July 2008
29 posts
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E3 perspective: An interview with John... →
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Found on Wikipedia, no. 6
Regarding a copyright dispute between Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and an unproduced script called Cast of Characters, the creators of Cast of Characters claimed that Moore stole their idea to write the League series. Moore is widely known to distance himself from film projects of his work:
Moore testified in a deposition, a process so painful that he surmised he would...
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Flagship Halts Mythos Development →
This is unfortunate. I was looking forward to trying out Mythos.
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Watchmen: An Oral History →
Interesting piece on Watchmen’s influence on the industry.
Moore mentions the addition of a nod to an Outer Limits episode in a later chapter of Watchmen. The episode had a plot that was eerily similar to that of his book.
Also, I can’t believe Solid Snake is writing the script for the movie.
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XBLA Games Coming in Next 4-6 Weeks →
We’ve got Castle Crashers, Galaga Legions, Braid, Bionic Commando Rearmed, and Geometry Wars 2.
I can’t wait to play Braid and Castle Crashers.
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Watchmen Motion Comic on iTunes →
You can download the first “episode” of the Watchmen Motion Comic on iTunes for free. Pretty neat… For people who don’t want to actually read the best comic evar.
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Madworld looks so raw.
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Playthrough of the first level of Castle Crashers.
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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America →
The viral infection that is Wal-Mart.
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Official Gmail Blog: Chat with your Gmail contacts... →
Dollar City.
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Entire Rock Band 2 list leaked? // Eurogamer →
Some video has apparently revealed the Rock Band 2 complete tracklist? Teh?
But with no artist names… you’re on your own to guess ‘em.
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Rock Band 2: Hands-On Preview | The A.V. Club →
The Onion has a nice preview of Rock Band 2.
Highlights:
Flexible Band World Tour — any number of people on or offline can join a band.
“Party safe” mode keeps newbies from backing everybody out when you’re trying to start a song.
Create setlists on the fly.
“Whole album” play mode.
More RPG-like elements in Band World Tour.
Custom logos for your band.
Ten...
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25 Questions for Todd Howard →
Bethesda’s Todd Howard answers 25 fan questions regarding Fallout 3.
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Versus CluClu Land: I Asked Harmonix about Note... →
Interesting post about how Harmonix creates the note tracks for songs in Rock Band.
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250 players in a single race in TrackMania: Nations Forever.
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America, the Beautiful
Zac: sup yo
Zac: I just realized I don't have to work on friday
Zac: this kicks ass
Zac: I love america
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The Escapist : My Big Fat Geek Wedding →
Fantastically cute piece by Lara Crigger about her wedding day.
Reminds me of my and Colette’s most awesome day ever.
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PixelJunk Eden looks beautiful.
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Found on Wikipedia, no. 5
Regarding The Who drummer Keith Moon’s alleged driving of a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool:
[Roger] Daltrey said on an episode of the BBC TV motoring show Top Gear that Moon did not drive a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool, but he did drive a Chrysler Wimbledon into an ornamental pond. According to the book The Who In Their Own Words, Moon said the incident was at the Holiday Inn in...
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Too Human Hands-On: Six Hours In And Half-Way Home →
Finally, an opinion founded on actually playing the game?
Of course, the flame war over Too Human is actually being stoked by Denis Dyack himself.