For further reading: Gears of War as Life Aquatic, Lion Legs, Offworld

I was tempted to not follow up our earlier link to Simon Parkin's first Best Games Writing list with his second, if only out of humility, as inside he does call Offworld his "favourite new videogame site of 2008" (next to Sci Fi network/Tom Chick's Fidgit), but, hrm, right, it does have too many good things within to ignore.

Apart from Margaret's debut One More Go column, he calls out an excellent IGN [!] piece on Gears of War 2, which beside Parkin's quoted paragraph contains a wonderfully apt comparison of GoW to the delayed adolescence combat-games in The Life Aquatic, as well Eurogamer's Ellie Gibson's review-response to a GameFaqs message board poster on whether you could drive into and break the legs off a lion in Sony's PlayStation 3 safari sim Afrika.

Best Games Writing of 2008: Part 2 [chewing pixels]