So, apparently quite a few of you have been following Mass Effect 3 with lustful eyes full of sin. You would do nasty, nasty things to it, is what we're saying – for instance, you might put it in a dress so revealing that you could see entire inches above its ankles. Scandalous! For those who absolutely can't keep their cloud-bound heads out of the space gutter, though, we've got a little something to ease your pain. And by “little,” we mean a whole hour of spoilerific gameplay footage. Granted, it's from the soon-to-be-released Mass Effect 3 demo, so you needn't worry about being catapulted straight to Shepard's revelation that all the Reapers really wanted was a hug and other creature comforts that arise from not being a giant goddamn spaceship. Check out the full thing after the break.

In under 24 hours, Double Fine made gaming (and Kickstarter) history. It all started when the funhouse that funnyman Tim Schafer built took to Kickstarter to ask for a few coins in the cup of a brand new point-and-click adventure game. And by “a few coins,” we mean $400,000. And so – no doubt fueled by fond memories of pirates who fight like dairy farmers – a legion of adoring fans buried the Kickstarter account in nickles, dimes, dollars, and priceless family heirlooms. The end result? It breezed past $400,000 in mere hours. And it's still going. As of writing, it reached $1,250,476, officially shattering Kickstarter's record for most donations in 24 hours and most backers. Which is all to say damn. Oh, and let's not forget that Notch is essentially playing Robin Hood to Psychonauts 2 – except with less arrows and more proof that there is justice in the universe after all. So yeah, all-in-all, we'd say Double Fine's had a pretty OK week or whatever, we guess.  

Hey, Rest of the Gaming Industry, want to know how to support a PC game? Take a page (or a piece of mottled parchment or whatever they use around there) from Bethesda's book. For the low, low price of zero arms, legs, or firstborns (or dollars, we guess), you can now nab Skyrim's official mod toolset, a spiffy high resolution texture pack, and the Valve-created “Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1” mod. It's an incredibly generous gesture, and one that – in hindsight – makes that ugly horse armor business from back in the day seem like some bizarrely specific bad dream. On that note, we're now off to create our first mod: Everything Armor. Mudcrabs, Silt Striders, children – the works. Also, we're bringing back Silt Striders, because there's no greener form of transportation than a giant horrifying bug creature.

In space, no one can hear you scream. Or squeak or squawk or make any sort of sound, for that matter. But man, even space has to make exceptions in cases of exemplary wonderfulness. Example A: Martin Sheen's intoxicating rasp. And hey, look! Seth Green. He, too, is saying things. And, of course, Jennifer Hale's reprising her role as The One True Shep. So that's all well and good and... wait. Freddie Prinze Jr's playing a burly soldier man party member? And Jessica “I licked a PSP and then became an IGN host and am failing to take advantage of the fact that my last name looks a lot like 'robot'” Chobot's in the game? How? Why? We demand explanation! Or a brief appearance by Keith David as Admiral Anderson to make everything all better again. Check out the full and extremely emotionally confusing trailer after the break.