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Quote/Unquote
To: Luke From: Owen Re: The Big 8 Twenty years ago this month, my father’s newspaper back in my hometown decided to try something to gin up reader interest and participation. “Quote/Unquote” it was called; it ran on Mondays down the left side of the front page. Anyone could call in to an answering machine,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Week in Games: Steel Drums
Fallout 3’s latest round of DLC deploys this week for 360 and PC; it’s joined by Patapon 2 on the PSP, and Crysis: Maximum Edition for the PC. Otherwise, May comes in like a lamb, which is fine. Don’t you have enough games already? This week’s count: Five for Wii and DS, four for PC,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Protest Against Video Game Army Recruiting Ends in Arrests
Yesterday in Philadelphia, a crowd of 100 marched on a mall demanding the shutdown of the “U.S. Army Experience” – a video-game based recruiting station. Seven were arrested for cosplaying Shyguys wearing masks. GamePolitics tweeted the showdown, which began back in March with ideas of gathering in the mall as ordinary shoppers and then descending…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Survey Says …
Faithful Kotaku reader Beaver apparently takes marketing surveys over at something called Play Insights, which assures visitors in fine (and grayed) print “Please be assured this is a legitimate research study.” Of course it is. Their surveys must be frequented by A-list developers all the time, because here they felt the need to offer a…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Forza 3 Event Spits Out Another Perfect Dark Tease
Last week’s Xbox 360 event in Sao Paolo, which teased Forza 3, also spun off another rumor tidbit: That pic, sent over to Destructoid, which is the second in-the-wild sighting of Perfect Dark on XBLA. The image, says D’toid, comes from someone who attended the Brazilian showing and quickly snapped the image. A video of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Housers Named to Time’s ‘100 Most Influential’ List
Time’s latest issue is its “Time 100” in which they name the most influential people in the world, for this year anyway. Rockstar rockstars Dan and Sam Houser are in the “artists and entertainers” category. I couldn’t tell if Sam and Dan together count as one influential person, or if they took two whole spots…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Pokémon Remakes Take Gold, Silver?
Adding it all together, a teaser by Japan’s Pokémon Sunday TV program points to an announcement next weekend that Pokémon Gold and Silver will be remade. The tease, offered this weekend, said simply that Pokémon Sunday would have a “world-exclusive first announcement,” on May 10 during the program’s Pokémon Game Arena segment. Oh, but there’s…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
360 Controller Meets this Sniper
This helicopter-borne robot sniper can fire 7 to 10 aimed shots per minute, and does so using a modified Xbox 360 controller plugged into a laptop. Each trigger squeeze costs $4 (320 Microsoft Points). Wired wrote up the ARSS (stop snickering, those in Commonwealth nations) – which stands for Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System, and imagines…
By Owen Good