- A little light late Sunday/early Monday GameSetLink-age then, including the much-awaited (well, by a couple of people) latest GameSetCompetition results. Here we goeses:

- We previously reported some completely awesome Mario montage art from Dan Schoening, and he's followed it up with an OMG completely awesome Zelda mega-montage illustration over at Life Meter Comics. Three thumbs up!

- M. Bittanti over at VideoLudica points out that: "The How They Got Game research project at the Stanford Humanities Lab is organizing a series of workshops on game studies. The first two meeting will take place on April 3rd and 17th at the Stanford Humanities Lab's HQ, at Wallenberg Hall and they will feature lectures from Daniel Huebner and Jesper Juul." Neat stuff.

- Forgot to give a reminder on this one, so we didn't get as many entries as normal, but the GameSetCompetition to win GDC magnetic poetry is over, and the winners are: Zach Kamsler, Nille, EvilHayama, Poet, & Six - my favorite is Nille's: "my seriously 733t quest: combat solid metal giantenemycrab!" All pretty silly, but hey! Winners, please mail me with your snail-mail address, and we'll get the magnetic poetry out to you.

- The Indygamer blog (which has just added a couple of authors, I think), has a post about the 'favorite' Game Maker games, revealing: "This forum thread is a constantly updated list of what users of the Game Maker engine have voted to be the... most memorable Game Maker games ever made." This is another subcommunity which makes interesting, experimental games at times - worth checking out.

- We already mentioned that NIS America has announced lots of new games, but they also opened a new online shop, RosenQueen Company. Company-specific online shops are an incredibly Japanese phenomenon as far as retail goes, but I think it's a great idea for the West, too, as niche branding becomes important and the digital era rapidly encroaches. And heck, the Prinny plushie has a fun disclaimer: "Features: Removable pouch for concealing weapons; twisty googly eyes; explosive potential."

- Aw, the absolutely awesome Japanmanship blog, documenting an English artist at a Japanese video game company, has announced that it's ending, which I'm upset about, but understand. As the pseudonymous JC Barnett explains: "As I have exhausted all avenues of useful information to write about and have started leaning heavily on critical and often unfair views of Japanese life the search for new subjects has become somewhat of a chore." So there you go - don't agree with the unfair bit quite so much, but thanks for the insight, JC.

- Random Flash game link to end things out - the B3ta-affiliated Weebls-stuff blog (which makes all kinds of amusing badger-related Flash anims, normally) has launched Moon War. It's noted: "We've got a bunch of different characters in there you can choose from and it's both multiplayer online and from the same pc. You can also play by yourself which, if this was b3ta, I'd probably work into a joke about self love. But I didn't." Looks like it plays a bit like Worms/Scorched Earth with a circular planet and weird gravity stuff.