Noiseless Chatter Archive

It is a truth universally accepted that the year 2020 is the worst thing. Race riots, pandemics, voter suppression…it’s been a rough stretch. The fact that the second half of the year is being officially heralded in by ALF is evidence that things are only going to get worse. For those of you reading in the distant future — within the next seven or eight years that humanity has left — I’ll set the context a bit. Each summer for the previous 25 years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo gave teenagers a reason to stop masturbating for a couple of days. New video games, game consoles, and sometimes even chairs that vibrate would make their debuts. Eventually they’d be released in much worse shape than they seemed to be during their reveal, but, still, it was fun. Here in 2020, the event was cancelled due to the fact that everybody died. In its place, various companies and organizations have held their own roughly concurrent digital events. We still get the trailers and ...

I’m thrilled and honored to announce that I will be a special guest at Uplink, the digital convention by the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo. I hope you can join me; it’s going to be a fun time! A while back I considered reaching out to conventions to help promote Resident Evil , but then the world collapsed and a plague killed everyone, so conventions were either cancelled or suddenly a Very Bad Idea. I figured I’d wait for next year and hope for the best. The Long Island Retro Gaming Expo changed my plans. Thanks to the pandemic, they are taking their annual convention online under the name Uplink. They reached out to me to see if I’d be interested in being a special guest and, after learning more about the event, I agreed. Uplink is interesting and ambitious. I hope it goes well, because it seems like they are taking the entire convention experience — barring the wealth of illnesses you’d take home with you — online. Guests, panels, discussions, activities, cosplay…...

The Kickstarter has ended with 615% funding. That makes it Boss Fight Books’ most successful campaign yet. To everyone who backed the campaign — whether for my book, somebody else’s book, or all or any combination of the books — I want to say thank you, sincerely. This was a long, challenging project. I’m very happy with how it turned out and I suspect you will be as well. If you did order my book specifically, you can expect updates directly from Boss Fight Books. As of right now, the anticipated month of publication is August. If there are any delays it will be due to the fact that the world is crumbling around us; the book itself is complete and ready to print. If you didn’t back the campaign but still want a copy of my book, just sit tight. I’ll have ordering information for you as soon as possible, but it will be available through Boss Fight Books directly, through Amazon, through Barnes & Noble, and almost certainly through any other book shop of your choic...