CGE 2K7

Sure, some people go to Comic-Con, but the REAL nerds go to the Classic Gaming Expo, which was held this past weekend in Las Vegas. Wired's Chris Kohler has a collection of entertaining and informative entries on his blog. All the usual suspects were there, including David Crane, Garry Kitchen, Al Alcorn, et al. Bleep bloop bleep.

Haunted Memories

Every Comic-Con brings something totally unexpected and cool...like the guy a few years back who prefectly recreated the William Shakespeare statue that opens the Batcave from the original live-action show. This year, I caught a glimpse of Caveman Robot and dug through the best colleciton of He-Man/Filmation production cels that I've ever seen.

Even though I was only able to walk the floor for a couple of hours, tops on my list was Haunted Memories:


This artist takes real 18th century portraits and turns them into the creepiest lenticular art you've ever seen! For example, as you step past the photograph of a young mother holding her child, she turns into a vampire and looks at her baby with demonic hunger. Absolutely awesome!

A point of irony not lost on me: if I came home with one of these pictures, my wife would have killed me. So I bought a cel of Beastman instead!

More FusionFall

YouTube has the trailer up and running:


Fan reaction at Comic-Con was wildly positive! Everyone seems to be excited about the new look for the characters and the general creative direction. Kids had fun with the game, too. It really couldn't have gone better, actually.

FusionFall Trailer

I can't figure out how to embed this, but check out the FusionFall trailer here on the Warcry Network.

FusionFall Press Release

Check out the official FusionFall website for the press release. See you at the panel!

FusionFall

It's out of the bag...I will be trolling the web today, but caught a glimpse on Kotaku this morning. Stay tuned for more hits from teh internets.

What the--?

When I sent the Chore Wars link to my friend Katie, saying that I thought the game was gooftastic, she said, "Sure, but have you seen this?

Chore Wars

This is seriously awesome. Using Chore Wars, you can create RPG characters and level them up by doing chores in real life!! This is one of the kookiest gaming applications I've ever seen. What fun! "But daaad, if I don't get to wash the dishes tonight my dark mage can't equip his Eternal Fire staff!"

Destructoid brought us the link.

Amitai

Born: July 14, 2007 at 11:21 pm. 7 lbs, 13 oz.

1.18.08

The "Cloverfield trailer" is now available on the Apple trailers site, now dubbed "1.18.08". Thanks, Benjy!

FTWintendo

I just watched Nintendo's E3 press conference, and...wow. Who would have suspected that Nintendo would be in the position they are now, even as early as one year ago? I know it's a lot of PR song-and-dance, but Reggie's presentation was pretty awesome. Nintendo DS: 40 million units sold worldwide. Wii virtual console: 5.6 million game downloads. Super Mario Galaxy on November 12. Super Smash Bros. Brawl on December 3. Metroid Prime 3 just around the corner...will it come packed with the Wii Zapper? Or will it be with Umbrella Chronicles? Mario Kart for the Wii next year, with the Wii Wheel. Not to mention Zelda, Dragon Quest and so on and so forth.

Interestingly, Miyaomoto's big presenation at the end -- Wii Fit -- was sort of a dud. I can see what they are going for, but can real fitness people take those exercises seriously? All I'm seeing is a more interactive version of Wii Play, and a peripheral that will make awesome snowboard/skateboard/surfing games.

In any case, it's amazing and somewhat gratifying to see Nintendo on top of their game (no pun intended) yet again.

Faction of the Fox

This is an insanely entertaining video by some crazy bunch of Midwestern lunatics calling themselves Faction of the Fox. They wear bags on their heads and scream a lot. What are they so mad about?


The video was directed by a dude named Mike Alfini. Nice work! Thanks to Charles for showing this to me.

Gold Farming on Marketplace

Great story last night on public radio's "Marketplace" program: gold farming regulation in South Korea. Best part is the closing interview:

Gagliano: Do you ever stop and think, "There's all this money and all this time and effort — and now laws and trading associations — being built up over these items that don't exist?"

Park: I would say never.

Them Koreans love them some virtual commerce!

My Daemon

I just went to the offial Golden Compass movie site and got my own personal daemon.

Her name is Aurora and she is a crow. A crow?!? Can't I get a badass leopard or something? This movie sucks! I want a leopard.

Cloverfield Trailer

Get it while you can...that awesome trailer for the unnamed J.J. Abrams project that ran before Transformers is popping up on teh internets, then disappearing just as quickly. Check it out and marvel at some amazing marketing that leaves audiences begging for more...clearly the best thing about going to see Transformers in theaters!

Guitar Zeroes

Awesome.


Thanks to Kellam for the link.

Remember this kid? He got outgeeked. PWND