When I was 11, my mother actually wouldn’t ALLOW me to start a new game until I’d finished the last one. (I think I lied to her about finishing a game, twice.)
Do you know how I found out about GameTunnel’s relaunch? THROUGH PROJECT WONDERFUL. I was like, "Oh, look, I can run a new ad from… GameTunnel? Whoa." I should add that this redesign is aytch oh tee tee, HOT, all electric apple and slippery menus.
Also worth noting: indie developers can submit their games for review. Like, there’s an actual spot to do that, right in the navigation header. I love that.
Eh? Kotaku.com has been covering the everloving Jehoshaphat out of ‘Retro Game Master’ (née Game Center CX) all summer, and I was none the wiser! Corrected.
"Technoculture critic and former Wired contributor Erik Davis is concerned about the proliferation of reviews, too. ‘Our culture is afflicted with knowingness,’ he says. ‘We exalt in being able to know as much as possible. And that’s great on many levels. But we’re forgetting the pleasures of not knowing. I’m no Luddite, but we’ve started replacing actual experience with someone else’s already digested knowledge.’"
Via waxy.org: "Two thirds of people with accounts at both Sony and Gawker reused their passwords." More intriguing, though, is the catalogue of the 25 most common passwords. What do "maggie," "peanut," "princess," "sunshine," and "cookie" have in common, I wonder. My guess? They’re all the names or nicknames of precious children and/or pets.
Hi again! It’s me, and I’m still wearing my fanlady hat. IGN has hands-on footage with the Wii U tech demos directly from the E3 floor. And I’d be lying if I said these videos didn’t make me tingle.
I don’t know a whole lot about sewing and stuffing plush toys, but I’ll wager that it isn’t the easiest thing to manufacture an elongated egg out of fleece. Just a hunch. Anyway, deviantartist MelloReflections made this handsome stuffed Portal turret. He lights up when you hug him! (And he doesn’t blame you.)
Here’s a REAL LIVE VIDEO of J.C. Fletcher demonstrating Super Mario Land on the Nintendo 3DS. You can toggle the screen between Pea Soup View, Stark Black and White View, and "a little bit recessed." Very nice.
Adventure gamers, rejoice! After two abominable (and contemptibly crass) attempts to reanimate the franchise, Larry himself returns—and this time with creator Al Lowe!—in a remake of his original Epic Troll, Land of the Lounge Lizards.
Just amazing: "A tiny working model of a retro computing icon offers a blend of nostalgia and silliness." Via Superlevel, Retro Thing, Laughing Squid, Boing Boing, and MAKE Magazine (sorry, I just started using Fever), so we can pretty much agree there’s a genuine nerdgasm here.
"In closing, I’ll say this: It’s fun to bash on The Man; it just doesn’t always make a whole lot of sense. Also, this sort of thing is news because it’s the exception, not the norm. Also, I’m rather hungry."
The Gameranx list itself is great, with ‘Amber: Journeys Beyond,’ ‘The Dark Eye,’ ‘Fatal Frame II,’ and ‘Amnesia’ all represented alongside classic titles. Inside the link, writer Eric Swain explains his ranking process.
Here’s a superhero you should avoid on White Pants Days, ladies! Its creator, longtime City of Heroes player Scott "Sharkey" Sharkey, tweets: "Who has two thumbs and frontpages Reddit with stupid bullshit he posts while drunk at 1AM?" Good lord, Reddit. I mean, really.
Don’t you think Sharkey should put together a whole City of Heroes Field Guide? He could revisit all his old superheroes, too, like Darth Underpants, Disco Fett, Inside-Out Girl, Ground Chuck, Grannyatrix, and Proofreader. This is a thing we would want to see, right?
Michael Rose on ‘World of Goo’: "It’s a belief that keeps me living purposefully, that makes sense of the world, and that gives me hope for the future. But sometimes I wonder if this belief places me squarely in the midst of a cruel game, wherein I am merely a pawn, used for the sadistic purposes of a cruel God."
