Michael Jackson is in discussions about creating a 50-foot robotic replica of himself to roam the Las Vegas desert
What.
With Laser Beams [Link to Yahoo Article]
On the subject of the robot, he continued: “It would be in the desert sands. Laser beams would shoot out of it so it would be the first thing people flying in would see.”
Genesis Does What Nintendo Don’t…
I can imagine Robo-Michael taking off and shooting lasers at Burning Man.
Being that it’s valentine’s day, I thought I’d dish out some valentines card greetings/pick up lines and poetry dedicated to my valentine right now:
Supreme Commander
So here goes:
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The Supreme Commander demo is available for download. You can get it off of the official site or you can get it straight from FileShack here.
My initial impressions (now that the demo works fine on my computer, the Beta didn’t) are thus:
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For a long time the top spot of our ‘We want to interview’ list has been occupied by Chris Taylor.
His early work on such games as Hardball II, 4D Boxing, Triple Play Baseball. Then moving on to create Total Annihilation and it’s expansion pack, The Core Contingency, and Dungeon Siege. He is now currently the CEO and Creative Director of GasPoweredGames.
Total Annihilation has been acclaimed as a masterpiece and the defining example for the classical period of the RTS genre. Supreme Commander is shaping up for similar praise, as it carries Chris’s trademark technological and gameplay innovations. With it’s up-and-coming release, we were honored to get a live interview with Chris during his busy pre-launch schedule to talk about Supreme Commander, epic ping-pong-table-sized games of Risk, and other bedlam. My favorite quote being:
CT: Well then I would crush and destroy everything, with my new robot body, and I think that’d be pretty fun.
Download the MP3 here. (33 minutes, 11.6megs) The text transcript for the interview follows, as well.
While this flash is skimp on content, it makes up for it in overwhelming style. A simple interactive flash walkthrough showing how LEGO bricks are made in the factory complete with videos, cool chiptune background music, and robot noises. Definitely worth 60 seconds of your time if you like LEGOs.
