Nothing will ever touch the 2003 Nintendo press conference. I wrote up a story on that one for Gamers.com back in the day that was so cruel I couldn't bring myself to publish it in the end.
Yeah, he's got the funky red scarf and everything. Although it isn't half the screen long like the one in Shinobi.
It's gonna happen. Zynga's big, it's relatively new, it's a target. Probably not the last time we hear something like this.
Yeah, I hear all kinds of good buzz building up about this one. May pick it up off Steam when the next paycheck rolls in.
And because there is no justice in the world, the developer croaked a week before the game released. Sigh.
Dan Hibiki's my personal favorite, Capcom's little multilayered gag at SNK's expense.
10 million odd players still ain't much to sneeze at. It makes sense that the fad would die down some. I figure wait and see where it levels off.
Good read. Sound designers deserve more spotlight in stuff like this.
I am gonna beat people up with Kanji's folding chair for like ever and ever and ever.
This stuff has come a long way. I remember when Thresh winning John Carmack's Ferrari was a gob-smacking massive prize, but really, that was barely in the low six figures...
I dig how you have all these character races like the elves and the humans and the Castanic whatevers looking like tall, slim, impossibly beautiful supermodel types, and then suddenly up jumps the Popori looking like super-fat beady-eyed panda people.
Meanwhile, I know exactly who the Elin are aimed at, and I wish that I didn't.
How long until McDonald's gets in on it with Angry McNuggets?
I work out about three times a week at a rock-climbing gym. One of the common accessories for indoor climbing is a chalk bag, a little fabric thing that contains a ball of chalk, you stick your hands in there and rub them around to zap the moisture off your fingers and palms so you get a better grip.
The other day I saw a kid climbing there with an Angry Birds chalk bag. This is how far the phenomenon has gone - Angry Birds merchandise now encompasses, among many other things...
Cheating a little on the headline there, folks :)
Also, hi, Hilary, been a while. It's the skinny dude who used to sit around the office in his boxers.
An MMO beta with technical glitches? That's unpossible!
Well, it's better than MGS2 and MGS4. I will give it that.
So we've got wizards and pirates. Bets on ninjas for the next project pay off at 2:1, zombies are the dark horse at 7:2.
See, that's just mean.
'sides, it's not Newell, it's Denis Dyack.
I will bookmark this article for the distant day when I can afford to give up my ten-dollar TracFone.
Jack Tretton is not the most inadvertently hilarious dude in the business, but he is up there.
(also he is interesting in that he is only ever inadvertently so; if Tretton were ever genuinely funny he would probably implode)