Why I will not be buying Guitar Hero 3
Fuck. This doesn’t even look like fun any more.
One of the strangest stories this year. #
One of the strangest stories this year. #
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Wordpress Sparklines
My love affair with Sparklines continues unabated. I’m now using the Sparkline PHP Graphing Library to generate the background for my monthly archives links. These show, at a glance, how many posts I made on particular days during that particular month.
For example, here’s how July 2007 looks:
Needless fuckery, to be sure. But that’s what I’m best at.
Invade!
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Announcements from the Leipzig Game Convention
Now that E3 has died on its arse, the other conventions are becoming more important to the industry players. This month, the annual Game Convention is taking place in Leipzig, Germany. So far, there have been press conferences from Nintendo and Sony. Quick summaries of the conferences so far (paraphrased):
Nintendo
“We have nothing new coming. We’re selling so many Wiis and DSes and non-games like Wii Play and Brain Training and Big Brain Academy and Face Training that we don’t have to make games for our core demographic any more. And even if we did have new games to bring out, we hate the European market, so screw you guys anyway. We’re off to play with our money.”
Sony
“Okay, so the PlayStation 3 is a pain in the ass to develop for, and our games library is less than stellar. But y’know what? The PlayStation 3 is a much better media center than the fucking Xbox 360. To hammer this home, we’re launching Play TV, which turns your PlayStation 3 into a fucking freeview box with fucking digital video recorder capabilities! And what’s more, we love you Europeans so much, we’ll be launching it in Europe first! SUCK IT, MICROSOFT!”
The Play TV thing is really a fantastic sell for the PlayStation 3, and goes a long way to justifying that enormous price-tag. Kotaku have a video of it in action. You can watch and record live TV on your PlayStation 3. As well as this, you can record the latest episode of Heroes on your PlayStation 3 at home and if you’re out and about anywhere with a Wireless signal, you can use your PSP to connect to your PlayStation 3 at home and watch that episode of Heroes.
For comparison, the Xbox 360 still can’t fast forward MP3s.
The Bourne Ultimatum
I just want to go on record right now and say that, unlike the rest of the world (or so it seems), I did not enjoy the Bourne Ultimatum. I thought that it was easily the most absurd and least enjoyable of the three Bourne movies.
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Scarlett sings Tom Waits
Ah, Scarlett Johansson.
Remember when you were new and fresh?
Remember before you became a creepy-weird pneumatic bombshell that looks like a walking photoshop touch-up?
Remember when you released an album of Tom Waits covers in Spring 2007?
Wait a second…
As we know, her album didn’t come out in Spring 2007. Unfortunately, the delay isn’t because somebody, somewhere saw some sense (alliteration, hey!) and pulled the plug on the entire project. According to Pitchfork, they’re still going ahead with it, and Johansson has finished 33 days in the studio recording the vocals.
Studio owner Steve Nails described the music as “like a theater, big screen. Lots of heavy bass tones in it. Without a bass guitar, we used all kind of different instruments to create these sounds. It was a great experiment. Very avant garde. She sounds like Marilyn Monroe.” He also “predicts her CD will go platinum and win a Grammy,” according to the Daily Advertiser.
Every one of my fingers is crossed, hoping that this album isn’t going to suck massive amounts of balls.
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