Alright, about my day. It sucked. I'm moving on a bit. Prepare for phones, flash games, consoles hacked and modded into portables and much, much more...
Wii would like to call.
Alright, I'm referencing a pop-culture marketing piece in regards to a new phone using similar technology. Does that constitute a pun? I've asked some experts, I hope they get back to me soon.
While we wait, feel free to take a look at this article on CNET.UK. It's about a new phone coming out that will use motion sensing similar to the way that the Wii controllers work. The idea is that the you shake the phone to move about menus, play games and get things done, I guess.
I imagine that if you're shaking the thing you're supposed to be looking at, it would be hard to orientate yourself, and / or that you might get yourself one hell of a case of motion sickness. I also hope that you don't need to shake it just to make a phone call, because it's hard enough dialing in the car already, I don't need to add to the frustration.
Call of Duty 4 Confirmed!
As several people I know can attest, I'm very much against the proliferation of World War II games. It's been pointed it that it's the largest theater, with the most deaths (of all modern wars combined), and also the most well known of all wars. However, I'm content at leaving the past there, in the past.
It seems that the folks over at Activision have finally taken the advice I've never given them and are running with it. The new Call of Duty will, in fact, take place in a modern theater. It's going to take place in a Middle Eastern conflict, where you'll be up against 'terrorists'. I enjoy that. Terrorists. They are bad, and come from 'Dark Arabia'. Of course, there's still a lot of unconfirmed rumors.
I'm all for it. I enjoyed the original Call of Duty very much. I was even ok with it's sequel, which touted many improvements. The various spin offs of the first and second had me a little jilted, and when the third iteration of the same game came out, I was long since done with it. Now, if they are going to run a modern version, I might actually come back to the series.
However, there's a HUGE problem. One that's called out loudly by some guy I'd never heard of, but his opinions were somewhat akin to mine on the issue, so I figure that it's pointing out.
The problem: it's apparently called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. There's really nothing wrong with that name, except that it's about creative as just calling it "shooty game" or something equally inane. There's also the fact that there's this little game called Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, you maybe possibly have heard of it. It seems phenomenally stupid to release a product of such similarity and then tack on a name that's neatly interchangeable in every way.
I guess my point is that they expect me to purchase their game based on their abilities. When they have hardly the creativity to even name their product, it doesn't instill much faith in me that they could handle the more involved tasks, such as level design.
In news with more mystique...
According to Kotaku, Blizzard has announced that they will announce a new title. I love that, as well. They are announcing the announcement. Good for them.
But, wait. There's a bit more too it. You see, there have been rumors of late regarding the development of a new Star Craft, something dubbed Star Craft 2.
So, if that's the case, could this announcement be the announcement of said product?
Their official response was:
We do intend to announce a new product at the Worldwide Invitational next month in Korea, and we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest in getting an advance look at what that will be, but players will have to wait until May 19th to find out more. Also, we have a very strong connection with the characters and settings of StarCraft, and we do plan to revisit that universe at some point in the future, but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard at present.
So, they are announcing a new product. And they are making a new Star Craft. Dammit... connect the dots for me!
Of course, I'm sure that Blizzard is enjoying every moment of this. They seem to have an unquenchable thirst for community buzz about their products.
Well played, sirs. Well played. (If you don't find out on your own, I will likely tell you the score on or around May 19th)
Sony beheads a goat as a marketing tool.
No, I'm not kidding. I've been saying for years that Sony is the evil incarnate, but they've gone and proved it finally.
It seems they beheaded a goat at an event for the UK launch of God of War 2. On top of that, they then invited attendees to feast on it's warm entrails.
I can't think of anyway of ending this blurb other than... OMGWTFBBQSAUCE!
Benjamin J. Heckman
This guy is unbelievable. I've read articles by him and about him for years, and a random /. article lead me back to his page.
He's genius at hacking and modding game consoles.
The Xbox 360 Laptop.
The NES Micro
And a plethora of Atari, Playstation One, PS2 and other consoles modded into laptops and handhelds.
I can't possibly show you all the cool shit he's done, just check it out yourself.
Vista vs. OS X
Alright, I've seen a lot of creative articles... but CNET.uk has done another.
This one's pretty funny though... Shakespearean.
The Last Stand
Another in the long list of time wasters. The Last Stand is Zombie blastin' good fun!
Temporal Mechanics
In one of my last posts, I mentioned Temporal Mechanics... I just wanted to reiterate that you should read the Wiki article... it's got a lot of interesting thoughts and theories. It kept me up quite a while last night, while I was supposed to be doing other shit.
Well, I think that about does it for today...
Feel free to come back anytime, I'll be here.
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