This has been around for a little while, but I’ve just now been reading through it.
It’s the story of 2 homeless sims in Sims 3. The writer set up a man and a girl (father and daughter) to live on an empty plot of land in the neighborhood. With just their personality traits programmed into the game, the posts on this blog catalog their interactions with one another and the surrounding community.
Creative writing angles like this can get me stoked to try any game. I remember that guy on Twitter posting in the first-person about his experiences in the Wasteland in Fallout 3. Every tweet I read made me want to go play it. Also similar was the Living in Oblivion blog, where a guy used certain mods and play styles to try to survive as an NPC in Cyrodiil.
I’m more stoked for Mirror’s Edge right now than anything else, and this video just extends the excitement. There are some vertigo-inducing jumps as she climbs higher and higher. Kinda looks like it’ll give the same feeling of leaping between buildings in Crackdown.
I just received the first Rock Band Community Zine entry in my email containing the announcement that Rush’s album Moving Pictures will be released August 26th as a full album download.
I’m not a huge Rush fan in general, but I’m a massive fan when it comes to playing their songs in Rock Band. Harmonix also has a two-part interview here and here.
Dead Space “Garden” trailer.
So much alien exploding.
New Mirror’s Edge screenshots and a trailer.
This is definitely one of my current most anticipated games. People have been knockin’ the first-person parkour idea, but I think it has serious potential. At least it’s different and unique.
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.
The Onion has a nice preview of Rock Band 2.
Highlights:
Ho. Ly. Shit. That’s a few new features. And each one of them sounds like it should be a massive improvement to the original platform.
Harmonix also mentions a “very ambitious indie initiative” they have in development now to get more indie bands to the platform. Maybe we’ll start seeing some Wolf Parade, Aqueduct, Pinback, etc.
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Interesting post about how Harmonix creates the note tracks for songs in Rock Band.
IGN has the scoop on Rock Band 2 in this interview with Dan Teasdale, lead designer from Harmonix.
There aren’t many details here, but it’s still somewhat interesting if you can wade through the usual PR nonsense and the awful IGN transcription.
An interview with Spore’s Soren Johnson.
Spore Creature Creator.
Let the phallus contest begin.
Spore — Cell-phase gameplay.
Insane.
Mirror’s Edge. Parkour like whoa.
