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Drive Time
To: Crecente From: Owen Re: Kansas City Since you and I both just finished up epic drives across our great nation, I figured I’d address this to you. I’m curious, however, if your journey with your family was anything like mine: Did you guys: • See any “game crossing” signs on the highway, particularly in…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: For a Hero, You are Quite Cheeky
That is apparently the Japanese name (translated) of the cult hit making its North American debut this week as “Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This?” on PSN for PSP. It goes up against NCAA Football 10, which finally delivers create-a-school and other previous-gen features to the next-gen package. It’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Mario Marathon Fundraiser Blows Past 2008 Totals
Game marathons became something of a fad last year, but the original’s still the best. Year two of the Super Mario Marathon, which raised more than $10,000 in 2008, is already past $16,000. Update/Clarification: My remarks above failed to consider Desert Bus for Hope, which is both a year older than the Mario Marathon, is…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Five Million Die in First Day of Battlefield 1943
The fourth Coral Sea map for Battlefield 1943 will unlock after 43 million kills are achieved. After just one day of fighting, the community was more than 10 percent of the way there. That’s one of the fun facts Gordon Van Dyke of DICE dropped in a a forum post updating Battlefield’s response to overwhelming…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Texas Library Geeks Out with Consoles, Cosplay
I’m 35, and “teen summer reading program” sounds only slightly more fun than “adopt a highway,” so, good luck firing up kids for that, right? Well, add cosplay and games and suddenly you’re talking. The 40-plus strong of San Antonio’s Alamo Cosplay Troop are a regular act at the city’s Forest Hills library, which buttresses…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
EA Opens ‘Micro-Studio,’ Teases First Offering
New EA dev shop 8lb Gorilla – because it’s a fun-size version of the 800-pound simian now bankrolling it – is up, running and looking to deliver a new iPhone/iPod Touch title every month. According to TouchArcade, the mission of the ‘micro-studio’ is a departure from Electronic Arts‘ previous mobile M.O. – which offered mobile…
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Confused About Commenting? Consult This Chart
Late to the party on the latest development? Weekend friends B-Miggs and Agent B have broken down the orthodoxy of each console’s partisans and their most common reactions to the most common industry news. Predictably, most of the reactions have less to do with one’s favored console, and more to do with another. Lovely how…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Online Gaming Up 22 Percent as Console Revenue Down 23 Percent
ComScore’s data by itself suggests that gamers are seeking cheap, if not free, online games in greater numbers. Compared to other metrics, does it mean movement away from consoles? VentureBeat reports the figures, which show online gaming posting a 22 percent year-over-year boost in players from May 2008 to May 2009. Coincidentally, the number fits…
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Not Everyone Thrilled by Ubisoft Toronto Deal
News of a $260 million incentive package to bring a new Ubisoft studio – and 800 jobs – to Toronto has not received universal applause. One columnist depicts studios as faithless corporate welfare recipients. Writing for Toronto’s Globe & Mail on Saturday, Marcus Gee rips Ontario’s government as trying to be more hip than responsible,…
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UncategorizedThe Most Bizarre 5 Minutes You’ll Spend This Morning
This video is a documentary intro, and even though 1) the creators are German, 2) they show Mario peeing and 3) everyone has sex at the end, it still doesn’t explain what’s going on. You’re just gonna have to see this for yourself – but it’s more than 5 minutes long, and doesn’t start getting…
By Owen Good