Spore...
Wow. Was browsing the new Top 100 on Google Video, and they had a gameplay video of Will Wright’s Spore. I’d heard it mentioned on the 1UP podcast, so I checked it out - this is amazing. I’m not even going to spoil the video for you, except to say that this is probably the deepest game in existence.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore
You can share your creations with other players, so I hope all of you will get it, too.
Read more...> Nintendo E3 Press Conference Report news from 1UP.com > “Wii Connect 24 is what the Wii goes into in standby mode, > allowing the machine to operate key functions and remain > connected to the Internet, yet it only uses the power of a > mini-light bulb. The idea is that gamers can leave the > machine on standby, yet other gamers can even still > interact with your hardware. In Animal Crossing, someone > could visit your village while you’re asleep!
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3150566
That addresses a major gripe with the DS Animal Crossing - we had to be logged on for others to visit our town. We even went so far as to leave the system powered on overnight, but given how crash-prone the connection was, it wasn’t at all practical. I found myself wishing for a PC app that would continue to “serve” our town while the DS was off. This may be the next-best thing.
Read more...E3 time...
Here’s the stuff that piques my interest right away:
XBox 360 -F.E.A.R. PS3 -Virtua Tennis 3 -Virtua Fighter 5 Wii -The Legend of Zelda -Metroid Prime 3 -WarioWare -Sonic the Hedgehog -Metal Slug Anthology PS2 -King of Fighters 2006 -Lumines Plus -God of War II -Final Fantasy XII PC -Reservoir Dogs -Unreal Tournament 2007 PSP -Lumines 2
Need to research: -Army of Two -Ridge Racer 7 -Tekken 6 -Rainbow Six: Vegas -Super Monkey Ball titles -Red Steel -Battlefield 2142 -Dead Rising -Lost Planet -Medal of Honor Airborne
And while I don’t really care about it, “Throne of Agony” for PSP sounds more like a case of constipation than a game.
Anything else I should give a damn about? All others shall be ignored with extreme prejudice.
Read more...Buzz Aldrin was at a benefit for the Arizona Kidney Foundation (where Lenny’s grandmother works), and she managed to get him an autographed copy of his book (an illustrated autobiography for kids). We’ve been reading it every night before bed.
It never occurred to me that actual footage of the landing might be online, but here it is: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1416393771637021814&q=moon+landing
It blows my mind that they would actually take a rover up there. Guess the message was “in your face, Russia!”
Read more...Ye gods, what a crappy day. The following individuals are now on my shit list:
-David Korn -The creators of md5sum -Sun Microsystems (why does your “cd” spit out the directory name?!) -The guy who decided that using shell scripts to work around one of Ant’s shortcomings was a good idea
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