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Interview with creators of The Oregon Trail

From the CollegeHumor newsletter:

Jane Hendel, age 10, writes: I like Oregon Trail better than SimCity but less than Tony Hawk, which do you think’s best?

Don: I’m not familiar with Tony Hawk.

Paul: Is he a skateboarder?

Bill: I haven’t played […]

Thoughts in progress

I’m trying to keep up with the coverage like everybody else but it’s all overwhelming even when you’re not there. Being in the middle of the nerd throng must be serious information overload. Gaming journalists, I salute you in your quest to report on the latest and greatest in vaporware.

E3 coverage to watch: * Kotaku * Joystiq * […]

PS3 may cost LOB (lots of bucks)

IGN reports:

According a an article published in the May 17th edition of Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun, the PlayStation 3 could be one of the most expensive mass-market videogame consoles ever created. Officials from Sony apparently told the newspaper that PlayStation 3s would sell in Japan for “less than 50,000 yen each.” That translates to […]

Nintendo wants it all

In the New York Times’ HDTV Is a New Reality for Game Developers:

All this complexity costs money. Mr. Goodman estimates that today’s $5 million to $10 million in development costs will rise to $7 million to $15 million with the new generation of games.

To compensate, publishers can be expected […]

And there it is

More processing power than God Himself has at his fingertips. You can pretty much count on me having it pre-ordered as long as it doesn’t have a price to match.

PS3 controller revealed

So you know all about the PS3 now (or significantly more than you knew before), but now here’s the controller, as seen on Sony Japan! Exciting!

Looks awkward to hold but at least it doubles as a boomerang.

Corporate espionage with Major Nelson

Major Nelson, otherwise known as Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb, has a post up about the flight to E3:

Could he really be with Nintendo? Or is he a fertilizer salesmen from Tacoma that happens to have a DS computer case? Yea, that’s probably it. But what’s with the black equipment case […]

360 developer roundtable

1UP has some (almost) unbridled enthusiasm about the Xbox 360 from developers, except for a little trepidation at the prospect of a Microsoft-mandated online component and some other features. Words like “shoehorn” may have been thrown around. Naturally everybody’s really happy with Microsoft since their jobs depend on the 360 doing well but it will […]

Oh no

I think a little part of me died inside.

Blog Bits: Elijah Wood Edition

We can all agree that the MTV special was an unmitigated success, laying Nintendo, Sony, and Infinium Labs on their asses in one fell swoop. Maybe for the “sheeple” anyway, intially alternating between excitement and dismay at the realization that significantly less road ruling and ride pimping would be going on that night but […]