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Over the next week or so, the gremlins who labor in the lowest depths of the Tap Repeatedly Missile Silo will be performing very routine breakings of the site, followed by standard frantic Skype calls and Staff Forum freakouts. Do not be alarmed by any of these events, which may include sudden visual changes and …

As some visitors may have noticed, over the past 4-6 days we have been experiencing intermittent timeouts and other bad-kitty behavior, which makes us sad. Please bear with as we work through the problem. If you encounter a timeout or gateway error, just try the site again in a few minutes. Apologies for the inconvenience! …

Tap-Repeatedly will be undergoing some maintenance throughout the weekend. You may encounter odd site behavior – our apologies if you have any problems. Please be patient and pardon our dust.

The forums will be offline for maintenance and software upgrades today. This outage should be brief, but we are attempting to address a fairly major problem on the back end so unexpected surprises and excitement are possible. Stay tuned. UPDATE: forums are back online. Enjoy! UPDATE UPDATE: we are currently looking into a problem with …

From all of us here at Tap-Repeatedly to all of you out there braving the cold to get stranded at an airport in a vain attempt to visit relatives, we wish you warmth and happy times. As usual, things will be quiet around Tap Central Command until after the egg nog hangovers have disappeared, but …

Hello all, and please welcome back Steerpike’s older and more successful brother as a Celebrity Guest Editor! Marcus Sakey is a famous crime novelist – complete with awards and movie deals – and a wonderful guy to boot. His latest novel, The Amateurs, just came out in early August and is already garnering rave reviews.

Unfortunately the transition from FFC to Tap somehow ate up Marcus’s first Celebrity Guest Editorial, and he graciously offered to do another one. A lifelong gamer like his brother, Marcus is always looking for ways to integrate his beloved hobby with his increasingly complex life. Today he discusses the challenge of finding a good game to share with my kickass sister in law, who is hardly opposed to games but doesn’t find much appealing in the mainstream stuff. Marcus visits Tap often under the moniker “Marquez,” so be sure to leave some comments and suggestions for the lad. Thanks Marcus!

— Steerpike

I’m proud to present our latest Celebrity Guest, Thomas J. Allen, Executive Director of the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAViGaTR). My first collaboration with Tom was back in 2005, an article on Quality of Life in the games industry, eventually (after after 18 months and 21 drafts) published in Develop Magazine across the pond in Europe. Tom and I have since appeared together on industry panels, collaborated on other articles like this one, and generally created our own brand of trouble. Tom is one of those people with 10-12 wild schemes cooking at once, and I’ve managed to participate in a few of them without losing my life or spotless criminal record.

One of Tom’s many passions is film, so today he presents us with a rumination on what the last few years might have been like had the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which so recently announced that it was switching to ten nominees for Best Picture instead of five, decided to do so earlier. As with our other Celebrity Guests, Tom will hang around for a while to respond to comments. Enjoy!

— Steerpike

FFC fans, please welcome Jason P. Sage as our latest contributor to the Fat Chicks Celebrity Guest Editorial Section. Jason is a hard-working independent developer on the technology and coding side of things. He and I have communicated fairly regularly over the past 12 months, discussing new technologies, the plight and promise of the indie …

Review by Toger Developer Gotham Publisher Disney Interactive Released January 11, 2010 Available for GameCube, Gameboy Advance, PS2, PC (sort of, see below)   Verdict: 4/5 Thumb Up “Puzzles in PBG are pretty easy—after all, this is a children’s game. The narrator tends to give out huge hints on what you’ll want to do next …

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