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Thanks to DIY Games for its column discussing the state of freely downloadable independent PC adventure games for July. The author raves: "I don't think I'm exaggerating if I say that July was by far the best month for independent adventure gaming this year", and goes on to profile titles such as A Very Special Dog ("You play a German shepherd with the task to save a life and find the culprit... you'll sniff objects, bark at people or lick them, all in order to successfully complete the game") and Apprentice II: The Knight's Move ("top quality independent gaming... [with] a very deep story and great character development.") Talking of character development, I'm afraid this is my (simoniker's) last ever Slashdot story post. Read on for details... Firstly, thanks to everyone who's helped make Slashdot Games (as well as my work on the Slashdot main page) a pleasure to edit over the past 18 months (and 3000+ posts) or so. It's been a wonderful experience, and I'm really going to miss it. Unfortunately, this is the final story I'll be posting, since I'm off to videogame trade site Gamasutra.com, which I've written for fairly extensively in the past, to take up a managing editor position.

I believe there will be an announcement about a new Slashdot Games editor reasonably soon. However, I'm sure the other editors will pick up some of the slack in the interim, so hang in there, everyone. In the meantime, please inundate the submission bin with stories about obscure Japanese console re-issues, why the Infinium Phantom is going to trounce the Megaton, and why the Reggielution is absolutely, positively going to be televised. Later, all.

Crixus writes "For those of you who are loathe to move from PGP to GnuPG on your Windows boxen because of no graphical interface, now you have one. It's GPL'd and it's called Windows Privacy Tray (WinPT) and acts, looks, and feels just like PGP-Tray. It's still in development, but the last release I got works great, and is getting better (because unlike the OTHER frontend for GnuPG, WinPT is actually being worked on). The author is also having a contest to draw what will be the official Icon for WinPT. Why not give it a try?"

Crixus writes "For those of you who are loathe to move from PGP to GnuPG on your Windows boxen because of no graphical interface, now you have one. It's GPL'd and it's called Windows Privacy Tray (WinPT) and acts, looks, and feels just like PGP-Tray. It's still in development, but the last release I got works great, and is getting better (because unlike the OTHER frontend for GnuPG, WinPT is actually being worked on). The author is also having a contest to draw what will be the official Icon for WinPT. Why not give it a try?"