More GTAIV

The new Grand Theft Auto IV trailer was posted yesterday. Why am I starting to get feelings of underwhelmitude?

Welcome to Demongo

And welcome to my new favorite website.

Clone Wars Returns

In case you missed Genndy Tartakovsky's brilliant take on Star Wars, the animated Clone Wars "micro-series" is now available for viewing once again on Toonami Jetstream. Sweet.

Thoughts on Game Writing

Fellow writer Richard Dansky offers some nice thoughts on game writing in this Gamasutra interview with Wendy Despain. Worth a read!

More Spore

Oh, and in case you missed it, Spore has been delayed yet again. This column has some good speculation as to why.

Sonic RPG from BioWare

Straight from the "weirdest marriages ever" department comes the announcement that BioWare is making a Sonic the Hedgehog RPG for the DS:

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (June 21, 2007) -- SEGA® of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe, Ltd., and Canada-based developer studio BioWare® Corp. today announced a partnership to create a new video game based on the classic SEGA flagship icon Sonic The Hedgehog. The exact name of the game is undetermined, and it will ship in 2008.

Based on the fact that just about every Sonic release since the Dreamcast has been utter crap, it's no surprise that SEGA had to do something drastic or risk having to take Sonic out behind the barn. I don't know if cascading dialogue trees with Knuckles will actually solve the problem, but it certainly sounds...interesting.

Nervous Brickdown

So there's a new Breakout-styled puzzler coming later this month for the DS, and it's called Nervous Brickdown. I'm psyched for this one, as I adore the genre and love seeing what developers can do to make it interesting again. (Check out Real Arcade for some awesome examples.) Nervous Brickdown seems to have wild cartoony graphics and some real pizazz. From Eidos.

Calamity Game

This is very cool, though I don't really have time to play with it. It seems to be a black-box Flash physics tool, with a bunch of stuff to create your very own "kill the rag doll" movies. Sweet.

Hitler's Ultimate Downfall

omg lolz


Once again, props to R2 for this one.

Thundercats, Ho?

With the recent announcement of the Thundercats movie, I am happy to direct you to a wonderful PSA (thanks, YouTube) from the 80s in which Snarf and Lion-O remind you kids to stay off the liquor. Give me sobriety beyond sobriety!


Oh, and let's not forget that He-Man is also on the fast track to become a "major" motion picture. Can Silver Hawks be far behind? Or Crystar? How about Rock Lords? Oooh! Perhaps even Rainbow Brite Unleashed? Well, we can dream!

This trend speaks to my theory about cyclical cultural phenomena: as the "tastemakers" of our culture, AKA the entertainment executives, come of age and get into a position of influence, they quickly reach into the entertainment experiences of their collective childhoods for ideas. Hence: retread films from the 80s. Just you wait...in ten years, we'll be seeing Tamagochi: The Motion Picture, starring a craggy Shia LaBeouf.

Hollywood is really a creative wasteland, isn't it?

Halo Clix

If you're like me, you're a geek. And if you're a geek, you might like comic books. And also board games. And maybe collectible minature games? Oh God, does that get too geeky for you? It does for me...sort of. See, I spent some time obsessed with HeroClix, the collectible miniatures game from Wizkids that lets you play as your favorite superheroes. Well, now...behold:


That's right, Wizkids is going to launch Halo ActionClix some time later this year. (I spotted a little blurb on Joystiq and then went right to the source.) So maybe you're a geek, and you like video games. And collectible miniatures. Then, boy howdy, are you in luck, Mr. Geek!

Awesome Ms. Pac Man Video

Fabulous.

Thanks to R2 for link.

Aviella: Hilton Head

This is a great picture of Aviella that I took during our recent trip to Hilton Head:

 

I have not posted pictures of her in almost six months! (Lazy, lazy, daddy.) So I am in the process of creating a new album, since her current one is so dated and crappy. I published this one picture using the new version of Picasa. More to come!