I just got me two decent computers set up in the new place, and some fast internets, so this Saturday night Oizys and I will be getting our game on, and want more peeps to join.
The current games on the menu are:
Supreme Commander!
Battlefield 2/2142
Possibles:
Any games that require a HL2 account
DEFCON - Everybody dies (it’s cheap and I’d buy it to play with peeps)
We can acquire any other games that people might think are fun, let me know! If you have either and want to join, let me know.
I’ll be on aim and will hop into WoW periodically to gather interest, WHO WANTS IN?
Team fortress classic 2 video rules, and we say why. It’s not just polish, it’s personality. What games have polish vs. personality? Blank slate toughguy characterization is getting old, we like to see depth. Granted, the Heavy Weapons Guy is a meathead, but we have bromance for him. Also, we mention the Wilhelmscream. Look it up on google for a lol! Halo 3 beta problems, they launched and had some big problems, the community is pissed. Warcraft announces some new innovations in their game, coming soon; guild banks and in-game voice comms. warcraft innovations - guild banks, voice comms; what will the implimentation of both of these things do to the game? Google buys a major in-game ad tech recently, and is going to patent a new tech that does psychological profiling to help serve ads. Creepy? A little.
A motion sensor in front of the theater takes its cues from the movements of the crowd, and the result is the liveliest bunch of people waiting for a movie we’ve ever seen. Sure as hell beats watching an interminable cavalcade of cacophonous commercials after you’ve spent $30 on a couple of movie tickets and the usual mass quantities of popcorn. – Charlie White
Man nothing’s working right tonight. First I was late getting home to start the show, and now the server won’t let me connect. So I’m going to postpone the show until later, maybe Thursday 10pm-1am est, or next Tuesday at the regular time.
This just peaked my internetometer. I would say my firefox just got a hardon but … well, that would be just wrong.
Was reading through a great article on Gamasutra entitled: SingStar’s Bozek On ‘Unbundling’ Games. On one side it’s great because it covers user-generated-content, microtransactions, and karaoke: three things I’m very interested in. But the real reason is this paragraph:
Using the feature, SingStar players will be able to capture and upload pictures and videos of themselves singing — something, Bozek said, the team was inspired to do after witnessing the sudden stardom of Gary Brolsma when his ‘Numa Numa’ performance was spread through Newgrounds and YouTube.
Nothing ‘new’ (we talked a lot about SingShot a while back) - but the fact game developers were inspired towards a more inclusive design by Gary Brolsma and the internet… makes me feel really warm and fuzzy.
Go Internetto! Fight Internetto! We’re ‘improving’ videogames!
Uh oh. Google overlords may just spot the next dangerous level-designers before the cops do. Google, you are walking the line between awesome [ludology] and awesome [dystopian cyberpunk world that sucks to live in but is awesome to think about].
Next-gen has a fairly good summary list of all the Square soft games that will be released this year, a promoted by their recent Squareparty. Tactics A2, Revenant Wings, Crystal Chronicles for DS and of course XIII are among ones I am waiting for anxiously. I say ‘fairly’ good because somehow they missed any mention of Crystal Bearers (though admittedly it has no release date yet and may not make 2007).
Realizing that XIII is planned for this year makes me wonder how many other people are waiting for this amongst other games to decide whether a PS3 is in our near-ish future.
Some truly breathtaking MMO news hit this week. First the Kung Fu Hustle MMO is announced. What. I’m simultaneously astounded by the possibilities entrenched within this cocooning world and disgusted by the chance that it might spread its butterfly wings and become Matrix Online with more Chinese people. Please Sony, you can come back to bed if you don’t fuck this one up, but if you do expect to sleep on the couch for a LOT longer.
And in other news, Funcom announces modern-day horror MMO - brace for tentacles and madness. Funcom has always been one of my favorite game companies, and Anarchy Online was always one of my favorite MMOs in design if not in execution. With the proven interactive literary success of their Longest Journey series, I think if anyone were to pull off a modern-day Mystery-over-Horror MMO and make it work it would be those silly Swedes.
Add these two to my already style favorites: IMAGINE and Granado Espada. It’s really nice to see that MMOs are finally branching off stylistically from Elves and Orcs into a true cornucopial variety.
