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Monday 27 February 2006
- Dungeons and Dragons Online comes out tomorrow, for all five of you who aren’t playing World of Warcraft and aren’t satisified with your meatspace d20 experience. The New York Times has an article on the thinking behind the game and reminds everyone that Vin Diesel is a big nerd.
- Nich Maragos drops numbers left and right like he’s Walmart and talks about supporting the market in the the latest entry in the latest entry in 1UP’s Speaking Up series, Xbox 360 vs. the Public Good. I think there’s no denying that Microsoft placed a higher priority on getting out of the gates before anyone else than on getting all their ducks lined up in a row, but it will allow them to get a strong foothold in the market with a decent library of games by the time the PS3 comes out. People hated Sony during the PS2 shortages but the PS2 seems to be doing okay now!
- I would put a link to the video showing the horrendous load time for Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 on the PSP but it no longer seems to be available on Google Video or Youtube. Wouldn’t be surprising in the least if Sony or THQ made them take it down. It seems to be in vogue to pile on the PSP and give all praise to the DS but if the load times are like those shown in the video then I’d be tempted to chuck the thing out the window.
- Any color you like, as long as it’s white: Lik-sang passes along word from Nintendo that only white DS Lites will be available on the 2nd in Japan, no ice blues or enamel navies until the 11th. Importers like Lik-sang are definitely doing big business with this so it’s clear that there’s a huge demand in the States, so hopefully Nintendo gets with it and brings it over here proper soon. (from Slashdot Games)
- Some recent reviews on other sites:
- Sonic Riders for PS2 @ Gamespot: “There are times where you’ll find yourself enjoying how blazingly fast the game can go, and others where you’ll be frustrated beyond belief by the very same thing. And that’s all within a single race.”
- Super Princess Peach for DS @ Gamespot: “Except for your final encounter with Bowser, the game is too easy and too forgiving for its own good.”
- MX vs. ATV Unleashed for PSP @ IGN: “While the series’ transition to PSP isn’t quite as perfect as we’d have hoped, it’s a damn good game that should please not only the motocross and ATV fans out there, but most any PSP owner.”
- First annual video games and sex conference scheduled for June, allows concerned citizens to be more efficient and protest two heinous corrupters of children for the price of one.
- Video of the day: The Adventures of Vernon. Bored college students recreate Zelda and finally do something about Navi once and for all. (”Hey!” “Hey!” “Hey!” “Hey!”)
[...] Speaking of Vin Diesel, I highly recommend that everyone check out Comedians of Comedy, either the Comedy Central TV show or the movie put out by Netflix. They’re both basically the same thing, following four comedians as they tour around the country. You may not have heard of Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, or Maria Bamford, or may find it easier to think of them as that guy on “King of Queens”, that guy that had a late night show on VH1, the creepy guy from “Just Shoot Me”, and… uh, well you probably wouldn’t have seen Maria anywhere. [...]