A lot of stuff to play and do, little time for the blog. Not exactly news, right? I hope to write something about Brütal Legend, Dragon Age: Origins and Bayonetta around here as soon as I can but between work and a flu and being assaulted by Emil’s characterization in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for the Wii (it’s either the best or worse voice acting ever), I’ll keep on pretending to have more than two or three people reading this and that for some reason, they don’t mind checking out a list of links they might have already found somewhere else.
- Gamasutra did an interview with Hiroshi Aoki, producer of Space Invaders Extreme and its sequel and a veteran at Taito (currently Square-Enix’s arcade arm), who looks at the past, present and future of the company. “In my games, if I press the Start button, I want to be in the game immediately; I don’t want any useless cutscenes.” Curious how Taito, which made a career out of making games that never wanted to be more than what they are, gets involved with Square-Enix, which seems only capable of making games that strive for legitimacy by being less than videogames.
- Tim Rogers chooses his Best Games of the Decade (sort of) at Kotaku. Whether you agree with his selections or not, whether you have the will to parse through his walls of text or not, the passion the man has for the medium is so ferocious that were he Ghost Rider, his penitence stare would end the shitty journalism we have nowadays.
- Box art used in regional versions of Heavy Rain. In other words, the european box maintains the concept untouched while leaving everything else mysterious; the north-american version goes for the cheap erotic thriller look, straight-to-DVD market; and the japanese version seems to be about a human head without a forehead and eyes.
- A reminder to those who believe Nintendo has the monopoly over plastic accessories.
- “Can I haz railway firm?”
- Conan O’Brien in “screw it” mode. Excelent.
- Must rescue Zelda!… Oooh, a chicken.
- There will be blood.
- How New Super Mario Bros.’s cover artwork should have been.
- “Mine eyes can but weep as they bear witness the majesty… The BFG 9000!“
- Firstperson Tetris.
- “His final moments void of significance”
- Steampunk Gameboy moving and posing.
Get goal!