I’m sure a lot of people have seen this, but I’m posting this for Pierre, who probably needs to watch this embedded on a blog so it looks like he’s doing work. There’s a better looking version of it here which I highly recommend watching because the quality of the graphics during actual game play is phenomenal (and in some cases, disturbing).
Sometimes blogging is like finding an apartment. You go on Craigslist, you narrow your preferences, you look at some posts. Every once and awhile you’ll see something that sounds interesting (“Large Room in Manhatten – Cheap!”), but then you look at the photos and wonder why the biggest photo of the bunch is of the bathroom, or why they decided to strech one of the pictures about 20 pixels too wide.
Well, I’m experiencing the same thing with this story breaking news. Sure it’s for the Olympics. Ok, you’ll release it this Christmas for DS and Wii. Oh, and you are putting Mario and Sonic head to head in a competition game. Whhaaattt? Have you got any marginally convincing quotes to back this up with? Oh, you do. Great…
“Bringing together intensely competitive and fun characters like Mario and Sonic in an Olympic setting helps showcase the sports of the Olympic Games in a new and compelling way for all generations.”
I don’t know, it sounds kind of hokey to me, and even if the game does exist, it still falls under “borderline retarded” on my list of things I’m willing to put on my credit card.
The whole past week’s postings have been nothing but whinging about how lame I think everyone is. Well, not today! The Amazing Rolo has made an incredible hack/app that uses the handheld wii-mote with the software he’s created for a computer to make and edit loopable MUSIC.
Each function of the wii-mote (the buttons, the swinging action) all conforms to create different effects of the samples on the app. You can download the software he’s created here, but I’d watch the video first, which is an amazing tutorial on what can be done with it.
“On Thursday last week I was playing Halo and a gentleman said he was going to steal my account,” he told the BBC News website.
The next day he found he had been locked out of his account, with the explanation that someone else was using his gamer tag.
“I phoned Xbox Live support but was given the run-around,” he said.”
I think it’s time Mr. Finisterre contact The Consumerist. Meanwhile, the shared gamertag of Pierre and Keempoo, EatTheBunny, will remain on the downlow so that we can not be hacked into and no one has to be subjected by my crappy WSOP playing style (“ALL IN ON POCKET 2′S, THERE’S NO WAY I CAN LOSE!”).
I had a dreamcast back in the day and even interned at the advertising agency that had the Sega account when it was first launched. I’d dance to Space Channel 5, shake my maraccas in Samba de Amigo, and get creamed by my two best friends in Marvel vs. Capcom. Those were simpler days.
Cut to 2007, I am very sad to see that this post is confirming the plug being pulled out from the little comatosed console that should’ve. The last straw? Online game play on the Dreamcast will be O-V-A-H in a week (March 31, 2007), which means after this, DC fans will be shut off from each other forever.
Habbos? Webkinz?! What are these things? I STILL don’t know how to update my myspace page and people five years younger (and more) than me are creating entire other worlds.
The Habbo thing is cute, I can kind of understand it for teenagers. But you have to be pretty young to be registering onto Webkinz to safely ichat with the rest of your buddies. It just screams to catch a predator. On top of that, what happens when they graduate from these teeny-bopper sites? Do they just go straight from the Hotel Habbo to the ‘W’ in Second Life? Too ridiculous!
No. Little Britain has a video game? That can’t be good. Why do these games even exist?! It seems like the developers of these games (Mastertronic for Little Britain and Blitz Games for Pocketbike Racer) have a pretty good idea on what they should be doing, and yet they are making games that Marketing/PR jerks come up with when they desperately trying to moonlight as a creative.
Great video games take time to develop and there has to be a compelling reason for people to want to play anything, not just a game. For anyone to think by just developing a video game will automatically make every brand attached to that game popular and cool, take a hard look at your hair plugs in the mirror tomorrow morning, rethink pulling up the collar on your pink Lacoste shirt, and take a look at your rolodex in your murse, because you seriously need to find a new job.
I’ve been grinding my teeth in the general direction of Playstation, it’s portable the PSP, and it’s third installment into the console wars. Everyone gives them way too much credit for being a coveted 18-24 brand mogule, yet it doesn’t seem to do anything new. It’s still all about the first person shooters, it’s still about Sony trying to make us buy more of their crap (I literally go into convulsons when I think about the similarity between those little PSP dvds and my mini-disc player from the 90s), and it’s still about cleaning themselves up after they’ve already stepped right into it.
Today I finally saw something I liked, but I still think there might be a chance that Little Big Planet just might turn out to be a turd version of Spore (much like LocoRoco was a rabbit-pellet version of Katamari). It looks really good, but I’ve been bitten once before.
I’ll post anything that has to do with the courtroom due to my lifetime-long obsession with The People’s Court (“where Judge Milian will RULE”). KCAL 9 at 1:00 pm in the South Bay!
The case at hand? Jack Thompson, pictured here above as a possible NAMBLA member (if the shoe fits right?) is going to have to go through the motions of the court again, except this time he’ll be the one getting sued. I hope the G4 Network will have another panel discussion about it and start throwing chairs.
