I’ve gone mad with power while feverishly selecting Time’s Best Inventions of 2008, so instead of writing anything I’m just going to post pretty moving pictures.
1. Your tax dollars went to create this very cool, ambitiously directed animation of what it will look like when the Mars Science Laboratory (Worst Rover Name Ever!) lands on …
Dead Space is out today. But because I’m a member of the East Coast media elite, I’ve actually had a copy for a couple of weeks, which I’ve been playing whenever I’m not out rigging elections and manipulating the stock markets and such. Dead Space is an extremely intense, beautifully produced zombie-survival-horror-first-person-shooter …
They’re here. A mixed bag, predictably enough. I watched The Ship, which is done in Unreal Tournament. It looks beautiful, but it’s kinda slow and has no dialogue and appears to actually — I could be wrong — mean something.
On the other hand I never need an excuse to re-watch A Day in the Life of a Turret.
And if your day …
Your daily dose of simulated-HUD-porn:
Looks beautiful — I like the sense that they’re going all noir and urban and rainy with this.
Coming 2009. Eh, it’ll be about 5 minutes before somebody builds the whole thing in LittleBigPlanet. Sackboy FTW!
Those crazy Covenants are up to their old artifact-exploring tricks. But were their mandibles always that freaky-looking?
Serena is so the new Cortana …
I don’t know if anybody else played through Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Of those who did, I don’t know how many of you had trouble killing Darth Maul.
Of course it wasn’t really Darth Maul, since Darth Maul got cut in half by Ewan McGregor in Episode 1. It was this droid called Proxy that holographically turns itself into various …
One can only imagine the intense nerdiness of the video footage that is even now pouring into Joss Whedon’s inbox, now that he’s accepting applications for the Evil League of Evil. He’ll need welding goggles or a pinhole camera or something. You know, like when you’re observing an eclipse. Anyway.
Or actually it looks like you have to …
Yesterday I got an advance copy of LucasArts’ Fracture in the mail, so I’ve been deforming terrain like a mother. But embargoes are very chic at the moment, and LucasArts has embargoed reviews of the game till October. So that’s all I can say.
In other news, Bungie has released a teaser-thing for a new Halo-related project. The …
I’ve been playing this game pretty much non-stop for the past two weeks. Which pretty much tells you what you need to know, since I’m not a completist: I’ll bail on a game pronto if I’m bored.
I don’t really disagree with Tycho’s mixed assessment, but the flaws he names just don’t bug me as much as they seemed to bug him. Just knowing …
Funny. But I still don’t want to use Vista.
I’m not at E3. I read about it on blogs like a normal person. While I am doing so the only thing I really care about is the trailers. So I’m going to paste all the major trailers together into one post and say things about them. Because I care.
First up: The Sims …
The BAFTA Video Game Awards! They’re the British Oscars. Of video games. BAFTA stands for “British Academy of Film and Television Arts.” Oooo, was Jade Raymond wearing Stella McCartney? (For some reason that was the only fashion designer I could think of.)
Short version, they went absolutely insane over Wii Sports. If you’re curious …
