Grim Fandango released on October 30, 1998, and so yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest adventure game LucasArts ever made. Yeah OK, OK, simmer down Monkey Island fans: it’s Manny Calavera’s time to shine. And to mark the occasion Double Fine, the studio founded by Grim Fandango writer Tim Schafer, has published a compilation of reminiscences from fans and the developers and collected some of the finest cosplay and other bits people have made inspired by the game.

“Manny Calavera arrived on the scene in 1998 and immediately charmed folks with his dry wit and gritty determination,” writes Double Fine. “The Land of the Dead teemed with flaming beavers, dazzling casinos and hot rod driving elemental companions. Grim was a bright flash in the adventure game pan right before the genre went into an extended hibernation. Even so, it left a deep mark on players and its influence can be felt in games today.”

Call of Duty’s insatiable hunger for SSD real estate continues. According to official system requirements released by Activision today, all installs of Modern Warfare 3 will first require that you have another program installed: Call of Duty HQ.

If you’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 or Warzone the last few months, you’re already using Call of Duty HQ. It’s essentially just the rebranded main menu for Warzone and MW2 that’s capable of launching other CoD games. Modern Warfare 3 will be the first new CoD to require that HQ is installed, and it leaves a large footprint on your SSD—around 45-57GB, according to Activison’s numbers. Its mandatory inclusion, as well as the ability to selectively install different pieces of Call of Duty, has resulted in the most convoluted “Storage Space” section in a system requirements grid I’ve ever seen.

Here’s how it breaks down: if you have Warzone and HQ installed already, Modern Warfare 3 will add an additional 78GB, for a total of 149GB. The smallest possible configuration of MW3, with its campaign, co-op, and Warzone all removed, is 79GB (that’s CoD HQ’s 45GB plus multiplayer’s 34GB). 

Those aren’t outrageous numbers in our climate of 100GB games, but it raises questions around what exactly CoD HQ is there for. We’ve known all along that MW2’s weapons and loadouts will carry over to MW3, but Activision has maintained that MW3 is a full “premium” game of its own. The Battle.net launcher begs to differ: Modern Warfare 3 falls under the banner of all “Call of Duty” content on the launcher as an optional install. In other words, it’s an expansion. 

That’s troubling news as a PC CoD player, because it suggests the convoluted process for playing the MW3 beta a few weeks ago might carry over to the full game: accessing the beta required first launching the CoD HQ app, where you’d then have to select MW3 among other CoD titles and then wait 10-15 seconds for the correct game to boot. Now I’m even more curious what MW3’s relationship is to the CoD HQ. What are in those dozens of gigabytes of required space that aren’t in the MW3 install? Is that where it keeps all the guns from MW2? Is Captain Price’s mustache too powerful to live in a single container? And why is the projected size of CoD HQ on MW3 launch day (45GB) so different from the current size of the app? 

I thought modifying my current CoD install and deleting everything but the HQ itself would shed some light, but it only made its purpose less clear.

Dungeons & Dragons has a new book coming out—but you’ll have to wait a while longer for the physical copy. The release of The Deck of Many Things core rulebook has been delayed thanks to a streak of bad luck (or poor manufacturing, depending on how charitable you’re willing to be). On October 28, the official D&D Twitter account made the following post: 

The digital release won’t be impacted, which tracks—you’d have to try real hard to get manufacturing defects in a PDF. “After an internal review we found the product didn’t meet our manufacturing standards,” a further post on D&D Beyond states. “We are sorry to those of you who have put in your preorders already or planned on picking up your copy on November 14.”