Kotaku: hot or not

Uwe Boll Declares Mario Isn't Big Screen Material

Mark Wilson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:40:40 MDT

We're tough on filmmaker Uwe Boll, mostly because his movies are really, really bad. But he's not a dumb guy: he's been very successful in getting money from a lot of very successful people. So every once in a while, he actually says something worth a quote.

MTV: What would you do to if you remade the "Super Mario Bros." movie?

Boll: Nooooo. "Super Mario Brothers"? No, I would never do this.
MTV: But what would you do to make it better?

Boll: Nothing! I don't think you can make it good, "Super Mario Brothers."

Hmmm. Uwe Boll is certainly an unlikely ally in my personal war against another Mario movie that's never necessarily coming, but it's early for our organization and we'll take all the members we can get.

Inside the Mind of Uwe Boll: "Halo" Not Emotional, "GTA" Old-Fashioned [MTV]

UK PS3 Pre-Orders a Record Breaker or Not?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:53:01 MST

Digital Spy is reporting that pre-orders for the Playstation 3 in the UK has "broken all records, with high street stalwart Woolworths revealing it has been taking one order every 20 seconds during the past week."

The head of games for the retailer called the console the hottest gaming system since the PS2.

But then you look at Charles Arthur's anecdotal story of PS3 sales in the UK for the Guardian's Gamesblog.

At a local games shop there's a notice suggesting people pre-order their PS3 before March 29, when.. you know.
So how's business, I asked the bloke behind the counter? What sort of interest is there in the PS3 compared to the Xbox 360 and Wii?

Very low, he replied: with, what, six weeks to go before the launch, half their pre-allocation had not been taken up. (Of course you could go glass-half-full and say half had been.) That compared to pretty much all taken up for the Xbox 360 a year ago, and huge over-demand for the Wii before last Christmas.

So what sort of ratio of demand was there between the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360? Demand for the Wii was more than 10x greater than for the PS3, he said, and had been about 5x that of the Xbox. And he personally didn't think any of the PS3 launch games were worth the bother. "Sony has been promising this for two years and people have just got bored with it," he suggested.

So which is it? Are UK gamers fevered over or bored with the PS3 launch, or is it a bit of both with a dash of eBay grey market boosting the early demand? Brian Crecente

Hot or Not for Gamers is Not

egauger — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:40:42 MDT

Thanks to Destructoid for finding this deeply embarrassing evidence of the further jockifiation of the gamer culture. At right, the top-rated guy on GorgeousGamers.com holds an invisible basset hound against his groin.

Any woman who finds this raggedy-hatted assfrat attractive deserves to be beaten with the wooden end of the coed bathroom toilet plunger.

And then plunged.

But look, I seriously blame Madden for this horrible barbarian invasion. Games were supposed to be our fortress against these jerks. Now they mill around among us, like earwigs in a sack of meal. Earwigs who scream FAGGET all the time. Eliza Gauger

It's Like Hot or Not, but for gamers [Destructoid]