The Man on the Silver Mountain, a Tribute to Dio

Musically, 2010 hasn't been a good year for me so far. A couple months ago, Scorpions (a.k.a. the single greatest band in the history of music) announced that they are retiring. This will be their last tour, the latest album their last one. It was some sad news, but then yesterday I got some worse news.

Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer yesterday afternoon.

If More Classical Literature got the Dante's Inferno Treatment

Video games often take their inspiration from existing media. Movies, television, comics, anime, even music has their creative juices exploited by game companies. And yet it seems as though in all this time, once thing that inexplicably escaped it is literature. That's not to say that books have never been adapted into games, because they have, but with literally millions of books out there, it's surprising that there aren't as many literature-based games as you might think. How many works of classical literature would make great games? How many have actually been turned into such? Exactly.