The company had been rolling out information on Elite in careful bits and pieces, but it wasn’t until XP that it announced the price. The company’s digital VP, Jamie Berger, feels deeper social features will create a more positive community, and Beachhead, the Activision studio in charge of developing Elite, talked to me about working closely with the other studios, plus some important lessons from the beta.

I imagine that most of the SVGL readers aren’t that into Call of Duty, given that the longtime crew usually tells me that you found my work or my blog because of my writing on weird JRPGs, or on survival horror games, or  hentai games or something. Those of you in the latter crew might be happy to learn that I’m back on the pervy games with a new monthly at The Escapist.

This month I start out fairly tame with the sexuality of Catherine, but I’m the kind of person who gets a little bored and rebellious writing the same kinds of articles for too long, and then I write things that are weird. Speaking of Catherine, I also wrote about it in my Kotaku feature and reviewed it at Paste. Catherine, Catherine, Catherine. It’s a good thing I like that game a lot.

And speaking of weird RPGs, things I like, intense fans, and me writing things that are weird when I get bored, my latest editorial at Gamasutra is about “Persona_ebooks,” the Persona-themed Twitter tribute to both that series and internet sensation “Horse_ebooks.” Maybe you don’t know what I’m talking about, but trust me, you want to. Give it a read.

I’ve started Persona 2: Innocent Sin on the PSP. It’s so weird. I don’t even… like, I need to spend several more hours on it before I know what to tell you. But I’m looking forward to those hours, so take that bit for what it’s worth.

[Today’s Good Song: Broken Water, ‘Kamilche House’]