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They usually say that when Judgment Day is near, we’ll see a lot of signs pointing to the Antichrist. So for all those who doubt that the PSP is it, first, we get news from Famitsu that the PSP is (surprisingly!) outselling the DS at least as far as this year is concerned. Then, two French exchange students in London get stabbed more than 250 times (one 80 times after he was dead) so that the perps can get away with two unbelievably rare and more-expensive-than-the-Kohinoor-diamond black PSPs. And if that don’t prove it, we’ve got the PSP wreaking havoc with lives here as well, and worse, we’re the ones who started it all.
When Abhinav’s friend got married a couple of months back, he decided that nothing would be better than blessing the happy couple (and the husband in particular) with a PSP. Talking about the London murders last night, Abhinav mentions that the couple, who’ve been enjoying a textbook romance, recently got into their first major fight. Over the PSP, and this time, it wasn’t the usual complaint we’re used to seeing.
Did You Just Wet Your Pants?
Who said gamers don’t have a social life? For all those skeptics out there who believe gamers are those species who just camp in the dark basement and game all night jacking off to the barely-clad Japanese RPG chicks, ten of us hardcore gamers from Bangalore got together to prove them wrong!
Chuck. Ex-Stanford. 20-something. Doesn’t have a girlfriend. Supervisor of the “Nerd Herd” at a Buy More by day. Gears of War pwner by night. Sounds familiar? Dive right in.
Oh, also a US national security “asset”.
As such, I envy the guys who work at Google, since they get to do so much that’ll probably get my ass fired at my workplace. To add even more fuel to the raging inferno, it looks like they took their love for Mario one step further than I ever could. In a recent contest conducted in-house, the codemonkeys at the web’s largest Internet company were allowed to decorate their office spaces any which way, where one team decided that Mario was the way to go. The Dev Ops team, armed with cloth, wrap, posterboard, foam and lots of Mario love, managed to get the job done with typical Google aplomb, only to lose to a team that chose a Jumanji theme and a motion sensor box that roared whenever someone walked past. Cheats!
Livin’ in a Mario World [Google Code Blog, via 1UP]
Ahoy thar me harties!
Aye, before you start readin’ this post, I’d recommend headin’ o’er t’ har and read up a bit on the most important day (okay, it isn’t but my mind likes t’ imagine it is) o’ the entire year: International ‘Speak like a pirate’ day, shiver me timbers! (not t’ be confused with the International ‘Speak Like the Goddamn Batman’ day or the far more local ‘Walk like I’’e been kicked in the balls by M$’ day which Enoon has been celebratin’ for the past few weeks). Due t’ the utter awesomeness o’ Pirates, I was goin’ t’ ask for a guest speaker t’ come in today, but it seems the Pirate-ninja feud sort o’ intensifies at this time o’ the year meanin’ their all out busy kickin’ ninja ass. So fer now its all me! YARRR!
*coughs as he’s kicked in the nads by several TAP members*
Okay, okay, fine! Onto more serious matters then. I’ve been rather quiet recently for several reasons. I finally got an Xbox 360 and my recent time has been divided between working, studying, writing and playing GoW, WiC, SoTS, PGR3 and a few other games.
Weird! After EA announced that they’d be publishing “Simpsons, The game” for all major platforms, I was expecting our esteemed colleague Krishnan to come out with his hands held high , fists clenched shut and a resounding “WOOHOO! USA! USA!” coming from his lips. Looks like he’s suffering from the ‘over stresses workus’ disorder.
Gamers and fans of the show would be able to take control of the Simpson family (save Maggie), interacting with nearly every character in the show’s huge roster. Apparently, America’s favorite family realizes that they are trapped inside a video game and they must use their new found whacky superpowers (for eg. Homer can eat fatty donuts to transform himself into a huge ‘Homerball’) to overcome their latest dilemma. My only complaint from previous Simpson games was the lack of original humor, which we’ve come to expect from a show of such great caliber. Scott Amos, Lead game producer for this as of yet untitled project has assured us that humor would be given the highest priority, incorporating more than 8,000 lines of dialog from the show’s scriptwriters. Slated for an Oct-Nov 2007 release date, I can hardly wait for the next great adventure in the life of Homer J Simpson.
Thankfully, humor still has a tendency to spread to those even remotely disturbed by video gaming mockery. Just look at the guys who made this Amaterasu (from Okami, silly!) get-up for their precious pup! Extra props for not even bothering to cleanup afterwards, god just look at that mess.
Source: Joystiq