Old school with a new school flavour
I had to check this a number of times before I believed it. Steve Irwin and now Peter Brock. What’s going on?
Blurb:
MOTOR racing legend Peter Brock has been killed in an accident while taking part in the Targa West rally in Western Australia, motor sport officials have confirmed.
Link: news.com.au
No real suprises here.
The press release is carefully titled “New date announced for European launch of PLAYSTATION 3″.
Update: I’ve been reading some other reports of this on the web. It’s odd that none mention that this is exactly what happened with the Xbox360!
Mech Commander, Mech Commander Gold, and Mech Commander 2 are available for download from mechcommander.org. I found out about it from this videogamesblogger.com article at via reddit.
I sort of remember Jim mentioning that Mech Warrior was high on his list of the greatest games of all time. How does Mech Commander rate?
Note: I can’t tell if it is legal or not. If not, it’s very… brazen.
Phoenix Wright is surprisingly well translated.
They’ve adapted everything from stupid puns to pop-cultural references. I definitely wasn’t expecting these choice quotes from a character called “Sal Manella”:
WTF? Who are j00 d00dz!? LMAO!
Whatever, l4m3rs!
I make teh L33T SH0WZ!
More quotes (with possible spoilers, but not really) after the jump.
Update: Another surprising quote: “Shut your pie-hole!”
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There are plans afoot for pool tomorrow. Also be sure to bring your Nintendo DS as there may be some wifi gaming during or after.
Details:
Please let me know if you can make it. The more people the better.
I was reminded of Advance Wars last weekend when Mash brought his DS along to Saturday pool to settle our long-awaited Advance Wars: Dual Strike rematch.
Then I saw this post on bits & bytes & pixels & sprites that linked to Ninjatoe’s papercraft webpage and this caught my eye:
I think there is some sort of rule that states that we have to get these printed out in the largest size available from our local copy centre so that we can make huge versions to play out games “live action” style at various locations in Perth…
Update: Bonus link! The old Quake papercraft models that were floating around the web last year sometime (?): Captin Nod’s Paper Models.
I’m excited about Nintendo’s new cooking tuition program recently released in Japan for DS. The official homepage (part of the Touch Generations website) has quite a lot of information. I’m not sure if it’s called “It talks! DS Cooking Navi.”, but I’ll refer to it as such because it is prominent on top of the homepage.
It seems that Saturo Iwata has really re-focussed Nintendo’s direction with the Touch Generations series of games and the emphasis on expanding the market (to non-gamers) and improving the user interface. The game uses the touch screen to browse available recipes, and to tick off ingredients as they are collected. Then the DS can be put down in the kitchen and spoken to (using a simple “okay” to proceed to the next instruction) since the cook’s hands will be busy!
The online advertising for the Touch Generations games has involved showing people playing the game. When I first saw this on the Brain Training homepage, I immediately thought it was a brilliant approach to communicate the concept and to show various people’s reactions. For “It talks! DS Cooking Navi.”, the video page highlights the many different people who may want to use the software. I found the top left video (the thumbnail image is an image of a man in a brown apron) is quite endearing. A man (who clearly hasn’t spent much time in the kitchen) cooks for his wife and two young daughters. The family sits down to pick out a recipe, and proceed to gently cheer him on as he cooks for them.
A couple of days ago, Tone and I attended the inaugural meeting of the IGDA (International Game Developers’ Association) Perth Chapter. It was a combined meeting with PIGMI (Perth Independent Game Makers’ Initiative), and I wonder how long the two entities will remain separate.
Perth IGDA is listed as a “StartUp” group on the IGDA Chapters page, and the (very new) Perth Chapter page consists mostly of a list of people and a link to a Google Groups newsgroup which you can join here. Anyone in Perth interested in making games should sign up to keep on top of “what’s going on”.
The meeting had a good turnout (around 40 people) and a fairly relaxed atmosphere. The GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2007 (being held in Perth!) sponsored and helped organise the event and ISG (Information Security Group) were also sponsors and provided an LCD monitor as a raffle prize. A number of restaurants also provided door prizes (gift certificates).
Meeting Rundown
The meeting was at the Velvet Lounge near the Flying Scotsman in Mt. Lawley. Upon entering the venue, Tone and I were greeted by David Kazim (GO3 organiser) and directed to a table to pick up our name tags. Arranging the name tags were the GO3 Girls, two models wearing GO3 t-shirts tied up as crop tops. Tone had not RSVP’d so he didn’t get a name tag, but it didn’t seem to matter.
After a half hour or so of mingling, Chris McCormick from Hypercube started formal proceedings by introducing IGDA and PIGMI, thanking the sponsors, and passing the microphone to Paul Turbett from Benevolent Interactive. After briefly introducing himself, Paul talked about his experience at this year’s E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) and offered serious warnings about staying at a certain hotel in downtown L.A. (I can’t remember the name… I hope that doesn’t mean I’m doomed to repeat his mistake).
After question time, the rest of the evening was a “mixer” session dispersed by frequent door prize draws (none of which I won), and leading to a final raffle draw (which I also didn’t win), after which everyone slowly made their way home. My lack of winning had no real effect on my enjoyment of the evening.
Final Thoughts
It seemed that a lot of attendees weren’t buying (alcoholic) drinks, and hope that we bought enough to make the Velvet Lounge consider having us back. I know that Chris was doing his part! 
Will from walan was drinking Red Bull… I found that very slightly amusing. I guess there was no Jolt or (caffeinated) Mountain Dew. 
I wonder if future events will also feature the GO3 Girls, and I’m concerned this might deter our female game developers from attending.
Update: The official meeting report is now online.
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