Focusing on the adventures of Matt Hazard, this weird third-person shooter tells the tale of a classic 80s video game hero who gets his chance to come back to the mainstream via Marathon Megasoft, a huge publishing company which wants to create a next-gen game starring Matt. Combining meta humor with some serious satire and tom-foolery revolving around the game industry, Eat Lead sounds like it might wind up being a cult classic for industry followers. Neil Patrick Harris, of How I Met Your Mother and Dr. Horrible fame, and Will Arnett, from 30 Rock and Arrested Development, will be lending their voices to the game.

As we discover ourselves to be a much poorer nation, one of my correspondents put it: “the bogus risk-swapping economy must be replaced by a net value-added economy.” That means actually making things, growing things, and rebuilding things, and that can only begin to happen if we do not stupidly sucker ourselves into a war with other nations who are liable to be extremely ticked off at us for destroying the global economy, but also competing with us for a dwindling supply of resources that are not equitably distributed around the world.