signature of Jermain Defoe. The deal is thought to be worth around £15m, around £3m more than Harry paid when he brought the 26-year-old to Fratton Park in 2007.

More to follow…