The Week in Gay Geek: Bully goes multi-platform, more YAOI, Fallout 2 revisited and more!

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on January 11, 2008

Kissing boys on multiple platforms:
If you've been wanting to try out the boy-kissing of Bully but don't have a PlayStation 2, soon more of us will have the chance to break into lockers and win the hearts of the gay teens at Bullworth Academy. Bully: Scholarship Edition will bring the game to the Wii and Xbox 360 in March with new missions, items and classes. I've only just gotten around to picking the PS2 version for myself and it's a lot of fun ... now if only I could figure out how to stop the camera from changing angles at the worst possible moment.

Those candidates were fast as lightning, it was a little bit frightening:
This week, Kung-Fu Election seemed to be the webgame that captured the imagination of videogame blogs. The game mashes up a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game with presidential candidates. Hilary Clinton gets to be one of my favorite kinds of fighting game characters: a warrior who can bust heads with a razor fan like Mortal Kombat's Kitana or Fatal Fury's Mai Shiranui. Poor Bill Richardson, to be turned into Street Fighter's E. Honda. At least his special move isn't called the "Robotic Candidate Attack".

Boys who like boys and reading work by girls who like boys who like boys:
This week, we gave you a look at boy-meets-boy manga with some suggestions for titles gay men may enjoy. If that wasn't enough for you, Canada's Xtra also took a look at YAOI. This one comes from the very knowledgeable Christopher Butcher, who focuses a little more on finding the steamy stuff. We both gave time to manga by Fumi Yoshinaga, which I say is a sign of what a great creator she is. At his website, Butcher also shows us a look at a great cover created by Eric Kim.

I'll go for any excuse to shout out "Allez cuisine!":
Well, here's even more reason for me to covet a Wii: the interactive gaming platform has an Iron Chef game in development. The blurb for the series mentions Iron Chef America spin-off series, The Next Iron Chef. I'm really curious if that means that Wii users will have a digital Alton Brown or if the game will feature the original Chairman Kaga. Either way, I'm dying to find out if they make use of the Wii's unique gameplay options.

I wonder what kind of Lego buildings this will inspire:
Back in October, AfterEllen's nogal4u took a look at customized Lego figures. I wonder what she thinks of the news that a set of Lego-eque Minimates figures will recreate characters from The Silence of the Lambs. Yes, there will soon be an official Lego-style Clarice Starling figure.

Dig out those old Fallout 2 discs:
Here's a way for you Fallout fans can make the time waiting for Fallout 3 go by a little more quickly: take a second replay through the gay-inclusive Fallout 2. Thanks to the Fallout 2 restoration project, you can have a new experience with a familiar game. The project offers a patch that unlocks content that was taken out of the game at the last minute.

Webgame of the week:
I know this week's entry is a bit heavy on the games but this one is one is a little too cool to hold back ... Cursor*10 is a puzzle game where your moves with your first life comes into play with all later lives. It's like a puzzle game combined with a Doctor Who episode.